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I was thinking wouldn't be nice if we could Experience More Major events from Star Trek series Like the battle to Recapture Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War. Or Wolf 359. Now that be fun being part of it of major History of the Federation. It would really bring some spark into STO again. its a thought really but wouldn't be great to be part of it?
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However I can also see the pitchforks if they include disguising ships as era appropriate ships like in Binary Stars...
That means we'd have to get our behinds kicked by the Borg in minutes lol, Sector 001 would be a better choice since that was a victory although a costly one at that
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
But I want to fly the Niagra Class!
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
That or have it be so that you got 39 "respawns" and you're scored based on how much damage you were able to inflict before running out, with the Cube having massive regen, possibly combined with subsystems you disable for extra points when Cube hits it's regen cycle.
And if you're wonding why 39, it was the amount of ships present in the battle.
I call dibs on being the USS Endeavour!
There were 40 ships present, 1 survived barely.
On the respawn idea, it would not be feasible tbh. Having to focus down subsystems would be a lot better
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
It would spark more players to play and bring Veterans back.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
True, though there is a very strong narrative reason if the devs choose to use it. The current major arc is about the rips in the multiverse barriers and it would be easy to either have ships drawn across accidentally and have to fix/balance/whatever happenings in the other timelines to get back or whatever.
A more lasting and versatile thing would be to have the problem either caused by some unknown enemy, or said enemy could be taking advantage of an actually natural phenomenon to make a try at dominating the multiverse (or at least a particular swath of it that includes the STO main universe).
This kind of concept could be used to create a sort of alliance between various timelines which would make integrating ships and whatnot from SNW and other NuTrek into STO a lot more believable and exciting than the tired old "holodeck mission" stuff that plagued the last major arc, going forward.
Alternate realities do not have to stay exactly synchronized in the passage of time. That is one of the basic tenets of the crosstime (alternate realities) sci-fi subgenre, that some alternate timelines are further along than the majority of others, and some are lagging behind the average.
In fact, the usual structure is the viewpoint character comes from the average "now", stumbles onto some operation from one of the more advanced lines that have developed the technology that allows travel between them, and the chase (or whatever) goes across multiple timelines/realities/whatever you want to call them, mostly in the average "now" with different choices in the past in effect, but also a few that are the equivalent of past and future events without any conventional time travel or the paradox travel along the same timeline causes.
The point about SNW is that it would be a perfect fit for one of those that are behind the average "now" and anything done in it would not have direct repercussions in the main timeline of STO yet still allow anything from SNW into the game without farfetched nonsense explanations about how the stuff ended up in the current STO timeline.
It also gives some wiggle room for the crazier and less compatible of the stuff SNW comes out with. They do great character stories in the show, but their understanding of TOS has some pretty big gaps along with wildly off-the-beam interpretations of the zeitgeist of, and around, the original show and what they were really trying to show back then (and they have some very interesting differences to explore that would be a shame to ignore just because they are different).
And yes, CBS does consider SNW to be Prime Timeline, but that does not prevent an alternate timeline from matching what is shown in SNW (and other Treks) as well, and it would be easier to sync with all the wildly-separated-in-time series if STO broke them out into their own cross-connected parallel timelines and gloss over the inevitable canon-shafting and other compatibility problems by having it in the nebulous past and unknown future as far as the main STO timeline is concerned, and the incompatibilities of the parallel-but-timeslipped "nows" of the cluster of the broken-out timelines would become just a matter of the typical differences between parallels.
But still I just thinking it be fun to add these major timeline events into the game for some fun.