His 5/5 stats are fairly good, I suppose, but his 1/5 stats are rather low. Frankly, my diplomacy and command skills are readily filled without even trying. I'll go for this event for the repeat gold and skirmish rewards, but unless the next event is faction, I really don't care if I get top 1500.
I agree with @marschallin. Starfleet is both a military organization and an exploratory organization. This has held true from the first season of the original series to the most recent season of Discovery. The aspirational goal, the one most Starfleet officers wished they could follow all the time, was embodied by the Enterprise's mission:
"To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilizations, to boldly go where no man/one has gone before."
But, when the chips are down (which seems to happen an awful lot), Starfleet functions as the Naval Forces of the United Federation of Planets. There is a clear chain of command. Orders are given and expected to be obeyed. Federation security supersedes all other missions (such as exploration and diplomacy). My favorite example of this, where an admiral essentially orders a Starfleet captain to commit genocide if the opportunity arises, occurs on Stardate 46984.6:
Admiral Alynna Nechayev: (hard) "Your priority is to safeguard the lives of Federation citizens... not to wrestle with your conscience. Now I want to make it clear that if you have a similar opportunity in the future... an opportunity to destroy the Borg... you are under orders to take advantage of it. Is that understood?"
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: (tight) "Yes, sir."
To the point, I always found Nechayev to be one of the best/most realistic recurring characters on the show. To someone who isn’t paying attention, she can look like a stone-cold witch, a political animal completely out of touch with what’s actually going on out there in space, on the front lines. But actually, nearly every one of her decisions (if you sit and think about them and ignore the other characters’ whining) are made for what she perceives is the overall good of the Federation and the people in it. And sometimes those decisions are seemingly hard and unfeeling, but they’re all pretty reasonable in terms of that goal, whether or not you agree with her in how to get there. And here and there, you get tiny moments where you can see cracks in the facade, showing you that Nechayev struggles with some of these decisions. She’s not inhuman—but she’s the admiral, so once the decision is made, she has to project confidence and assurance, so that’s what she does.
I read afterwards that the actress who plays Nechayev grew up in a military family, and used that knowledge in her portrayal of the role. I think it shows.
I couldn't agree more. As a young teenager, when I first watched those episodes, I saw her as antagonistic to Picard and, therefore, another admiral-off-the-rails. Later, I realized she was the most level-headed flag officer on the series. I'm sorry now they didn't keep her as the main flag officer overseeing DS9 for the entirety of that show -- especially given her expertise with the Maquis and the Cardassians. She would have been better than Admiral Ross.
That could be the making of an interesting novella or even a full-length novel: how Section 31 struggled to replace the brilliant, tough Admiral Nechayev with someone a little more...flexible morality.
Wait, she was in Section 31?
No, but there's speculation about Admiral Ross. From Memory Alpha:
Admiral Ross aided the covert Federation organization Section 31 by helping their agents infiltrate a conference on Romulus, in order to place an operative named Koval at the highest levels of the Romulan government.
So, presumably, the novella would be how Section 31 got Nechayev shunted aside so that Ross could take command of the sector (and the war).
Exactly my thinking, sir. Knowing she was an asset to humanity, they couldn’t simply have her killed, pushed into early retirement, or otherwise disappeared, and that she was too shrewd to be an unwitting dupe like Bashir, Section 31 must find a way to get her transferred or promoted such that their man Ross can be in a position to influence things their way.
My guess is that it would be told primarily from Sloan’s perspective, with interludes from Ross (who is perhaps not as comfortable with Section 31 as he is later on, maybe he even suspects they may take an unpleasant shortcut and have her disappeared) and Nechayev.
It’s really just a silly idea that popped into my head...I really haven’t fleshed it out beyond what’s in this post.
I agree with @marschallin. Starfleet is both a military organization and an exploratory organization. This has held true from the first season of the original series to the most recent season of Discovery. The aspirational goal, the one most Starfleet officers wished they could follow all the time, was embodied by the Enterprise's mission:
"To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilizations, to boldly go where no man/one has gone before."
But, when the chips are down (which seems to happen an awful lot), Starfleet functions as the Naval Forces of the United Federation of Planets. There is a clear chain of command. Orders are given and expected to be obeyed. Federation security supersedes all other missions (such as exploration and diplomacy). My favorite example of this, where an admiral essentially orders a Starfleet captain to commit genocide if the opportunity arises, occurs on Stardate 46984.6:
Admiral Alynna Nechayev: (hard) "Your priority is to safeguard the lives of Federation citizens... not to wrestle with your conscience. Now I want to make it clear that if you have a similar opportunity in the future... an opportunity to destroy the Borg... you are under orders to take advantage of it. Is that understood?"
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: (tight) "Yes, sir."
Great point about Enterprise - Archer and really everyone on board was *so* excited to be out on missions of peaceful exploration...and then within a few episodes realized that they did actually need their phase cannons installed after all. Never mind Archer’s comments after the end of the Xindi crisis, while touring the Columbia, about not just arming the ship but also getting some ground troops assigned as well.
This discussion reminds me of my desire to see a 6- to 10-part series focusing on the Earth-Romulan war. Those behind Discovery clearly wanted to add a little more grit to Trek, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing...a war-themed miniseries would be a phenomenal place to do exactly that. Get Idris Elba, Brian Thompson, Robert Foxworth, and some Enterprise main cast members together with some new faces, tell the story of how the war started (picking up from the aftermath of Valdore’s drone project), how it finished, and how the UFP was finally born. At the end it could show the MACOs being integrated into Starfleet, for better and for worse...it’d be great, I am sure.
That would be very interesting. Any series featuring the Romulans gets my vote.
Useless in Gauntlet & Arena
#5 dip base and #5 cmd/dip pair, and as long as the Discovery train keeps rolling, steady event work
#22 Voyage Score, right behind Mambo Picard who has similar skills but swapping secondary and tertiary. That being said, he's 170 points ahead of the next best option for his exact skill set - Professor Sato.
BUT, considering everyone got Mambo Picard free recently and a lot of people picked up Sato in the campaign, it's unlikely that Pike will make a significant improvement to anybody's roster - 4/5 Sato's base is 50% higher than 1/5 Pike, and an extra 150 points at 5/5. Likewise, for Pike to even be considered for Sato's voyage seat he'd have to be no more than one star behind. And even if Sato's busy, recent freebee Mambo Picard (and former Mega Surak, if you've been around that long) can step in.
Thanks for the info on Pike. I’ll probably still get him anyway, just because skirmishes are very rewarding, what with the honor, chrons, etc. But he will probably be a 1/5 for a while. At least he’s not another SCI primary!
I agree with @marschallin. Starfleet is both a military organization and an exploratory organization. This has held true from the first season of the original series to the most recent season of Discovery. The aspirational goal, the one most Starfleet officers wished they could follow all the time, was embodied by the Enterprise's mission:
"To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilizations, to boldly go where no man/one has gone before."
But, when the chips are down (which seems to happen an awful lot), Starfleet functions as the Naval Forces of the United Federation of Planets. There is a clear chain of command. Orders are given and expected to be obeyed. Federation security supersedes all other missions (such as exploration and diplomacy). My favorite example of this, where an admiral essentially orders a Starfleet captain to commit genocide if the opportunity arises, occurs on Stardate 46984.6:
Admiral Alynna Nechayev: (hard) "Your priority is to safeguard the lives of Federation citizens... not to wrestle with your conscience. Now I want to make it clear that if you have a similar opportunity in the future... an opportunity to destroy the Borg... you are under orders to take advantage of it. Is that understood?"
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: (tight) "Yes, sir."
To the point, I always found Nechayev to be one of the best/most realistic recurring characters on the show. To someone who isn’t paying attention, she can look like a stone-cold witch, a political animal completely out of touch with what’s actually going on out there in space, on the front lines. But actually, nearly every one of her decisions (if you sit and think about them and ignore the other characters’ whining) are made for what she perceives is the overall good of the Federation and the people in it. And sometimes those decisions are seemingly hard and unfeeling, but they’re all pretty reasonable in terms of that goal, whether or not you agree with her in how to get there. And here and there, you get tiny moments where you can see cracks in the facade, showing you that Nechayev struggles with some of these decisions. She’s not inhuman—but she’s the admiral, so once the decision is made, she has to project confidence and assurance, so that’s what she does.
I read afterwards that the actress who plays Nechayev grew up in a military family, and used that knowledge in her portrayal of the role. I think it shows.
I couldn't agree more. As a young teenager, when I first watched those episodes, I saw her as antagonistic to Picard and, therefore, another admiral-off-the-rails. Later, I realized she was the most level-headed flag officer on the series. I'm sorry now they didn't keep her as the main flag officer overseeing DS9 for the entirety of that show -- especially given her expertise with the Maquis and the Cardassians. She would have been better than Admiral Ross.
That could be the making of an interesting novella or even a full-length novel: how Section 31 struggled to replace the brilliant, tough Admiral Nechayev with someone a little more...flexible morality.
Wait, she was in Section 31?
No, but there's speculation about Admiral Ross. From Memory Alpha:
Admiral Ross aided the covert Federation organization Section 31 by helping their agents infiltrate a conference on Romulus, in order to place an operative named Koval at the highest levels of the Romulan government.
So, presumably, the novella would be how Section 31 got Nechayev shunted aside so that Ross could take command of the sector (and the war).
Exactly my thinking, sir. Knowing she was an asset to humanity, they couldn’t simply have her killed, pushed into early retirement, or otherwise disappeared, and that she was too shrewd to be an unwitting dupe like Bashir, Section 31 must find a way to get her transferred or promoted such that their man Ross can be in a position to influence things their way.
My guess is that it would be told primarily from Sloan’s perspective, with interludes from Ross (who is perhaps not as comfortable with Section 31 as he is later on, maybe he even suspects they may take an unpleasant shortcut and have her disappeared) and Nechayev.
It’s really just a silly idea that popped into my head...I really haven’t fleshed it out beyond what’s in this post.
I love it. Great idea. Someone should hire you to write it.
As is fitting for Halloween our October Mega-Event will task our captains to keep up, and more importantly catch up, with the infamous trickster that everyone loves to hate: Harry Mudd. This under the watchful eye of Tenavik, which will be the recurrent crew obtainable as threshold reward in each of these four events.
Recover the stolen time crystals
Time crystals in the hands of Mudd are a recipe for havoc and disaster you will have to stop at nothing to get them back.
During these events, you will encounter and receive the assistance of new variants of Pike, Owosekun, Po, Burnham, and Saru. It will also be the opportunity for a first contact with Vina and the mysterious Ba’ul.
The schedule of events will be as follows:
Faction Event "Crime of Last Century" - 10/03
Hybrid Faction/Galaxy Event "One Step Behind" - 10/10
Skirmish Event "When Words Fail" - 10/17
Faction Event "Everywhere At Once" - 10/24
Discovery crew will provide event bonuses throughout the Mega-Event.
Trick or .. more tricks! Are you ready for it?
From Shan in starfleet communications. Disco mega event starting next week with characters and crew from Disco season 2. Tenavik is
guardian of the time crystals and son of L'Rell and Voq.
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
When your honor is all dry, new honor hall will draw nigh.
I did 2 portal pulls on this weeks event portal, 2 from the Ancient Weapons portal, and 3 from the regular portal. I got a Breen Dukat in every one of them except the last one. Add the 3 I airlocked from the Event, and that's a LOT of DUKAT.
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
When your honor is all dry, new honor hall will draw nigh.
I know right? Such a dilemma as to how long you should hold on to it and wait while you could be upgrading
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
When your honor is all dry, new honor hall will draw nigh.
I know right? Such a dilemma as to how long you should hold on to it and wait while you could be upgrading
I found it fun last mega to wait till the end with my honor, buy a bunch of mega event discount wrap up packs then let my honor fly. Then I have been building it up again. I am trying to save all dilithium and honor for the ends of megas. With going hard on skirmishes and campaign legendary citations too I should have enough for 5 maybe 6 citations by end of october so I will need some good event mega people and some luck in pack drops.
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
When your honor is all dry, new honor hall will draw nigh.
I know right? Such a dilemma as to how long you should hold on to it and wait while you could be upgrading
I found it fun last mega to wait till the end with my honor, buy a bunch of mega event discount wrap up packs then let my honor fly. Then I have been building it up again. I am trying to save all dilithium and honor for the ends of megas. With going hard on skirmishes and campaign legendary citations too I should have enough for 5 maybe 6 citations by end of october so I will need some good event mega people and some luck in pack drops.
I prefer to cite as I go through the mega. I do the discount packs throughout for my "cheap honor". I feel like I get the most use out of them during the mega instead of waiting until after. It's personal preference, but I've been pretty happy with those discount packs.
DB, I had no luck getting Usurper Lorca this round. Please put him in one of those discount packs! 🙏 😁
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
When your honor is all dry, new honor hall will draw nigh.
I know right? Such a dilemma as to how long you should hold on to it and wait while you could be upgrading
I found it fun last mega to wait till the end with my honor, buy a bunch of mega event discount wrap up packs then let my honor fly. Then I have been building it up again. I am trying to save all dilithium and honor for the ends of megas. With going hard on skirmishes and campaign legendary citations too I should have enough for 5 maybe 6 citations by end of october so I will need some good event mega people and some luck in pack drops.
I prefer to cite as I go through the mega. I do the discount packs throughout for my "cheap honor". I feel like I get the most use out of them during the mega instead of waiting until after. It's personal preference, but I've been pretty happy with those discount packs.
DB, I had no luck getting Usurper Lorca this round. Please put him in one of those discount packs! 🙏 😁
That is also a strategy though not one I employ as usually the mid mega event discount packs have legendaries that are two skilled or low stats. Though that Okona was good.
Wir, die Mirror Tribbles [MiT] haben freie Plätze zu vergeben. Kein Zwang und kein Stress, dafür aber Spaß, Discord und eine nette, hilfsbereite Gemeinschaft, incl. voll ausgebauter Starbase und täglich 700 ISM.
I ranked in the 600s and won 5 1x rare pulls. Plus for some reason I had a sixth one waiting (not sure why). Most amazing RNG I've had. 2 beholds and 1 begold. For one behold, I actually landed someone I'm still finishing -- Anij (I skipped her event a while back). For the second behold, it was just honor. For the begold, I had a choice between Cadet Tilly (who I already had at 1*) and Kohl-I-nar Spock (who I already had at 2*) and a third option I don't remember. Went with Spock for long term value and getting a third star, but it was a close call with the Disco event starting this week.
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In my best 4yr old voice....Nah Nah Nah Nah NahNah! 😂😂😂
Exactly my thinking, sir. Knowing she was an asset to humanity, they couldn’t simply have her killed, pushed into early retirement, or otherwise disappeared, and that she was too shrewd to be an unwitting dupe like Bashir, Section 31 must find a way to get her transferred or promoted such that their man Ross can be in a position to influence things their way.
My guess is that it would be told primarily from Sloan’s perspective, with interludes from Ross (who is perhaps not as comfortable with Section 31 as he is later on, maybe he even suspects they may take an unpleasant shortcut and have her disappeared) and Nechayev.
It’s really just a silly idea that popped into my head...I really haven’t fleshed it out beyond what’s in this post.
That would be very interesting. Any series featuring the Romulans gets my vote.
Thanks for the info on Pike. I’ll probably still get him anyway, just because skirmishes are very rewarding, what with the honor, chrons, etc. But he will probably be a 1/5 for a while. At least he’s not another SCI primary!
I love it. Great idea. Someone should hire you to write it.
Captain Level: 95
VIP Level: 12
Unique Crew Immortalized: 525
Collections Completed: Vulcan, Ferengi, Borg, Romulan, Cardassian, Uncommon, Rare, Veteran, Common, Engineered, Physician, Innovator, Inspiring, Diplomat, Jury Rigger, Gauntlet Legends
Announcing our October Mega-Event: Mudd Amuck!
As is fitting for Halloween our October Mega-Event will task our captains to keep up, and more importantly catch up, with the infamous trickster that everyone loves to hate: Harry Mudd. This under the watchful eye of Tenavik, which will be the recurrent crew obtainable as threshold reward in each of these four events.
Recover the stolen time crystals
Time crystals in the hands of Mudd are a recipe for havoc and disaster you will have to stop at nothing to get them back.
During these events, you will encounter and receive the assistance of new variants of Pike, Owosekun, Po, Burnham, and Saru. It will also be the opportunity for a first contact with Vina and the mysterious Ba’ul.
The schedule of events will be as follows:
Faction Event "Crime of Last Century" - 10/03
Hybrid Faction/Galaxy Event "One Step Behind" - 10/10
Skirmish Event "When Words Fail" - 10/17
Faction Event "Everywhere At Once" - 10/24
Discovery crew will provide event bonuses throughout the Mega-Event.
Trick or .. more tricks! Are you ready for it?
From Shan in starfleet communications. Disco mega event starting next week with characters and crew from Disco season 2. Tenavik is
is hilarious. I've got a screen tumor growing on the space battles. It's steadily getting bigger.
of you in an hour.
On what device/version of the game are you seeing this?
But, seriously. That Voyage drop let me go from 0* to FF.........
One more ship battle. You got three days to do it. I think you’ll get him
Yeah. I got him a few minutes after. Going to try and make the 200 Chronitons at 150,000
Conditioned LaForge is a great card. I recommend you try for him. I just got him. I have the honor and cites to get him 5/5 but I’m debating if I should save them for someone else down the line
Were I you I would wait till end of the mega event. There may be someone else you like better and one far away from a portal update.
That was my thought. Or dare I say a cool new honor hall crew?
When your honor is all dry, new honor hall will draw nigh.
I know right? Such a dilemma as to how long you should hold on to it and wait while you could be upgrading
I found it fun last mega to wait till the end with my honor, buy a bunch of mega event discount wrap up packs then let my honor fly. Then I have been building it up again. I am trying to save all dilithium and honor for the ends of megas. With going hard on skirmishes and campaign legendary citations too I should have enough for 5 maybe 6 citations by end of october so I will need some good event mega people and some luck in pack drops.
I prefer to cite as I go through the mega. I do the discount packs throughout for my "cheap honor". I feel like I get the most use out of them during the mega instead of waiting until after. It's personal preference, but I've been pretty happy with those discount packs.
DB, I had no luck getting Usurper Lorca this round. Please put him in one of those discount packs! 🙏 😁
That is also a strategy though not one I employ as usually the mid mega event discount packs have legendaries that are two skilled or low stats. Though that Okona was good.
Captain Level: 95
VIP Level: 12
Unique Crew Immortalized: 525
Collections Completed: Vulcan, Ferengi, Borg, Romulan, Cardassian, Uncommon, Rare, Veteran, Common, Engineered, Physician, Innovator, Inspiring, Diplomat, Jury Rigger, Gauntlet Legends