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24th Century Kirk
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in Make It So!
You know it makes no sense. You know you want to do it anyway.
Clearly, there are two gaping voids in the game's crew roster that simply must be addressed. 1) the 43rd tribble to drop out of that overhead locker. And 2) a 24th century Kirk.
There are precedents for this apparent dichotomy. Firstly, we have diet sodas and iced tea. Secondly, we've seen characters from the comics such as Mirror Geordi et al. Well, this idea too is from the expanded universe of Star Trek. Who hasn't read the Shatnerverse novels and thought 'gosh I need to log into Star Trek timelines and check if this is a thing yet'. Rhetorical question.
The novels are quite new, being only a thousand years old and due a resurgence any day now. If you're not up to date on the events of the Shatnerverse novels then here's a pic that summarises it best: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Spectre . Remember, grey uniform. Not the Nexus one. Yes I know he's 24th century too but this is a post-return Kirk.
If we can have COP founder Picard and um I dunno, Groot, then surely, surely, we can do this. It's got to be way more popular than alien stunt double #3 from that voyager episode where that thing happened.
So come on DB / TP / WR / Whoever it is now, come on and give the people what they don't even know they want.
Bring back Kirk.
PS I'm tempted to drop in the idea of a mega event around this but I think that might be taking it too far so if someone else would like to do that in some subtle way then please be my guest.
Clearly, there are two gaping voids in the game's crew roster that simply must be addressed. 1) the 43rd tribble to drop out of that overhead locker. And 2) a 24th century Kirk.
There are precedents for this apparent dichotomy. Firstly, we have diet sodas and iced tea. Secondly, we've seen characters from the comics such as Mirror Geordi et al. Well, this idea too is from the expanded universe of Star Trek. Who hasn't read the Shatnerverse novels and thought 'gosh I need to log into Star Trek timelines and check if this is a thing yet'. Rhetorical question.
The novels are quite new, being only a thousand years old and due a resurgence any day now. If you're not up to date on the events of the Shatnerverse novels then here's a pic that summarises it best: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Spectre . Remember, grey uniform. Not the Nexus one. Yes I know he's 24th century too but this is a post-return Kirk.
If we can have COP founder Picard and um I dunno, Groot, then surely, surely, we can do this. It's got to be way more popular than alien stunt double #3 from that voyager episode where that thing happened.
So come on DB / TP / WR / Whoever it is now, come on and give the people what they don't even know they want.
Bring back Kirk.
PS I'm tempted to drop in the idea of a mega event around this but I think that might be taking it too far so if someone else would like to do that in some subtle way then please be my guest.
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As a Kirk fan, I think this would be a phenomenal amount of fun. There is a huge font of material out there to pull characters from, whether it’s the Pocket Books like this one, Star Trek Online (Mirror Leeta, Captain Shon, Noye, Ambassador Worf), David Mack’s Cold Equations trilogy (Resurrected Data, Borg Erika Hernandez), the various Mirror Universe short stories (Mirror versions of the Voyager crew come to mind), or other books, games, and comic books. Some people will inevitably get incredibly offended at the very possibility of non-canon crew additions, but new crew is one of the few things that remains fresh in this game and licensed content would keep the supply of new crew options coming for a long time.
So come on Timelines. Even if you think you can't do this, yes you khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Maybe I shouldn't have said 'shatnerverse' tho - plain old 24th century would be fine.
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Where'd you hear/read that? They haven't been embraced by the rest of the expanded Trek universe, but I've never been given to understand there was any special rights issue attached to that exclusion. Are you by chance referring to the disclaimer at the beginning of Academy: Collision Course, about that story "deriving solely from the author's unique personal vision"? That was just cover since they knew the reboot movie was in the offing while it was written, but weren't sure what, if any, contradictions may come from it.
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