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Please, for the love of the baby kuvah'magh...stop writing.
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I actually saw that ending coming. I noticed how coy they were being about the Emperor in the promotional material, realized it was supposed to be a What A Tweeest! bit and asked myself what the worst thing they could do would be. They did it.
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DS9 was still being run by Berman and Braga; institutionally it's the same shop. As for the rest, it's a great explanation of why The Orville is the best Trek show around.
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I don't accept any of that. The Federation made no attempt to alter e.g. Vulcan culture. The Tellarites of the TOS era are indistinguishable from those of the "modern" day. (Same for the ones of ENT times but that's being disingenuous as they were written after the fact.) For that matter, Andorian culture has been left…
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Sisko deployed a very slow-acting chemical weapon to drive the Maquis' people off a colony. Didn't actually kill anyone and the displaced colonists took the Cardassian colony Eddington had done the same thing to. (And while getting Eddington was a big part of his motivations, it wasn't the only reason -- he had to balance…
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Cryptic needs to stop writing. I've said it before. They are constitutionally unable to tell good writing from bad writing. Others have already recited the litany of offenses committed by these these stories, at least enough of them. No need for sadonecrobestiality. Oh: a faction leader in a very bipolar alliance suddenly…
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RE frequency modulators: you can replicate them for free at any time by opening your Replicator window. I tried "Bozeman" twice, got stuck on the campers each time, gave up. Call me when it's been patched.
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I'll just repeat my reply to the Facebook post: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Trek under its current managers is dead. Even DS9 was still about hope and optimism for the future. Discovery is Section 31 this and Mirror Universe that, Picard is likewise all sturm und drang. None of it is Trek any more, it's some other milieu…
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Sorry, ST:P is flat-out incompatible with STO, and that was inevitable once the company started redeveloping the TOS universe. In particular Alex Kurtzman has made it perfectly clear he doesn't want to deal with actual series canon, or for that matter the constraints of time, space, logic, etc. There was no way he was…
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Fixed. :)
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Even semi-phenomenal nearly-cosmic powered aliens can't keep their holodecks from trying to destroy the universe? Really? How has Excalbian civilization survived? And the moral? "Good is Dumb, but you blew up lots of stuff so we'll be Good." Hello, keyboard, would you like some face? fjo9382WUR0P9;W3JRFW;SOP9RUWP;9ORJWLI…
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The episode "Arena" was written by Gene L. Coon, actually. And in fact...it really was stolen from Frederic Brown. Coon had written the episode as an "original" work. As they were filming it one of the secretaries pointed out the "similarities" to Brown's story. Faced with the prospect of having to scrap the work they'd…
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You mean they put this "quantum fungus" feldercarb into their game without being forced into it? They're even worse at this than I thought.
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This is the Dragonborn Legends pack from Neverwinter all over again. Cryptic hasn't learned.
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Still can't start Azura mission, still can't claim spec point task reward.
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Also can't start the Azura mission, also not getting credit for the spec tasks, also playing a Vanguard.
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I'd settle for Federation Gorns.
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In the DS9 relaunch novels (which I haven't read, wouldn't touch a Trek book with someone else's hands), Ro Laren survived the Dominion's purge of the Maquis worlds. She eventually joined the Bajoran militia and, thanks to some behind the scenes aid from Picard, was recommissioned as a Starfleet LT when Bajor formally…
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We're talking about the production team that couldn't be bothered to get the sex of Data's cat right. Also n.b. that supposedly the reason STO now refers to Earth being in the Beta quadrant -- as opposed to every single reference on TNG, DS9 and VGR putting it in the Alpha quadrant -- has to do with Official Lore. Not that…
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a) The Elachi were not "interesting". They were barely props. b) I thought the decision to drag them out was terrible. It was exemplary of the worst tendencies of fanfic: the insistence that absolutely everything mentioned in the source material must be significant and connected to everything else. N.b. that this has been…
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While I have no expectation that this expansion will be anything but a fiasco, if you think DS9 was "weak" your sense of proportion has disappeared straight up your aesthetic. It was far and away the best of the modern Treks. (I suppose I have to exclude Discovery since I haven't/can't watch it but I've heard nothing about…
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Jem'Hadar faction? ...what? Great, you can play as a non-autonomous life form? And why are the Hur'q being made into some great unstoppable things? They were mentioned once, in passing, as some guys who raided Kronos in ancient history. Hur'q isn't even their name, it's a Klingon word for "outsiders". *sigh*
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I could have sworn an earlier patch note said we'd be able to repurchase things like Risian DOFFs that had been lost. But I tried to replace the purple Risian conn officer DOFF that got eaten by a loadout bug (I think) last year and it still says "Already Purchased".
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The game's writing has not improved. Future Time Cops are still impotent at best and incompetent at worst, Sela is a constant reminder that the writers have less than zero moral perspective, the narrative is gobbledegook, themes are forced at best...yecch. Stop writing. Or hire people who can actually do it.
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You mean except for the part where she was complicit in letting the Elaachi feed on her own people. Etc. And yes, that's illustrative of the stupidity in the story...don't get me started, there's not enough whiskey in Ireland to erase the pain....
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Sela is emblematic of Cryptic's inability to distinguish between good and bad writing. She's a war criminal responsible for billions of deaths. The sentient rights violations she committed as Empress actually pale in comparison, as horrifying as they were. Yet they keep acting as if anyone would give her anything but a…
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Evidently simply mailing the items in-game to every account was too simple.
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I saw nothing in the post saying the box was exclusive to consoles, there was a copy of it in the PC section and a link to it from the PC launcher. If it is exclusive to consoles then that a) should be made clear and b) is very short-sighted.
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Which is daily. Corner cases, not worth considering. Codswallop; if they wanted you to get more than one token per day they'd remove the timer entirely. Do it my way and players will have a 24 hour window.
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Seconded, this event is simply horrible. The mission itself is poorly designed and the event requires running it far past the point of disgust. And for the love of the baby kuvah'magh, will you please do away with the 20-hour timer idiocy? Tasks intended to run daily should reset at the same time as the dilithium…