Is Star Wars treatment of droids and their agency/sentience defensible? How do you think it compares to Star Trek?
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A Star Trek Infinite 4x type game could be cool, but a Star Trek themed spiritual successor to The Last Federation would be so much cooler
A Star Trek Infinite 4x type game could be cool, but a Star Trek themed spiritual successor to The Last Federation would be so much cooler - Star Trek∶Website
The Last Federation is an obscure game made by Arcen, the makers of AI War. I haven’t played this game yet, though I intend to try it at some point but I think the premise just absolutely SCREAMS Star Trek to me and I think if the people who own the Star Trek IP were smart they would go to Arcen and offer them a reasonable development budget to make a more polished spiritual successor to The Last Federation in the Star Trek universe and have basically a guaranteed cult hit created by a studio with a known record of creating games that could fit the unique complexities of Star Trek when it is at its best. description from GOG > From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others. > As the last remaining Hydral, it is up to you to create a lasting federation of planets and usher in an era of peace and prosperity to the solar system. Bring spacefaring technology to underdeveloped societies, manipulate their economies, political systems, and diplomatic relations. Do whatever it takes to end strife in your solar system. Remember, when helping civilizations evolve, sometimes they evolve faster when a large multi-headed monster is glaring menacingly at them. I think in particular any Star Trek game is probably going to need to lean a bit on the lore and story of Star Trek to be authentic… but that requires potentially a lot of work and custom story writing but the translation is so obvious here that I am sure Arcen studios could look at the Star Trek universe and basically just map most of their pre-existing mechanisms in The Last Federation to their Star Trek closest equivalent and be off to the races with setting up naturally evolving dynamic stories, plausible “what ifs” in the Star Trek universe, without having to do a large amount of storywriting from scratch or feel constrained by needing to get an entire plotline and details approved by an overarching IP holder… Just an interesting thought!
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Where Are All The Bicycles??
Where Are All The Bicycles?? - Star Trek: Website
I have an issue in general with scifi totally ignoring the existence of bicycles, but star trek is particularly fun to think about since in so many situations beaming down in an away team with electric mountain bicycles would be incredibly useful in a basic utilitarian sense. Like shuttles, bicycles could be treated as disposable if needed, you can always replicate more right? You also don’t need to build up any infrastructure on a planet for bicycles to function as transit system for huge amounts of people. A starship could arrive into a humanitarian aid situation, quickly adjust a bicycle blueprint for whatever bipedal humanoid lived on the planet, replicate a metric sh*&ton of alien bicycles and beam them down to the planet on mass. It wouldn’t require longterm maintenance, lengthy training of local aliens on how to use, or return visits to resupply complex parts. A starship could just drop bicycles, spare parts and bicycle maintenance gear and then leave. I am sure the instruction manuals would get super long with all the alien languages though… Even if bicycles weren’t being used as tools or transportation in a far future like star trek, there is no reason humans would stop wanting to bicycle recreationally or for exercise. Also you could go on crazy mountain biking rides on the holodeck right? I can’t see how people wouldn’t be doing that all the time along with skiing, surfing and other sports that are scary but exhilarating. TNG in particular is egregious for not having bicycles since the NCC-1701 is so cavernous that unless you always used the turbolifts you probably are going to need a bicycle to get anywhere quickly… What do yall think? Should star trek have more bicycles?
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One of the perks of being on open source software is that we could make our own star trek theme for startrek.website!
One of the perks of being on open source software is that we could make our own star trek theme for startrek.website! - Star Trek: Website
Who is inspired to make an LCARS theme for this sub?? One of the wonderful things about lemmy/free and open source software like this is that nobody would be forced to use an LCARS theme, under settings a user can change what theme they want lemmy to display in. So… really we can go all out here! I provided a link to some lemmy themes to give people an idea of the possibilities. (I am not an admin or anything here, of course the people running startrek.website would need to agree to install the theme on the server side but I figured I would throw the idea out there!)
We should rename "all" to "United Federation Of Planets"
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