Lord_Nightblade

JJ: Hey guys, I have an idea. Lets update the original Star Trek and make it look all hip and shiny and ultra-iPod modern, and we'll make the engine room look more primitive than it did in 1966!

What sort of impact does all of this have on players who were mid-arc when the changes were made? Are the existing clues updated? Do they remain the same and get mixed in with new clues until the arc is completed and the summary is only the new stuff? Is Chimera the father of Nightstar's cyborg baby? Will Dominatrix leave the convent? Who is that mysterious guy with the eye-patch who looks exactly like Neuron, and what is he plotting?

Oh yeah, the outdoor Defeat All missions toad the wet sprocket big time. I forget what the reasoning behind it was, but it was really lame. If the devs have gotten rid of them from the arcs, then bully for them.

I have a character who's been mid-arc on Hero's Hero (I think he was stalled because of a timed Diabolique mission I really didn't want to do), so I'll have to check out what's changed.

I think they were all sans timer when the Praetorian arcs went live, and then had timers added as an anti-farming measure.

We're not that lucky. Now who wants to take bets on what important plot points are going to be left out this time? I'll also be taking bets on whether Scotty, as the comic relief, will make a fart joke.

Meh. That function could've easily been served by any generic captain. Greenwood's giving the character more importance than he has. He should just be glad that he didn't end up in the Pike Box at the end.

And some people would complain that they were handed out a day early.

If it were me, I would've made it about one of the major naval engagements of World War I. But I don't work for those idiots, so it's about aliens instead.

To a certain extent, yeah.

Here's the thing: whatever the reason for the Borg only sending one ship as an invasion force, it has to be explained on screen. Otherwise, all you get is fan speculation attempting to fill in the logic gaps, and when they do that they think like the characters in the story rather than the writer who wrote the story, who may have had an explanation but forgot it or never thought about it in the first place.

Now, I'll give them a pass for only one ship in the first invasion. The Federation had basically no experience with fighting the Borg, and only a vague idea of a Cube's defensive and offensive capabilities. Given the lack of experience, it's easy for the Borg to (rightly) assume that they could quickly overwhelm the Starfleet fleet with one ship. Then add the fact that they assimilated Picard, gaining his knowledge of Starfleet's tactics and defensive strategy, and they should've had an easy victory (which they almost did). So one ship in the first invasion is excusable.

But the second invasion in First Contact, they should've sent at least two cubes. First, the Borg knew that the Federation could barely handle one Cube. So two should've been more than enough to break through to Earth and begin the assimilation. Second, sending two Cubes would've been much simpler than the time travel plan they attempted to execute (which brings up craptons of other questions, but that's another discussion). Seriously, send two ships or spend time researching and gathering the resources to develop a time machine, which going to be faster and easier? Also, the whole point of assimilating the Federation is to gain the technological advances they have made, so traveling back to before them made those advances is pointless. Third, even if they can't use the transwarp network to send a fleet, is it really that difficult to send two capital ships in two seperate trips and have them rendezvous before setting out for Earth (Voyager's destruction of the transwarp hub having occured after the events of First Contact)?

Saying this as an STO fan, god I hope not.

I know, but I've been looking for an excuse to bring up the Balok comparison

Can't speak for the books, but from what I've seen of the movies they're poorly written, poorly directed, and poorly acted. I've seen more natural acting from Balok.

So they invaded with vehicles that were totally hermetically sealed from the outside environment, and they still managed to be killed off by Earth's diseases. That makes them sound wildly incompetent in addition to being completely stupid.

If you want accuracy, measure flour by weight and not volume (and if you're super anal, use the metric system). Flour can get really compacted, so two different cups of flour can have completely different amounts of flour in them.

That's all the cake advice I know.

Trekkie though I be, I agree that the Borg have always been stupid when it came to assimilating Earth. Both times they used just one ship and came within a hair's breadth of succeeding, so why not send more than one ship and guarantee success?

We've got the Flashback system and Architect Entertainment, so it could be both a sequel and reboot. They could move the timeline along, advance the various stories, and redo old content as fixing the timeline and/or historic missions for people to relive via AE. Maybe 50 years in the future Vahzilok is gone, but you can pop down to your local Architect Entertainment center and relive the historic stopping of the Vahzilok Plague.