Eccentric Flower talk:201002/Notes From the Beta Quadrant

Joy:

I love that 20 is true.

-- 19:14, 1 February 2010 (GMT)

Columbina:

Isn't that great? It's one of many charming touches they threw in for the True Believers.

-- 20:10, 1 February 2010 (GMT)

Ursula:

I'm resisting the temptation to try the game... As a lifelong Trekkie, I know I could get hooked fast and hooked bad. My understanding is that this is set in the "real" Trek universe (as opposed to that J.J. Abrams stuff) but a few decades on from the TV shows and stuff. It is sort of odd to have a franchise that's now set in two very different timelines. Do they make any reference to the stuff in the new movie?

-- 08:47, 2 February 2010 (GMT)

Columbina:

The opening narration is from Spock, and he talks about how he changed universes, never to be seen in The Original Universe again ... but that meanwhile, life there went on without him, and here's what's been happening ....

Mind you, this might as well be a different timeline altogether, because life is not good in this particular universe. The Klingons broke with the Federation; the Romulans are pissed off at everyone because their planet was destroyed; the Borg are back; everything in general is a mess.

-- 14:20, 2 February 2010 (GMT)

Ursula:

>meanwhile, life there went on without him, and here's what's been happening ....

That's good to hear. While the screenwriters for That Movie kept saying in interviews that it was a parallel timeline and it didn't overwrite the original franchise, I didn't feel like the film itself made that very clear at all and in the original franchise there were plenty of occasions where changing something in the past changed everything in the future. (If we go by what the new movie screenwriters say, First Contact basically makes no sense at all.) So the old school Trekkie in me is a little too happy to hear that this game basically says, "Yeah, the original continuity is still doing fine, and here it is..."

-- 21:36, 2 February 2010 (GMT)

Peebles:

Ooh, a multiverse. I wonder if this is setting us up for a Crisis on Infinite Earths type reboot in a few decades. That'd be neat. I can't wait to meet Bizarro Kirk.

-- 16:16, 3 February 2010 (GMT)

Ysabel:

I played STO in the closed beta for about 10-15 hours, and it just didn't grab me at all. I haven't gotten around to uninstalling the beta client but I don't expect I'll buy the game. For whatever reason it just bored the hell out of me after about an hour and even though I gave it a lot more to see if that would pass, it didn't.

-- 18:41, 4 February 2010 (GMT)

Ysabel:

(Which is too bad, because I wanted to like it, because I would also like a SF online game to play.)

-- 18:42, 4 February 2010 (GMT)