Groundception is what it sounds like to me.

This just in from Cryptic, what do you all think?

War is coming, and recruits are needed for the fight. It's time to sign up to protect the galaxy from the Iconians.

Starfleet, the Klingon Defense Force, and the Romulan Republic have all kicked up their recruiting efforts. New captains in any of these factions will be known as Delta Recruits, and they bring with them the knowledge and capability needed to see to the future of the galaxy.

There will never been a better time to start playing Star Trek Online than during the Delta Recruitment event, which runs from April 2nd to May 21st. Characters made during this time will be Delta Recruits, and they will earn a host of new benefits and rewards to aid them in their leveling experience.

Delta Recruits are specifically designed to rapidly close the gap that exists between new characters and characters that have been in Star Trek Online for years. It’s the most new-player friendly the game has been in almost two years, and the perfect time to join the community of Star Trek Online.

Delta Recruits have a secondary responsibility, and that is to prepare themselves, their crews, and their entire factions for the coming Iconian War. A mysterious benefactor, an experienced captain traveling back in time, will contact all Delta Recruits during their faction’s tutorial and inform them of the opportunities not to be missed during their career. Each faction’s own temporal agency can confirm that what this person said is true, and will guide them using the Delta Recruit window, a new UI element that appears near the Mission Tracker.

Delta Recruits will be playing a parallel story to that of their chosen faction. They have a list of goals that they can achieve at any time, and completing these goals will see them rewarded with equipment, Marks, and other rewards beneficial not just to the Delta Recruit, but to all characters on the same account. Completing the story arcs of your chosen faction will reward you with a unique Starship Trait for all characters on your account: Temporal Insight. This trait will proc a Damage Immunity when you use any Hull Heal on your starship.

Delta Recruits can only be created during the Delta Recruit event. These recruits can be recognized by the Delta Symbol (∆) next to their names. All Delta Recruits will have an inherent bonus trait during the Delta Recruit Event of generating Dilithium Ore upon defeating enemies, a bonus which extends to your entire group. This trait will only be available during this event and will be gone once the Delta Recruitment event ends, so gather your Dilithium Ore while you can!

Additional rewards are gained by leveling up, playing through story content up through the Breen story arc, and finding special Delta Recruit objectives on certain mission maps. Many of the same things that players do while levelling their characters will earn Delta Recruits improved rewards!

Finally, during the first six weeks of the seven-week Delta Recruit event, there will be server wide goals that only Delta Recruits can contribute to, but by accomplishing these goals, they unlock bonuses for the entire server for the whole of the next week of the event! For example, in the first week of the event, every Episode First Run that Delta Recruits complete will count towards the goal. How many First Runs they complete will determine the bonus of the week-long event running in Week 2. You will have either a 1.5x XP bonus, a 2x XP bonus, or possibly even a 2.5x XP bonus for the entire week!

There’s far too many bonuses and rewards available to list them all here, so get ready to make your Delta Recruit (all accounts are getting one extra free character slot), and keep watching between now and April 2nd for more information.

I'm glad I was able to get you an invite yesterday. :)

I bought a R9 270 off ebay for just over $100 about two weeks ago. upgraded from a radeon 5570. a lot better detail but still sputtered along a little. i attributed that to my CPU...so i upgraded my athlon II 2.9GHz to a phenom II 3.2GHz and overclocked it to 3.6GHz. i might try to get it to 4GHz but don't want to risk damaging it...it works just fine at 3.6. much better performance and figured for the $200 it cost me to do both upgrades i'd get another year or two out of my current rig. since it's maxed out now, i'd probably have to make the decision to get an entirely new AMD based machine or switch over to Intel.

I'm on now on the Rep side, me and my BF for at least the next couple of hours. Feel free to pop in and run stuff with us. :)

Yeah, I logged on recently and no one was online. :'(

The President of the US, a multitude of companies (including tech giants) and now key conservatives (read: Republicans) are supporting same-sex marriage.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/03/06/a_ton_of_republicans_just_asked_the_supreme_court_to_rule_for_gay_marriage.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_bot

Hello! I'm trying to contact Stonewall from inhame but no onde answers me... I already introduced myself and completed the whole stuff... The characters I would line to invite are Ohrku , for the LoS, and Khalet, for KoS... Thanks!

I don't think Star Trek lends itself to a detective story plot.

It has transporters, replicators, error-free lie-detectors, holo-decks, consequence-free time travel, and a few other technologies that i probably forgot.

The scripts would quickly devolve into the "Deus Ex Machina" of the week. The mystery-solving episodes of the existing series are some of the weakest.

I think doing a "Civilian" plotline (ala Firefly) would be very interesting in almost any era. Or several sets of mini-series focused on one group of characters at a time (like american horror story, or the old Outer Limits)

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I mean - we could hand the reins back to The Shatner. ST5:TFF was pretty light on lens-flare...

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I said they'd be ahead, not going down a galactic toilet bowl. :pinch:

What does God need with a starship?

...or a script editor, for that matter?

First episodes are always a little slow - too many queens to get a taste of, get a feel for.

Even with six-and-a-half seasons of precedent, getting a feel for a dozen personalities is just too much for a 45 minute episode.

That having been said, more often than not, first impressions last and count:

Miss Fame: This year's front-runner, based on pre-season hype; solid wardrobe and makeup skills
Pearl: easily the cutest boy out of drag; gives off an edgy Raja feel
Max: this year's theater queen, in the vein of Jinkx (but also just a little Mimi Imfurst); we'll see how affected that accent is when she gets into her first shouting match
Violet: this year's shit-stirrer; so far, the best nominee for the villain edit
Kandy Ho: of all the Puertoriqueno queens, she seems to have the best English skills; should prove to be less of an issue for the acting challenges, Snatch Game in particular
Kennedy Davenport: blathering on about her dance skills should turn out some hot lipsyncs, which she'll need since she's probably going to be lipsyncing for her life a bit
Katya: character-based queens can be a double-edged sword, they can be compelling (Jinkx, Alaska), or it can hamstring her (Dela)
Sasha Belle: comes off as trying a lil' hard; is definitely going to be shit on by the other girls; might as well have a target painted on her cincher

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If they refrain from using any lens flare, they'll be way, way ahead.

I mean - we could hand the reins back to The Shatner. ST5:TFF was pretty light on lens-flare...

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I said they'd be ahead, not going down a galactic toilet bowl. :pinch:

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If they refrain from using any lens flare, they'll be way, way ahead.

I mean - we could hand the reins back to The Shatner. ST5:TFF was pretty light on lens-flare...

:evil:

I feel like we finally have someone that likes trek involved with the game... this is so, rightly fitting.

possibly, but the key is to make it more trek like than gary 7 might turn, so you'd need to have gary seven in space, or something of the sort, combatting and working with sector 31, temporal agents, etc... but only occasionally, you can't get too into that and make folks confused like enterprise did.

Wouldn't Gary Seven be a great character for this concept?

Gripers gonna gripe! B)

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Whoever is directing the third film has a lot of weight on their shoulders

If they refrain from using any lens flare, they'll be way, way ahead.

I agree with a lot of the article. Trek needs new life on TV, and quick. A different spinoff on a theme of detective-esque style mystery....there are tons of directions they could go with something like that, while even attracting a wider audience.

Whoever is directing the third film has a lot of weight on their shoulders, but TV or maybe even Netflix needs something good to breathe new life into Trek.

I activated the plagues on ESD and it gave me a list of everyone who has ever worked on Star Trek and has passed on. It was quite a nice touch.