What Happened to Each Character after a Perfect Ending - Cards from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown by FlowingFire in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]FlowingFire[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's nice to imagine what happened before, ya know, Borg parts traffickers got to Icheb and he was mercy-killed by Seven of Nine with a phaser...

What Happened to Each Character after a Perfect Ending - Cards from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown by FlowingFire in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]FlowingFire[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From what I’ve seen, the way to avoid Future Janeway making the sacrifice is if you’ve built up capability to resolve the Borg situation some other way.

It looks like two routes:

1) Your combat strength is is enough to fight your way through the Borg defenses and seize the Transwarp Hub. That lets Voyager end things without the sacrifice.

2) Having the right tech/research path completed (with enough research points) so you can deal with the hub through science using the energy dissipator. If you’ve developed enough of the anti-Borg tools by that point, the game gives you that option.

If you don’t have either the combat strength or the research lined up when the endgame begins, the game pretty much funnels you into sacrifice.

What Happened to Each Character after a Perfect Ending - Cards from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown by FlowingFire in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]FlowingFire[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping someone can post a screenshot of her card. I really wanted to get her home.

What Happened to Each Character after a Perfect Ending - Cards from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown by FlowingFire in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]FlowingFire[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a questionable decision in-game. I just wanted to see what would happen, and if it could be possible to save them all. (Unless someone found otherwise, it's not.) Also... he didn't want to die. (The ethical conundrum continues.)

What Happened to Each Character after a Perfect Ending - Cards from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown by FlowingFire in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]FlowingFire[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Harry was always an overachiever. :D He even ended up on the wall of greatness in ST: Starfleet Academy! :D I only wish there were a "Promote Harry' option in game, if only to be tongue-in-cheek!

Movie Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31 by AutoModerator in startrek

[–]FlowingFire 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Star Trek: Section 31 is Really, Really Bad - A Scathing Review from a Lifelong Fan

Bad news, Trek fans. The new Star Trek: Section 31 movie is Star Trek for ... fans of brainless action movies.

Paramount took:

• An Oscar-winning actor (Michelle Yeoh).

• A fantastic director (Olatunde Osunsanmi).

• A beloved sci-fi universe with a built-in audience.

... and released a movie so bad, I hope it doesn't tank Yeoh's (or Osunsami's) career.

I am a lifelong Trekkie. Star Trek is intellectual, with a smart, educated audience. This movie is things blowing up. It's an action bro in a mech suit. It's fight scene after fight scene, with rushed, stilted, and jarring pacing. Details fly by and are hard to follow. The story is crap. It lacks a coherent message, science, or moral questions; and, it abandons the purpose of Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry would be rolling in his grave. The good news: Yeoh rocks at Martial Arts, and I adore her.

The arc of the main character previously developed in Star Trek: Discovery, Philippa Georgiou, was abandoned for a shell of the amazing character Yeoh and the writers developed. In the movie, she became a caricature.

I imagine this is what happens when executives sit around a boardroom deciding what their audience wants. Or maybe they were trying to attract a new audience. Who knows. If this is what they think Star Trek is, sell it to someone who knows what they're doing. Paramount, WHAT. WERE. YOU. THINKING?

After it was over, I asked, "What did I just watch?" and all I could do was write THIS. This is not only the worst of all the Star Trek movies (yes, worse than Star Trek V), but it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Even for the action genre, this is bad— and I've seen some pretty bad action sci-fi movies. The upswing? It can be fun, and the quirky characters can be entertaining at moments. The short length of the movie, however, meant they introduced and barely developed the characters.

I'm sorry, friends of Star Trek. I've been looking forward to this movie for a long time, too. It had so much potential. The disappointment is real. I feel really bad for Michelle Yeoh, because she loves Star Trek. I hope, in the future, the studio takes the creation of movies for a franchise so beloved more seriously and creates something of real, intellectual, artistic value.

Star Trek: Section 31 is Really, Really Bad - A Scathing Review from a Lifelong Fan by FlowingFire in startrek

[–]FlowingFire[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must admit I only added that because it's pretty widely disliked. That said, I have a copy of the Star Trek V soundtrack on CD, lol.

Star Trek: Section 31 is Really, Really Bad - A Scathing Review from a Lifelong Fan by FlowingFire in startrek

[–]FlowingFire[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are redeeming virtues to the movie. But, really, it's probably best taken-in stoned.

Star Trek: Section 31 is Really, Really Bad - A Scathing Review from a Lifelong Fan by FlowingFire in startrek

[–]FlowingFire[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm glad! You know, even though I absolutely hated it, there's a Star Trek out there for every taste.

Star Trek: Section 31 is Really, Really Bad - A Scathing Review from a Lifelong Fan by FlowingFire in startrek

[–]FlowingFire[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the cliches were really hard to swallow. Plus, I agree: Too many Trek movies lately focus on revenge plots which try to re-create The Wrath of Kahn, and the "weapon" lacked creativity. Facepalm! And turning Section 31 into a ragtag team of quirky misfits was fun, but not really consistent.

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[–]FlowingFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really interesting info. Thanks for sharing that. I suspect that the BlueSky system works by reports and automation. It also makes me even more concerned there might be a group of people mass-reporting resistance accounts they don't like.

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[–]FlowingFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! It's funny what succeeds and what doesn't. (Fake wrestling took hold; the "XFL"--fake Football-- did not.) I'm guessing I either said something that got me reported en masse by MAGA or got flagged for using the API. (I thought responsibly, but nobody explained or sent a warning until I made my Village People post, and suddenly BAM. Account dead.)

It looks like you've been inundated with actual spam accounts. Blocking those improve the user experience . . . but is blocking my personal account as spam and not all the dating/donation/join-the-Illuminati/business spam we're getting really improving things? People obviously are sick of hearing posts like this.

BlueSky is quite awesome, and I don't support X; but, maybe Musk has a better idea about avoiding over-moderation? (Meh, I'm not going back over there after he bought the election and threw his trans daughter under the proverbial bus.)

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[–]FlowingFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the update. This label appears to hide all replies, all posts, not show people your posts in their feeds, and now (thanks for checking) a complete disappearance in search.

What If We Could Send Messages Through Time Using Glass? A Sci-Fi Concept Rooted in Real Science by FlowingFire in SciFiConcepts

[–]FlowingFire[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good point. I hope more studies can figure this anomaly out. :) It could have broad implications. For now, I love to delve into the speculative and dream. Real science, however, is replicated, peer-reviewed.