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The show focuses on a smaller frigate, like five people total not a ship of the line, and their various ongoing missions which tend to involve lots of PR work, security, and dealing with the Maquis and other anti-communist factions. No great overarching mega-narrative, no "this will decide the fate of the galaxy" just a small group doing their tour of duty and rarely getting into active gunfights. Ship in the bottle episode: Captain and [vip]'s shuttle craft is damaged and presumed lost in enemy territory. VIP is freaking out that theyre going to die while captain calmly tells the VIP the story of why the captain personally chose their second in command to be on this ship. At the end it culminates in revealing they were in the same class, the captain just graduated higher in the grade because they both took the kyobashi maru exam, with the captain leaving the kyobashi to their fate and the second in command exhausting every option to rescue them, just as the captain and [vip] are rescued by the second in command who never stopped searching. Barudak fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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The crew is sent to investigate accidents at a remote Vulcan research facility that have culminated in the death of the head researcher. Upon arriving they find the entire base bizzarre, producing seemingly nothing of value and all research pure computation that is classified over their heads. The vulcans at the base are friendly, but the crew slowly begins to realize they are members of a cult group that predates human-Vulcan contact who espouse a belief that they must develop more and more complext mathematical models to prove they are always make the best decision for all vulcans. At the episode end, the crew realizes this faction was one of many that influenced the Vulcans decision to break first contact protocol on humans to uplift them, arguing that uplifted humans could be the might vulcans needed to prosper. In turn, the head researcher died of natural causes and this whole ruse was an elaborate and covert ritual way for this cult to test and then communicate back to the federation they still approve of their decisions.
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Apr 28, 2020 08:25
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The episode involves helping pursue an escaped criminal on a planet the federation want to bring into the fold but is officially neutral. The species of the planet are evolved from speed hunters and rub against what they perceive as slow humans both physically and the beaucracy humans love. Quickly it becomes a race to track down the escapee with the federation crew forced to work on their own after multiple times the federation gets near the eacapee only to have him sprint away from their slower moving away lead officer. At the end of the episode, the away lead on foot catches up with the criminal who the leaders of the planet have written off as escaped. The escaped criminal, completely exhausted, is unable to mount even token resistance and the lead officer captures him without a struggle. The captain explains to his utterly dumbfounded counterpart from the species military that humans evolved from a very different species, one that used persistance to hunt. The now terrified species military officers make a report to their leadership, realizing that the federation helping them, here along with their other projects and treaties, was probably just another piece of the hunt of bringing their world into the federation and that his species isnt able to see that its happening to them. Barudak fucked around with this message at 05:16 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 05:14
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The crew attend a quotillian hosted by a governor of an independent world, for the purpose of supporting their ambassador staff trying to woo the governor to the federation. The episode consists mostly of short chats with the governor, whose only other family is noted as too ill to attend, showing them to be an affable, deeply caring person who truly wants the best for their world interspersed, some of the crew having brief conversations with a ranking Maquis who is also at the party. Over the course of the episode and interactions, the Maquis's backstory as a former starfleet captain turned Maquis defector to now prominent Maquis leadership is established. At the end of the episode the Maquis seems to taunt the captain of tv crew, stating the ambassador will fail and this world will only grow closer to the maquis. When asked why the Maquis states only because the Maquis knows what it is like to make that decision. The end of the episode is a debrief sometime later with the ambassador noting the overture has failed and the governor remains neutral while intel points to massive shipments to maquis aligned factions. The crew uncovers who the Maquis captain was, finding they defected in order to secure illegal gene treatments for their sick child. The captain ruminates if they could, therefore, have ever won the governor over to the federation while the second in command points out that a world totally at the whims of someone who will place their own happiness over all others isnt truly ready to be in the federation.
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May 6, 2020 13:54
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The crew is sent to investigate a remote federation station situated over a world lost temporarily during a previous war and not yet repopulated when a small satchel of unmarked gold pressed latinum is discovered on the station. The crew begin their investigation, with a small away team exploring the ruins of the world for clues while the rest stay on station. As the mystery unfolds it becomes clear some of the station crew have been salvaging material from the planet but all of the material is ultimately accounted for on the station itself. At the same time, while the station gets unusually high traffic from Klingons their logs and docks are fully in order, not one has ever visited the planets surface. At the end of the episode it is revealed the salvaging crew is selling data from the surface to the klingons in exchange for the latinum. Before they arrest the crew, it is revealed the data they are selling is something that is illegal to create or sell in federation space, but not illegal to possess so no crime has technically been committed. The data is ancient archival footage of the human bloodsport "american football". As a closer, it is revealed the gold pressed latinum is being sent to one of the station crews mother who, not understanding why it is valuable has decorated her house with it.
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May 8, 2020 07:11
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Due to being a smaller ship and having numerous encounters with the Maquis, they are ordered for a debriefing and sent to a remote station. Upon arriving the crew begins to suspect the station crew they are being debriefed by may themselves be Maquis sympathizers or cover agents. As the situation becomes more critical and worrying the crew attempt to devise ways to covertly reach the federation to warn them. After their early attempts are thwarted, and the station becomes more explicit in trying to convert them to the Maquis cause, the crew realize they must risk a direct action and that likely their conversations are being monitored so they cannot even discuss further with each other, having to merely trust each member of the crew is loyal and will do their part. Ultimately, their final attempt at overthrowing the station is defeated and, to the crews meloncholy joy, one by one all five are dragged into a single chamber to spend their last moments together before being executed by the stations staff. The crew sings the anthem of the federation as the airlock opens jettisoning them to their deaths. The crew then awaken in the holodeck, informed by their debriefing crew they have passed, and were a little more on-key with their singing this time.
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May 22, 2020 03:20
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The crew must race against time to rescue an artist trapped inside a holosuite who uses it to create their art. They are considered an absolute master by the Ferengi and the federation use the artists art as a cultural exchange bit of soft power. The A plot is attempting to free them and the B plot revolves around investigating the sabotage. At the shows end, out of time, the crew resorts to the final emergency option which will likely leave the artist with junk information from the simulation permanently in their mind, dulling their creative output. Simultaneously, they learn the saboteur was a fellow human artist who felt they could be next chosen if the other artist was out of the way. During the closing debrief, it is revealed that the artists experience left them unable to make art that appealed to the Ferengi, but the subtlety they can now achieve in their work is so moving it is the first human artwork to cause Romulans to weep at its beauty meaning the artist still has a long career ahead of them for cultural exchange.
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May 22, 2020 06:24
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The crew are sent to a remote world to do the pre-work for a science team deployment to a hospitable world. Upon arriving the world is, for humans at least, mundane and not particularly notable, with its evolution having just achieved grasses on land. The episode then splits up between the "away team" of two collecting samples at designated sights around the prospective basecamp while the captain and two other remaining main cast stay at the landed ship setting up the sight. While the away team does their work, the b-plot is a race to repair some broken science equipment before the away team returns and thus have to make another trip back to a starfleet base and fix the mistake. The away team, of the 2nd in command and the field operations specialist (aka marine) spend most of it discussing the marines background and over the course of the episode we learn they came from a federation world that still allows hunting despite taboo and theoretical illegality. Simultaneously, we watch an ever increasingly frustrated base team trouble shooting solutions and arguing next steps without full technical experience. With the away team, we learn the FOS was originally a diehard proponent of the hunting on their world to spite representatives from other planets intruding on their business. As they grew up and did more research, they realized that it, ultimately, was a complicated situation with no good solution because the world simply hadn't been setup to account for such a change in the future. The discussion of the work required and sacrifice required is juxtaposed with the intermittent cuts back to the base team trying to fix the equipment and struggling. At the end of the episode the FOS reveals the reason they are an FOS is because they got steered there by Starfleet due to their experience hunting, a suggestion by someone from one of the worlds most opposed to hunting on their planet. What they see themselves, and how they view starfleet and why they've had so much fun on this assignment everyone else is moaning about, is this is a chance to set up a new colony, just like theirs, that will not make the same mistakes theirs made. A chance to make a new person who will help starfleet in some unexpected way but without the baggage they have. It will make new mistakes, and just like their colony, people will work hard in good faith to fix whatever problems it has. As they return to the ship they find the base crew exhausted and sweaty, but the problem resolved.
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Oct 18, 2020 14:48
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The crew follows a lead on a Maquis research vessel and jumps in ready to intercept only to find it shields down, floating in space devoid of life. As they scan it further, they discover that ship is broadcasting an emergency signal but seemingly only one way and encrypted and a single faint lifesign. With no other ships in the area, they are ordered to investigate. On board the find a grisly scene, with the crew entirely dead and the ship heavily damaged and many of the bulkheads sealed off and locked. They encounter the faint life sign and find a Ferengi who appears heavily wounded. They spend a few minutes breaking into the medbay to find it oddly constructed, with many more pods than the crew size would indicate. The rest of the episode revolves around attempting to break the encryption on the signal as they find more and more evidence if extremely careful tampering to destroy every data record except the broadcast. At the same time the Ferengi is extremely evasive of questions and seems resigned to a terrible fate when he finds out they are not Maquis. He seems to know little of the ships crew and operations but is oddly helpful about ensuring the report is complete. At this point deep scans indicate another empty maquis vessel slowly exiting the system. The crew left on the main ship investigate and find it totally empty, set to autopilot. However the crew log match the dead bodies found on the abandoned science vessel. The message is then decrypted using the second ship showing a maquis only distress signal begging for help and promising their research in exchange. At this point the Ferengi cracks, admitting he killed the crew and used the med bay to injure himself every time a new ship comes to visit to pick up the data as revenge after the horrible experiments the Maquis inflicted on him and his friends they kidnapped. The episode ends with the crew mulling the Ferengi's fate.
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No swearing, if you must have invectives its something like "Bartlesnaps" The crew does not ever face universe or planetary existential threats, at worst political setbacks in the grand game The crew is small, and forces everyone to wear multiple hats Its ok to have episodes without phaser fire
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Oct 23, 2020 14:29
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No swearing, if you must have invectives its something like "Bartlesnaps" The crew does not ever face universe or planetary existential threats, at worst political setbacks in the grand game The crew is small, and forces everyone to wear multiple hats Its ok to have episodes without phaser fire
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Oh bartlesnaps Teleporter accident of somekind. Now to find the evil post.
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Baudolino posted:NCIS but its starfleet. My Big Titty Goth First Officer
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The episode starts with a montage of a Klingon going through his early life, schooling, graduation, and entrance into his medical research group, with stardates approximately 30 years before the setting of the show. We establish in this that he, like all Klingons, views his calling in the lens of "warriorhood" providing a nice little flavor of how the culture expresses itself in civilian roles. The episode proper then begins with the current star date, where the crew is deployed to the retirement ceremony of the now decorated doctor and head researcher. He is now retiring as in the past year he and his team have finished isolating and creating a treatment for a rare Klingon genetic condition which affects a vanishingly small % of klingon, albeit obviously in an empire with hundreds of trillions of people is still hundreds of thousands. The crew are there to be security for an ambassador paying a visit, but have also been told they are to make contact with an unknown mole at the party who will give them the treatment schematics so they can be used in Federation space as well. Numerous Klingon attend of all strata, including a klingon inspector and the crew balances meeting and better grasping the culture with trying to identify who it is they are supposed to meet. At the end of this portion of the episode they go to leave the party only to realize that the mole is the head researcher themself, who gives them his life's work freely. The end of the episode is months later where the inspector confronts the scientist, revealing he now knows that the scientist was the mole. The scientist states that he swore a vow to fight that disease, even if carried him beyond the borders of the klingon empire, and that he has no regrets and is ready to die. Instead of being killed the Inspector reveals his own oath was to make the Klingon strong. The scientist will be formally exiled from the Klingon Empire to one of their break-away fiefdoms that is slowly falling back into their orbit. The Klingon Empire will gain favor with this group, the inspector ensures that a traitor is punished, and the scientist gets to spend the rest of his days fighting the enemy he vowed to defeat all those years ago so he can die a warrior.
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The episode opens with a briefing on the situation. A world inhabited by the Aldari, a no-space travel Prime Directive do-not touch civilization. Federation brass has nominated the planet, however, for further investigation and with the science vessel originally assigned to the world temporarily re-assigned to bolster the border with a minor faction, it falls on the crew of our show to do the task of further investigation. The crew has a quick discussion of the Prime Directive, where they are reminded by the Captain that any concerns about their violation that it applies to Starfleet personnel acting on their own so they don't take advantage of a world, and the Federation has approved this request. On arriving on the world, the crew impersonates travelers of the culture who gather knowledge, although they don't have an excellent grasp for why such a group exists in Aldari society. As the episode progresses, the crew learns that the Aldari do not suffer from disease, as there are no microbes on the planet harmful to them. In addition, due to the sprawling forest that covers much of the planet and the thick aspiration it releases, temperature and conditions on the planet are perpetually idyllic. Further, due to the position of the planet and atmosphere, there are no visible stars in the sky and the suns rays diffuse so celestial bodies and the idea of leaving the planet is not just not a desire of the Aldari, its unfathomable. As the episode progresses, the crew learns that the Aldari believe that when they die, they become one with the forest, and the memories pass on to the woods, which is why these itinerant wanderers they are pretending to be exist. With more discussion, they learn the "proof" of this is that world wide the flowers on the trees used to only bloom white, but in certain areas have started blooming red. With some prodding this has been a source of great debate among the Aldari, with most agreeing it is a great argument raging between the older trees in white and the newer in red. This reaches a mild culmination when a young Aldari says they hopes someday they can add blue to the flowers to the forest and elder shushing him saying that the red should go away and no other color should be added. The crew leaves the planet and completes their report. The final scene is weeks later in a debrief, with the captain. The Captain confirms that due to their report the Federation has approved immediate intervention into the planet to secure its safety. The crew objects; why should a world with no safety concerns, plenty of food, no disease, and no interest in space travel be forced to be contacted? The Captain reads from the official reasoning "long-term low-level civil war conflict and repression of minority groups requires immediate Federation intervention to prevent bloodshed" and notes the science team reported a considerable presence of dilithium crystals in uninhabited regions of the planet. The Captain pauses for a moment and reminds them, the Prime Directive is only to stop Starfleet Personnel acting on their own to take advantage of a world.
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