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Dwight Schultz to Reprise Reginald Barclay in STO?
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Hey fellow players & Devs!
With Picard being a big next chapter for STO (I've no doubt we will see that new Stargazer pretty soon, and lets HOPE the new and improved Excelsior class- a new insta-classic)
I think for perhaps a relatively cheaper but just as big a character as any other main star, we get to run around with Reginald Barclay...
Who would he be in the early 25th century?
I could easily imagine he became a Captain, to the same tune that Scotty became a Captain. I'd vote Barclay reuses a Scotty line in the Dyson Sphere episode when Scotty said to Geordi: "Oh I may be Captain by rank... but I never wanted to be anything else but an Engineer..."
https://youtu.be/ed88fkb2W0c?t=55
I imagine a two episode mission.
Reg' gets us aboard the Challenger under Captain Laforge, but lower decks style. (We only grace the bridge once but spend the rest of the time in the lower decks when aboard the ship.)
Some possible episode elements:
*A visit to find Reg' in the holodeck, intruding on something silly.
*A unique use of the holodecks as part of the mission
*A poker game where you make the "correct choices" to win the game, or lose, (this scene would involve Reg's cat Neelix and take place in his TNG style quarters. It's almost purely a scene for nostalgia and to see Geordi and Reg interact as friends.)
*A photo of the TNG cast/crew in a frame on Reg's desk that opens up when you click on it to view (Like dedication plaque's in game that we've seen. Maybe a musical note plays like that familiar starfleet melody similar to the one when Quinto Spock opens the picture of real Spock and crew on the Enterprise A bridge.)
*Reginald stutters when nervous, allowing you to make a specific choice that changes the mission outcome. (For example, Reg' is going to sacrifice himself to save everyone and stutters as he tries to reassure you and talk you down, but that tell allows you to alter some of the events or rewards in the mission.)
*Holographic Reginald bridge officer as a reward.
*Dust Buster Phaser type 2 and TNG style Phaser 2 and Phaser 1 (the cricket.) Again with the beams that when they impact the enemy they have that wave effect (the devs already made this perfect TNG phaser beam FX with the TNG style Phaser Rifle)
The story line should fit in to Picard content somehow. It should also be an excuse to revisit the Delta Quadrant for the mission.
Perhaps the Ferengi specifically get involved as antagonists.
I could imagine Laforge needs your help to handle a mission the challenger has taken on in the Delta quadrant. It perhaps involves stabilizing a wormhole through artificial means and that requires using the Midas array in the Alpha Quadrant in conjunction with another array being established in the Delta Quadrant.
Barclay joins Laforge as a consultant/engineer, and you decide to stick close to Barclay for this mission.
Perhaps the Ferengi are on a classic mission to steal the new Artificial wormhole tech for profit, or they want to take revenge on Barclay personally for foiling their plans to steal seven of nine's nanoprobes (killing her) in that episode where they sent the re-programmed Barclay to Voyager to foil their plans using a red dwarf star to create an artificial singularity/wormhole. (I forget that episode name. But it has a lot of elements including the Midas array.)
I would love to also see some unique titles and rewards. Like a: "Did I studder Mr!?"
-The classic TNG hero gear.
-Barclay Bridge Officer Hologram
-Barclay's Uncanny Shield Array for a ship.
-Neelix the cat pet.
-TNG Lock Box including rare TNG items from the past, as well as a couple of new epic TNG things.
- TNG ship phasers (maybe an update to the orange sto phaser beams. Just modifying them to look and animate more accurately to TNG era phasers.)
- Title: Idiot Savant (I know this might be offensive to the woke crowd, but it's a real term and Barclay was a great trek character. He was the awkward Star Trek Fan but actually a valued member of the crew. He was what theatre and media people call "The Lovable Loser"
- Updated Galaxy class interior including Reginald's quarters, the inside of a Warp Nacelle (probably a necessary space to visit during a crisis in the mission) or deflector control. And visitable shuttle bay with a door that opens, noises and GFX complete (another scene in the missions.)
Stuff like that.
Of course as usual, all my ideas are free and solely belong as property of Cryptic and the Dev team at Star Trek Online. *my release form.*
I dont expect any of these ideas to be used, but on the off chance nobody has thought much of Barclay or you want a nice way to include more TNG era content, I thought this would be it. Maybe have the Challenger undergo a recent refit to the new Ross class as seen in Picard season 2.
This could be a way to celebrate the ship being in Picard and justify some updated interiors aboard her.
Have a great week
With Picard being a big next chapter for STO (I've no doubt we will see that new Stargazer pretty soon, and lets HOPE the new and improved Excelsior class- a new insta-classic)
I think for perhaps a relatively cheaper but just as big a character as any other main star, we get to run around with Reginald Barclay...
Who would he be in the early 25th century?
I could easily imagine he became a Captain, to the same tune that Scotty became a Captain. I'd vote Barclay reuses a Scotty line in the Dyson Sphere episode when Scotty said to Geordi: "Oh I may be Captain by rank... but I never wanted to be anything else but an Engineer..."
https://youtu.be/ed88fkb2W0c?t=55I imagine a two episode mission.
Reg' gets us aboard the Challenger under Captain Laforge, but lower decks style. (We only grace the bridge once but spend the rest of the time in the lower decks when aboard the ship.)
Some possible episode elements:
*A visit to find Reg' in the holodeck, intruding on something silly.
*A unique use of the holodecks as part of the mission
*A poker game where you make the "correct choices" to win the game, or lose, (this scene would involve Reg's cat Neelix and take place in his TNG style quarters. It's almost purely a scene for nostalgia and to see Geordi and Reg interact as friends.)
*A photo of the TNG cast/crew in a frame on Reg's desk that opens up when you click on it to view (Like dedication plaque's in game that we've seen. Maybe a musical note plays like that familiar starfleet melody similar to the one when Quinto Spock opens the picture of real Spock and crew on the Enterprise A bridge.)
*Reginald stutters when nervous, allowing you to make a specific choice that changes the mission outcome. (For example, Reg' is going to sacrifice himself to save everyone and stutters as he tries to reassure you and talk you down, but that tell allows you to alter some of the events or rewards in the mission.)
*Holographic Reginald bridge officer as a reward.
*Dust Buster Phaser type 2 and TNG style Phaser 2 and Phaser 1 (the cricket.) Again with the beams that when they impact the enemy they have that wave effect (the devs already made this perfect TNG phaser beam FX with the TNG style Phaser Rifle)
The story line should fit in to Picard content somehow. It should also be an excuse to revisit the Delta Quadrant for the mission.
Perhaps the Ferengi specifically get involved as antagonists.
I could imagine Laforge needs your help to handle a mission the challenger has taken on in the Delta quadrant. It perhaps involves stabilizing a wormhole through artificial means and that requires using the Midas array in the Alpha Quadrant in conjunction with another array being established in the Delta Quadrant.
Barclay joins Laforge as a consultant/engineer, and you decide to stick close to Barclay for this mission.
Perhaps the Ferengi are on a classic mission to steal the new Artificial wormhole tech for profit, or they want to take revenge on Barclay personally for foiling their plans to steal seven of nine's nanoprobes (killing her) in that episode where they sent the re-programmed Barclay to Voyager to foil their plans using a red dwarf star to create an artificial singularity/wormhole. (I forget that episode name. But it has a lot of elements including the Midas array.)
I would love to also see some unique titles and rewards. Like a: "Did I studder Mr!?"
-The classic TNG hero gear.
-Barclay Bridge Officer Hologram
-Barclay's Uncanny Shield Array for a ship.
-Neelix the cat pet.
-TNG Lock Box including rare TNG items from the past, as well as a couple of new epic TNG things.
- TNG ship phasers (maybe an update to the orange sto phaser beams. Just modifying them to look and animate more accurately to TNG era phasers.)
- Title: Idiot Savant (I know this might be offensive to the woke crowd, but it's a real term and Barclay was a great trek character. He was the awkward Star Trek Fan but actually a valued member of the crew. He was what theatre and media people call "The Lovable Loser"
- Updated Galaxy class interior including Reginald's quarters, the inside of a Warp Nacelle (probably a necessary space to visit during a crisis in the mission) or deflector control. And visitable shuttle bay with a door that opens, noises and GFX complete (another scene in the missions.)
Stuff like that.
Of course as usual, all my ideas are free and solely belong as property of Cryptic and the Dev team at Star Trek Online. *my release form.*
I dont expect any of these ideas to be used, but on the off chance nobody has thought much of Barclay or you want a nice way to include more TNG era content, I thought this would be it. Maybe have the Challenger undergo a recent refit to the new Ross class as seen in Picard season 2.
This could be a way to celebrate the ship being in Picard and justify some updated interiors aboard her.
Have a great week
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And then I read *the woke crowd* and I'm done "facepalms"
The thought of Barclay returning is interesting, but once I got to these two words I no longer cared about your post.
Anyhoodly doodle, don't mind the idea at all.
The idea for getting Reg in game though... interesting. Anyone who played Star Trek Elite Force II knows that he kinda filled the role of Chief Engineer on the Enteprise-E at some point, most likely after Nemesis. So in theory he could have overcome some of his issues to raise in rank by the time of STO. I mean he is a brilliant engineer. He just... has issues that hold him back. And we have seen him working on that throughout all of his appearances, even spearheading the project to reestablish contact with Voyager and finding a way to bring them home. But again... he's kinda obsessive-compulsive about some things too.
Amazing how people are so sensitive that anything they don't agree with is called woke these days
Blaim certain American Politicians for making it mainstream.
the blame goes on both sides of the spectrum. those who weaponized it and those who reacted in an overkill to it. we should just rise above it.
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> I think it's pretty clear Barclay has Asperger's syndrome or something similer. the man is brilliant but has trouble dealing with others socially. which certainly "fits the bill" I have no issues with him being in the game but the idea he'd be a "lower decks" officer is absurd. I doubt he'll ever be on the command track, but I bet he'd be happy and productive in a lab somewhere
I was thinking something along these lines. He might not even be active Starfleet any more but maybe a very succesful scientist with the Daystrom Institute, designing new ships or technology.
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I mean the Traveler took the Enterprise to well beyond the Galactic Barrier, to a place where thoughts manifested. I've often wondered if that's where Continuum evolved from or at least visited.
There's a lot of story telling possibilities, down a number of different rabbit holes there for sure. Though I've also love to see a member of the Continuum in STO, while Q himself be great; any 1 of the others who been a guest role might also be nice.
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It would be nice to see more non-Starfleet Federation organisations in the game.
Throughout the series and movies we mostly get to see Starfleet, but the Federation is much more than just that of course. STO is in a good position to do something about that.
Instead of the Daystrom institute though, maybe the Vulcan Science Academy would be a good institute for Barclay to work at.
Political affiliation shouldn't matter anyway.
I don't care about the convictions of a shop assistant or a bus driver either. It's unlikely to be relevant for how well they do their job. Same with actors.
> It would be nice to see more non-Starfleet Federation organisations in the game.
I still think it'd be fun to have an arc, or even just an episode based on Holograms. Maybe we are sent by the Daystrom Institute to stop a hologram rebellion led by Moriarty against the Hirogen who use them for target practice. And by the end of it we actually work to help free the holograms. Maybe the programming gets all jumbled up and we end up leading Klingons in WWII gear and Vulcan Vikings fighting Hirogen Hunters.
Just something different. Seems like every arc is about some galaxy destroying threat. It'd be nice to have some smaller scale problems once in a while.
I'd love to see either, or even both. I once raised the idea of the Vulcan Science Academy speaking of a slight refresh to Vulcan, and possible also another Mission on the Planet to visit it.
I'd also welcome a opportunity to visit the Daystrom Institute as well, perhaps it's Institute of Technology on Mars.
YES- This, ALL of this... I want to say TRIBBLE my idea for the episodes and bring back Barclay with Crusher and the Traveler because Barklay had that probe make him super smart and could make the enterprise D travel at hyper velocities not unlike the traveler and wes did.. This is an elegant set of parallel themes to intertwine together.
And we know Wheaton (who is SUPER woke, so he would balance Dwight's right wingedness haha) would so do it!
Again, take our ideas Dev's and then take more of my money for that sexy new Excelsior II!!!!
To be fair a shop assistant or a bus driver rarely gets to use their job to express those political convictions, actors on the other hand can use their job to push an agenda. Now the good ones don't or at very least do it covertly, I don't follow Schultz enough to know if he is a person who can put being a professional above pushing an agenda.
Based on what I know of him and his performance in Star Trek... I never got any sense of any political leaning. And that includes his appearance in Star Trek Elite Force II. All we see is the character. So unless he does something incredibly stupid... I see no reason he couldn't do VO work for STO.
Actors usually don't write the scripts. If he does Trek vo work, he's unlikely to be able to say things the average Trek fan (if there is such a thing) wants to hear.
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True but actors (or their agents) do pick the works they do and can either thru improvisation or asking the script to be altered push an agenda if the actor in question is fanatical enough about pushing said agenda.