To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

Night · Jun 5, 2017

MTB said:
Where do you see conflicts?

You mean, aside from anon_user? It certainly conflicts with my image of Chen. I suspect very few people's image of her said Augment anywhere and she's been around for two thousand pages to get that image fixed. People have had a very long time to decide what Patricia Chen is for themselves.

Briefvoice · Jun 5, 2017

Night said:
You mean, aside from anon_user? It certainly conflicts with my image of Chen. I suspect very few people's image of her said Augment anywhere and she's been around for two thousand pages to get that image fixed. People have had a very long time to decide what Patricia Chen is for themselves.

You seem to have a very specific idea of what "an augment" means, whereas I left it very open-ended. Maybe she just has the equivalent of 20 extra IQ points, which hardly even stands out among the best-of-the-best in Starfleet. Being worked on by some cut-rate Orion black market doctor don't make her Khan... unless someone else wants to make it so. It doesn't have to affect whatever vision you might have of her personality, not that anyone has bothered defining her personality in any omake I can find.

The real consequence is that it opens up the possibility for a problem occurring down that line that would have to be resolved, but oh well. The QM will use it or he won't.

Void Stalker · Jun 5, 2017

Night said:
While true, the first joint op we saw with a Romulan ship in the entire Star Trek canon wasn't until late TNG and there was a level of active antagonism with them well into DS9, c.f. their trying to screw Bajor. We have definitely reached at least 0.5 Hendersons of plot derailment on the Romulan front and a localized 1 Henderson on several episodes of TNG and DS9.

I think that goes to show just how scary the biophage is. You had all three powers working together without issue.

Leila Hann · Jun 5, 2017

Briefvoice said:
You seem to have a very specific idea of what "an augment" means, whereas I left it very open-ended. Maybe she just has the equivalent of 20 extra IQ points, which hardly even stands out among the best-of-the-best in Starfleet. Being worked on by some cut-rate Orion black market doctor don't make her Khan... unless someone else wants to make it so. It doesn't have to affect whatever vision you might have of her personality, not that anyone has bothered defining her personality in any omake I can find.

The real consequence is that it opens up the possibility for a problem occurring down that line that would have to be resolved, but oh well. The QM will use it or he won't.

Yes, and its notable that the Orions - even rich Orions - aren't a race of omnicompetent supergeniuses. Chen's augs might just put her on the same level as half the orions (and gaeni) in Starfleet.

Shard · Jun 5, 2017

Chen has Augs? What? Where was this?

Void Stalker said:
I think that goes to show just how scary the biophage is. You had all three powers working together without issue.

And 2 of them at war.

MTB · Jun 5, 2017

Shard said:
Chen has Augs? What? Where was this?

Briefvoice's omake.

Thors_Alumni · Jun 5, 2017

Could the klingons have blown up their own stations to eradicate the inflictor and not told anyone?

Derek58 · Jun 5, 2017

MTB said:
Briefvoice's omake.

And @OneirosTheWriter has confirmed that as canon?

MTB · Jun 5, 2017

Derek58 said:
And @OneirosTheWriter has confirmed that as canon?

No. But that's no reason not to start an augment debate/discussion.

Leila Hann · Jun 5, 2017

If Chen ends up being admiral during the Federation/Cardassian war, we need to make sure that the war is remembered by the cardassians as The Wrath of Chen.

MTB · Jun 5, 2017

Leila Hann said:
If Chen ends up being admiral during the Federation/Cardassian war, we need to make sure that the war is remembered by the cardassians as "The Wrath of Chen."

If it works out for us, I think it will be remembered as 'The Shame'.

Steven Kodaly · Jun 5, 2017

MTB said:
If it works out for us, I think it will be remembered as 'The Shame'.

I must be missing a reference.

MTB · Jun 5, 2017

Steven Kodaly said:
I must be missing a reference.

Nope,
I just thought - if the Cardassians initate the war, convinced they win, and then get trashed by the Federation - that time and decision will be known in their history books by a label. I thought 'The Shame' would fit.

Forgothrax · Jun 5, 2017

Briefvoice said:
Seven Events... and it's only month one. My the quest has grown.

I hope poor Straak doesn't get another diplomatic mission for the last official Captain's Log of his second Five Year Mission.

Just wait until we have the event increasing research from Forward Defense done...

Speaking of, @OneirosTheWriter would you be open to a brainstorming session here or in the SDB to fill out what our Offensive Doctrine will be? I know we've gotten points for Base Strike and Decisive Battle already, and iirc we have a team opening up for Offensive Doctrine soon.

Steven Kodaly · Jun 5, 2017

MTB said:
Nope,
I just thought - if the Cardassians initate the war, convinced they win, and then get trashed by the Federation - that time and decision will be known in their history books by a label. I thought 'The Shame' would fit.

Ah, the Cardassians will call it such. Now it makes sense.

Glassware · Jun 5, 2017

OneirosTheWriter said:
Subspace Communique to Task Force 6, Gabriel Border Zone
From: USS Voshov, Captain Sulu

Commodore ka'Sharren, pardon the intrusion. I thought you should know a Romulan Admiral Velim passed on her regards.

OneirosTheWriter said:
Subspace Communique, to USS Voshov, Captain Sulu
From: Task Force 6, Gabriel Border Zone

Appreciated, Captain, give her my regards in return. If she ever wants another spar, tell her to send me a message, care of Starbase 11.

Clearly we need to maintain Federation/Romulan peace if only so Nash can court Velim without worrying too much.

MTB · Jun 5, 2017

Glassware said:
Clearly we need to maintain Federation/Romulan peace if only so Nash can court Velim without worrying too much.

You can bet the Romulan's will not end that 'relationship'. They must be very interested in sapient assets in the Federation.

Erandil · Jun 5, 2017

OneirosTheWriter said:
After talks on Athos V, the Romulan Senate as authorised consisting of ourselves, the Cloudburst and Inspire to patrol the Romulan side of the neutral zone, as their own forces are too spread thin with conflict with the Klingons to successfully do so

Pretty sure the sentence, as it stands now, makes very little sense.

After talks on Athos V, the Romulan Senate has authorised a fleet consisting of ourselves, the Cloudburst and Inspire to patrol the Romulan side of the neutral zone, as their own forces are too spread thin with conflict with the Klingons to successfully do so.

OneirosTheWriter said:
In any event, with the initial vector recognised, and the rest of our sweep clear, we will be escorted back towards the Neutral Zone, with the appreciation of the Romulan Senate.

Chaos Blade · Jun 5, 2017

Derek58 said:
Excellent, that biophage appearance was caught nice and early before it could get really bad

We can only hope. the Redclaw got infected *somehow* wile supposedly irradiating the infected wreck. that bears looking into.

UberJJK said:
This still doesn't answer the question of what happened to that listening pots on the Klingon-Federation border. After all the biophaged bird of pray was found along the Romulan--Federation border. This suggests to me that there is at least one more biophage ship out there.

Maybe STL ships? or Trojan horses of some sort? or, worse, the biofage has improved its misdirection and maskirovka skills and we are only seeing part of the event, the part it wants us to see.

UbeOne said:
'Living, sentient rocks? Never thought I'd see the day...'

like the Horta, you mean?

universalperson · Jun 5, 2017

Chaos Blade said:
like the Horta, you mean?

Don't forget the rock man from "The Savage Curtain" in TOS

chriswriter90 · Jun 5, 2017

Leila Hann said:

Big Bird from Sesame Street?

Derek58 said:
What could possibly go wrong?

Goat said:
Just what is going on with the Cats shipping crews?

My guess is that some Cat cartel is trying to fill the void left by the Orion Syndicate but is moving too far too quickly.

UbeOne said:
'Living, sentient rocks? Never thought I'd see the day...'

But we already have th Horta.

Leila Hann said:
Straak is dismayed when his last mission in the EC turns out to be a first contact event, but his disappointment turns to joy when they turn out to be...

Aren't those guys an existential threat to organic life or somesuch?

Leila Hann · Jun 5, 2017

Chaos Blade said:
We can only hope. the Redclaw got infected *somehow* wile supposedly irradiating the infected wreck. that bears looking into.

When the Redclaw entered orbit the Beast challenged the captain to an honorable sword duel on the surface, and he was so dumb he actually accepted.

Theunderbolt · Jun 5, 2017

OneirosTheWriter said:
Captain's Log, USS S'harien, Stardate 25792.5

We have rescued the loyal crew members who were largely confined to the brig. I must confess, when the leader of the mutiny informed me that I had no right to interfere as they were a sovereign starship now, I was so confused by the logic that I nearly failed to act in time. As it was, we were able to bypass the shields after we made contact with a loyalist loose within the ship. After that it was a relatively simple process to secure the ship.

I see even in the future those fuckers are still alive.

OneirosTheWriter said:
Subspace Communique to Task Force 6, Gabriel Border Zone
From: USS Voshov, Captain Sulu

Commodore ka'Sharren, pardon the intrusion. I thought you should know a Romulan Admiral Velim passed on her regards.

OneirosTheWriter said:
Subspace Communique, to USS Voshov, Captain Sulu
From: Task Force 6, Gabriel Border Zone

Appreciated, Captain, give her my regards in return. If she ever wants another spar, tell her to send me a message, care of Starbase 11.

Oh, my.~

Leila Hann · Jun 5, 2017

Theunderbolt said:
Oh, my.~

Leila Hann · Jun 5, 2017

chriswriter90 said:
Aren't those guys an existential threat to organic life or somesuch?

Well, nobody's perfect.

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