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Just kinda wondering, are we ever going to see anything with this?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    it comes back through federation space soon, doesn't it?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Staran wrote: »
    it comes back through federation space soon, doesn't it?

    That's what I thought I read once around the forums.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Ashki wrote:
    That's what I thought I read once around the forums.

    generations was in 2371, and it comes around every 39.1 years. So it comes out in 2410.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Staran wrote: »
    generations was in 2371, and it comes around every 39.1 years. So it comes out in 2410.

    I can't remember, what year is it in game now?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Lets see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek#24th_century

    The ribbon was near Sol in 2293, and near Veridian III in 2371, 78 years later.

    2371 to the in-game date of 2409 is 38 years.

    So, we would have to wait another 40 in-game years till it returns...

    ...unless it passed through once more between those two dates, which would mean it's occurance would be half the time between those two dates, which means...

    78 / 2 = 39

    ...It will be here next year.

    So, either we wait 40 years, or next year. There you go, clear as mud.

    Just Ideas.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    The "road to 2409" one year since release.
    Maybe....maybe, the entire first year was in the nexus?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    2409, so one more game year, if the game even advances in time.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Staran wrote: »
    generations was in 2371, and it comes around every 39.1 years. So it comes out in 2410.

    Gaah! That's right, they did give a specific date in the film. So, yeah, there you go.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Staran wrote: »
    The "road to 2409" one year since release.
    Maybe....maybe, the entire first year was in the nexus?

    Well, I was reminiscing about the old Starbase a few weeks back....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    The destruction of a few different planets could have altered its course a bit, as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    aedosen wrote: »
    The destruction of a few different planets could have altered its course a bit, as well.

    The Hobus supernova probably altered gravitational hoodoo across half the quadrant. :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    aedosen wrote: »
    The destruction of a few different planets could have altered its course a bit, as well.

    That is true, we never did find out what effect Soran's path altering did other then getting it to direct it to that one planet, well, before Picard used the Nexus itself and changed that.
    The Hobus supernova probably altered gravitational hoodoo across half the quadrant.

    And there's this as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Truth be told though, I'm not sure what kind of story can be told with the ribbon other than rescuing ships/colonies in it's path, and averting crazed prior visitors from returning.

    Hrm. I wonder what happend to Guinen, Picard, and the rest of the el-Aurian refugees...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    DCWilliams wrote:
    Truth be told though, I'm not sure what kind of story can be told with the ribbon other than rescuing ships/colonies in it's path, and averting crazed prior visitors from returning.

    Hrm. I wonder what happend to Guinen, Picard, and the rest of the el-Aurian refugees...

    Well, we know what happend to Picard, as for Guinen and the others, no, I don't ever think we find out what happened to them, with the exception of Guinen's minor role in Nemesis.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    DCWilliams wrote:
    Truth be told though, I'm not sure what kind of story can be told with the ribbon other than rescuing ships/colonies in it's path, and averting crazed prior visitors from returning.

    Hrm. I wonder what happend to Guinen, Picard, and the rest of the el-Aurian refugees...

    when you enter the Nexus the Foundry opens up?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Staran wrote: »
    when you enter the Nexus the Foundry opens up?

    It's Magic, but at the very least I'd kinda like to see it as an anomaly in Sector Space.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    It would be cool if the Nexus ribbon appeared at the edge of our galactic map, and Starfleet informed us it was on a direct course for Earth. But, on it's way to Earth, it was going to threaten a number of other populated planets as well. We could have a series of weekly fleet actions where large groups of ships would be required to change the ribbon's course to save planets. Then, as the ribbon makes its approach to Earth, there could be one final massive fleet action to avert the ribbon or destroy it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    krako wrote: »
    It would be cool if the Nexus ribbon appeared at the edge of our galactic map, and Starfleet informed us it was on a direct course for Earth. But, on it's way to Earth, it was going to threaten a number of other populated planets as well. We could have a series of weekly fleet actions where large groups of ships would be required to change the ribbon's course to save planets. Then, as the ribbon makes its approach to Earth, there could be one final massive fleet action to avert the ribbon or destroy it.

    The question is though, how else could they change the course of the ribbon without needing to destroy more systems or such? Could that be possible?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Ashki wrote:
    The question is though, how else could they change the course of the ribbon without needing to destroy more systems or such? Could that be possible?

    Perhaps Starfleet creates some new technology based on Soren's research. Or maybe the KDF invents some of the technology and Starfleet invents some, and we'll have to work together.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    It has the potential for a great story in a featured series....if they allow our characters to go in it that is. Infinite plot potential there; I didn't even like Generations, and I'm saying that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    We could destroy the Pakled homeplanet, i say it´s win/win. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    krako wrote: »
    Perhaps Starfleet creates some new technology based on Soren's research. Or maybe the KDF invents some of the technology and Starfleet invents some, and we'll have to work together.

    That is true, especially since we're using technology that wasn't possible in the movies and such, so that might be possible.
    It has the potential for a great story in a featured series....if they allow our characters to go in it that is. Infinite plot potential there; I didn't even like Generations, and I'm saying that.

    Also, this, we'd at least have to go in it once.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Ashki wrote:


    Also, this, we'd at least have to go in it once.

    Maybe for the final episode, it actually destroys Earth. And the only way we can go back in time to stop it is to go into the Nexus and ask for the help of a certain Starfleet captain...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    krako wrote: »
    Maybe for the final episode, it actually destroys Earth. And the only way we can go back in time to stop it is to go into the Nexus and ask for the help of a certain Starfleet captain...

    Well, the ribbon doesn't actually destroy the planets, what did was the aftershock of the sun going super nova, though I still don't know if they'd want it hitting a planet since it does absorb people since from what I saw in Generations.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Ashki wrote:
    The question is though, how else could they change the course of the ribbon without needing to destroy more systems or such? Could that be possible?

    Yeah, too bad we don't have a black-hole generating device or something...


    ...oh, wait.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    DCWilliams wrote:
    Truth be told though, I'm not sure what kind of story can be told with the ribbon other than rescuing ships/colonies in it's path, and averting crazed prior visitors from returning.

    Hrm. I wonder what happend to Guinen, Picard, and the rest of the el-Aurian refugees...

    My take would be a bit different but I think it's a perfect place to work in a few canon characters without making it a direct Generations sequel.

    My overall take would be that Troi is working wiith a scientific and engineering detail (perhaps with Barclay), which plans to study the Nexus from a safe distance. Klingons fire on the Starfleet vessel for being too close to their space, ignoring their warnings about the Nexus.

    Both the Federation and Klingon vessel get swept up into the Nexus.

    Feds work with Riker, Klingons work with Worf. The goal, ostensibly, would be to free the trapped ships.

    But Riker has a side plan that if that doesn't work, he's going to steal one of your shuttles and ram himself into the Nexus to be reunited with Troi.

    Perfect chance, IMHO, to give them a send-off. I think you could get Frakes and Sirtis reasonably and if you get one, the other will jump to do it. Having Worf get involved adds a certain amount of symmetry.

    Being the Nexus, it isn't fully killing anyone off but you do get that satisfactory bit of closure that harkens back to a lot of Star Trek episodes with the doomed lovers cheating the rules to be together forever. And given Riker and Troi's ages in-game, I think that would beat any scenario where one of them dies without the other.

    Meanwhile, Worf being present and the Klingon ship's involvement give the KDF a dog in the fight and also helps bring the story home for them since it's Worf's friends being affected.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Ashki wrote:
    2409, so one more game year, if the game even advances in time.

    It does sorta. There have been a couple people that calculated the stardates from their journals, and it's roughly 2410 to 2411.
    DCWilliams wrote:
    Hrm. I wonder what happend to Guinen...

    Great idea for another voice-over. :D
    Cattivo80 wrote: »
    It has the potential for a great story in a featured series....if they allow our characters to go in it that is. Infinite plot potential there; I didn't even like Generations, and I'm saying that.

    This would be fun for us Excelsior captains. Since the missions come out on Saturdays, we can leave everything but our phasers and deflectors in the bank, and legitimately say half our crew and ship won't be here until Tuesday. :p
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