This is directly based off of Picard, while I was under the impression that STO was kind of in it's own little universe doing it's own thing.
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If STO isn't using Picard elements, I'd think the more likely explanation is that they just don't have the Picard license. Each series is licensed separately.
They use elements, but I think the bigger issue they have years and years worth of gameplay design and storylines based on their own version of the 25th century developed before PIC was a thing. I think they have some kind of vague handwave about the Enterprise-G being retired and the -F returning to service to try and massage the fact that they had the -F being launched 8 years after it appeared on its final flight in PIC.
Yes, in the dev stream last week, a dev said they were asked by Paramount not to have her in Starfleet, there was no reason given. She's just vaguely referred to as 'special ops' in the lore, the new Odyssey Uniform vest variant made for the episode was originally intended for her.
They haven't acknowledged the story events of Season 3 at all. I don't believe they've referenced Season 2 in lore either. Though the various interdimensional vortices seen in the current storyline are based off the design from the end of Season 2.
No they do. There's various elements from all three seasons in the game, mostly ships, uniforms and weapons.
Very little lore has been adopted, because the series is widely incompatible with their existing lore, but they have been picking and choosing things.
They added the Synth attack on Mars to their backstory, Hugh has made references to the events on the Borg Artifact from Season 1, though in STO's version of events he clearly didn't die. Seven references being part of the Fenris Rangers in one mission.
Seven was already a civilian in STO's lore so that was easy to adapt, however they're using her personality and appearance from Picard, while her previous appearances in STO, which are only a year or two before the 'present', she still looked like and mostly acted like how she did in Voyager, as they came out a few years before Picard aired.
There's been no story references to any events from Seasons 2 or 3 yet.
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That Picard and Raffi are pretty well rendered makes it more jarring, it makes it seem like they lost the rights to the actors' likenesses or something.
That kind of is how STO has been chugging along, I guess. The 2016 "Agents of Yesterday" story premise doesn't really make sense in light of Trek returning to canon with DIS season 1, but there it still is in the game, coexisting with the "Age of Discovery" story arc, just as the U.S.S. Enterprise-F is still continuing its presence in the 2410s with a plethora of Borg opponents in the current story arc in spite of PIC season 3.
I had guessed STO had secured some kind of ignorance from CBS to mostly continue with their preferred pre-PIC status quo due to the ongoing low certainty Star Trek: Legacy will ever reach fruition, but Tuskin cited a recent developer comment disproving that notion as plausible.
Oh, huh. There goes my half-baked conspiracy theory. Thank you for enlightening me.
Apologies for the complete sidestep
but this reply made me think of you being the barracksroomlawyer in the short story wikihistory: https://reactormag.com/wikihistory/Anyway, apologies and carry on lol
Yay! I love the new cover art showing Picard and Beverly Crusher on the cover. Since Wesley is on the cover i wonder if this will be about Beverly Crusher time travel story involving her and Wesley. I wonder if her other son Jack will be in the novel too.
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Star Trek Online is the modern Star Fleet Battles, with how it steps around canon and does it's own thing, with an oblique reference here and there.
It's kind of funny, as Picard took it's look from the Countdown comics, and so did STO but they evolved it in their own ways.
It's kind of funny, as Picard took it's look from the Countdown comics, and so did STO but they evolved it in their own ways.
Huh? How so?
The Starfleet uniforms, the holographic consoles everywhere in season one, etc.
Which was based on early STO concept art by Perpetual, IIRC so it's kind of circular.
The uniforms in Picard were not the same ones used in the Countdown comics. They're similar, but only because they both draw on the earlier design used in DS9/VGR.
The rank pips on the right breast for Picard season one were right out of the concept art for Star Trek Online (and Countdown), although seen previously in Star Trek: Enterprise.
Blurb is out for To Defy Fate:
Couldn’t be more excited!
Ah, so it takes place in the missing year between the finale's main story and the final scene and is not the post-finale novel I had thought it was. Also definitely not the Captain Shaw centered novel it had been rumored to be.
EDIT: According to Canadian Amazon this novel has been postponed to April 28 2026.
EDIT: According to Canadian Amazon this novel has been postponed to April 28 2026.
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Nice, time travel story confirmed! That's probably my favourite SF subgenre, so I'm certainly looking forward to this!
I would remove all the sins if the "forces" were the First Splinter cast of Coda attempting to end the Devidian threat!
Seriously though, the person in the portal on the cover totally makes me think of Dr. Crusher in her TNG-era lab coat, so I'm assuming this is going to be some kind of "working against a different version of yourself" type story.
Since Wesley's involved, this has the potential to possibly bring in something from the Prodigy storyline? That would be really cool if so.
