There is a long running joke (no idea if it is true, I am led to believe that it is) that during the Berman era (this game setting in a nutshell), every time one of the writers pitched a space pirate story to Rick Berman he would produce a handkerchief and cover the bust of Gene Roddenberry that sat on his table. Roddenberry wasn't so keen on space pirates, you understand, and didn't want them to dominate his creation. I accept that this rule was not absolute - I know that TNG (as well as DS9 and VOY) occasionally dipped into space piracy stories (notably the lamentable Gambit two parter) but...
They were never a big thing in this era. I'm sorry, they just weren't. Raiders, border skirmishes, entrenched conflicts, yes. But not space pirates. And yet, dully, for what feels like the hundredth time, I want to throw down my laptop as yet another tedious, pointless, not Trek-like Nausican raid is brewing and my Starfleet task fleets are mobilised to go and shoot 'em (only two classes of course - Mirandas and Intrepids).
Please, please devs, look at this. The occasional border raid I sort of get - there are episodes featuring this (the Talarians, the Breen, sort of the Acamerians, some Klingon factions) but a Wolf 359 size battle between Starfleet and Nausicaa every five years? This is beyond absurd.
I love the game. Well, I love the concept of the game and think you have a promising model upon which to do some great things (coughs, produces a list: ship names, more ship classes please as a minimum). But this maddening insistence on utterly un-Treklike stuff breaks the heart. The Nausicans featured in what? Two episodes? Not in this game; having played around with the TAG command to have a look, they're probably my galaxy's dominant military power!
They were never a big thing in this era. I'm sorry, they just weren't. Raiders, border skirmishes, entrenched conflicts, yes. But not space pirates. And yet, dully, for what feels like the hundredth time, I want to throw down my laptop as yet another tedious, pointless, not Trek-like Nausican raid is brewing and my Starfleet task fleets are mobilised to go and shoot 'em (only two classes of course - Mirandas and Intrepids).
Please, please devs, look at this. The occasional border raid I sort of get - there are episodes featuring this (the Talarians, the Breen, sort of the Acamerians, some Klingon factions) but a Wolf 359 size battle between Starfleet and Nausicaa every five years? This is beyond absurd.
I love the game. Well, I love the concept of the game and think you have a promising model upon which to do some great things (coughs, produces a list: ship names, more ship classes please as a minimum). But this maddening insistence on utterly un-Treklike stuff breaks the heart. The Nausicans featured in what? Two episodes? Not in this game; having played around with the TAG command to have a look, they're probably my galaxy's dominant military power!
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