Anyone who uses the term "STD" is doing so to be childish and as such their opinions should be ignored. If they want to have a reasonable conversation about Star Trek: Discovery and use the name "Star Trek: Discovery" or "Discovery" or even "Disco" I am happy to listen to them and to debate the merits of the show. But to use "STD" over and over just proves that they have no real substantive arguments for their dislike of the show they just want attention and to ruin the enjoyment of the event and the show for everyone else.
I left the Star Trek reddit because of Disco arguments; looks like I'm done here as well after giving it another chance after the last event thread turned out this way. You love Disco: great. You hate it: great. Keep it out of event threads. No, the people saying STD don't need to do so, but we also don't need a half dozen people praising Disco in response to every complaint (and whether the complaints are legitimate/valid is irrelevant to STT: I could go through a list of problems with Disco - and the other Star Treks - but none of it is relevant to STT). You're not going to convince each other, and trying to Ignore all of you is like a game of Whack-a-Mole. How people saying a show stinks "ruins the enjoyment of the show" for someone who likes it is baffling, especially when (you think) they don't have substantive reasons (something like Amy "ruining" Indiana Jones - assuming her critique is valid, which I don't know because I've only seen 10 minutes of the first one - for Sheldon by saying Indy is irrelevant to the plot would be slightly different if you could no longer watch Disco because of it). And the people complaining aren't going to convince DB to eliminate/reduce Disco characters/events; and even if they were, posting in event threads isn't the proper medium to do so.
Yes, I appreciate the irony/hypocrisy of complaining about tangents to event threads when the tangents themselves aren't really related to the event.
Still a little confused why they used Chief O'Brien instead of Klingon O'Brien, who presumably could get some intel.
I assume people discussing Enterprise design continuity from Discovery to TOS to TMP haven't watched any of Discovery season 2 yet?
Since at the end of s02e01 we see Pike's Enterprise being towed back to space dock for a complete overhaul due to unknown system failure. Any design elements we have seen at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2 are clearly open to change.
There's still the matter of "The Cage" taking place 3-4 years before Discovery, then reverting to (mostly) the same design for the duration of TOS, set another 10 years after Discovery. Someone who cares can contrive how to reconcile it all. I'm not that person.
Anyway, I'm almost certainly going to fall outside the top 1500 and miss out on Bridge Officer Number One this week. I'm disappointed to miss out on her, but thankfully at least Skirmishes are the most forgiving event format and I'll snag the same VP with Chief O'Brien that I would have gotten with Number One.
It'd be dope if we got a 3* Talos IV Number One in the rank table, though.
Except the "record tapes" we see in The Menagerie are a construct of the Talosians, so can easily be inaccurate.
As for falling outside the top 1500, I understand that pain. I actually thought I had a chance to crack the top 1000 for the first time. In the final minute I had two shuttle missions still running, each with 90+% success chances, and was about 3000 vp out of range. So, figuring that the dilithium cost/benefit to speed up the shuttles would work out net positive with the 100 dilithium reward from breaking 1K, I completed both missions in the final moments. Both failed.
The actual explanation for the Enterprise differences in STD is simple, albeit canonically inconvenient.
The actual rights for the Enterprise are somewhat muddy, due to corporate mergers and splits over the years; CBS isn't the sole rights-holder anymore. Therefore, to avoid messy legal battles, "new" uses of the Enterprise have to be different enough to keep the lawyers happy. The quoted number according to Gizmodo is that is had to be 25% different (how they quantify differences, I have no idea).
This is also why the Kelvinverse Enterprsie is different, though I think they chose to modify it more than legally necessary to make JJ happy.
That's very interesting. I hadn't seen that before. Also surprising as somehow DB got the rights to put the original 1701 into STT. Where did you see this?
The actual explanation for the Enterprise differences in STD is simple, albeit canonically inconvenient.
The actual rights for the Enterprise are somewhat muddy, due to corporate mergers and splits over the years; CBS isn't the sole rights-holder anymore. Therefore, to avoid messy legal battles, "new" uses of the Enterprise have to be different enough to keep the lawyers happy. The quoted number according to Gizmodo is that is had to be 25% different (how they quantify differences, I have no idea).
This is also why the Kelvinverse Enterprsie is different, though I think they chose to modify it more than legally necessary to make JJ happy.
That's very interesting. I hadn't seen that before. Also surprising as somehow DB got the rights to put the original 1701 into STT. Where did you see this?
There seems to be some conflicting info on this subject:
The actual explanation for the Enterprise differences in STD is simple, albeit canonically inconvenient.
The actual rights for the Enterprise are somewhat muddy, due to corporate mergers and splits over the years; CBS isn't the sole rights-holder anymore. Therefore, to avoid messy legal battles, "new" uses of the Enterprise have to be different enough to keep the lawyers happy. The quoted number according to Gizmodo is that is had to be 25% different (how they quantify differences, I have no idea).
This is also why the Kelvinverse Enterprsie is different, though I think they chose to modify it more than legally necessary to make JJ happy.
That's very interesting. I hadn't seen that before. Also surprising as somehow DB got the rights to put the original 1701 into STT. Where did you see this?
It was initially reported, but was then corrected by CBS. They do own the full rights. It's possible that JJ had to make changes for his movies, but CBS could have used the original design if they wanted to.
I assume people discussing Enterprise design continuity from Discovery to TOS to TMP haven't watched any of Discovery season 2 yet?
Since at the end of s02e01 we see Pike's Enterprise being towed back to space dock for a complete overhaul due to unknown system failure. Any design elements we have seen at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2 are clearly open to change.
There's still the matter of "The Cage" taking place 3-4 years before Discovery, then reverting to (mostly) the same design for the duration of TOS, set another 10 years after Discovery. Someone who cares can contrive how to reconcile it all. I'm not that person.
Anyway, I'm almost certainly going to fall outside the top 1500 and miss out on Bridge Officer Number One this week. I'm disappointed to miss out on her, but thankfully at least Skirmishes are the most forgiving event format and I'll snag the same VP with Chief O'Brien that I would have gotten with Number One.
It'd be dope if we got a 3* Talos IV Number One in the rank table, though.
Except the "record tapes" we see in The Menagerie are a construct of the Talosians, so can easily be inaccurate.
As for falling outside the top 1500, I understand that pain. I actually thought I had a chance to crack the top 1000 for the first time. In the final minute I had two shuttle missions still running, each with 90+% success chances, and was about 3000 vp out of range. So, figuring that the dilithium cost/benefit to speed up the shuttles would work out net positive with the 100 dilithium reward from breaking 1K, I completed both missions in the final moments. Both failed.
If you are saying we don't know Number One made planetfall on Talos IV, because "The Menagerie" was a reconstruction of the events from "The Cage", she WA on te surface in "The Cage".
Sorry you got that close on the 1K and missed it over Shuttle failures.
Did anyone catch the Fortune Cookie Fortune Pike found in the Ready Room?
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
I assume people discussing Enterprise design continuity from Discovery to TOS to TMP haven't watched any of Discovery season 2 yet?
Since at the end of s02e01 we see Pike's Enterprise being towed back to space dock for a complete overhaul due to unknown system failure. Any design elements we have seen at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2 are clearly open to change.
There's still the matter of "The Cage" taking place 3-4 years before Discovery, then reverting to (mostly) the same design for the duration of TOS, set another 10 years after Discovery. Someone who cares can contrive how to reconcile it all. I'm not that person.
Anyway, I'm almost certainly going to fall outside the top 1500 and miss out on Bridge Officer Number One this week. I'm disappointed to miss out on her, but thankfully at least Skirmishes are the most forgiving event format and I'll snag the same VP with Chief O'Brien that I would have gotten with Number One.
It'd be dope if we got a 3* Talos IV Number One in the rank table, though.
Except the "record tapes" we see in The Menagerie are a construct of the Talosians, so can easily be inaccurate.
As for falling outside the top 1500, I understand that pain. I actually thought I had a chance to crack the top 1000 for the first time. In the final minute I had two shuttle missions still running, each with 90+% success chances, and was about 3000 vp out of range. So, figuring that the dilithium cost/benefit to speed up the shuttles would work out net positive with the 100 dilithium reward from breaking 1K, I completed both missions in the final moments. Both failed.
I had a moment of ranting lunacy after I missed once by similar reasons. Sorry that happened. Been there. It does get better.
It's crazy that an effort that used to result in a finish in the 400-600 range for a faction event is suddenly barely enough to crack the top-1500!
I did my kickstart quickly (11 x 3* boosts & 2 x 4* boosts), to immediately start with 3500 point missions, which I cleared with 3* time boosts. I sent my first wave of 4000 point shuttles out less than 2 hours into the event, had my 3-hour alarm going day & night all weekend (a whole other level of ridiculousness), with my 4 shuttles ranging from 91-96% (loaded the forum-approved way). Aside from back-to-back waves going 1/4 and 2/4, my success rate was as expected throughout the event.
I want to talk about the next event...Frankly, I don't have the time, patience, or inclination to rehash the laundry list of reasons that STD doesn't cut it. Lets just hope they learn their lessons for the Picard show.
Now I have all of my O'Briens and Chekovs out of cryo storage. I'm ready to rock.
Look, we know you hate Disco, you’ve made it very clear. But no one appreciates the constant ranting so please keep your disco hate to yourself. Thank you 😁
As I said before, enough about ST:D and its many shortcomings, lets get on with discussing the event.
I'm surprised they didn't pull out Klingon O'Brien for this.Not that I care, I have him immorted, but I thought he'd be a natural, being a spy.
I assume people discussing Enterprise design continuity from Discovery to TOS to TMP haven't watched any of Discovery season 2 yet?
Since at the end of s02e01 we see Pike's Enterprise being towed back to space dock for a complete overhaul due to unknown system failure. Any design elements we have seen at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2 are clearly open to change.
There's still the matter of "The Cage" taking place 3-4 years before Discovery, then reverting to (mostly) the same design for the duration of TOS, set another 10 years after Discovery. Someone who cares can contrive how to reconcile it all. I'm not that person.
Anyway, I'm almost certainly going to fall outside the top 1500 and miss out on Bridge Officer Number One this week. I'm disappointed to miss out on her, but thankfully at least Skirmishes are the most forgiving event format and I'll snag the same VP with Chief O'Brien that I would have gotten with Number One.
It'd be dope if we got a 3* Talos IV Number One in the rank table, though.
Except the "record tapes" we see in The Menagerie are a construct of the Talosians, so can easily be inaccurate.
As for falling outside the top 1500, I understand that pain. I actually thought I had a chance to crack the top 1000 for the first time. In the final minute I had two shuttle missions still running, each with 90+% success chances, and was about 3000 vp out of range. So, figuring that the dilithium cost/benefit to speed up the shuttles would work out net positive with the 100 dilithium reward from breaking 1K, I completed both missions in the final moments. Both failed.
If you are saying we don't know Number One made planetfall on Talos IV, because "The Menagerie" was a reconstruction of the events from "The Cage", she WA on te surface in "The Cage".
Sorry you got that close on the 1K and missed it over Shuttle failures.
Did anyone catch the Fortune Cookie Fortune Pike found in the Ready Room?
No, I was talking about the ship design. Sorry, there are tons of different discussions going on, I should have been more specific.
It's crazy that an effort that used to result in a finish in the 400-600 range for a faction event is suddenly barely enough to crack the top-1500!
I did my kickstart quickly (11 x 3* boosts & 2 x 4* boosts), to immediately start with 3500 point missions, which I cleared with 3* time boosts. I sent my first wave of 4000 point shuttles out less than 2 hours into the event, had my 3-hour alarm going day & night all weekend (a whole other level of ridiculousness), with my 4 shuttles ranging from 91-96% (loaded the forum-approved way). Aside from back-to-back waves going 1/4 and 2/4, my success rate was as expected throughout the event.
I wound up finishing right around 1400.
Events keep getting tougher and tougher. DB found a way to monetize faction events more by selling those new shuttle boosts and by creating a way for people to send more than 4 shuttles. They are tougher at all spots not just top 1500. Look how high the score was for first place. I did not see final but it was at like 4.9 million on Sunday. Whales cannot just send out four shuttles with time boosts they have to run eight!
Anyone who uses the term "STD" is doing so to be childish and as such their opinions should be ignored. If they want to have a reasonable conversation about Star Trek: Discovery and use the name "Star Trek: Discovery" or "Discovery" or even "Disco" I am happy to listen to them and to debate the merits of the show. But to use "STD" over and over just proves that they have no real substantive arguments for their dislike of the show they just want attention and to ruin the enjoyment of the event and the show for everyone else.
Well, that's the fault of Bryan Fuller, CBS and every and each of producers they could name show whatever they like even something like Star Trek: New Discovery or Star Trek: NCC-1031 Discovery would evade STD abbreviation.
Practically they were asking for it.
And we aren't even talking about the thing that the ship and show could be called anything let's say Rubicon, Nova, Universe, Intrepid or any word from any human language.
It's crazy that an effort that used to result in a finish in the 400-600 range for a faction event is suddenly barely enough to crack the top-1500!
I did my kickstart quickly (11 x 3* boosts & 2 x 4* boosts), to immediately start with 3500 point missions, which I cleared with 3* time boosts. I sent my first wave of 4000 point shuttles out less than 2 hours into the event, had my 3-hour alarm going day & night all weekend (a whole other level of ridiculousness), with my 4 shuttles ranging from 91-96% (loaded the forum-approved way). Aside from back-to-back waves going 1/4 and 2/4, my success rate was as expected throughout the event.
I wound up finishing right around 1400.
Events keep getting tougher and tougher. DB found a way to monetize faction events more by selling those new shuttle boosts and by creating a way for people to send more than 4 shuttles. They are tougher at all spots not just top 1500. Look how high the score was for first place. I did not see final but it was at like 4.9 million on Sunday. Whales cannot just send out four shuttles with time boosts they have to run eight!
I had 10-12 out at all times with 300 three star time boosts, 136 four star and 69 five star. Overnights I ran 20 at a time with five Star skill boosts or 2x reward boosts (had 50 of those) and got up every three hours to reset. I also had about 400 rental shuttle tokens and spent 40,000 dilithium in either shuttle return speed ups or shuttle rentals. Scored over 3 million points and ended up 4th. I assure you I am NEVER going to do that again. If that is what it takes to finish 4th, forget it. It would have been WAY cheaper to buy the $100 event offer and the $25 DYC if necessary
Anyone who uses the term "STD" is doing so to be childish and as such their opinions should be ignored. If they want to have a reasonable conversation about Star Trek: Discovery and use the name "Star Trek: Discovery" or "Discovery" or even "Disco" I am happy to listen to them and to debate the merits of the show. But to use "STD" over and over just proves that they have no real substantive arguments for their dislike of the show they just want attention and to ruin the enjoyment of the event and the show for everyone else.
Well, that's the fault of Bryan Fuller, CBS and every and each of producers they could name show whatever they like even something like Star Trek: New Discovery or Star Trek: NCC-1031 Discovery would evade STD abbreviation.
Practically they were asking for it.
And we aren't even talking about the thing that the ship and show could be called anything let's say Rubicon, Nova, Universe, Intrepid or any word from any human language.
Sure, its their fault when ppl get silly?
No Star Trek series ever had ST for Star Trek in their shortcut. Its TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY or ENT. It wasn t STTNG, STTOS, STDS9, STVOY or STENT, so you absolutely have no point at all! So DIS, or DSC or DISCO is the proper and logical short term.
But of course, just to diss DSC every lame and childish thing is OK.
I know this is off topic and I have been stopping myself saying anything for a while now, but please can we not use ‘STD’ as an abbreviation for Star Trek Discovery.
1. It does not fit convention, as @Zombie Squirrel and others have pointed out above.
2. Shoehorning the new Star Trek title into an abbreviation that also means Sexually Transmitted Disease, is not funny for anyone over the age of 12.
3. I’m really not a fan of Discovery, but I’ll still at least try and get on a level and debate the reasons why intelligently, not resort to trolling.
I assume people discussing Enterprise design continuity from Discovery to TOS to TMP haven't watched any of Discovery season 2 yet?
Since at the end of s02e01 we see Pike's Enterprise being towed back to space dock for a complete overhaul due to unknown system failure. Any design elements we have seen at the end of season 1/beginning of season 2 are clearly open to change.
There's still the matter of "The Cage" taking place 3-4 years before Discovery, then reverting to (mostly) the same design for the duration of TOS, set another 10 years after Discovery. Someone who cares can contrive how to reconcile it all. I'm not that person.
Anyway, I'm almost certainly going to fall outside the top 1500 and miss out on Bridge Officer Number One this week. I'm disappointed to miss out on her, but thankfully at least Skirmishes are the most forgiving event format and I'll snag the same VP with Chief O'Brien that I would have gotten with Number One.
It'd be dope if we got a 3* Talos IV Number One in the rank table, though.
Except the "record tapes" we see in The Menagerie are a construct of the Talosians, so can easily be inaccurate.
Except that Spock and Pike both affirmed that they were exactingly correct:
KIRK: Screen off. Chris, was that really you on the screen?
PIKE: (flashes once for YES)
KIRK: That's impossible. Mister Spock, no vessel makes record tapes in that detail, that perfect.
Later:
SPOCK: Captain, please tell the court this is not imagination, nor some clever photographic record. Are we seeing the actual events of thirteen years ago?
PIKE: (flashes once for YES)
SPOCK: Yes, gentlemen. On that screen as it happened, the incredible experience of Captain Christopher Pike on Talos IV.
It seem highly improbable that such a "perfect" and detailed recording could include an erroneous depiction of the Enterprise, with Spock and Pike both attesting to the accuracy of what was shown.
As for falling outside the top 1500, I understand that pain. I actually thought I had a chance to crack the top 1000 for the first time. In the final minute I had two shuttle missions still running, each with 90+% success chances, and was about 3000 vp out of range. So, figuring that the dilithium cost/benefit to speed up the shuttles would work out net positive with the 100 dilithium reward from breaking 1K, I completed both missions in the final moments. Both failed.
I can't evaluate the event based on my performance; I had more important matters this weekend and didn't keep up with the event all that attentively. I did manage to hit the final threshold there at the end, though. That didn't even get me into the top 2000, though; I ended at #2031. On the plus side, that threshold 10x netted me a Smitten Picard in a Behold (I took him over Grilka and Ushaan Archer).
What? No it doesn’t. There is no paradox with the TOS Enterprise, and it doesn’t need to be updated. The design is timeless.
Then you haven't read the Ex Astris Scientia article on the topic. You probably don't have a clue regarding the Ship of Theseus paradox either. In the Ex Astris Scientia article it was determined that because of the design changes only a part of the secondary hull strongback and a portion of the interconnecting dorsal (i.e. the neck) survived the refit.
Way to be a jerk. I can feel the condescension through the Internet. Yes I’m aware of the paradox, but I don’t believe it applies to the Enterprise and the original Enterprise did not need updating, at least from the outside. This is the inherent problem with prequels. They feel like they need to explain things that never needed explaining.
I know this is off topic and I have been stopping myself saying anything for a while now, but please can we not use ‘STD’ as an abbreviation for Star Trek Discovery.
1. It does not fit convention, as @Zombie Squirrel and others have pointed out above.
2. Shoehorning the new Star Trek title into an abbreviation that also means Sexually Transmitted Disease, is not funny for anyone over the age of 12.
3. I’m really not a fan of Discovery, but I’ll still at least try and get on a level and debate the reasons why intelligently, not resort to trolling.
While I hate the STD abbreviation, that is what the producers, Fuller, and CBS themselves have used. Discovery will forever be abbreviated as STD. Using that abbreviation is not a reason to ignore someone's argument as they are using the official abbreviation.
I know this is off topic and I have been stopping myself saying anything for a while now, but please can we not use ‘STD’ as an abbreviation for Star Trek Discovery.
1. It does not fit convention, as @Zombie Squirrel and others have pointed out above.
2. Shoehorning the new Star Trek title into an abbreviation that also means Sexually Transmitted Disease, is not funny for anyone over the age of 12.
3. I’m really not a fan of Discovery, but I’ll still at least try and get on a level and debate the reasons why intelligently, not resort to trolling.
While I hate the STD abbreviation, that is what the producers, Fuller, and CBS themselves have used. Discovery will forever be abbreviated as STD. Using that abbreviation is not a reason to ignore someone's argument as they are using the official abbreviation.
No, it's not. The producers have said the official abbreviation is DSC. If you want to argue for DIS rather than DSC the same way people use VOY instead of VGR, that's reasonable. But the producers have been consistent from the start, the abbreviation is not STD.
Here are tweets from John Van Citters from 2016. He is VP of Star Trek Brand Development at CBS.
I know this is off topic and I have been stopping myself saying anything for a while now, but please can we not use ‘STD’ as an abbreviation for Star Trek Discovery.
1. It does not fit convention, as @Zombie Squirrel and others have pointed out above.
2. Shoehorning the new Star Trek title into an abbreviation that also means Sexually Transmitted Disease, is not funny for anyone over the age of 12.
3. I’m really not a fan of Discovery, but I’ll still at least try and get on a level and debate the reasons why intelligently, not resort to trolling.
While I hate the STD abbreviation, that is what the producers, Fuller, and CBS themselves have used. Discovery will forever be abbreviated as STD. Using that abbreviation is not a reason to ignore someone's argument as they are using the official abbreviation.
No, it's not. The producers have said the official abbreviation is DSC. If you want to argue for DIS rather than DSC the same way people use VOY instead of VGR, that's reasonable. But the producers have been consistent from the start, the abbreviation is not STD.
Here are tweets from John Van Citters from 2016. He is VP of Star Trek Brand Development at CBS.
It's crazy that an effort that used to result in a finish in the 400-600 range for a faction event is suddenly barely enough to crack the top-1500!
I did my kickstart quickly (11 x 3* boosts & 2 x 4* boosts), to immediately start with 3500 point missions, which I cleared with 3* time boosts. I sent my first wave of 4000 point shuttles out less than 2 hours into the event, had my 3-hour alarm going day & night all weekend (a whole other level of ridiculousness), with my 4 shuttles ranging from 91-96% (loaded the forum-approved way). Aside from back-to-back waves going 1/4 and 2/4, my success rate was as expected throughout the event.
I wound up finishing right around 1400.
I didn't start any missions until Thursday night. I was about 11000th place after 24 hours. I ran full tilt (lots of 3* time boosts) just for the fun of it to see if I could hit 1500. Finished about 1750 with a set of shuttles uncollected that would have put me around 1600. There was a lot of congestion ahead of me and I would have needed another 24 hours to get to 1400 going full tilt. Events have definitely gotten more difficult.
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Yes, I appreciate the irony/hypocrisy of complaining about tangents to event threads when the tangents themselves aren't really related to the event.
Still a little confused why they used Chief O'Brien instead of Klingon O'Brien, who presumably could get some intel.
Good luck to all.
Except the "record tapes" we see in The Menagerie are a construct of the Talosians, so can easily be inaccurate.
As for falling outside the top 1500, I understand that pain. I actually thought I had a chance to crack the top 1000 for the first time. In the final minute I had two shuttle missions still running, each with 90+% success chances, and was about 3000 vp out of range. So, figuring that the dilithium cost/benefit to speed up the shuttles would work out net positive with the 100 dilithium reward from breaking 1K, I completed both missions in the final moments. Both failed.
That's very interesting. I hadn't seen that before. Also surprising as somehow DB got the rights to put the original 1701 into STT. Where did you see this?
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I agree. This is an awful ship.
There seems to be some conflicting info on this subject:
Legal Issues were the change (with the stats above cited in the article)
Changes were creative (with the previous article cited)
Now, I can see Kelvinverse having to re-design, but now I question why CBS?
It was initially reported, but was then corrected by CBS. They do own the full rights. It's possible that JJ had to make changes for his movies, but CBS could have used the original design if they wanted to.
https://comicbook.com/startrek/2018/04/15/star-trek-discovery-enterprise-design-legal/
If you are saying we don't know Number One made planetfall on Talos IV, because "The Menagerie" was a reconstruction of the events from "The Cage", she WA on te surface in "The Cage".
Sorry you got that close on the 1K and missed it over Shuttle failures.
I had a moment of ranting lunacy after I missed once by similar reasons. Sorry that happened. Been there. It does get better.
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I did my kickstart quickly (11 x 3* boosts & 2 x 4* boosts), to immediately start with 3500 point missions, which I cleared with 3* time boosts. I sent my first wave of 4000 point shuttles out less than 2 hours into the event, had my 3-hour alarm going day & night all weekend (a whole other level of ridiculousness), with my 4 shuttles ranging from 91-96% (loaded the forum-approved way). Aside from back-to-back waves going 1/4 and 2/4, my success rate was as expected throughout the event.
I wound up finishing right around 1400.
As I said before, enough about ST:D and its many shortcomings, lets get on with discussing the event.
I'm surprised they didn't pull out Klingon O'Brien for this.Not that I care, I have him immorted, but I thought he'd be a natural, being a spy.
No, I was talking about the ship design. Sorry, there are tons of different discussions going on, I should have been more specific.
And yes, that fortune was a nice touch.
Well, that's the fault of Bryan Fuller, CBS and every and each of producers they could name show whatever they like even something like Star Trek: New Discovery or Star Trek: NCC-1031 Discovery would evade STD abbreviation.
Practically they were asking for it.
And we aren't even talking about the thing that the ship and show could be called anything let's say Rubicon, Nova, Universe, Intrepid or any word from any human language.
I had 10-12 out at all times with 300 three star time boosts, 136 four star and 69 five star. Overnights I ran 20 at a time with five Star skill boosts or 2x reward boosts (had 50 of those) and got up every three hours to reset. I also had about 400 rental shuttle tokens and spent 40,000 dilithium in either shuttle return speed ups or shuttle rentals. Scored over 3 million points and ended up 4th. I assure you I am NEVER going to do that again. If that is what it takes to finish 4th, forget it. It would have been WAY cheaper to buy the $100 event offer and the $25 DYC if necessary
Sure, its their fault when ppl get silly?
No Star Trek series ever had ST for Star Trek in their shortcut. Its TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY or ENT. It wasn t STTNG, STTOS, STDS9, STVOY or STENT, so you absolutely have no point at all! So DIS, or DSC or DISCO is the proper and logical short term.
But of course, just to diss DSC every lame and childish thing is OK.
1. It does not fit convention, as @Zombie Squirrel and others have pointed out above.
2. Shoehorning the new Star Trek title into an abbreviation that also means Sexually Transmitted Disease, is not funny for anyone over the age of 12.
3. I’m really not a fan of Discovery, but I’ll still at least try and get on a level and debate the reasons why intelligently, not resort to trolling.
Except that Spock and Pike both affirmed that they were exactingly correct:
KIRK: Screen off. Chris, was that really you on the screen?
PIKE: (flashes once for YES)
KIRK: That's impossible. Mister Spock, no vessel makes record tapes in that detail, that perfect.
Later:
SPOCK: Captain, please tell the court this is not imagination, nor some clever photographic record. Are we seeing the actual events of thirteen years ago?
PIKE: (flashes once for YES)
SPOCK: Yes, gentlemen. On that screen as it happened, the incredible experience of Captain Christopher Pike on Talos IV.
It seem highly improbable that such a "perfect" and detailed recording could include an erroneous depiction of the Enterprise, with Spock and Pike both attesting to the accuracy of what was shown.
I can't evaluate the event based on my performance; I had more important matters this weekend and didn't keep up with the event all that attentively. I did manage to hit the final threshold there at the end, though. That didn't even get me into the top 2000, though; I ended at #2031. On the plus side, that threshold 10x netted me a Smitten Picard in a Behold (I took him over Grilka and Ushaan Archer).
Way to be a jerk. I can feel the condescension through the Internet. Yes I’m aware of the paradox, but I don’t believe it applies to the Enterprise and the original Enterprise did not need updating, at least from the outside. This is the inherent problem with prequels. They feel like they need to explain things that never needed explaining.
Agreed! Unfortunately, I'm betting against it since they just had the two-star L'Rell...
I'm hopeful we will get a new Threshold 2* every week of the Mega. Hopefully.......
At least his badge won't be full of latinum.
While I hate the STD abbreviation, that is what the producers, Fuller, and CBS themselves have used. Discovery will forever be abbreviated as STD. Using that abbreviation is not a reason to ignore someone's argument as they are using the official abbreviation.
Don't give DB any ideas.
No, it's not. The producers have said the official abbreviation is DSC. If you want to argue for DIS rather than DSC the same way people use VOY instead of VGR, that's reasonable. But the producers have been consistent from the start, the abbreviation is not STD.
Here are tweets from John Van Citters from 2016. He is VP of Star Trek Brand Development at CBS.
The only people using STD are former fans who dislike the show and are using the abbreviation to mock it.
I appreciate that you dug those tweets up. I have never heard anyone refer to Voyager as VGR. Is that a thing? I've always seen/used VOY.
I didn't start any missions until Thursday night. I was about 11000th place after 24 hours. I ran full tilt (lots of 3* time boosts) just for the fun of it to see if I could hit 1500. Finished about 1750 with a set of shuttles uncollected that would have put me around 1600. There was a lot of congestion ahead of me and I would have needed another 24 hours to get to 1400 going full tilt. Events have definitely gotten more difficult.