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phoenix
02/11/09

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I don't know how I feel about the new uniforms. And where's the rank insignia? Ah well, little things. :)

No playing a non-humanoid race though, eh?

I'm gonna totally geek out here, but my biggest complaint is that they went to the old-school Starfleet logo for uniform communicator pins. Not terribly impressed there; they didn't use the oval-backed ones from TNG, or the bar-backed ones from DS9 of Voyager, or even the dual-vertical bar-backed ones from the "future" episodes of all of the above. Bah!
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bluehinter
02/11/09

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I'd love to play this game, but only if every mission was totally open-ended, and allowed you to play as a complete bastard if you so chose.

You can bet your bottom Federation credit that my ready room is going to have a Horta-skin rug, any mysterious probes or floating space wreckage we come across will be used for target practice (at maximum range too), and any blue godlike entity that wants to borrow my spaceship is going to get a photon torpedo to the face.

Also, lets see how those damn hippie spore plants of Omicron Ceti III like it when I have Scotty teleport down a few dozen half-starved tribbles.
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bluehinter
02/11/09

@bluehinter: Forgot to mention, I'd also make sure that every crewman is issued with a copy of the August 1978 issue of Penthouse, just in case we come across one of those planets that decides to base its entire culture around a single book.

Plus, it'd also be handy the next time we come in contact with a race of alien illusionist/shape-changers who like to pick their forms directly out of our crew's minds.

I bet by the time our 5-year mission is over, we could bag ourselves a good half-dozen Miss Augusts! (Sure, some of them would probably be salt vampires, but we'll just stick them in a go go cage and have a redshirt change out their salt licks once a month, and it'll be fine!)
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kosure
02/10/09

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Who in the alpha quadrant wants to be a Bolian?! "Crewman Dumpy-Loser, please report to the bridge."
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phoenix
02/11/09

@kosure: This made me laugh way more than it should have :D
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corpore-metal
02/10/09

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You know, as someone who grew up on original Trek back in the 70s, as someone who now knows the potential for CG, as someone who has read far too much Niven and Clement, I'm really getting tired of lame humanoid aliens with bumps on their foreheads.

How about a space opera MMORPG with decidedly non-humanoid aliens? How about living crystals, arsenic-based life or giant balloon-like creatures from jovian atmospheres?

Or is it all about the chatsex to be had with green skinned alien babes with 4 breasts?
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phoenix
02/11/09

@corpore-metal: You know, I thought the same thing- no non-humanoid races. I mean, it makes sense from a game design perspective, but not necessarily from a lore perspective. They could have gone the extra mile to toss in one or two, and it would have been great, but I understand it could have been a tradeoff with something else in the development process.
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Smeagol92055
02/10/09

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God, this makes me wonder why the hell Spore isn't being made into an MMO now that the universe is stocked with user-made species.

I WANT A SPORE MMO. I DO NOT WANT A STAR TREK MMO.

LISTEN TO ME FOR ONCE.
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Grey_Area
02/10/09

But Smeagol92055, look at all those noses! And the ears, sooo many ears! I think you even have a choice of three different hats. Truly this is a triumph of the creative spirit and imagination.

Mr. Potato Man...in space!
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Grey_Area
02/10/09

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Wow, it's like Spore for Noses 'n' Wigs.
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Mark 2000
02/10/09

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Wish this was set in TOS. Post TNG is snoresville.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
02/10/09

@Mark 2000: Agreed. If this was TOS time, I'd have put my money down already even if they weren't taking it.
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Belabras
02/10/09

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No playable Horta?
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Grey_Area
02/10/09

@Belabras:
NO
KILL
YOU
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Dunny0
02/10/09

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This is the feature I care about the least in STO.

You can make a half-ass alien race... Joy.

Come to think of it, an alien with only half an ass might not be too bad...
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Charlie Jane Anders
02/10/09

@Dunny0: Until you need to go to the bathroom.
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KhaiJB
02/10/09

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you mean I can't be a Medusan?? ah man that sucks... I was looking forward to Viewer Combat...

'they are hailing us'

'on screen'

'I amAAAAIIIEEEEEEgibbbergibbberg...'

'get's 'em every time...'
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
02/10/09

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Can I be one of the half black-half white people we saw in TOS? I finally want to stick it to all the half white-half black people.
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Pessimippopotamus
02/10/09

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They need to fire whoever composed this mess. Star Wars much?
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