Star Trek Online's Memorial For Leonard Nimoy Is Here And Perfect
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Star Trek Online's Memorial For Leonard Nimoy Is Here And Perfect
When Leonard Nimoy passed away last week, the internet was heaving with tributes for the Star Trek star. Now Nimoy has been immortalized in an official Star Trek product — the massively mulitiplayer role-playing game Star Trek Online.
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Two statues have been added to the long-running Star Trek MMO to commemorate the actor's passing. Nimoy provided voice work for the game not just as Spock, but as a narrator as well, providing a small description of a new region of space whenever a player entered it for the first time. Here's a short video released when the game first came out in 2010:
The two statues, which appeared in the game for the first time today, are placed on the planets of Vulcan and "New Romulus" (Star Trek Online is set in a post-Star Trek XI universe, where Romulus was destroyed in the events that created the parallel universe the JJ Abrams movies take place in).
Aside from Vulcan as an obvious choice — and to mark the pilgrimage many players of the game took to the planet shortly after Nimoy's passing — New Romulus was chosen to represent Spock's work with the Romulan people after the events of the original series.
Star Trek Online's Memorial For Leonard Nimoy Is Here And Perfect
As well as the statues, for the next week Cryptic Studios will also display black flags in the game's three main hub zones, Earth Space Dock, Qo'noS and New Romulus. There will also be permanent plaques installed in each marking the passing of Nimoy and his fellow original series co-workers Majel Barrett, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, and Gene Roddenberry.
Nice. Maybe I'll create a Klingon character to go with my Romulan and Federation characters, though I haven't played this game for a while (that might be partly because I got into Empire: Total War for a while).
I might make a Reman if I get them unlocked by then.
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Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
Not sure what I'll do yet. Getting back into the swing of things still (and finding out how horridly outclassed my good 'ole Sov is in DPS these days. Granted that may be my high-tier (from when I last played) gear is no longer high-tier...).
That, and trying to figure out a way to grind enough dilithium to at least get me partway to the Excelsior. I really want that thing.
Since all of my zen store ships are fed, I'd probably just stick with a new Fed, if anything. But man, doing that rep grind over again...I don't know. I like being in the top 1% of players right now.
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My "Price of Peace" Foundry mission is nearly done now, Just need to rework the final part so that there's no characters that were played by an actor in the TV-series (well technically Kahless isn't recognizeble as the actor under the Klingon make-up and he's a NPC in-game anyway but better safe then sorry) and I need to polish some of the earlier parts but that shouldn't take too long. Once it's published I'd love to hear what you guys think about it.
Though to be honest I'm probably not gonna publish that Project until I've gotten the first part of the 3 part companion story done as well.
I may be an idiot, but I'm a tolerated idiot
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
Okay, what all happened while I was away from this game? I was around DS9 right before I stopped playing, I think, and the area was full of Cardassian enemies. I come back, and its crawling with Terran Federation ships. Are they Mirror universe guys? When did the Mirror Universe invade?
It's probably one of the random change-ups they pull every now and then. You do have a Mirror Universe set of episodes on DS9 that you have to deal with, so that may be it.
The Romulan Republic wrote:Okay, what all happened while I was away from this game? I was around DS9 right before I stopped playing, I think, and the area was full of Cardassian enemies. I come back, and its crawling with Terran Federation ships. Are they Mirror universe guys? When did the Mirror Universe invade?
By the time you're finished with the Cardassian Struggle storyline you have fought the Cardies, the Dominion, the Undine and the Mirror Universe (though not in that order).
I may be an idiot, but I'm a tolerated idiot
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
Good God I hate that little motherfucker Drake. So he risks my crew's safety for his gorram test and has the gall to question my loyalty because I didn't make the decision he wanted me to make (i.e. trusting him even when I had no reason to) and make threats. I really wish the game gave me the option of locking his worthless ass in the brig after that. Fuck, I've taken on the Borg. I'm not too scarred of Section 31 cowards who would rather play at cloak and dagger than fight an honest fight.
Edit: My rage is somewhat soothed by the fact that that mission let my Federation character finally become an Admiral, though.
The Romulan Republic wrote:Good God I hate that little motherfucker Drake. So he risks my crew's safety for his gorram test and has the gall to question my loyalty because I didn't make the decision he wanted me to make (i.e. trusting him even when I had no reason to) and make threats. I really wish the game gave me the option of locking his worthless ass in the brig after that. Fuck, I've taken on the Borg. I'm not too scarred of Section 31 cowards who would rather play at cloak and dagger than fight an honest fight.
Edit: My rage is somewhat soothed by the fact that that mission let my Federation character finally become an Admiral, though.
Yeah Franklin Drake is lucky my Federation Engineer didn't slam him into wall so hard it would have broken every bone in his body, or made him I live his worst nightmares on constant playback inside his head. (My Fed engi is from an alien species that's both telephatic and telekinetic (actually orginally I intended her to be just telephatic but there's not active telephatic traits in the "alien" species selection so I added the TK attack to her traits)).
I may be an idiot, but I'm a tolerated idiot
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
The Romulan Republic wrote:Also, I'm starting to like the DS9 commander. He doesn't seem to be a fan of Section 31.
You'll stop liking him after "Boldly They Rode"
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This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
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"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
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The Romulan Republic wrote:Also, I'm starting to like the DS9 commander. He doesn't seem to be a fan of Section 31.
You'll stop liking him after "Boldly They Rode"
KURLAND HERE
yeah that's kind of annoying but it never turned my opinion of Cap Kurtland into negative, it just made wish the was a "mute coms" button on my EV suit.
I may be an idiot, but I'm a tolerated idiot
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
Skywalker_T-65 wrote:On my end, I forgot how annoying it is to have to grind XP to get the next episode unlocked.
that's why XP bonus weekends are nice I got my new sci char to lvl 53 and my new Engineer to lvl 52 so far and I'm not even close to DQ mission with them yet. By the time I reach Delta Quadrant story line I should be lvl 60 with both so no need for XP grind.
I may be an idiot, but I'm a tolerated idiot
"I think you completely missed the point of sigs. They're supposed to be completely homegrown in the fertile hydroponics lab of your mind, dried in your closet, rolled, and smoked...
Oh wait, that's marijuana..."Einhander Sn0m4n
Right now my characters are at level 40 (my Federation science officer) and a measly level 12 (my Romulan- haven't played with her in a while). Not sure what I'll do with the remaining slot. Maybe a Klingon science officer (its such an un-cliche career for a Klingon).
I haven't played since October, but I might come back for this "Delta Recruit" thing.
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
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I just had an unexpectedly awesome battle. Some Undine decided to turn the war games into an actual war, and it ended with an entire fleet going up against an Undine ship.
And now they've taken Deep Space 9. I made the decision to return to Earth to get a better ship before going to aid Deep Space 9.
This is still all old content, unfortunately. The Cardassian Front missions are the only ones left from the game's launch. I haven't played the re-done Romulan missions, but the re-done missions for the other fronts are all better in presentation, using lessons learned from the various Featured Episode series' they have made.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
