As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
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Let’s Play Star Trek Online. Most frustrating mission (or at least problem in the game). We go off in search of the new link, and find that all that gold gooey liquid isn’t too fun to walk around in when you realize it’s a bunch of people.
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios
Let’s Play Star Trek Online. We crack the mirror, as we take on ships from the Mirror Universe. The Terran Federation wants to rule our universe, and we have to stop them.
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios
Let’s Play Star Trek Online. The Cardassians have a Bajoran orb to hand over. Our orders; go to Cardassia Prime and retrieve the orb to take back to Bajor. But things are never so simple.
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios.
Let’s Play Star Trek Online, Klingon Defense Force. An entire episode fighting in SPACE! We take on the traitors in the House of Torg who are using Orion pirates in an attempt to thwart the Empire.
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios.
Dramatic music time for this topic. And yes, it’s about Star Trek and how it’s kind of deviated from what it set out back in 1966.
During the original series run of Trek, Gene Roddenberry set about a series that not only gave a glimpse into the future, but also was a spring board to talk about social justice and comment on society at the time. Instead of using people of colour to talk about how African Americans are oppressed and given very few liberties in the United States, he used aliens to talk about the very same thing. The people who got it, understood exactly what he was talking about (along with a host of writers such as D. C. Fontana). But he was also able to portray a future where people worked along side each other without prejudice. Uhura was a communications officer, and a character who was black. At that time, black women were only seen as maids on television. Sulu was a helms officer, and a Japanese American. There was still a feeling of suspicion about the Japanese in society in the United States. After all, the Second World War ended only 20 years before. Both of those characters may have been overlooked because a lot of people might have been shocked to see a Russian on the bridge.
At the time, the U.S. and Russian were enemies. The Cold War was in full swing, and a television show with a Russian who wasn’t a spy or a bad guy was unheard of. Especially for network television.
Years past, Next Generation came and produced more similar styled shows. Deep Space Nine gave a very dramatic feel, using aspects of social commentary to tell their stories. Voyager taught how two sides with a common goal can work together. Enterprise told the story of how things began, while repeating that Earth had come to terms with their differences.
But a lot of those issues, the stories that mirror real life, aren’t being told (outside of fan productions like Star Trek Horizons, Star Trek Renegades, or Star Trek Hidden Frontier.
The Ferasan species as depicted in Star Trek Online.
Those types of stories can still be told, and herein lies where my often times overactive imagination comes into play. We know in Star Trek there are Caitians. Feline species that finds great loyalty in those they befriend. But there’s also the Ferasan, which are seen as the polar opposite to the Caitians while being distantly related to them. Both the Caitians and the Ferasan have a common ancestor; the Kzinti. The Kzinti were a very war like feline species who held anyone female in the greatest of contempt. Females in Kzinti society, after all, were only good for reproduction or doing the things that needed to be done in the home (sound familiar?).
Kzinti, first seen in the Star Trek animated series.
But there Ferasan are seen as Star Treks bad guys in the feline species family. I see them a tad different. Ferasan are the species that got the short end of the stick. Most likely, Caitians rebelled against the Kzinti and eventually won their freedom, which would be a great story. The Ferasan were most likely in that battle as well, but they were probably overlooked. So there’s centuries of resentment towards the Caitians.
M’Ress is the most recognizable Caitian, who first appeared in the Star Trek animated series.
Why weren’t the Ferasan invited to join the Federation when they won their freedom along side the Caitians? Most likely, once the planet of Cait was founded, the Ferasan weren’t invited to join in. So they had to colonize their own world, which meant they were nomadic for years until they did so. That type of feeling would leave a lot of resentment.
This post is already long enough, so I’ll make this part one of an interesting story idea, and how Star Trek could tell those important stories using aliens once again.
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios
We’re into the next 50 episodes. Maybe. For now, we head to Epok Nor, the sister to Deep Space Nine to flush out members of the True Way and stop them from using the old Cardassian space station as a base of operations. This was a very frustrating episode.
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios
As I go through the series, you can give me suggestions for what gear to get, so leave that in the comments.
This material is used under fair use laws, there is no profit made from this and all copyrights are held by their original owners. Star Trek and all likenesses are copyright Paramount Pictures. Star Trek Online is a licensed product of Cryptic Studios
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Star Trek, social commentary, and story telling
Dramatic music time for this topic. And yes, it’s about Star Trek and how it’s kind of deviated from what it set out back in 1966.
During the original series run of Trek, Gene Roddenberry set about a series that not only gave a glimpse into the future, but also was a spring board to talk about social justice and comment on society at the time. Instead of using people of colour to talk about how African Americans are oppressed and given very few liberties in the United States, he used aliens to talk about the very same thing. The people who got it, understood exactly what he was talking about (along with a host of writers such as D. C. Fontana). But he was also able to portray a future where people worked along side each other without prejudice. Uhura was a communications officer, and a character who was black. At that time, black women were only seen as maids on television. Sulu was a helms officer, and a Japanese American. There was still a feeling of suspicion about the Japanese in society in the United States. After all, the Second World War ended only 20 years before. Both of those characters may have been overlooked because a lot of people might have been shocked to see a Russian on the bridge.
At the time, the U.S. and Russian were enemies. The Cold War was in full swing, and a television show with a Russian who wasn’t a spy or a bad guy was unheard of. Especially for network television.
Years past, Next Generation came and produced more similar styled shows. Deep Space Nine gave a very dramatic feel, using aspects of social commentary to tell their stories. Voyager taught how two sides with a common goal can work together. Enterprise told the story of how things began, while repeating that Earth had come to terms with their differences.
But a lot of those issues, the stories that mirror real life, aren’t being told (outside of fan productions like Star Trek Horizons, Star Trek Renegades, or Star Trek Hidden Frontier.
The Ferasan species as depicted in Star Trek Online.
Those types of stories can still be told, and herein lies where my often times overactive imagination comes into play. We know in Star Trek there are Caitians. Feline species that finds great loyalty in those they befriend. But there’s also the Ferasan, which are seen as the polar opposite to the Caitians while being distantly related to them. Both the Caitians and the Ferasan have a common ancestor; the Kzinti. The Kzinti were a very war like feline species who held anyone female in the greatest of contempt. Females in Kzinti society, after all, were only good for reproduction or doing the things that needed to be done in the home (sound familiar?).
Kzinti, first seen in the Star Trek animated series.
But there Ferasan are seen as Star Treks bad guys in the feline species family. I see them a tad different. Ferasan are the species that got the short end of the stick. Most likely, Caitians rebelled against the Kzinti and eventually won their freedom, which would be a great story. The Ferasan were most likely in that battle as well, but they were probably overlooked. So there’s centuries of resentment towards the Caitians.
M’Ress is the most recognizable Caitian, who first appeared in the Star Trek animated series.
Why weren’t the Ferasan invited to join the Federation when they won their freedom along side the Caitians? Most likely, once the planet of Cait was founded, the Ferasan weren’t invited to join in. So they had to colonize their own world, which meant they were nomadic for years until they did so. That type of feeling would leave a lot of resentment.
This post is already long enough, so I’ll make this part one of an interesting story idea, and how Star Trek could tell those important stories using aliens once again.
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Posted by Tim on June 5, 2015 in Fun, randomness
Tags: ideas, Science fiction, social commentary, Star Trek, story telling, Writing