Sash! posted:

I like to assume there's classified Starfleet files that are absolutely loving insane, based on what the Enterprise comes across. Like...

April 23, 2258: USS Havana lost with all hands following collision with 1,000 meter long Celestial Teddy Roosevelt

MikeJF posted:

This is theiss we're talking about here, so

nine-gear crow posted:

Instead of the sound of the warp core humming away in the background, the ambient noise of the Enterprise is a bassline composed by Quincy Jones.

Star Trek Voyager Gothic by quasi-normalcy posted:

- You've been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don't recognize. Everyone tells you that they've always been here.
- You go down to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. B'Elanna tells you that he's just stepped out. He's been "just stepped out" for days.
- A shuttle crashes on a desert planet. You speak with Chakotay about the possibility of trading for some new shuttles, but he looks at you funny and says "but we already have a full complement of shuttles".
- You run to the shuttlebay and inspect them personally. There is a full complement of shuttles. And none of them even have a scratch.
- The next week, a shuttle is torn to pieces in a plasma storm. You're not even surprised when you find intact it in the shuttlebay an hour later.
- You stop mentioning shuttles.
- The ship has an encounter with some Kazon, but manages to get away. Their ships are primitive and slow and you shouldn't run into them again.
- Two weeks later, you meet the same Kazon, now somehow in front of you. You begin to suspect that you're driving in circles.
- You go to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. You haven't seen him in two years. He's "not there right now, but should be back in a minute".
- Janeway and Paris travel at Warp 10 and turn into salamanders. You're *sure* that it happened. You *remember* it happening! But no one brings it up. When you ask Tom about it, he doesn't even register the question.
- You scream "BUT YOU WERE A SALAMANDER!" into his ear. He doesn't even hear you.
- You see another Ensign you don't recognize. You finally just ask the computer for the crew complement of Voyager. You are told that the answer is: 121.
- A month later, the Hirogen conquer the ship, spend weeks brainwashing and surgically altering the crew into believing that they are actually characters in holographic simulations, and then hunt them for sport. This culminates in a pitched battle between the crew and the Hirogen in which the ship is utterly wrecked and dozens of people are killed.
- Afterwards, you ask the computer for the ship's crew complement. You are told that the answer is: 147.
- The next day, you wake up and find Voyager restored to its original state.
- You make a discreet inquiry about Lt. Carey. Now everyone acts like he's dead but can't tell you precisely when or how.
- The Captain takes you aside one day and specifically instructs you not to mention Ensign Jetal to the Doctor. She says that she knows that this will be difficult, given how close we all were to her (and you in particular), but that for the greater good of the crew, you need to act like Ensign Jetal never existed. You solemnly nod your head and consent, and she gives you a comradely pat on the shoulder and leaves the room.
- You have absolutely no idea who Ensign Jetal is.
- Voyager absorbs the remaining crew of the USS Equinox. Well at least you'll finally have an explanation for the new crew you see around the ship! You never see any of them ever again.
- You've now traveled almost 40,000 light years towards home. You check the star charts; somehow, you're still in the Delta Quadrant. You begin to wonder if the Beta Quadrant even exists.
- The Delta Flyer is destroyed by Borg torpedoes. You don't even bother to check the shuttlebay for it, you just instinctively know that it will be back.
- A few months later, the Captain gives you the sad news: Lt. Carey is dead.
- You finally make it back to the Alpha Quadrant, say your tearful farewells, and receive a handshake and a promotion from Admiral Paris. As one last thought before leaving Voyager forever, you pay a visit to the shuttlebay. You find it utterly empty, except for one lowly crewman with a mop and pail, swabbing the deck. "I...guess that Starfleet must have already cleared out the remaining shuttles?" You say uncertainly, your voice echoing in the cavernous, empty room. The crewman breaks off his mopping and looks at you like you've lost your mind and says: "Voyager never had any shuttles."

MikeJF posted:

This is theiss we're talking about here, so

jeeves posted:

MikeJF posted:

This is theiss we're talking about here, so

HopperUK posted:

Reminded of that Lower Decks character who doesn't believe in changelings.

skooma512 posted:

I did like how Lower Decks addresses all this insane crap that goes in the ST universe and the fate of the red shirts that get caught up in it doing their day job. We know how the bridge staff ends up, but I can't imagine people don't crack in the face of body horror, transporter glitches, and god like aliens.

skooma512 posted:

I did like how Lower Decks addresses all this insane crap that goes in the ST universe and the fate of the red shirts that get caught up in it doing their day job. We know how the bridge staff ends up, but I can't imagine people don't crack in the face of body horror, transporter glitches, and god like aliens.

Spacebump posted:

I just saw TOS, Enterprise, and Voyager are leaving Netflix (in the US) at the end of September. I am finally going to finish Voyager because of this. Really hoping the back half of s4 and onward is more interesting than the earlier stuff.

happyhippy posted:

November 22nd, 2258: USS Wolcott lost after being sent to investigate a reported sighting near Badlands of a gathering of ships. Last message received from ship was using old Maquis communication codes and read 'You sent us here to die, you sent us here to be lost, we are found now..." *rest removed as cognito-hazard*. Suspected reading full message makes crew of any ship fly to the coordinates and remain there forever. Unknown what happens at the location.

happyhippy posted:

May 4th, 2258: USS Gaddafi lost with all hands following contact with two Greek Gods who wanted to play a game of chess.



A SCP wiki based on the StarTrek universe would be great.

October 13th, 2258: USS Granola intentionally destroyed after appearing at Starbase 318 asking for docking clearance. Upon hail it was confirmed overrun by unknown alien species pretending to be the normal crew, partially wearing the skin and clothing of the previous crew.

November 22nd, 2258: USS Wolcott lost after being sent to investigate a reported sighting near Badlands of a gathering of ships. Last message received from ship was using old Maquis communication codes and read 'You sent us here to die, you sent us here to be lost, we are found now..." *rest removed as cognito-hazard*. Suspected reading full message makes crew of any ship fly to the coordinates and remain there forever. Unknown what happens at the location.

IShallRiseAgain posted:

Yeah, but these days being trapped in a Dyson Sphere for millennia is just a short amount of time for him.

nine-gear crow posted:

It is, but it's basically going from like 4/10 to a 6 or 7/10. Seven of Nine really helps spice up Voyager's Status Quo Show dynamic, even if she kind of comes to dominate all the oxygen in the room because the writers just gave the gently caress up on characters who weren't lucky enough to be her, Janeway, and The Doctor.

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

For those unaware, that literally happened in one of the DS9 novels

Payndz posted:

Yeah, seasons 4 and 5 are Voyager's high point, even if that's a relative measurement. Most of what people consider the 'good' Voyager episodes (ie, they're better than the baseline visual wallpaper) are from that era. And yes, they're almost all Seven or Doctor stories.

MikeJF posted:

Yeah, I mentioned before the millennium trilogy has fun just going balls-to-the-wall nuts and over the top. Anyways at the end of the second book the Pah Wraith religion manages to fulfill their objective of merging the Red Wormhole of the Wraiths into the Blue Wormhole to allow the prophets and wraiths to have their final battle, by collapsing Bajor's star into a supernova as they pass near each other, and the compression wave brings them close enough to get pulled into each other. The two merge into a circle with each terminus leading straight into the other wormhole and the rest of spacetime unravels out of existence, destroying the universe.

The Defiant and Kai Weyoun's flagship survive by falling into the wormholes right as they merge, but the Pah Wraiths send everyone to their own personal hell. O'Brien spends eternity wandering an empty, sand-filled desert Dyson Sphere, trapped forever inside something he can never comprehend.

Anyways apparently it both was and wasn't several millennia before Dax is able to rescue him a few days later. (She was able to get out because she ended up experiencing seven separate hells simultaneously and that was nonsensical so she could be like 'nah')

HopperUK posted:

That sounds amazing tbh. I'm (slowly) reading The Never-Ending Sacrifice at the moment and it's great. I had to get it because I showed 'Cardassians' to my friend and she got all fretful about Rugal's ultimate fate so I promised I would find out.

Trickjaw posted:

Any good? I never laid paws on 8t.

Marshal Radisic posted:

Just found out from the retro FPS thread that there's some rumblings that a bunch of the Activision-published Trek games from the turn of the millennium might be getting a digital rerelease on GOG. No one's said anything official yet, but I wanted to mention it even so.

8one6 posted:

I version of Birth of the Federation that ran on win10 would be great!

Yeah, it's not on the list but that doesn't change the fact that it should be released or remade.

Marshal Radisic posted:

Just found out from the retro FPS thread that there's some rumblings that a bunch of the Activision-published Trek games from the turn of the millennium might be getting a digital rerelease on GOG. No one's said anything official yet, but I wanted to mention it even so.

Marshal Radisic posted:

Just found out from the retro FPS thread that there's some rumblings that a bunch of the Activision-published Trek games from the turn of the millennium might be getting a digital rerelease on GOG. No one's said anything official yet, but I wanted to mention it even so.

Alchenar posted:

Ooh no, Birth of the Federation is definitely one of those games that's better in your memory than it actually was.

MikeJF posted:

Are there any space 4x games these days that are good and play like birth of the Federation did? I'm not much up on things but I know a lot of the newer spacey 4xs have fairly different dynamics and stuff than the classic standard...

MikeJF posted:

Are there any space 4x games these days that are good and play like birth of the Federation did? I'm not much up on things but I know a lot of the newer spacey 4xs have fairly different dynamics and stuff than the classic standard...

nine-gear crow posted:

April 8th, 2258: Wreckage of USS Eldridge discovered 14 LY from Deep Space Two. Ship remains found in strange spiral contusion pattern, multiple decks compacted on top of one another. No survivors recovered, body parts discovered in explorable areas of the wreck fused into bulkheads. Ship logs suggest accident was an attempt to replicate [REDACTED] experiment conducted by U.S.S. [REDACTED] (NCC-[REDACTED]). File closed on order of Starfleet Intelligence.

Alchenar posted:

Ooh no, Birth of the Federation is definitely one of those games that's better in your memory than it actually was.