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Star Trek Online: Shipping Ezri Dax/Harry Kim January 23rd
Hevach
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Star Trek Online is the story about a riot at Comic Con. It started in the Star Trek panel when somebody suggested Into Darkness was the best movie.
First, a bunch of frat boys dressed as Klingons beat up a Gorn, a cat girl, and two Princess Leias (one in the robe, one in the golden bikini). The Romulan cosplayers light their side of the room on fire and half of them try to piss it out while the other half shout, "YES! BURN IT DOWN! BURN IT ALL DOWN!"
All the Starfleet cosplayers rally to stop the out of control Klingons, who are now beating up a dude in a ghost costume who wondered what the noise was. A Kardashian walks in and does a Grandpa Simpson right back out while a Cardassian walks backwards into the bushes.
Things seem to be clearing up when the last Borg cosplayer starts crying and calls his mom to pick him up.
But then, the Romulans give up on the fire and convince everyone in the room that they shouldn't be fighting each other, they should be out on the conference floor beating up all the people who think their cosplay is weak.
So the Klingons, Romulans, and Starfleet charge the floor. As they exit they run into some Breen and Jem'hadar who thought the panel was at 2 and not 1:30 and trample them into the carpet before heading to the Nintendo fans and beating up all the mushroom people and catching their Pokemon. They knock over the War of the Worlds tripod Walker and it's owner starts crying because that was the original prop and cost like fifty grand!
After lighting a Dino Riders display on fire and beating up Ethan Phillips for no apparent reason the violence begins to spread. The zombies are fighting snake people and the Trekkies take the zombies' side, but Garrett Wang says this is a bad idea because one of the zombies has a very convincing Zombie Garrett Wang mask on and it was super creepy. But the snake people were trying to sell that weird candy with bugs in it and nobody wants that shit what the fuck?
Now I was at the far end of the auditorium but apparently Denise Crosby started a big fight with an impromptu Spider-man army and John de Lancie started throwing snowballs at people. I don't know what that was all about, because right then twelve women dressed in super detailed gray alien costumes came in and just started absolutely fucking *everybody* up, and that was pretty awesome.
Red Foreman from That 70's Show eventually got them to stop, but Denise Crosby (who changed costumes after her shirt got torn) shot one of them as they were leaving so *that* was a whole thing.
That's when things got weird. Two furries in rhinoceros suits started whopping the Jesus out of J G Hertzler in the parking lot, and the Klingons came to help him. Some guys were bringing stuff in for an exotic pet show on Tuesday and the Klingons knocked over a huge box full of spiders that went everywhere. "Don't worry, I've got this!" the spider owner said, and he opened an even bigger box full of cicadas, that were super loud and annoying and just made everything way worse.
Around this time the Jem'hadar guys from earlier were recovering and they started stomping out all the bugs. Turns out they were buddies with the bug guy from the pet show and this happens once in a while, no biggie. The badly spider-bitten Klingons start fighting each other over which show had the best Klingons and the Discovery Klingons actually win because the TOS guys were all like 60 and the TNG guys had inaccurate noses, the absolute muppets.
As they all go back inside, Wil Wheaton and the bald lady from TMP are smashing two huge Lego V'gers into each other until Wil's breaks. Half of the Starfleet cosplayers are now waving knives and calling themselves Terrans and fighting the rest of the Starfleet guys, plus one random 40k Space Marine for some reason. Golden Bikini Leia is recovered and riding a Silver Surfer surfboard, dunno what that's about. That shit was barely over and then all the Trekkies beat up the Harry Potter cosplayers, kicked their cats, and smashed up their Halloween decorations.
There was this one guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln. I think he was trying to help, but then Jeri Ryan kicked him in the balls and then her and Sonequa Martin-Green started kicking him.
This was apparently the last straw. A group of DC cosplayers reenact the scene from Infinite Crisis where Superboy Prime punches the universe. It seemed kind of lame but then the Borg guys came back! At some point a bunch of red paint got spilled on them while they were down but they just went with it and and now they're going ham on everybody. The Spider-man army comes back and now they join the Trekkies and everybody is fighting these crazy red Borg while the Borg are being led by one of the Rhinoceros furries whose screaming, "Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne!" Wrong franchise buddy!
Last thing I saw before my mom picked me up to go home was this crazy detailed seven foot tall alien costume with an animated head and everything. I think it was probably from Farscape?
You really had to be there. And you can be there! Because all this crazy shit is free to play at https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/
First, a bunch of frat boys dressed as Klingons beat up a Gorn, a cat girl, and two Princess Leias (one in the robe, one in the golden bikini). The Romulan cosplayers light their side of the room on fire and half of them try to piss it out while the other half shout, "YES! BURN IT DOWN! BURN IT ALL DOWN!"
All the Starfleet cosplayers rally to stop the out of control Klingons, who are now beating up a dude in a ghost costume who wondered what the noise was. A Kardashian walks in and does a Grandpa Simpson right back out while a Cardassian walks backwards into the bushes.
Things seem to be clearing up when the last Borg cosplayer starts crying and calls his mom to pick him up.
But then, the Romulans give up on the fire and convince everyone in the room that they shouldn't be fighting each other, they should be out on the conference floor beating up all the people who think their cosplay is weak.
So the Klingons, Romulans, and Starfleet charge the floor. As they exit they run into some Breen and Jem'hadar who thought the panel was at 2 and not 1:30 and trample them into the carpet before heading to the Nintendo fans and beating up all the mushroom people and catching their Pokemon. They knock over the War of the Worlds tripod Walker and it's owner starts crying because that was the original prop and cost like fifty grand!
After lighting a Dino Riders display on fire and beating up Ethan Phillips for no apparent reason the violence begins to spread. The zombies are fighting snake people and the Trekkies take the zombies' side, but Garrett Wang says this is a bad idea because one of the zombies has a very convincing Zombie Garrett Wang mask on and it was super creepy. But the snake people were trying to sell that weird candy with bugs in it and nobody wants that shit what the fuck?
Now I was at the far end of the auditorium but apparently Denise Crosby started a big fight with an impromptu Spider-man army and John de Lancie started throwing snowballs at people. I don't know what that was all about, because right then twelve women dressed in super detailed gray alien costumes came in and just started absolutely fucking *everybody* up, and that was pretty awesome.
Red Foreman from That 70's Show eventually got them to stop, but Denise Crosby (who changed costumes after her shirt got torn) shot one of them as they were leaving so *that* was a whole thing.
That's when things got weird. Two furries in rhinoceros suits started whopping the Jesus out of J G Hertzler in the parking lot, and the Klingons came to help him. Some guys were bringing stuff in for an exotic pet show on Tuesday and the Klingons knocked over a huge box full of spiders that went everywhere. "Don't worry, I've got this!" the spider owner said, and he opened an even bigger box full of cicadas, that were super loud and annoying and just made everything way worse.
Around this time the Jem'hadar guys from earlier were recovering and they started stomping out all the bugs. Turns out they were buddies with the bug guy from the pet show and this happens once in a while, no biggie. The badly spider-bitten Klingons start fighting each other over which show had the best Klingons and the Discovery Klingons actually win because the TOS guys were all like 60 and the TNG guys had inaccurate noses, the absolute muppets.
As they all go back inside, Wil Wheaton and the bald lady from TMP are smashing two huge Lego V'gers into each other until Wil's breaks. Half of the Starfleet cosplayers are now waving knives and calling themselves Terrans and fighting the rest of the Starfleet guys, plus one random 40k Space Marine for some reason. Golden Bikini Leia is recovered and riding a Silver Surfer surfboard, dunno what that's about. That shit was barely over and then all the Trekkies beat up the Harry Potter cosplayers, kicked their cats, and smashed up their Halloween decorations.
There was this one guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln. I think he was trying to help, but then Jeri Ryan kicked him in the balls and then her and Sonequa Martin-Green started kicking him.
This was apparently the last straw. A group of DC cosplayers reenact the scene from Infinite Crisis where Superboy Prime punches the universe. It seemed kind of lame but then the Borg guys came back! At some point a bunch of red paint got spilled on them while they were down but they just went with it and and now they're going ham on everybody. The Spider-man army comes back and now they join the Trekkies and everybody is fighting these crazy red Borg while the Borg are being led by one of the Rhinoceros furries whose screaming, "Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne!" Wrong franchise buddy!
Last thing I saw before my mom picked me up to go home was this crazy detailed seven foot tall alien costume with an animated head and everything. I think it was probably from Farscape?
You really had to be there. And you can be there! Because all this crazy shit is free to play at https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/
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From the old Star Trek: Armada games, this comes to fill up the Rank 3 enemy slot for the Borg, since previously, from the 4 ranks that most NPC factions have, Cubes did double duty as the Rank 3 and Rank 4 enemies, making them less threatening. Now, Cubes are exclusively Rank 4 enemies, so they get to keep their gravitas.
An interesting thing about them is that, unlike most other "pure" Borg ships, they have a defined front and back and fly more like regular ships. Players have wanted a playable Cube for ages, but Cubes don't fly like regular ships and are too big, so is just not possible. Assimilators however, don't have this issue.
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Not going to feel bad for those ships after watching one try to escape straight through an Assimilator that happened to warp in exactly on the escape corridor.
Maybe try turning the ship next time, Captain Newdrone
Also I was glad I checked my youtubes last night didn't realize there was a reason to link your sto to epic, doing so netted me a free universal console and upgrade token.
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Are you allowed to do that again? It stopped for a long time.
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I did it yesterday and I had not done it before. Just "install" the game from epic and then launch it from their site and you'll be prompted to link
Dunno if this guy is a milkshake duck youtuber, but his video shows how its done
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Yeah, sometimes you try stuff and it doesn't work out. Myself, besides doing the event, "Temporal Recruit that I don't play" became "Temporal Recruit that I'm playing a lot" since I decided to try a Nova on him. From all the specialization starship mechanics that I've tried, Pilot Maneuvers so far is the most fun, though Vanguard Wingmen is a very close second (that's the Jem'hadar ships one, you get two extra dudes that you don't have to sloooowly summon like regular pets and have actually cool powers). Doing space magic becomes a lot more interesting when you can do it while ALSO doing barrel rolls, ditto using Cannons. Suddenly hitting the rear arc of things becomes a lot easier. Even Sela's "Death to Vulcans" supervillain speeches become a lot more tolerable.
Also, like the look update.
It has that kinda retro TMP-ish look without, you know, the actual TMP suits.
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Um, vanity?
Making your ship black, usually. (Ba'ul or Section 31)
There are other options, however.
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For anyone who like me wants to see the vanity stuff.
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There's a few exceptions. If you want one that works well with the veteran material, check out the AEGIS shield from R&D.
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That shit must be like space monopoly, and someone gets bored/frustrated and flips the board every time.
Fizzbin was a card game that Kirk invented. Players getting confused, frustrated, and infuriated is basically things working as intended.
As real and predictable as making a rudimentary lathe while on ground sorties.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Now at 35, ship is being driven by 3 Jem'Hadar Vanguard and 2 Watchers, so that's taken care of, dudes on the ground, I'm keeping Tarsi and Skavrin since they are great, however did let go T'met for the 5$ Disco Cyborg since that looked fun and unlocks the vest and helmet for the whole account, you CAN use the Protostar Uniform on her, but you don't get rank pips and that bothered me, so left her with her jacket and uniform on the top, just changed colors a bit. Other Science dude for ground, will check later what is going to be.
(Also changed the name to Samantha Jackson since Stargate).
The thing that people are kinda grumbling a bit about is the new Defense of Starbase 1 for the event, the Borg ships have Detonate, which hits hard, so if they warp on top of the rescue ship, well, they are beyond even the Koala's help and that means less badges. Minor issue, but still there.
At least anecdotally I've seen spheres go RED and then fizzle purple when fighting them on Guillotine
There's options... not great ones, the way the game tends to play, but it's not going to cost you a mission if you don't have them available, so I think the dev response is going to be, "Use your brains more and your guns less."
So, overall, the Odyssey bridge is ridiculously large and majestic, while the other ones are more regular size. Do like the Tutorial bridge, using it now, since is pretty and not flying a large ship. Also don't have an Odyssey.
The new Odyssey and D7 Bridges unlock with any variant of those ships, including the free ones.