No T6 abilities, which is pretty much a deal-breaker these days. I packed one of the Sci girls into a Fed T6 HEC for that reason. The other really ought to be flying her Nandi instead of the Vesta.
Might have considered replacing my main's JHDC with one of these, if not for only having 3 fore weapons. Might still get one for the two Fed Science chicks, though. I'm not really fond of any of the existing T6 Sci options (except the Annorax, which I can't get, of course) and those Vestas are looking shabby.
What, like that took effort? This kind of stuff isn't cute, or clever, or creative. It's trite and frankly, downright tragic that with the nigh-unlimited possibilities in the Trek setting this was all the Cryptic team could come up with. Working in a third timewank (the Na'Kuhl are Vosk's people from ENT) just rubbed salt…
If there isn't some kind of "temporal censorship" rule in place preventing you from re-visiting points in time you've already been to then every time you went back to a critical event you'd find fifty copies of yourself trying to fix whatever you got wrong. No mulligans.
Of course she could blame someone else. Sociopaths always can. It's T'ket's fault. Time travel babble aside it was the Iconian's destruction of Romulus that made her do it. She couldn't know when it happened that she'd be traveling back 200K years. Besides, what Sela did on Iconia pales in comparison. Or...wait...it's YOUR…
You seem to be missing a beat here...or maybe the entire concerto. Regardless of what you may think about the events on Iconia, Sela is guilty of innumerable counts of murder, torture, attempted genocide and other war crimes/crimes against sentience. She is, basically, Female Space Hitler. There's no shortage of reasons…
Bingo. Sociopaths like Sela don't reform. Nothing is ever their fault. If they stab you in the back it's your fault for turning your back. However broken up she may be now, she'll eventually find someone else to blame it all on and start killing people again. But it's been made clear that people at Cryptic (and its former…
Kagran, who was supreme commander of the allied forces, gave the order, as you yourself note, and he rescinded it on the mission. Sela acted of her own volition. Responding to points from others: Uh, no, it's an Iconian puppet. It's also so tiny as to be irrelevant at this point. It would certainly apply here. The Tuterans…
Swiping from Wikipedia (just to be honest), actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea. "The act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty." There was no intent to wipe out a civilization, even the Iconian one. What happened was an accident. If there were a court in which the Tuterians could plead their case, they would…
They intended to eradicate everyone. The only survivors, if any, would have been Iconian slaves. More likely they'd be turned into Elachi (that process itself being a war crime of incalculable magnitude). The problem with your statement is that it's completely wrong. You assume your conclusion by declaring everything the…
Bleeding heart psychobabble. There is a fundamental principle of morality that has held for millenia: two wrongs don't make a right. No matter how many injustices, real or imagined, you have suffered, you've no right to commit one more.
You're on crack. Except Vulcan wasn't a strategic target, there being no declared state of war, and the purpose of her attack wasn't to achieve any discernible military objective but to obliterate the Vulcan people. Genocide, or attempted genocide, is a war crime. War crimes have no jurisdiction. This is obviously…
You are absolutely responsible for your actions in a crime of passion. The punishment is less severe than for one committed in cold blood but you do not get a free pass. Sela's actions were not a crime of passion. They were emblematic of a pattern and practice of past behavior. Any just court would hang her. Likewise, the…
This line is emblematic of one of many of modern society's problems: moral relativism taken beyond the point of reason. YES, IT'S HER FAULT. SHE MADE A CHOICE. SHE PULLED THE TRIGGER. Everything else is psychobabble. It doesn't matter what you've been through, it doesn't matter how much TRIBBLE the universe has dumped on…
In the immortal words of Jay Sherman, "it STINKS". Plot holes, time travel cheat ending...yecch. And please, why is Sela still breathing? As if it wasn't bad enough that she's screwed over the canon universe several times resulting in the death of millions, she's directly responsible for the existence of the JJTrek movies.…
While it doesn't bear on Cryptic's current problems I had been having a lot of trouble with my Comcast connection for several weeks now. I just changed my DNS settings to use Google's Public DNS and that appears to have cleared it up. At least for connecting to everything else.
Actually the Xindi arc was not really part of the Temporal Cold War arc. The Sphere Builders were a completely different faction. Mysterious Future Guy only showed up to get Archer involved; the next time the TCW resurfaces is in the next season's opener when it gets taken to the woodshed. FWIW, I liked the Xindi arc; it…
Would have been nice if they'd tossed in a mention of the holodeck simulations being based on Bashir and company's work in "Statistical Probabilities". Along with the player saying "ah, didn't that turn out to not work" and getting a perfunctory "oh, we've improved on it..."
Sorry, but this would be an absolutely horrible idea. It would immediately decay into a hopeless morass of ridiculous stories. And before anyone brings up Doctor Who again, Doctor Who deals with actual history-editing time travel as little as possible and trips over its own feet every time it does. It is also intended for…
If this is setting the game up for the Temporal Cold War storyline...why, gods, why? That storyline was so lame the first show runner to inherit it shot it in the head. Oh, and I would have...well, I wouldn't have done a storyline with time travel in the first place, but if I was somehow roped into it, I would have had one…
The "year of hell" storyline was universally mocked and derided on Usenet when it first broadcast. I think the best thing anyone said about it was that it took real guts for the writers to show us the reset button in the first reel, brazenly displaying their complete lack of concern over what anyone thought of their work.…
I answered Suliban as I already have one, a Fed!Rom created as an alien. Of course if they went and added a de jure Suliban race I'd be kind of screwed, unless they also added race change tokens to the store. My existing one just hit 60 and was a Delta Recruit. It would kind of suck to have to delete her and start over.
I doubt they live for "thousands of centuries". Or that she had much experience with the Delta Quadrant, for that matter...the El-Aurian homeworld, wherever it was, must have been fairly close to Federation space for their refugees to ended up there. (Or for Guinan to be vacationing on Earth, in any time period.) As for…
Yes. What makes her an expert on the Borg? All they did was eat her civilization. The Vaadwaur were talking about things they had actually witnessed. And yes, I know you can fanwank your way around anything. Quine-Duhem Thesis for the lose. I'd really prefer it if a) we just admitted the show's creators really didn't give…
The VOY ep "Dragon's Teeth" says that as of the fall of the Vaadwaur civilization c. 900 years ago the Borg had only assimilated a few systems. Whatever may have gotten into a novel notwithstanding, the Borg are not that old. But then, there's a lot wrong with the chronology already. It's being said that the Iconians are…