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Loved the weapons, the fighting, the environment and all the little mini-quests. The information about the new big-bad guys was great too. The whole idea that it was all set up just to pit Alpha quadrant species against each other to find their weaknesses and to see which are more willing to fight each other.
But since I am a detail oriented person, a few things did stick out. At this point I've only played the ep. once so I could have missed something. After escaping, I need to head to the crashed ship to find a way to signal my ship. I don't think it was ever stated why I need to do this. With the dampening field down, shouldn't my ship have been able to pick me up on sensors or shouldn't I have been able to use my combadge?
Also being betrayed at the last moment confused me a little. The guy was the sole reason that I was able to escape. Why get me out of the cage, guide me all the way to the crashed ship only to turn around and spring a trap?
Overall I give it a solid B+ maybe an A- if it turns out I missed something important.
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Also being betrayed at the last moment confused me a little. The guy was the sole reason that I was able to escape. Why get me out of the cage, guide me all the way to the crashed ship only to turn around and spring a trap?
Honestly I think that whole escape thing was part of the test, but he was secretly helping you escape anyways... What irritates me the most is that we didn't get to shoot down scorpion fighters! :mad::mad:
Also the dampening field was just distruping your weapons/kit. The was very likely totally seperate from jamming coms/sensors. OR you were simply so far away from your ship they had no idea where to look for you until the beacon went off.
Honestly I think that whole escape thing was part of the test, but he was secretly helping you escape anyways... What irritates me the most is that we didn't get to shoot down scorpion fighters! :mad::mad:
Also the dampening field was just distruping your weapons/kit. The was very likely totally seperate from jamming coms/sensors. OR you were simply so far away from your ship they had no idea where to look for you until the beacon went off.
I thought that it could have been part of a test as well but you have to admit, it was a pretty easy test. Cross the desert, collect some firewood and plants, then assemble a beacon to signal your ship. It just seemed a little drawn out. I would have been content if Slemak (Slamek?) had tackled the Romulan Commander in order to give me enough time to beam up to my ship. I'm hoping that the point of it will be emerge next week.
As for being to far away for my ship to pick me up, I don't buy it. In all the TV series, as long as the ship is in orbit of the planet the crew is on, distance never factored into it.
I think it was implied by reading the consoles that they were transporting you a long distance maybe? I'm not sure if you were just down on the planet nearby the satellite or not.
Also, even if you were on the planet beneath that satellite, your ships systems were all hosed by the satellite stasis beam thingy. When you were beaming back they only claimed to have life support working and everything else was still shot. That means you needed to signal them because they were probably having trouble with sensors etc still and so couldn't locate you.
Also, the evil bad guys are using Iconian tech which is far beyond our own I suspect so all kinds of good tech reasons why they wouldnt be able to find us until we contact them with a boosted transmitter etc.
I think it was implied by reading the consoles that they were transporting you a long distance maybe? I'm not sure if you were just down on the planet nearby the satellite or not.
Also, even if you were on the planet beneath that satellite, your ships systems were all hosed by the satellite stasis beam thingy. When you were beaming back they only claimed to have life support working and everything else was still shot. That means you needed to signal them because they were probably having trouble with sensors etc still and so couldn't locate you.
Also, the evil bad guys are using Iconian tech which is far beyond our own I suspect so all kinds of good tech reasons why they wouldnt be able to find us until we contact them with a boosted transmitter etc.
That's a good point. From everything we've seen, the Iconians could clean our clocks when it comes to tech. But I am willing to bet that it was the same planet. From the time it took to send the signal and the time it took to be beamed up, it had to be either the same planet or a nearby moon. I may even be able to be convinced that it was another planet in the same solar system. I just wish the details had been in the dialog.
Also being betrayed at the last moment confused me a little. The guy was the sole reason that I was able to escape. Why get me out of the cage, guide me all the way to the crashed ship only to turn around and spring a trap?
I wondered this myself....as Seth Green said in Austin Powers "If you have a time machine what not go back in time and kill Austin Powers while he's on the toliet!?!"
If they were trying to kill me for w/e reason, why wouldnt they just show up at the cave in the middle of the night and kill me there, after all this guy is a spy and they are tracking him.
Answering being:::It's not DRAMATIC enough to just do things the easy way :P
Besides they tried to kill a Starfleet Admiral, thats MORE than enough reason to go to war with someone.
I will say that the ended is very dramatic. Would been a hell of a way to die, I'm just curious as to the over all point. The Romulan commander was all, "you could have been an excellent test subject, but you had to go an escape so I gots to kill you." Well I wouldn't have been able to escape if it hadn't been for the Reman. It just seems a little too weak to me.
Did love the math work though. Didn't even use a calculator, enjoyed it so much I wrote it all out.
Did love the math work though. Didn't even use a calculator, enjoyed it so much I wrote it all out.
I would say that I absolutely HATE math, but the word "hate" just isn't strong enough. However, I did enjoy it this one time. That said, the second I saw what we were going to have to do to get through that part of the mission I knew people would be complaining on the forums about how they couldn't just faceroll their keyboard to get through it.... :rolleyes:
Great mission, though I noticed it seemed like it was taking forever to update my tasks so I'd know what to do next. Not sure what that was all about.
Oh, and I did use my (phone) calculator. It felt more Trek-y for me as it looks like a tricorder. :cool:
I would say that all of the above concerns are typical of any Trek episode and therefore are done correctly... you don't know why... it just is... you can ask you crew when you get back or whatever... plot devices do not all need to be explained... but we can try
Hakeev was looking for good testing specimens and doing interactive studies to see how feds would interact with remans... what more of an explanation do you need? You help him survive and found native plants to ease his suffering. A klingon might have just killed him or whatever... point being is that it was a case study situation to see how you would act... you never really escaped at all... until the end. This was all explained by Hakeev and in the log entries in the control room...
For all we know Slamek's slave collar had a dampening field widget with a small radius that blocked your life-signs and when he walked over to Hakeev your ship could detect your life signs, of course out in the desert you were not with him all the time, but you could have still been within the base's field or some other such drivel.
You can thank your crew for saving you when they did... I'll admit that there could have been a post-log about how when the romulans all appeared that your crew was able to detect the big change in life-signs and lock onto you for the beam out or some such drivel but the episode ended with the beam out so you'll just have to hand out the commendations for them on your own.
Many times all the explanations for all of the events are in the script, but get left on the cutting room floor or usually not made at all... they are too time consuming and too expensive and not totally necessary to the main story. It's called pre & post script editing and has saved production companies billions of $$$$$ over the years and is one reason why Trek has survived so long... you get what They decide is necessary for the suspension of dis-belief.
Did anyone else happen to chuckle when their character got beamed up and they have the arms behind the back standing position? cause I had a really good chuckle at that.
I will say that the ended is very dramatic. Would been a hell of a way to die, I'm just curious as to the over all point. The Romulan commander was all, "you could have been an excellent test subject, but you had to go an escape so I gots to kill you." Well I wouldn't have been able to escape if it hadn't been for the Reman. It just seems a little too weak to me.
Did love the math work though. Didn't even use a calculator, enjoyed it so much I wrote it all out.
I took that to mean, you could have been an excellent test subject, but after this most recent test I put you through, I realize that you're too dangerous to be left alive.
And just a note on people thrown by the Tal Shaiar studying other races for the Iconians: it seems to me that they're actually pulling the same kind of thing that Haplo did in the Death Gate Cycle (for any fans of that series). They're not just studying; they're also sowing seeds of discord and chaos so their masters can swoop in and easily take power.
P.S. I loved the first puzzle, too. It was such a simple detour in the story that lead right into and improved the epic Trek fare that followed.
I would say that I absolutely HATE math, but the word "hate" just isn't strong enough. However, I did enjoy it this one time. That said, the second I saw what we were going to have to do to get through that part of the mission I knew people would be complaining on the forums about how they couldn't just faceroll their keyboard to get through it.... :rolleyes:
Great mission, though I noticed it seemed like it was taking forever to update my tasks so I'd know what to do next. Not sure what that was all about.
Oh, and I did use my (phone) calculator. It felt more Trek-y for me as it looks like a tricorder. :cool:
I thought about using my phone as well but I kept thinking "I'm using a 'tricorder' to do relatively simple math' and I just had to put it down. lol
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Honestly I think that whole escape thing was part of the test, but he was secretly helping you escape anyways... What irritates me the most is that we didn't get to shoot down scorpion fighters! :mad::mad:
Also the dampening field was just distruping your weapons/kit. The was very likely totally seperate from jamming coms/sensors. OR you were simply so far away from your ship they had no idea where to look for you until the beacon went off.
I thought that it could have been part of a test as well but you have to admit, it was a pretty easy test. Cross the desert, collect some firewood and plants, then assemble a beacon to signal your ship. It just seemed a little drawn out. I would have been content if Slemak (Slamek?) had tackled the Romulan Commander in order to give me enough time to beam up to my ship. I'm hoping that the point of it will be emerge next week.
As for being to far away for my ship to pick me up, I don't buy it. In all the TV series, as long as the ship is in orbit of the planet the crew is on, distance never factored into it.
Also, even if you were on the planet beneath that satellite, your ships systems were all hosed by the satellite stasis beam thingy. When you were beaming back they only claimed to have life support working and everything else was still shot. That means you needed to signal them because they were probably having trouble with sensors etc still and so couldn't locate you.
Also, the evil bad guys are using Iconian tech which is far beyond our own I suspect so all kinds of good tech reasons why they wouldnt be able to find us until we contact them with a boosted transmitter etc.
That's a good point. From everything we've seen, the Iconians could clean our clocks when it comes to tech. But I am willing to bet that it was the same planet. From the time it took to send the signal and the time it took to be beamed up, it had to be either the same planet or a nearby moon. I may even be able to be convinced that it was another planet in the same solar system. I just wish the details had been in the dialog.
I wondered this myself....as Seth Green said in Austin Powers "If you have a time machine what not go back in time and kill Austin Powers while he's on the toliet!?!"
If they were trying to kill me for w/e reason, why wouldnt they just show up at the cave in the middle of the night and kill me there, after all this guy is a spy and they are tracking him.
Answering being:::It's not DRAMATIC enough to just do things the easy way :P
Besides they tried to kill a Starfleet Admiral, thats MORE than enough reason to go to war with someone.
Did love the math work though. Didn't even use a calculator, enjoyed it so much I wrote it all out.
I would say that I absolutely HATE math, but the word "hate" just isn't strong enough. However, I did enjoy it this one time.
Great mission, though I noticed it seemed like it was taking forever to update my tasks so I'd know what to do next. Not sure what that was all about.
Oh, and I did use my (phone) calculator. It felt more Trek-y for me as it looks like a tricorder. :cool:
Hakeev was looking for good testing specimens and doing interactive studies to see how feds would interact with remans... what more of an explanation do you need? You help him survive and found native plants to ease his suffering. A klingon might have just killed him or whatever... point being is that it was a case study situation to see how you would act... you never really escaped at all... until the end. This was all explained by Hakeev and in the log entries in the control room...
For all we know Slamek's slave collar had a dampening field widget with a small radius that blocked your life-signs and when he walked over to Hakeev your ship could detect your life signs, of course out in the desert you were not with him all the time, but you could have still been within the base's field or some other such drivel.
You can thank your crew for saving you when they did... I'll admit that there could have been a post-log about how when the romulans all appeared that your crew was able to detect the big change in life-signs and lock onto you for the beam out or some such drivel but the episode ended with the beam out so you'll just have to hand out the commendations for them on your own.
Many times all the explanations for all of the events are in the script, but get left on the cutting room floor or usually not made at all... they are too time consuming and too expensive and not totally necessary to the main story. It's called pre & post script editing and has saved production companies billions of $$$$$ over the years and is one reason why Trek has survived so long... you get what They decide is necessary for the suspension of dis-belief.
Did anyone else happen to chuckle when their character got beamed up and they have the arms behind the back standing position? cause I had a really good chuckle at that.
I took that to mean, you could have been an excellent test subject, but after this most recent test I put you through, I realize that you're too dangerous to be left alive.
And just a note on people thrown by the Tal Shaiar studying other races for the Iconians: it seems to me that they're actually pulling the same kind of thing that Haplo did in the Death Gate Cycle (for any fans of that series). They're not just studying; they're also sowing seeds of discord and chaos so their masters can swoop in and easily take power.
P.S. I loved the first puzzle, too. It was such a simple detour in the story that lead right into and improved the epic Trek fare that followed.
I thought about using my phone as well but I kept thinking "I'm using a 'tricorder' to do relatively simple math' and I just had to put it down. lol