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First Contact Experience

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So I finally was able to play a first contact mission. And I have a few questions:
  1. Is there some Oompa Loompa qualification to be security?
  2. How did my Reman get on the "Welcome to the Federation" committee?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    1. Small targets are hard to hit. Their phasers hit just as hard as an ogre's would, but even an army of incompetent enemies would eventually get a lucky shot in on an ogre. A munchkin like those guys could just walk around in the open the way TV firefights work.
    2. More serious answer: In the shows, when the crew went into a diplomatic sitaution, when they didn't trot out the entire senior staff, they always got the most diverse subset they could manage. If the whole group is human or looks human, they're still culturally diverse and they always bring a token alien, even if he has no lines. He's there to generate diversity and demonstrate that any race that enters the Federation is treated equally.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    hevach wrote: »
    2. More serious answer: In the shows, when the crew went into a diplomatic sitaution, when they didn't trot out the entire senior staff, they always got the most diverse subset they could manage. If the whole group is human or looks human, they're still culturally diverse and they always bring a token alien, even if he has no lines. He's there to generate diversity and demonstrate that any race that enters the Federation is treated equally.

    What's sad is they declined to join the Federation due to "too many differences". I think we may have overplayed it with bat man there.
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