Ripley for me. Sam Carter epitomized everything WRONG with technobabble and late 90s to present sci fi. Spouting out TRIBBLE that only works in that universes head fiction.
TNG era Prime Directive use has twisted it and bastardized it plain and simple. And only in Star Trek can something so insignificant cause the extinction of an entire planet, solar system, galaxy, whatever. This has been going on since Star Trek first happened, since it's a basic trope; Writers have no sense of scale.…
Funny, there were polls on the old forums but it's like wow everyone is poll happy. need to remove that feature, along with animated signatures and avatars. Both are being abused to extremes.
I just hate the Prime Directive being used as an tool to create false drama and tension when it isn't needed. Hell, it's one of the many, many, many things that makes Voyager so insufferable. That and Captain Janeway being a maniacal, power mad person that any normal crew would have mutinied against after the first episode.
This is why worrying about it is pointless. None of the lore matches up, no matter what fans believe, there are many inconsistencies, such as several items being the hardest substance known to man (dilithium, some alloy used for starship hulls, etc) and at least two General Orders that supposedly are the only law on the…
It wouldn't really add immersion or fun, since a realistic attack pattern would involve certain fake outs, movements and such, which the game obviously can't simulate. Such as the Picard Maneuver, using a high warp instant burst to create a fake shadow which would be an attack penalty on target and attack bonus to user.…
This argument is kind of funny since that is exactly what Star Trek preaches. Hell, the Federation makes it a strong point when they can basically juryrig or fix any species ships or computers or whatever, no problem. Anyways, there is no point to the division. There really was no point to hard line factioning either. This…
So, the claim is the clouds were forming a vortex and were very dark *squints at image* Hrmm, I am noticing a supreme lack of vortex, swirling or very dark clouds to be honest. Whatever, these hoaxes will continue to keep going around as people keep finding out about the power of photoshop or other programs for editing.
There is no complete, official list, of the Rules of Acquisition, because all of them have not been said on the air. Of course there are many fan made versions, many of which do not match, and of course there are always rules being added on to. Short answer, you won't find a complete, official list of the rules of…
Outside of renaming current attack patterns, there would be no way to do this properly and balance it, since anyone who would create one would just create the best possibly combinations of buffs and debuffs for their attack patterns. So, I'd have to go with the side of a flat no.
It actually was. Bosses and mob damage were reduced multiple times. They reduced it again with the Reloaded update. Bosses use to hit a lot harder than they do now. Shadow Destroyer and Therakiel, for instance, use to be dangerous to people who weren't paying attention. Now they aren't even a challenge to a soloist. Hell,…
It's ridiculously dumbed down now. If you are remembering the challenge of facing say Shadow Destroyer or Therakial the Bright, well that's long since gone even on Elite difficulty. And the game has been abandoned. The best they do is token updates, otherwise just a new costume every month or so is the best you can hope…
Nope, I am remember pretty much all of it. Even in the Unification episodes, it was pretty much clear that the Tal Shiar were in control. While Nemesis might have ended on a lovey dovey note, it was quite clear that the Empire was intent on debilitating the Federation, not being bestest friends it turned into at the end.…
You must have not watched much Next Generation since that's exactly how the Romulan Star Empire was portrayed. And let's face it, any empire that uses assassination, imprisonment, and threats to keep the populous subdued can't be even remotely on the side of good.
Quite. It's typically what Blizzard does, wait for a competitor to make something, then adapt it to WoW. Think Garrisons was really a unique idea for WoW?
No point on any of this. Reminds me of how the common ideal is to say everyone is copying WoW, despite the fact that WoW was copying its game play mechanics from the games that preceded and followed it.
I wouldn't use most discussions or comments as a sign of anything. STO has pretty much gotten all the love. You can't really discuss being abandoned and treated like the red headed step child too many times before it gets repetitive and Champions hardly has anything to look forward to at any given time. Congrats on having…
I do think some limited ability to edit non-Starfleet officers would be cool. I think the one thing I really want is to set the uniform style of my starship, because nothing annoys me more than having my nice, crisp uniformed bridge officers, then the rest of my crew in whatever those jumpers they are wearing. Looks so…
Why would they lose orientation? A view screen would not help with that, at all. In fact, a view screen would be detrimental to orientation not beneficial. Space there is no level plane that people fly to, there is no up, down, or really any direction space is space. The big empty black hole that we find ourselves in. You…
Glass panel? Last I checked all transparent materials were made of transparent aluminum in Star Trek. Why would the helm or Ops officer even need to see the view screen? The whole point of a bridge being on deck 1 at the top of the ship is ludicrous in itself, let alone having a personal window out in space. Realistically,…
The whole gate concept is not even Stargate's originally. The Wing Commander series revolved around Jump gates for their starships to travel through, and sci fi has been using the concept of jump gates and folding space for quite a while now, since the theory of relativity basically makes travelling faster than the speed…