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Time for a Star Trek thread.
What is the best type of ship and why is it the Constellation-class?
The Uguu~-class starship is clearly the kawaiiest.
Also, a reminder that new Star Trek Online characters can earn bonuses for themselves and other characters on the account via the Delta Recruitment event currently ongoing.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9126523-delta-recruitment-now-live!
Rewards are listed here:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9116343-delta-recruitment-rewards
>>12396509
i wanna play but fuck this arc bullshit
any way to not install that? or i gotta buy the damn disc?
>>12396509
I'd jump on that, but I kind of want to watch every show (minus TAS) first before playing. S2 of TNG right now.
>>12396880
>minus TAS
at least watch Yesteryear
>>12396423
Miranda class all day erry day
>>12396877
Get it on Steam instead.
They occasionally do giveaways that require you to log in through Arc (Khan's outfit from Wrath of Khan was one of them before), but you just need to log in through it once to get the item, then you can uninstall it again.
The Romulan Warbird is the best ship in Star Trek. It is better than all other ships combined.
>>12397119
Negative.
>>12397132
aparently it kicks ass/ its broken onPvP last i heard
>>12397119
>>12397146
Really? Damn. I guess that just shows the devs have good taste.
>>12396509
Fucking kill yourself shill.
>>12397146
The double D used to be one of the two best Romulan healer ships with a decent amount of adaptability. Now with the introduction of tier 6 and boff specializations it's mediocre through and through. Yes I'm including the tier 6 D'D in my analysis. It's only got a lt cmdr specialization boff and it removes from your tactical abilities to use it. It's inferior to the Romulan command ship in almost every way.
>>12397402
thats a lot of suffering on DS9
>>12397470
it's a lot of Miles on DS9
>this new tutorial stuff for the Delta Recruit event
Jesus fuck, we've gone full Janeway.
>I know this is going to sound crazy, but I am you from your future, and I've come back in time to tell you information you're going to need in the future.
>I don't quite understand everything myself, but I remember talking to... me... when I was standing in your shoes so I knew I had to do this.
>>12396423
But Anon that's not the Excelsior class.
Constellation is still nice though admittedly as well.
>What is the best type of ship and why is it the Constellation-class?
That's not how you spell Akira class
I prefer the Odyssey-class.
Then the Prometheus-class.
Then the Achilles-class.
>>12396934
Source?
>>12397119
> liking the old and busted D'deridex
> not the Valdore
>>12397522
Akira is old and busted.
Armitage is new hotness.
>>12397743
Sudoku is a wonderful life choice and I think it might be right up your alley.
>>12397668
Mass Effect you luddite.
>>12397864
This I do not like. People putting -A and so forth on anything other than the Enterprise. What did the Exeter crew do to deserve the honor besides die anyway? Jim and co. at least literally saved the world.
>>12396509
Best news is that once you create one Delta Recruit, all the rest of your toons get their account-wide boosts. So you only need to do all that shit once, and once a Delta Recruit is created, you can wait months or even years IRL to finish their stuff, and get all the sweet rewards even years later.
Not too bad. Seen worse from Craptic in the past LOL.
>>12397491
>mfw
it's not rape, it's masturbation
>>12397876
I can't look at an Akira-class without hearing "KANADA!". Then again, I'm always surprised when I watch Contagion and the captain of the Yamato doesn't have a tremendous white beard.
>>12397901
Delicious Kira.
DeliciousMILFKira.
>>12397972
You could have at least posted a Star Destroyer.
The worst thing about star trek, other than Roddenberry's communism leaking through, is the inconsistent technology.
>>12397895
Literally nothing but the two special items are shared with your account.
shoopdeboop put it in the poo-per
>>12398484
The traits are also shared. Also, other toons get smaller mark and dili rewards, along with some crafting stuff.
>>12398074
Is this better?
>>12397969
my god.......the intermix I'd adjust with her
>>12398513
8/10 would captain
<3
>>12398782
>tied up and raped and shit on
>>12398820
pls no bully
>>12396423
>Meanwhile, in Century 26.
>>12398782
When I was at the Smithsonian in 2010, it was in the gift shop. What are they doing with it these days?
Can anyone explain why most Star Trek ships look like spindly dildos? I understand why being able to eject your command module is helpful, but they look like they would be able to fall apart on a moment's notice and aerodynamics doesn't matter shit in space.
>>12399113
I love how colorful the Khronos was. Every other klingon design was just grey or green.
>>12399650
Imagine how big their pizzas must be.
>>12400826
>and aerodynamics doesn't matter shit in space
You literally answered your question there.
Trek also has goofy things like hull integrity fields and tractor beams that can fix things in position even whipping around 180' degrees in five seconds doing 98% the speed of light, so whatever.
The more reasonable explanation is that unlike just about everyone else, their ships are big because they have tons of people on them. When you see Romulan or Klingon ships, they're almost purely military vessels. Only the Federation bothers with ships that carry thousands on science missions (and just happen to have loads of guns besides). Their actual combat craft move the saucers lower towards the ship's center, eliminating that massive neck-block of living space, while the more dedicated science vessels shrink the saucer and enlarge the neck and body.
>>12400826
They don't look anything like dildos
>>12396880
>minus TAS
Why do you hate fun?
nah
>>12401452
You're right; they look hydrocephalic.
Almost any ship other than the Starfleet ships look better; junk/scrap ships only being worse.
Kitbash ship is best ship.Also, the Unicorn OST goes pretty well with STO.
>>12401525
>junk/scrap ships only being worse
Hey, fuck you. Junk ships are awesome.
>>12401525
You're such a hipster.
>>12401526
>liking a starter ship in a game that is 5 years old.
I admire the tenacity.
>>12401608
Forever waiting on a t5/6 version.
>>12396423
Love the huge fuck-off phaser cannon this thing had.
>>12401452
>>12401452
Couldn't think of a better way of putting it besides really Apple product.
>>12397894
It's a designation for a ship in the same series, you petaQ. The Exeter has just as storied a history as Lady E.
>>12398761
I love those angry little ships
>>12397894
YFW almost all the pages with internal schematics of many ships are already ded
>>12401966
They aren't on memory alpha?
>>12399650
The J is a colony ship armed to take on shit OUTSIDE of the galaxy.
excelsior
galaxy
my favourite was a cross between the galaxy and sovereign classes that they designed on some ship of the line calander I think
>>12401634
you could squirt and use the scryer as a T6 miranda
its the closest you will get. like how the command ship is excelsior and phantom is a defiant.
>>12401712
>SPINAL phaser lance
>>12402718
>>12400763
It has been removed from the gift shop for a restoration. A lot of fans called for a new paint job since the guy who made the last restoration to it fucked up the paint job, and it is a 50 year old model, so the Smithsonian is looking at ways to keep it sturdy.
>>12402869
>USS Epic
ebin XD
>>12402869
is this the future that Janeway wanted to prevent?
>>12400826
Aerodynamics doesn't matter, but mass and inertia do. The spindly parts are normally used to keep the crew away from the warp nacelles, and they're spindly because why increase the ship's mass when you have shields, structural integrity fields, and deflector dishes to take care of everything?
>>12403035
And yet, it's still not all that much worse than what we ended up with anyway. Thanks, Janeway.
>>12396458
If we want to talk about kawaii ships, I have a soft spot for the Nova class.
>>12403035
We saw the future she wanted to prevent.
It was a brighter one for the people left behind.
She actually consigned an entire timeline to oblivion to save a few faggots on a ship she never really gave a single fuck about for her own ego.
It was wthout a doubt the absolute worst fucking ending of any star trek period and it retroactively made her a monster.
>>12403139
>retroactively
You clearly weren't paying attention. Janeway was the show's biggest villain from start to finish. I for one praise the writers for their consistency with her character.
>>12403139
well yeah, but TRANSPHASIC TORPEDOS!
>>12401966
This one is still alive:
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php
>>12403156
Actually you should praise Kate Mulgrew if you want to praise anyone. The "writers" mostly just used old scripts too janky for even TNG and stuff from the proposed TOS season 4. They occaisionally threw in the odd episode to pad a season out, and might have strung together a narrative arc about the Kazon or some shit when they weren't busy actually making good episodes for DS9.
Kate Mulgrew on the other hand is on official record as saying that she recognised early on that her character was a schizophrenic psychopath and played her accordingly.
>>12403172
based Mulgrew
>>12403161
>http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php
Almost......
>>12397232
it has a LT universal you can use for tac too if you want to use some command skills, its far from fucked
>>12403172
>mfw I tried to thumbs up this post
>don't even use facebook or anything
Where the fuck did that urge come from.
>>12403172
>Kate Mulgrew on the other hand is on official record as saying that she recognised early on that her character was a schizophrenic psychopath and played her accordingly.
I've been rewatching Voyager recently with that in mind and it's really making it a much better show.
>>12403172
>Kate Mulgrew on the other hand is on official record as saying that she recognised early on that her character was a schizophrenic psychopath and played her accordingly.
Wow she might be one of the most based actors of all time for that one. Source?
>>12403287
It's my headcanon that the main reason there was never a mutiny on Voyager to oust her was that over half the crew were Maquis who were used to their captains being white humans who were completely inconsistent hypocritical lunatics.
>>12403172
I only watched most of the first season and I can see where the psychopath came from but were did the schizophrenic come in?
>>12403377
Probably from the fact that the Voyager scripts were a mix of retouched episode concepts and synopsis from other ST shows mixed in with fan-scripts that they figured were good enough and episodes that should have been two parters or season long concepts squeezed down into a single episode (or two in the case of Year of Hell, which SHOULD have been a season long.)
Basically, one episode she's channelling kirk, the next she's got her Picard hat on, and then she's an out of character bitchy strawman foil for a proto-tumblerites agenda that he's managed to hide it well enough for Braga to allow through because he knows he's hardly whiter than white on that front.
Wow you're actually making me want to watch Voyager now.
>>12403427
Just watch SF Debris's episode reviews instead. They're good for a laugh.
I just saw the re-run of the TNG episode where they discovered that warp technology was damaging space/sub-space. Did this ever get resolved or addressed further?
>>12403570
There's a speed limit of Warp 5 for future episodes, but if the galaxy is in danger they get to break it. I think it's mentioned in a later episode that they managed to make eco-friendly Warp drives.
>>12403570
>>12403583
Voyager's pivoting warp engines were part of the new wave of warp technology that solved this issue (though I don't understand how the engines being down at impulse and up at warp makes any difference whatsoever). Ships built after that (Sovereign class, etc.) no longer suffer from the problem.
>>12403570
>>12403583
Supposedly this is part of the reason why Voyager's got those angle changing nacelle pylons. I'm not sure it actually gets mentioned in an episode, though.
>>12403611
I vaguely remembered it as one of those DS9 continuity-fixing statements, like how they corrected for Andrew Wiles solving Fermat's Last Theorem before TNG. Bashir gossiping to Miles about some visiting researcher who was close to solving it, or something.
Then again, looking it up on memory alpha says that the limit was still imposed in Nemesis, so I'm evidently wrong.
Best captain, bar none.
>>12403926
Remove gagh
>>12404014
That's a lot of prune juice.
>all these starship designs with long narrow parts separating big bits
imagine the bottlenecking while moving around.
![you have been bamboozled Star Trek - DS9 - 3x20 - Improbable Cause.avi_snapshot_31.22_[2013.02.05_20.49.49].png](https://i.imgur.com/UTIhbvJ.png "you have been bamboozled Star Trek - DS9 - 3x20 - Improbable Cause.avi_snapshot_31.22_[2013.02.05_20.49.49].png")
>>12404005
Just because something's a lie doesn't mean it isn't correct.
>>12404082
>>12404073
>>12404509
I just don't get that design.
Do they constantly have to beam between the saucer and lower hulls, or are there turbolifts that go through the nacelles/pylons and they just have to put up with the huge doses of radiation any time they want to go between the two areas?
>>12404601
They're actually two separate crews and only see each other at starbases.
>>12404601
The bottom is filled with miniature genesis devices and they just grow new crews.
>>12404633
That Is Awesome
>>12404082
>>12404450
In hindsight, Garak was my favorite DS9 character by a long way.
>>12404601
Most likely it was a case of the art team and the writers not being on the same page. The artists probably weren't told it was supposed to be a small ship and just assumed it'd be the same size as the Reliant and Enterprise. The Reliant and Grissom were the first two Federation starships of designs other than that of the Enterprise we ever saw, after all.
>>12404697
Scenes with Garak and Dukat in them are great. It's just a slightly veiled version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inTRblYTevk
>>12404601
My own theory is that the upper part is the entire ship. The bottom os just an attachment, a large container, if you will, filled with sensors or probes or whatever, that can be detached and swapped out sepending on the mission.
I've seen some fan drawings and renders that depict the upper part as being a tug, with cargo containers attached underneath.
>>12405125
Well, unless I'm recalling wrong, there aren't any windows in the lower section, so it's plausible.
>>12405125
Seen those too, very reminiscent of the old star fleet battles tug boats.
Voyager was far from my favorite show, but it was one of my favorite ships.
Akulaaaaaaaa
I fucking loved these in Starfleet Command
>>12404697
Only in hindsight?
if you want more hot Garak action, the book "A Stitch In Time" has a pretty unique spot in its place for Trek books.
It's based on the notes that the actor had put together for Garak's backstory. So all those times Garak alluded to shit it was based out of specific stores that the actor had figured out and kept notes about. So there's a bit more "real"ness to it than the usual Trek book approach of weaving a rich tapestry of one-off characters' cousins, since this is really what Andrew Robinson was thinking about when he would talk about shit as Garak.
He would read from these at cons and eventually repacked them as Garak writing some memoir type things to Bashir during the events after the end of DS9.
It's a cool read, but it really is answers about Garak.
So if you read it, you will no longer have any mystery about gardening for that Romulan or anything else.
>>12404601
>Do they constantly have to beam between the saucer and lower hulls
I don't know why anyone ever walked anywhere in Trek shows. Think of all the dangerous situations that could have been avoided if they abused ship-side point-to-point transports constantly. We know they can do it, and no one EVER mentions it being dangerous or tricky to attempt even recreationally, so it really seems like something they just ignored for the sake of drama.
>there's a hull breach / fire / crazy alien / toxic gas in E block! there's still people down there! quick, half of the command staff, RUN to this location and save them!
Or just teleport the people out?
>something bad is happening to a component and it needs immediate repair, but it's a 5 minute slog through the Jeffries tubes!
..or teleport there?
The only time I can ever remember someone using "just teleport them out" as the solution, it was Holodeck episodes, and that was immediately followed by "sorry sir we can't because of bullshit reasons".
>>12406159
>ein stitch zur rechten zeit
>Cardassians speaking German
2spooky4me
>>12406234
Much like Shakespeare in the original Klingon, Cardassians can only truly be appreciated in Japanese or German.
>>12398642
Dat logo.
10/10, would Village People in.
>>12406159
>So if you read it, you will no longer have any mystery about gardening for that Romulan or anything else.
So it ruins the character? Got it.
>>12406398
that's at judgement call each of us will have to make
>>12406159
I'll have to check this out sometime. Actually, I've been thinking about checking out the DS9 novels in general since the story of DS9 could have easily continued even after the Dominion War.
I love runabouts, they're such a great design for a ship in this size class.
>>12406937
So, supposedly this is happening.
>>12407449
All I can see is a guy whose life is violating the first directive.
They already had a crossover with the X-men, btw.
>>12406963
That's pretty gorgeous. BDs fucking when.
>watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
>bajorans
>mfw
>>12407659
Do you even talk to christians and muslims? This is real, brother.
>>12407449
Don't nobody let Jim get his hands on a green ring. The universe will implode from overpopulation of alien women.
>>12407743
Cardassia did nothing wrong
>>12407495
Twice. And another with Doctor Who.
REMOVE BAJOR
>>12407905
![Star Trek DS9 Season 02 Episode 05 - Cardassians.avi_snapshot_36.41_[2015.04.07_21.58.17].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/F3dVsHo.jpg "Star Trek DS9 Season 02 Episode 05 - Cardassians.avi_snapshot_36.41_[2015.04.07_21.58.17].jpg")
"Think about the children"
-Gul Dukat
Cardassia good
Bajor bad
>>12407910
Damar got rekt but I felt bad for him. Hell, even Kira did.
>>12407924
>"Think about the children" -Gul Dukat
beam me up I'm dying
>>12407924
>"Think about the children"
>-Gul Dukat
>>12403172
It also make this even better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2hs0oZ6JuQ
>>12407976
>Computer, engage self-destruct sequence.
>>12407976
I fucking lost it at "That seems reasonable".
>>12406328
Starfleet Logos are pretty boss
>>12406963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M
>>12408141
This.
>>12406963
>Tobias has an old school excelsior model he hasn't made any public renders of
That hurts.
