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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest) Starfleet Ship Design Bureau, Refit ("To Boldly Go...")
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> These are the voyages.

... Well... Shoot.

Not ominous. Not at all.

.... Please be okay. For Excelsior, Sarek, Courageous, and Docana.

Mr Tebbs said:
I submit that there's no good reason to move it. It's a small target, very well defended from below, and (importantly) not near critical combat systems. Losing the command crew still leaves a ship with engines, power weapons, and a mostly intact chain of command
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Also, battle bridge.
 
So how high is the probability that USS Enterprise, Daedelus class, gets blown the F up by Dikhed?

Gotta preserve the timeline somehow!

Amusing if we follow the "Agents of Yesterday" plot of STO vaugely and we've actually had that crew among us for the entire playthrough under false ID.

Crazy Tom said:
Pantropic nanotech berserker probes gone wrong! That's my theory and I'm sticking to it!

*studiously ignores all the paranormal BS*
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I mean, it's injected as 'venom' if you're bitten once and is quite painful, while also bringing out potential supernatural powers. So it's basically Watts-Macleod with a more obvious physical mechanism, which might make Twilight more realistic than Eclipse Phase :V

Twilight is a deeply frustrating series because Meyer is actually surprisingly good at worldbuilding but ignores all of it. Hey, a story about how the last of the werewolves were hunted down in Africa would be coo-- no, more about Edward's adonis-like physique. Okay
 
Iron Wolf said:
I mean, it's injected as 'venom' if you're bitten once and is quite painful, while also bringing out potential supernatural powers. So it's basically Watts-Macleod with a more obvious physical mechanism, which might make Twilight more realistic than Eclipse Phase :V
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The diamond like skin, super strength and speed, and the very flammable nature of their bodies made me think 'carbon alotrope based nanotechnology', and their uncontrollable hunger when turned struck me as a great recipe for a berserker probe - you turn one person, they start killing and turning others and soon everyone's either dead or a vampire, then all the vampires die out due to lack of food(and blood seems to be an utterly arbitrary requirement, which led me to think it was a pre-programmed limitation to ensure they die out at the end). Boom, civilization wiped out.

Not that that doesn't raise a whole slew of other questions, but as someone said: the Venn diagram of people who come up with elaborate justifications for fictional events and people who play a quest that needs spreadsheets is approximately a circle.

Twilight is a deeply frustrating series because Meyer is actually surprisingly good at worldbuilding but ignores all of it. Hey, a story about how the last of the werewolves were hunted down in Africa would be coo-- no, more about Edward's adonis-like physique. Okay
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Preach. I think the Host was better myself - through as you point out, Meyer tends to gloss over the interesting ideas she sets up (like the ethics of a benevolent invasion of body snatchers) in order to pursue the romantic plot staring a really passive heroine.

edit: To bring this back to ST, we've done a lot of great worldbuilding in this thread. Should we maybe consolidate that and put it somewhere in the update log? Some sort of 'Historical Archive'?
 
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Crazy Tom said:
Not that that doesn't raise a whole slew of other questions, but as someone said: the Venn diagram of people who come up with elaborate justifications for fictional events and people who play a quest that needs spreadsheets is approximately a circle.
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ACCOUNTANT EDWARD: A TWILIGHT SPREADSHEET QUEST

oh wait a minute if you just added a few minor details that's basically fifty shades of grey :V

edit: To bring this back to ST, we've done a lot of great worldbuilding in this thread. Should we maybe consolidate that and put it somewhere in the update log? Some sort of 'Historical Archive'?
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I believe you can just look though the threadmarks? Unless you mean non-marked posts that have fallen through the cracks, so to speak.
 
Mr Tebbs said:
Wait, did you retroactively promote Leslie?
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Nope, he's still a Commodore.

The door opens to admit legend, Vice Admiral Sulu at the fore. Vice Admiral Uhura, Rear Admiral McCoy, Commodore Leslie, a still recovering Captain Chekov, Spock his very own self. A retired Rear Admiral you don't recognise. And finally Vice Admiral Linderley, along with two people with Intel pink collars but no visible rank or assignment patches.
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Truthfully, that's about as far as I think he'll get. I picture the Ana Font shipyard command as basically being his "until retirement" post.
 
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Briefvoice said:
Nope, he's still a Commodore.
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...I read that promotion post like four times, and I could have sworn Leslie was promoted to Rear Admiral at the same time he was sent off to take command of Ana Font. As of this time, however, his reassignment to the yard was listed in the 2313Q4 Rat Race post as a pure transfer.

As to what he's doing on Earth instead of around Tellar Prime, I don't know. I'm sure this thing happens to happen once in a while, and some quiet machinations would hardly be surprising given the extreme weirdness of this entire affair. Shipyard directors probably do go to Earth now and then, in order to report in on something or to answer questions for an investigation or something.


Truthfully, that's about as far as I think he'll get. I picture the Ana Font shipyard command as basically being his "until retirement" post.
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Well, I kind of hope not since it's very hard for me to write good Leslie omakes with him in that post. As Chief of Warp Core Fabrication he had a reason to go places and see things and talk to people. Not so much, now.

That said, there's nothing about him that screams 'promote me!' and while it is just possible that he'd make Rear Admiral... I don't think he has it in him to go higher than that, even within the specialized 'pipeline' of Shipyard Ops. More likely that he keeps getting kicked around laterally from office to office as the guy you throw at departments you need screwed back down after someone or something has screwed them up. For those times when you don't want a bright youngster in a job, you want someone who's got as much institutional experience in his head as the average Vulcan, and a spark of improvisational flair most Vulcans lack. The last disciple of Montgomery Scott, long after nearly everyone else who Knew Him When has retired or moved out of shipbuilding.

Another note: It would be genuinely hard for Leslie to resolve the contradictory paperwork tangle militating against his retirement. Not impossible, but difficult. Frankly, he loves his work too much to retire easily and he's gotten very good at functioning despite physical disability. As long as his brains don't go to mush and his wife doesn't strongarm him into it... it'll be a long time before he retires naturally.

If anything, a long enough stint at Ana Font may trigger his retirement, not because he can't stand it, but because Susan Leslie gets tired of Tellarites. That would happen eventually, but it'd take a while.

Mr Tebbs said:
Wait, did you retroactively promote Leslie?
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The only effect of the time ripple that I did on purpose was that Eddie's memories of time travel-related incidents have changed to reflect new information. When I wrote the omakes in question, he didn't remember any instances of time travel outside the ones that explicitly occurred in canon. Now, he remembers this one.
 
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