History Fridge / StarTrekOnline

* From your perspective as a player, you're a particularly awesome character who runs around having adventures across the galaxy, albeit with more action than is normal in the Star Trek shows. But if you think about it from the perspective from all those {{Mooks}} you tear through on a daily basis, or all those ships you destroy regularly, you realize that even a [[TheFederation Feder]][[NiceGuy ation]] Captain might just be ''one of the biggest killers in ST history.'' For example, a Romulan T'varo Warbird has a crew of about 150 people. You will probably destroy dozens of these throughout the game, not to mention the large numbers of capital ships (D'Deridexes have a crew of over a ''thousand'') you destroy. None of the famous captains--not Kirk, not Picard, not Janeway, not even Sisko during the height of the Dominion War--have amassed as big of a body count as you have.

* The Klingon Empire is experiencing a massive renaissance, having conquered the Gorn, the Orions and the Nausicaans, and integrating their species into the Empire. Now, this mainly has the benefit of allowing KDF players more variety in available races. But it also has the side-effect of giving the Klingon Empire a massive cultural shift. Where once the Empire was chauvinistic against all non-Klingons, only admitting ethnic Klingons into the military and government, STO's Empire now accepts Gorn, Nausicaans and Orions to captain ships, and even integrates the ships of those "subject" races into the KDF fleet. And when playing as one of those non-Klingon KDF characters, you will occasionally get the same dialogue options as a "true" Klingon would get. While this could be an example of GameplayAndStorySegregation, it might also be that the Klingon Empire is slowly integrating those cultures into it's own, to the point that now Klingons see Gorn, Nausicaans, Orions and the other various species within the Empire as complete equals. This means the Klingon Empire have learned something from the Federation: from diversity comes strength.

** None [[spoiler: You learn in the course of gameplay that the explosion travelled to Romulus through Subspace, thanks to Taris.]]

** [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or they assimilated an entire culture, children and all]].

** EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or they assimilated an entire culture, children and all.

*** Then explain the borg babies the Enterprise crew found in "Q Who"
**** the borg assimilate infants too (their placed in maturation chambers to develope faster after the first stage). them being baby borg was a ''wildmassguess'' based on what they saw

* The Klingon Empire is experiencing a massive renaissance, having conquered the Gorn, the Orions and the Nausicaans, and integrating their species into the Empire. Now, this mainly has the benefit of allowing KDF players more variety in available races. But it also has the side-effect of giving the Klingon Empire a massive cultural shift. Where once the Empire was chauvinistic against all non-Klingons, only admitting ethnic Klingons into the military and government, STO's Empire now accepts Gorn, Nausicaans and Orions to captain ships, and even integrates the ships of those "subject" races into the KDF fleet. And when playing as one of those non-Klingon KDF characters, you will occasionally get the same dialogue options as a "true" Klingon would get. While this could be an example of GameplayAndStorySegregation, it might also be that the Klingon Empire is slowly integrating those cultures into it's own, to the point that now Klingons see Gorn, Nausicaans, Orions and the other various species within the Empire as complete equals. This means the Klingon Empire have learned something from the Federation: from diversity comes strength.
** "Occasionally get the same dialog options"? Try "Always." The Nausicaans and Letheans are explicitly OnlyInItForTheMoney, and FlavorText for the latter states they're treated as second-class citizens. The Orions are in it because the Klinks gave them a new homeworld. The Gorn were conquered and given self-rule. Your captain spams Gratuitous Klingonese and babbles about glory and honor because Cryptic is too lazy to incorporate code that changes the dialog based on player species (reference the fact that, Fedside, Bajorans get no unique dialog in Hathon and Vulcans apparently forgot ''everything they were ever taught'' about Vulcan history).

* The Klingon Empire is experiencing a massive renaissance, having conquered the Gorn, the Orions and the Nausicaans, and integrating their species into the Empire. Now, this mainly has the benefit of allowing KDF players more variety in available races. But it also has the side-effect of giving the Klingon Empire a massive cultural shift. Where once the Empire was chauvinistic against all non-Klingons, only admitting ethnic Klingons into the military and government, STO's Empire now accepts Gorn, Nausicaans and Orions to captain ships, and even integrates the ships of those "subject" races into the KDF fleet. And when playing as one of those non-Klingon KDF characters, you will occasionally get the same dialogue options as a "true" Klingon would get. While this could be an example of GameplayandStorySegregation, it might also be that the Klingon Empire is slowly integrating those cultures into it's own, to the point that now Klingons see Gorn, Nausicaans, Orions and the other various species within the Empire as complete equals. This means the Klingon Empire have learned something from the Federation: from diversity comes strength.

* Why doesn't the Tactical ability [[TheCavalry Security]] [[MookMaker Escort]] work in Boldly They Rode? [[spoiler: You're completely alone on Deep Space 9 surrounded by hostile Jem'Hadar and your ship is a long way away. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything There's no reinforcements coming]].]]

* In ''StarTrekOnline'', there is a way to get an assimilated tribble. It's cute and hilarious, until you realize that tribbles breed exponentially. Imagine if the Borg incorporated that trait into the Collective. [[OhCrap Imagine they already have...]]

* Why doesn't the Tactical ability Security Escort work in Boldly They Rode? [[spoiler: You're completely alone on Deep Space 9 surrounded by hostile Jem'Hadar and your ship is a long way away. There's no reinforcements coming.]]

*** Assimilation as it is known now did not exist until ''First Contact'', which subjected the Borg to massive {{Flanderization}}. The Borg reproduced biologically and put implants into their babies surgically. The assimilation planned in "The Best of Both Worlds" was likewise going to be a gradual process with some poeple (probably only children) being assimilated and the Borg gradually slowly suberting all aspects of the Federation, as they could not just grab people and assimilate them on the spot like in ''First Contact''. Picard was the first to be assimilated, as his authority and stature made him a good candidate for [[TheQuisling an intermediary representing the Borg's influence as they conquered the Federation]]. Their attempt to assimilate the Federation was also shown as exceptional (perhaps due to the Federation's higher technology levels than any of its Alpha and Beta Quadrant neighbors) and that the ''usual'' modus operandi was that the Borg showed up in the space of any civilization that had an interesting technology they wanted, took the technology in question, and exterminated the "irrelevant" people making up the civilization. ''First Contact'' with the rapid assimilations, Queen, etc. turned the Borg into a caricature of their original selves.

*** Assimilation as it is known now did not exist until ''First Contact'', due to {{Flanderization}}. The Borg reproduced biologically and put implants into their babies surgically. The assimilation planned in "The Best of Both Worlds" was likewise going to be a gradual process with some poeple (probably only children) being assimilated and the Borg gradually slowly suberting all aspects of the Federation, as they could not just grab people and assimilate them on the spot like in ''First Contact''. Picard was the first to be assimilated, as his authority and stature made him a good candidate for [[TheQuisling an intermediary representing the Borg's influence as they conquered the Federation]]. Their attempt to assimilate the Federation was also shown as exceptional (perhaps due to the Federation's higher technology levels than any of its Alpha and Beta Quadrant neighbors) and that the ''usual'' modus operandi was that the Borg showed up in the space of any civilization that had an interesting technology they wanted, took the technology in question, and exterminated the "irrelevant" people making up the civilization. ''First Contact'' with the rapid assimilations, Queen, etc. turned the Borg into a caricature of their original selves.

** EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or they assimilated an entire culture, children and all.

**** the borg assimilate infants too (their placed in maturation chambers to develope faster after the first stages". them being baby borg was a ''wildmassguess'' based on what they saw

*** Then explain the borg babies the Enterprise crew found in "Q Who"

** Borg don't reproduce/replicate, they'd find that trait too 'imperfect'. The Borg's quest for perfection tends to lead away from messy biological processes. Plus, just imagine "Who put the Borg drones in the quadrotriticale?"

* In ''StarTrekOnline'', there is a way to get an assimilated tribble (don't ask me how, I only saw it on youtube). It's cute and hilarious, until you realize that tribbles breed exponentially. Imagine if the Borg incorporated that trait into the Collective. Imagine they already have.