Two official TNG books. An Officer's Manual and a First Year Sourcebook.
Both can be found here:
/STG/ - Star Trek General
Nathaniel Perry
Brody Foster
/ST-TT/ peeps:
Have any of you played Ascendancy? My brother and I get groups of our friends together for gaming weekends and currently we're weighing up whether to buy Star Trek: Catan or Twighlight Imperium. I wanted to know how you would rate ascendency against those other 2 options.
/STO/ peeps:
Would you be able to suggest a good build for a Defiant Class?
Ryder Campbell
About three times as much as when you got from cadet to Vice admiral.
If you can, try picking the tier 4 zen version of Defiant and later a tier 5 version of it.
That way you can get quad heavy cannons and feddie cloacking generator, as well as some boosts from the two together because set bonus.
After that, get as many cannon or damage type boosters as you can and arm yourself with heavy dual cannons.
Although, you should wait on those ship purchases until April 6th.
There's a first contact day event coming and that means free stuff for all, including most likely a free ship or two per faction.
Jaxson Ross
How about that time when you pushed for them to go 200% Annorax on some shit, saved Romulus, turned it Borg, then destroyed it again and wiped out the Tuterians instead?
Christopher Ramirez
What.
Levi Smith
Butterfly - you investigate the simulated timeline changes they try and make, decide "oh yeah the holodeck says it's fine, let's do this", then accidentally restore romulus but make it Borg.
Then, trying to undo that, you (indirectly) destroy romulus again, as well as wiping out Noye's waifu (and her entire race to boot).
How many kilo/mega/[SI-prefix]hitlers does that count as?
Robert Perry
It was a mistake. Basically the Iconians were winning the Iconian War, so an Annorax-type temporal weapon was seen as the only solution. The problem is that since the Iconians have been around for so long and were so influential back in their heyday, it wasn't as simple as simply removing the Iconians from the timeline, since that would cause immense changes (a simulation to that effect delayed the general proliferation of warp travel in the Galaxy by about 50,000 years, resulted in a violent, expansionist Vulcan Star Empire, and a Klingon republic who's people were more interested in art and poetry, among other changes).
So various simulations are run and it's discovered that the best bet is to not destroy the Iconians, but rather delay their becoming active again, by deleting from time the Iconian Gate that Picard found in TNG so that Picard never finds them. It's not a permanent solution but it buys the Alliance an extra couple hundred years of technological advancement and preparation.
A side-effect of this is that the Iconians never influence Hakeev and whatsername into doing shit with Hobus, so the supernova never happens and Romulus is never destroyed. This means the Star Empire is still around, of course, but D'Tan's republic (in the simulation) is starting to take off anyway; the Republic's advent has simply been delayed, not prevented. So this was determined to be the best course of action.
However, it turns out that since the Iconians likewise aren't antagonizing Species 8472 and thereby making them come out of liquid space to fight everyone as a distraction, the Borg are stronger. So the result was Romulus being assimilated by the Borg.
The only solution involved some technobabble that resulted in accidentally erasing the Tuterian species from time (or getting nearly all of them assimilated by the Borg, it's a little unclear). The surviving Tuterians become the Sphere Builders.
Aaron Barnes
>How many kilo/mega/[SI-prefix]hitlers does that count as?
None. YOU didn't do it, an alternate timeline version of yourself did. You can't be held responsible for what alternate versions of you do, that'd be ridiculous.
Brandon White
The Defiant is a pretty good platform for cannons, and with the space balance changes, cannons are getting unfucked (Dual-Heavies used to not get their innate CritD when using Scatter Volley). Their firing cycle has been put on par with beams, so procs are now more likely to actually go off.
The Defiant class herself, well, it comes in three varieties, but the T6 version is the most powerful. The T4 one has quad phaser cannons, which are very nice (I use them all the time on my Peregrin fighter) and the T5 one has the cloaking device.
All the Defiants are pretty tactical heavy, which leaves a lot of room for a mix of tac powers rather than relying solely on cannons/beams or torpedoes. It doesn't have enough science or engineering to do anything super interesting with it, and the pilot spec seat isn't what I'd call an overwhelming "must have". However, you're probably not in it for the optimization - you're in it for the ship, right?
James Morris
>The only solution involved some technobabble that resulted in accidentally erasing the Tuterian species from time (or getting nearly all of them assimilated by the Borg, it's a little unclear). The surviving Tuterians become the Sphere Builders.
So STO players are directly responsible for the whole Xindi arc? Fucking Cryptic.