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That was me and actually, I agree with your sentiment. But here is the thing I wanted to express as clearly as possible: The back story you talk of here usually does not advance the story. And thats a bad thing more often than not. To stay in the example of TWOK: Never does the movie waste any time mentioning Khans…
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Oh, I just remembered another very simple rule. Its a rule I learned for writing screenplays: Keep every chunk of a characters dialogue down to five lines max (every line in a screenplay is about 8 to 12 words, I think). Then have the second character reply or interrupt, again five lines max. Then go back to first…
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As a player I also allways apreciate to have the dialog-options, that will advance the mission, be marked in green. Since I am not a foundry author, I dont know wether authors have the option to mark the mission relevant dialog options. Another thing I realized when playing Foundry Missions: Most Authors forget the rule of…
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Every single word you can strike without the player loosing orientation and getting confused, is one word to much. Seriously, the goal of dialogue is first and foremost to give the player the most necessary infos he needs to play the game: Where am I? Where do I need to go? What do I need to do there? Add to that one or…
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Thanks. I will go and check that next time.
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Or, the rare gemstones and the antiques are public property? But you are right. What about that one house at the lake with the beautyfull view. Housing maybe 'for free', but how do you settle who gets exactly what house? A lottery? The best houses are given away by a democratically elected commission of citizens, who award…
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Seems to me that the whole point of the No-Money-Rule (introduced by Roddenberry with TNG) was simply to tell writers to not write stories involving humans having money problems. Like Starfleet Officers going bankrupt, having debts, getting bribed or talking about troubles to afford tuition fees for their kids.... all that…
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Thats it? We never saw a Connie on TNG, DS9 or Voyager and therefore it doesnt exist? Did Starfleet stop hiring historians? Cause we never again heard of a Starfleet Officer with the speciality of Historian since the episode Space Seed. Anyway, if I understand you corectly you would say that STO should only show stuff we…
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Just out of curiosity, what makes you prefer to think that. If you take a look at the Constitution Class you will not find much that is different from an Excelsior, Ambassador or Galaxy Class: Saucer shaped habitat section - check Bridge dome, probably exchangable - check Deflector dish - check Hole in the ships neck,…
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And its consistent with what Star Trek has shown us to be the mindset of humans and Starfleet: Conservative in regards to style and fashion. Kirk comparde starships to ships of sail. Picard loved Shakespeare, riding and old fashioned clothes. Riker loved 20th century Jazz. Data reenacted Sherlock Holmes. Sisko was into…
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Its a shape, a form, a look! How does the look impose limitations on the technology inside? I know, I know.... hardpoints, heat radiators, 'warp field dynamics'.... Here is the thing though: We do not know the hardpoints of a hull that looks like the U.S.S. Reliant from TWOK! We do not know anything about warp field…
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Yeah, Kirk said something about 12 Connies. A year later it might have been 1200 Connies.... or still 12 Connies.... or any arbitrary number you want to pick. Yeah, in Search for Spock it was said, that the Enterprise will be decomissioned since she was more than 20 years old. It was not said, that never again will ships…
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I dont know why CBS decided against a T5 Connie, but its not that hard to guess: Both sides of the 'argument' seem to agree that starships are like cars. That they are build as one big mashine and that, just like with cars, the manufacturers have model years, product lines and regularely come up with new looks for the…
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Robots? Like Exocomps? Replicators can make Exocomps and parts to build more Replicators. Exocomps can assemble the Replicators and they can make more Exocomps and those make more parts for more Replicators. By the end of the year you could have a whole army of Exocomps populating a Moon, mining its resources, refining…
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You will never like Star Trek...... ever! Not going to happen! How I know? You have seen Star Trek and what you have seen is all there is to it. A bunch of people traveling some place, getting into trouble, trying to find out the cause of the trouble and then fix it. Thats it! Oh, there are a few battles and fights here…
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Season 1 of VOY has only two Episodes based on that premise. 2 out of 16. I didnt make the effort to keep going through the epsiode lists of the other seasons. I think the result will be the same: The Lost in Space Premise was seldom ever being used and usually it was used poorly.
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Voyager started strong in ratings and ended below DS9 at its weakest days. Voyager was constantly and steadilly bleading out. Yes, it made it for 7 years. And why not. It wasnt a bad Sci-Fi-Show compared with the competition of its time. ENT had exactly the same problems as VOY, by the way: Not knowing what it wanted to do.
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Yupp, and just like Voyager, SG:U took the premise of Lost in Space and didnt know what to do with it. Also, they where way to obsessed with tone and style over substance: Presenting a dark and bruting athmosphere mattered more to them than actual stories. I am not saying that Voyager was a total waste of time and effort.…
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The whole problem with Voyager was that it didnt know why it even existed. TOS knew exactly what it was and why: Take all the space travel Sci-Fi from all these paper back books and present it to an audience that would normally never read those stories. TNG knew what it was: Take all those space travel Sci-Fi from those…
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"Prepare for Space-Time-Energy-Projection!" Sounds like science to me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5EaoSA02LM
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Genius is the ability to find the shortest way between a moment of want/need and the corresponding moment of satisfaction. Genius is the idea that makes everybody else go: "Thats so simple! Why the hell didnt I think of that!?! Every child could have come up with this! I feel stupid for not being the one who came up with…
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Original Universe or Abramsverse? Doesnt matter! Sequel, Prequel or Reboot? Nobody really cares! New characters or new actors playing established characters? Nobody gives a damn! This gimmick or that gimmick? Its all the same! If they are ever going to make a new Star Trek TV-Show there is only one thing that matters: The…
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1.: Interiors of plausible size - A bridge the size of a gothic church? Not plausible, not believable, not convincing. And I dont want to hear anymore BS about camera movement or giant aliens. If the fight against the dragon doesnt fit into the hobbit home, then dont place it there! 2.: A tactical cover based ground combat…
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But of course! Why didnt I think of that. Of all the things J.J. Abrams has done for Star Trek the military peaked cap is what the world was waiting for. Nothing says "to boldly go" more than a military peaked cap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzl3uvkkmmo
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Dont know what all the fuzz is about. Just give the T-Rex a ridged forehead and tadaa!!!!..... its an alien T-Rex from another world who has clearly and obviously spawned from another ocean. Whats more Star Trek than ridged foreheads? And if you cant afford the make-up artist, just paint a dot on its forhead or go without…
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Dinosaurs with Lasers? I am shocked nobody has recognized that yet. Come on fellas! Did you live beyond the moon in the late eighties and early nineties? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRodKHD8lrE
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Oh please, folks, as if you dont allready know: Ugliest ships in STO are allways the ships that everybody else is flying.