Giving STO Another Try

[Tuskin38]

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It's kinda neat that adapted the Devil's Heart from the older TNG novels

the Ranger also got a touch up, thread

https://bsky.app/profile/thomasthecat.bsky.social/post/3lqpua3qyb22j

 

[Detached Nacelle]

A shorter mini episode as they described it is hopefully an indicator we'll be getting more frequent content. Mini episodes leading up to the big special guest star episode

 

[Yistaan]

So what's going on with Hugh in the game? Did his death in Picard still happen and he somehow survived it or is his Picard death just not canon to the game?

 

[Enterprise1701]

So what's going on with Hugh in the game? Did his death in Picard still happen and he somehow survived it or is his Picard death just not canon to the game?

I have no idea. Back just before "Axiom" came out, people were saying STO was just going off into its own timeline, but I don't know if that was the creators' words or just audience assumption. Nothing in "Axiom" addressed the discrepancy; the episode just referenced Hugh's PIC season 1 backstory.

 

[Daedalus]

I'm happy to just ignore Hugh's death in PIC.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^This, as Picard for me started and finished with S3, as the other 2 seasons i have no interest in at all.

 

[137th Gebirg]

The Borg nanites resurrected him off-screen. Problem solved.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^Like that Shatner book were they bring back Kirk via borg tech.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Yep. Which I think at one time he pitched to Paramount as a potential movie idea to bring Kirk back after GEN (something I still believe he regrets) and couldn't get it off the ground.

 

[Tuskin38]

So what's going on with Hugh in the game? Did his death in Picard still happen and he somehow survived it or is his Picard death just not canon to the game?

They pick and choose what story elements they want to take from the 24/5th century shows since they're very incompatible with their backstory.

The mission Axiom does have dialogue from Hugh that references the events on the cube in Season 1, but it's not clear if he died and came back, or just didn't die at all.

There's also a line where he mentions 'Romulan shadow knives', the kind that killed him in Season 1, but I don't have an image of that.

There's also unique dialogue from him if you're playing as a liberated borg

 

[Detached Nacelle]

No body, no death as the old saying goes.