The Final Stand | Star Trek Resurgence 09
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- The final part of my blind Star Trek Resurgence playthrough. We have rallied Starfleet to intercept the Tkon bioforming flagship, lost people to their Scions of the Flame but recruited allies such as Portal 63 to confront them and got an away team on board their ship. The time has come to end it.
00:00 Recap
01:35 Continuation
37:31 Resolutions
43:48 Credits and Thoughts
Star Trek Resurgence developed by Dramatic Labs and Epic Games, published by Epic Games and Bruner House.
Star Trek Picard/Strange New Worlds/Enterprise/Voyager/Deep Space Nine/Discovery and The Next Generation are all owned by Paramount Pictures/CBS and distributed by CBS.
This Video is for critical purposes with commentary. - Hry
Portal 63 is now my favourite character in all of Star Trek. Absolute badass.
Hope future Trek revisits the Tkon Empire without the bodysnatching.
This is a great jumping off point to turn this into its own TV show
We need to have a live-action Trek series sets in the 2380s. 'Resurgence' certainly meets the criteria.
I'm gonna miss Resurgance. I suppose like any series we can only hope for episode 2 to drop. Seems a shame to just ditch this cast.
Hope they do a better job with game graphics and marketing. This game could’ve benefitted from more pubblicity
It's definitely one of the better 'Trek' series produced over last decade. Better than most of those produced by Paramount 🖖🖖
I agree. I hope there is an explanation pack to come.
@@LGranthamsHeir thats bull. Everything trek is good despite its flaws
@@LGranthamsHeir I think the thing I liked most is the fact that there seems to be a trend back toward what I will call "Present Day Trek" (which is basicly the timeframe after Voyager) instead of yet another prequal. It was also a good story, and I suspect there will be more based only on how they left things for Carter. Trek doesn't leave people behind like that so they have to do a next part where we have to restore him to being human (always end on a high.)
43:10 - 43:42 Love Jara's version of "Space, the final frontier." Every 'Star Trek' series (and every captain) should have their own take on this classic statement
"Has to be him. Somebody else might've gotten it wrong."
That line... 😢
Carter was the very model of a starfleet salarian.
But his Gilbert and Sullivan singing was... problematic.....
He studied tech of Bolian, Kobali and ... Alydian.
I'm all up for watching a second go of you playing this game!
13:30 Portal presumably had trouble opening the shield because he was being actively opposed by the other Tkon in the area. With them all disabled or dead, there's no opposition beyond whatever automated security is in place.
Also they may have altered the ship so that Scions had better access to systems. Which meant that even stuck in the purple flash drive, Carter's T'kon had more systems' access permission than Portal did.
Love Spock's giving the Captain's pip to Jara. You should've responded to him by giving him the "Live Long and Prosper!!" hand sign🖖🖖
45:37 There's an ending where Bedrosian ended up as XO. The way Jara looks at her as Bedrosian sits down on the XO chair is very telling. Seems like a code for "Once we're at warp, come to my quarters so we can release all our unresolved tensions!" 😉
Please do some of the alternative timelines of this, it would be really cool to see them.
I appreciate the reference to the very model of a scientist salarian
Resurgence is a great ST game. Loved it, hope there is more like it on the way.
Sad to see this game come to an end. I loved watching your playthrough.
The best "Star Trek" series in production today. Love to see a "Resurgence" season 2.
They need to make new ''episodes'' for this game following captain Rydek.
Six more seasons and at least a featured 'Resurgence' movie. Also would love a follow up on Bedrosian and whether she'd rejoin Starfleet since there are subtle hints b/w Rydek and her throughout the series🖖🖖
Agreed. Rydek needs to continue on somehow.
@@Aracore Jara has an interesting history as the first Kobliad to serve in Starfleet. She began her career in late 2360s/early 2370s (latter years of TNG - another period of great exploration age for the Federation prior to the Dominion War) and became a decorated war hero during the War. This was well reflected throughout the game seen in her curiosity to learn more about the T'kon and her leadership at the battle against the Ophelion. In all she reflects an officer who was shaped during the TNG years and reflects the positive optimism and scientific curiosity of classic 'Trek' - something that's sadly missing from the 'darker' Federation seen in 'Discovery' and much of 'Picard' (but not SNW).
I just wanted to say thank you for all your trek content. It is more entertaining than a lot of the trek we've gotten in the last 20 years
The best 'Star Trek' series today are made outside of Paramount Central. First, Seth MacFarlane's 'The Orville' and now 'Star Trek: Resurgence.'
@@LGranthamsHeir Not quite true, both "Lower Decks" and "Prodigy" are very good Trek shows. And "The Orvile, while also quite good, is overrated.
Absolutely fantastic and I'm sorry Carter didn't make it.
I'm almost done with the STO series now so I'll be looking forward to new episodes Rick.
I'd love to see another playthrough of Resurgence to see just how different things could be with different decisions!
Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the Steamrunners getting a bit of the limelight for once?
I just re-watched Ric's video on the Steamrunner class yesterday!
Thank you for the playthrough. I enjoyed the episodic content and your thoughts. I feel like we could sit and just chat while watching a episode, truly caught the entertainment aspect of gaming even with how limited a style of game this is.
Cheers Rick and I would be glad to be your XO anyday!
It would be nice if Carter could hold off the bioforming but could keep the powers.
he has become tkon
I loved this. It was the best series ever. We need more
We need at least 7 seasons of 'Resurgence.'
Thank you for the play through and I would be curious about a second run with different choices!
That was brilliant thanks so much for sharing
This was brilliant 👍😊🤩
I enjoyed this - I liked that it did really feel like a trek story and that the choices had consequences but still left a path forward in the story
I think is ending is possibly a very realistic one. It rarely ends the best way. And even if it does it sure has hell will have a greater cost waiting close by it. So yeah. Pretty ok.
Excellent series: binged it, of course!
I'd watch another with ALTERNATE CHOICES. Thanks, Rick ❣️
Maybe Portal had trouble because the system was designed to recognize Scions above other Tkons and the one in Carter was a Scion?
there is that but i'd also argue that It's because the scions are later t'kon and more familar with the ship, Portal 6 3 does say the ship is a marvel, even to him.
It's likely that the other Tkon in the area (particularly the one with the glove-tool) were doing something to actively reinforce the automated security systems - a "hacking duel" essentially. Once they were all dead or disabled from the fighting, Carter didn't have any (external) opposition. The other Scions were busy fighting the ship, and may not have even realized what was happening until too late.
This was terrific
31:12 I said the same thing at this moment in my playthrough 😂 Mordin Solus was a real one. The very model of a scientist Salarian.
i greatly enjoyed watching you play this :)
This reminds me of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of books that I read when I was in middle school.
I get the feeling that if he was a normal Tkon you could probably talk him down, since they by Portal 63s admission were conquerors, they would probably be amenable to diplomacy as long as they got something out of it, but the Scions of the Flame read more like religious zealots. Full on "join us or die".
Just like the Borg, huh? Wondering who would've won if the Scions and the Borg ever run into each other.
That was better Star Trek than any of the Kurtzman shows.
I can't like this comment hard enough.
'Resurgence' and 'The Orville' are better Trek than Kurtzmans.
Thank you for this playthrough!
Damn that mordin quote, would love you to do a mass effect playthrough at some point
Good ending, and although I felt bad seeing the Starfleet folks fall in the line of duty, I think I'm going to miss Portal most of all. He was a bad-ass to the very end, and, once you gained his respect, loyal to the death... literally.
Also, like others here have posted, I would very much like to see another "alternate timeline" playthrough.
I wonder, if you reject Miranda right at the beginning, does Edsilar end up being the one that's taken over by the T'kon? Can you get on Portal's bad side, and, if so, how does that affect him helping you, or does he refuse to help? Enquiring minds want to know!
Some spoilers, if anyone doesn't want to know. Won't go into too much detail unless asked! But don't read the rest of this if you don't want to know anything!
I watched two other playthroughs of this. Neither as good as this one, of course, cause Ric just has.. a way with this kind of thing. :) BUT, if you reject Miranda at the beginning, it has an affect on some storytelling parts but from what I can tell, not the overall huge picture. It's more just "trying to save a friend" rather than "trying to save a love interest" and her interactions with Diaz are a little different, of course. But she's still taken over by the T'kon.
As for the end and what happens to Diaz.. that doesn't HAVE to happen the way it did here. Personally, I think this way is more interesting and I won't go into more detail unless you want me to, but.. something else can happen other than Diaz being taken over.
I don't know about Portal 63 though! Obviously, from the way the story is told, there seem to be parts where he has to make a decision on whether or not to continue helping you. But in all of the playthroughs I've watched, that hasn't happened! There are some videos that show all outcomes that I might end up watching, but I haven't yet. They aren't "playthroughs", just a video from the game developers I believe. But it says in the video title that it shows Portal's "betrayal". So that would be interesting to see! You probably have to be a complete dick to him the whole time for that to happen.
@@LadyBeyondTheWall Had Jara follow Bedrosian's advice to destroy the T'kon vault, Portal 63 would've betrayed Diaz and the rest of his away team and joined the Scions, since he was so p***ed his fellow T'kons were killed. I think Diaz or Edsillar ended up killing him as well as Miranda.
I think it makes sense to have let Portal deal with the other Tkon at his own discretion. It's ultimately an internal matter so I think the prime directive applies here. If he decided it was a good idea to fight them, that's his choice as someone officially appointed by his government to make security decisions on behalf of his people, even if that government is long gone. If he had decided to join them then it would have made sense to fight him just like you were fighting the rest of them.
I wish star trek online looked this good graphically
The game would lag like hell if it was. MMO's sadly have to sacrifice visuals for performance, especially the older ones
That was really enjoyable! :)
To be promoted by Spock....
...damn. Just... damn. 😭
THIS is Trek, friends.
Was so disappointed we didn't see Janeway promoting Seven into captaincy at the end of 'Picard.' This scene was a big consolation prize.
This was very enjoyable. Thank you.
Other ppl. are covering The Expanse already. Please more Star Trek playthroughs, if available.
She did it, she said the thing! XD
This was awesome.
Can you do more games like this this was gr8 to watch
While I had some problems here and there with the writing it seemed good over all. This version of trek felt like the differences between DC live aciton vs DC animated when compared to kurtzman trek.
'Resurgence' and 'The Orville' are not exec-produced by Kurtzman, yet both are the best 'Trek' series made in recent years. Tells you something, doesn't it?
Yes finally
Heeeyyyy Liam O'Brian as Urmott.
If only paramount would follow this kind of writing.
Put Terry Matalas as Exec Producer for all Trek series instead of Kurtzman?
yea, id be willing to watch another play with diff descions.
Play the Bedrosian arc, promote her to be XO, etc. You'd find the ending very interesting.
Really liked the playthrough.
id love to see all probbilities this is a veer4y fascinating story and is really gripping
So like… how would the T’kon bioforming affect someone with Multiple Personality Disorder? Would the T’kon just be an addition? Or would it dominate the other personalities? What about a joined Trill? They have two separate biological entities to contend with, and the bioforming may not even work correctly since the T’kon personality could potentially get split between the two organisms causing complications.
Great Ending! 🎉
Couldn't they potentially use the same trick the Enterprise D used to save Dr. Polaski to undo the bioforming process? Find some original DNA, set up the transporter to use that as the pattern, and transport.
I imagine it would be easier with some than others, but in theory it would work.
I cannot imagine Starfleet *not* researching a "cure" for the bioforming, preferably one that uses Tkon tech to preserve the merged Tkon/host memories the way the Tkon were originally save, then resetting the physical host body's neural system to the last pre-bioforming record available Most fleet personnel would have fairly current transporter records, so you wouldn't wind up with enormous memory gaps that way. Maybe harder luck for the Alydians and...uh...whatever the other species was called.
You could even make a reasonable argument that the surviving Tkon should be willing to help with all that. Just promise them a clone/geneered/bio-constructed body to get loaded back into afterward rather than leaving them in data storage forever. The Scions really were doing this the fast and stupid way, when they probably could have just bided their time and not engaged in widespread body theft. Plus they're bigited enough that they probably don't want to wear the flesh of :inferior species" for the rest of their lives.
I want to know who is the most powerful, The Tkon Empire or The Iconian Empire. Imagine the literal Clash of Empires.
No one could beat the Klingon Empire with Emperor Kah'less in charge 😊
well that was really good
Please when you have replayed this game could you make a episode and inform us. This would be greatly appreciated As I would very much love to know.
And so passes portal 63, the last tokan
Sad, I was expecting we'd be seeing more of him. But they killed him off during the final battle 😒
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he respawned back on his planet, kinda like Miller from Expanse.
@@thejarredhog3936 Or Q 😄
I think the player is primed to choose the hypo instead of the weapon. Like Checkov's gun. If there's a hypo full of Deuridium that's getting talked up all through act 3, someone's getting injected with it by act 5. But it leaves me curious what would happen if Carter shot Miranda instead of injecting himself. Some of the Xbox achievements hinted that might be possible.Does Edsilar get turned somehow instead?
Portal, I think dies either way. Though the achievements suggest he can turn on you if you pick different options, but I'd imagine the player kills him instead of the scions. But he's still dead, so you need a T'kon to work the final console puzzles.
All in all, I liked the game. The gameplay was mid, the mechanics were jank. But it's true strength is it's story. And I'd very much like to see more stories in this timeframe. Ric's playthrough satisfied most of my curiosities for other paths, but there's still a few outstanding. Though I'm not in a lot of rush. I might play through it again some day.
I don't think you can reach a failure state through narrative paths. At least I never found any. The only failure state seems to be failing a stealth minigame or a phaser fight or something like that. Toward the end, I started to pick up that the main plot was linear. Narrative choices branched you out on different paths, but all paths seem to lead to a similar conclusion.
Miranda would've injected Carter with the bioforming liquid even though Carter killed her seconds later. Then Edsilar would do the honor of killing bioformed Carter 😒
@@LGranthamsHeir Does that lead to a fail state? Carter being the player POV character, and being bioformed and dead, would seem to lead to a failstate.
I would be interested in seeing you do another play through with less starfleet appropriate choices and see how it changes, see whether there's a wrong way to play
42:25 - 42:33 Jara: "Some of our differences couldn't be resolved. But that too can change, in time!!" Hmm, another clue the game-makers are shipping for a Jara-Bedrosian relationship??
I wouldn't mind that too much, but I would prefer a Jara-Tylas relationship.
@@quwykxz That could work too, but the hints between Jara and Bedrosian are more noticeable (e.g., Jara smiles when Bedrosian steps in to man the tactical station in final battle against T'kon - something she rarely does).
@28:10 If You're coughing from radiation it means your lungs are liquified and it's too late.
Yeah, I was thinking that was a silly way to represent symptoms of radiation poisoning. It doesn't give you dry throat, people. And by the time your lung tissue's breaking down your whole nervous system's long since failed anyway...
It was a good game... A bit rough on the edges (no skip option, just start from the beginning option, subtitle sometimes inconsistent) but voice acting ...Startrek spirit.. Story ... extremely good .. Just Bedrosian character was a bit edgy but that's just me .. looking forward to seeing what Dramatic Labs has in store for us
Portal Six-Three was the best character in this game. Followed by Edsilar and Diaz. These two had the best chemistry and should have been an item instead of Diaz and Miranda.
Awesome vids. Do another play through and make jerk choices.
Excellent series can't wait for the next one 😉 but honestly I still don't trust the doctor idk why she's a bit shady. LLNP Rick of certifiably. 🖖
How did that security chief make it through the academy? She's about as Starfleet as a section 31 agent or a crazy admiral of the week...
My theory: She suffered from severe PTSD during the Dominion War which went undiagnosed until this event took place (5 years later in 2380).
@@LGranthamsHeir I'd buy that.
This is just the base game, there is more coming either as dlc or a second game, to me it's this this eras "A final unity"
Let me ask you, Rick, did this game feel short? I know maybe it was like a story arc in Star Trek, but to me it seemed short.
Are the other games by Telltale short like this?
Wish the ending recap went over the bioformed crew ( a condition that could probably be cured with Borg nanoprobes and mind melds). Were they sent to Facility 4028?
That's why we need to have 'Resurgence' Series 2 to learn more about their fate and also on other resolved plots (would Bedrosian rejoin Starfleet? Would Portal 63 returns albeit in a different form/body?)
@23:20 It's like a balloon and then something bad happens!
If you’re going to be doing any further patrols or tfos in sto count the crew of the odyssey class USS Belfast to lend a hand 🖖
For one, don't woo Miranda.
Miranda and Bedrosian battle each other for the title of 'psycho girlfriend' of this series 😊
Never forget Carter. Are they making more content?
Not like he's dead, nor anyone else who didn't physically die after the bioforming. He's still there under the dominant Tkon Scion's personality. I'd expect Starfleet would be steadily researching a way to reverse the process once the dust settles, as well as scrambling to secure all the Tkon tech they can - including whatever's on the now-unguarded planet Portal Six Three was on. Find a way to record the merged mental architecture to preserve the Tkon, then use (say) transporter records and tech to reset the body's neural system to its original baseline - probably with memory gaps for what happened post-bioforming. The Tkon might even cooperate with the research if they were promised new cloned/geneered/bio-constructed bodies to be downloaded back into instead of being reduced to raw data again for millions of years.
The Scions in particular don't seem like they'd want to wear the flesh of another species forever, and there are probably some other Tkon scientists in the memory storehouse that would be okay with reviving their people in a less aggressive and parasitic fashion. Portal Six Three was a soldier, not a tech specialist, and admitted he didn't know everything about cutting-edge Tkon tech. This whole process may have been solved before the Empire fell and the jackass Scions just didn't want to take advantage of it because bodysnatching was a quicker route to what they saw as victory.
I expect most of the mainstream Tkon wouldn't choose to be re-embodied anyway, going by the fact that there seems to have been a cultural bias against that kind of effective immortality. The Scions were a fringe group, and they were the only ones who really embraced the idea in the first place.
@@richmcgee434 Very interesting and plausible scenario on reviving the bioformed Starfleet personnel. Just have a question about the following:
"The Tkon might even cooperate with the research if they were promised new cloned/geneered/bio-constructed bodies to be downloaded back into instead of being reduced to raw data again for millions of years."
How could Starfleet do this without amending its ban on genetic engineering and cloning that has been in place for centuries thanks to Khan Noonien Singh?
@@LGranthamsHeir AFAIK, the restrictions all center on human geneering, and only human. Maybe the other signatory races have accepted it, but why they'd do so (and how the Feds would enforce it if they refused) is beyond me. Earth's traumas are not the Federation's as a whole.
You certainly can't tell me that no GMOs are used in agriculture or animal husbandry - quadrotriticale is canon - nor that gene therapy is never used for medical cases where human life or quality of life is concerned. Cloning is almost buggy-whip technology anyway, with transporter replication being an easier way to go about things.
Vat-grown or replicated Tkon bodies wouldn't be humans (or any Fed member species), nor would they be geneered as "supermen" to fit that nightmare scenario - although the Scions at least would need to have a close eye kept on them. There are literally thousands of bioformed Starfleet personnel from those ships that got transformed, plus who knows how many members of two independent but friendly species trapped inside their own heads. If it takes growing them new bodies to get Tkon cooperation to free them, I think that's a price the Feds would be willing to pay.
Now, if there's a cure that doesn't need the Scions or other Tkon from the archives to work out, that might be another story. But if it involves permanently destroying those Tkon (even the Scions, who are certainly war criminals) there's going to be public pushback on that too. They could probably just shove every Starfleet officer through a transporter and reset them using buffer records, resulting in memory loss but extirpating the Tkon presence - but that's killing them. The Federation legal system doesn't kill people, not even terrorists or prisoners of war or whatever the Scion legal status is.
Seems like the best bet is to use a carrot instead of a stick with the Scions, get them to help dig some real scientists out of the general Tkon population and find a way to talk to them (either through machinery or re-embodying them in a crafted body - if that's even something they're willing to do, they aren't Scions after all) and get everyone to work together to resolve this problem in a peaceful, civilized manner.
That's seems like the message of the game, and of Trek in general. The Federation is supposed to be better, living up to their principles even when its hard to do. They fail a lot because Utopian visions aren't easy to achieve in the real world, but that's not a reason to stop trying.
As a codicil, most of the regular Tkon will probably be content to stay dead, going by Portal Six Three's statements. Getting preserved wasn't meant to be a road to immortality and the Scions were heretical fringe lunatics for insisting otherwise. There's not much danger of the whole Empire coming back at once, or at all, but some of them might want to accept the responsibility for re-educating the Scions and preventing a repeat of events here. There were trillions of Tkon, some of them will be ethical enough to see that they can't let their rogues run rampant again, the same way Portal did.
Much more just and nuanced outcome than just destroying the Scions, or banishing them back to the status of recorded info when that goes so strongly against their own beliefs. Give them their own bodies, and let the best of the Tkon work alongside Federation counselors to show them why what they did was wrong. That's being better, and showing them that the Feds aren't the savages and inferiors they claim we are.
@@LGranthamsHeir Indeed!!
Well, I know this is likely to work because it's a tek tek solution in a Star Trek game but have they considered that the cartabula is an energy source strong enough to pull up ion storms to blanket entire areas of space and supercharge warp engines?
If they disrupt its own energy frequency and it loses cohesion, depending on what it actually uses for a power source for itself, it has the potential to make a very big boom.
if you do another lets play of this game I'd love to see an evil playthrough
I don't think there's an option where the 'Resolute' is hit by the bioforming beam and everyone inside becomes Scions. That would've been.... interesting 😉
I'd suggest making this into an actual season but that presents the same problem as a Mass Effect TV show, how do you adapt a cast that is entirely dependant upon player choice?
I noticed after the credits a little menu appeared with an entry that said "Choices." Does anyone know what that does?
I don't know this as a fact, but I'm guessing that it's a list of the decisions you made during your playthrough. Possibly to upload them into Season 2, affecting how you play that game?
@@quwykxz That's what I hope it is. I'd also like to be able to see what choices I made the first time so I can try a different route on later playthroughs.
is there any other possibility that carter survived bioforming?
You know star trek is cool and all but have you ever thought 🤔 of a storyline that was a prequel to star trek? Like most people tend to forget that humanity came together only AFTER the bombs fell and even then a hundred- two hundred years of anarchy followed before FTL tech was invented and first contact, it would be pretty cool if we had some characters from that time periods and followed their own story of survival the best part is that you can make it all up, there's some parts of star trek canon that goes back in time that far but for the most part it rarely touches on the subject. So go nuts it be interesting to see what kind of backward techno states are standing and how petty kingdoms of theocrats would rule the lands of America in darkness and paranoia grasping at superstition to support their hierarchy and condemn their enemies. What would you call the story? Star trek prequel? Star trek origins? After earth? Just brain storming is all.
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Faith in the heart?
40:40 - 41:22 They should've used the "Star Trek: First Contact" theme during the memorial service scene. It's very appropriate for the ocassion, since many believed it's the Federation's official anthem
The opening credits theme?
@@_Omega_Weapon That would've worked too, although it would've been identical with "Picard" season 3 😆
@@LGranthamsHeir Then I'm not sure what theme you're referring to as the anthem
Music copyright issue, most likely.
@@richmcgee434 Agreed. The game seems to be a low budget production. The generic background song they used during end its credits were so horrid.
As a side thought.... Whoever wrote this game REALLY needs to go do some work on Star Trek Online. The last couple new content expansions have been a litle bit lackluster as far as storytelling goes.
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Video Idea: Worf decidedly won at poker with exceedingly grand confidence and knowhow in, "The Emissary."
However, every subsequent episode thereafter, he lost terribly with great ridicule from Data and Geordi.
Was this an "Operation :P" from Section 31 or was it an operation from the Tal Shiar's Chairman Koval as revenge against Worf for refusing to give blood to a Romulan soldier?
Trekkers and Trekkies alike have been needing to know for a long time.
Do a second playthrough, but choosing all of the worst choices this time.
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Your foolishness caused Carters assimilation, might be worth addressing that lack of conviction, just saying.
Considering my second playthough resulted in Edsilar's death in his place, I'm good with my choice.
@@CertifiablyIngame Oof.
Starfleet personnel really need to learn and understand the concept of COVER. And if you can push a button once fast...you can just hammer down suppressive fire.. the phaser etiquette and lack of any kind of common sense in combat in Trek has always bugged me.
Youre defending a cliff ffs. Lie down on the ground and shoot, dont just stand there like 'please shoot me' *facepalm*
That was condensed it took me 16hs of play. You are far more merciful than I was. I can't remember the other guys name but when I found out the idiot still had his phaser on stun no wonder you had an endless battle through the other ship. I can't believe starfleet can win at all when you aren't willing to kill off your enemies. Why do they beam the dead into space. Doesn't anybody want their relatives body back. What are the regs concerning this barbaric practice. It's not like they are stuck at sea with no way to keep the bodies.
That "barbaric process" is an extension of an esteemed naval tradition that some sailors (and ex-sailors) still opt for today. Presumably those aren't all the dead and some crewmen opted out because their family or culture does demand their bodies be treated differently, but it would hardly be surprising for Starfleet to see many crewmen take the offer of burial amongst the stars. Not only to honor the connections with their wet-navy forebears, but because that's got to be pretty appealing for someone who dedicated their life to exploring the frontiers of space. Only groundhogs want to be laid to rest in the dirt.
@@richmcgee434 It was necessary in the days of yore but I can't see the appeal to become space junk when you could be brought home. Some might want burial or cremation. and aliens would have their own cultures of practice. Not only groundhogs want a proper burial, a practice that has been going on for hundreds of 1000s years. So what happens to the bodies now? in this barbaric and unecassary tradition.
I've really enjoyed this play through & i hope that there will be another game!