Let's Play Star Trek 25th Anniversary 07: A Delicate Situation

[DieWeltIstSchlecht]

Why can't they take Chuck Norris instead of the Red Shirt...

[edusuntrebor]

@DieWeltIstSchlecht There's not enough room for his beard on the Enterprise, sorry.

[Radintoriov]

I was wondering: why do you keep flying at minimum speed when in space combat? Against these first opponents it doesn't really matter, but on later missions you will get absolutely shredded if you don't alter speed in combat.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

I like how the Klingons have the "not to be discussed" lack of forehead ridges.

[darkowl9]

Tsk tsk. Not space pirates. Space "copyright infringers" :)

[demonjack123]

Why are your sets so incredibly short?

[canebro1]

Ensign Spunty!!

[ThePariahDark]

Beam over a warparty? Laughable. Remember that Starfleet has no concept of bodyarmor or personal shields. So this "warparty" would be a bunch of dudes in overalls or worse. Probably wearing red shirts too. And why is that Elasi pirate reminding me of those pirates from Privateer?

[volkscom]

I thought the Elasi pirate went away, and then how is he aboard another uss enterprise, send Spock over to straighten it out. leave Jim and the ensign behind

[InusSonCurtis]

No! The red shirt will live. There's a random red shirt ALREADY dead in the transporter room. Having more death scenes isn't in the budget.

[Nic0maK]

@InusSonCurtis don't worry, he will be given his oportunity before the end, if kikoskia does it well :)

[KebaRPG]

Oh look you beamed over and a red shirt already dead...

[odv000]

oh sure piracy!... f**k you MPAA and RIAA!

copying is not theft!

[klShadowDragon]

Captain Kirk probably is bored. He has to deal with stuff like this on a weekly basis. It would start to bore anyone eventually.

[predcon1]

Doesn't the manual have a map with the names of each sector on it? And for that matter, why doesn't the on-screen map have names? In fact, why is Kirk using the map at all? What happened to "Ensign! Plot a course to Brobdigblarbia!"?

[OriginalBubsRA]

@predcon1 I may be wrong on this, but I THINK the whole map thing was a form of copy protection, seeing as how you could only figure out where the hell you were going with the names in the manual map.

As for Kirk using the SENSIBLE way to give directions I guess the new guy's piloting the Enterprise.

[predcon1]

@OriginalBubsRA

I thought it might be CP, but I wasn't sure, since a player could try again from a save game if he got it wrong. And there aren't that many sectors to choose from, so it's not like the "Please enter the word under paragraph 5, line 37 in the manual" CPs or like the weird pictographic combination locks from Maniac Mansion and Space Quest.

[MrRunAwayFive]

haha love these, wish they were longer

[TheHelldragon]

As-the-com-pu-ter-I-will-now-g­ive-you-the-pre-fix-code-ver-y­-slow-ly.

[melanyebaggins]

Moar...need moar lp! :)

[fkwk2y]

its looks like space quest 5

[Kaeldorn]

Very entertaining LP thus far. It really tries to get you to think outside the box.

[philyburkhill1]

the elasi are almost as bad as the romulans in that TNG SNES game. they used to attack the Ent-D in a friggin scout ship. but the elasi are pirates attacking the federation flagship!

[tomwaterwitch]

@philyburkhill1 Only in the SNES version the Romulans always said it was a "Navigational error" they attacked.

[junkrika]

Space pirates? What torrent client are they using?

[Rhincewind13]

@junkrika

They are also possibly illegally downloading space itself. I'd hate to see the estimated time until done.

[junkrika]

@Rhincewind13 ... and the universe is expanding, so they are probably going to get stuck on 121%!

[DeimosComaBlack]

@Rhincewind13

Microseconds, seeing as space itself is nothing.

[Rhincewind13]

@DeimosComaBlack

You're thinking about space as the absense of anything. I meant space is in this vast expanse in which everything exists and occupies.

[InusSonCurtis]

@junkrika Why don't they just hire Samus Aran? lol

[Nic0maK]

@junkrika BeamTorrent, by Montgomery Scott ^^

[TheBlackStar999]

@junkrika Space Pirate Bay.

[sproketcampeon]

Those bridge's beeps are terribly annoying.

[peterixxx]

@sproketcampeon

They remind me of the game Albion.

[HystericalJack]

Hah, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a nameless Ensign beam over to a ship...guess who wont be coming back

[left2live]

Time to see an ensign death.

[CustodesAstartes]

Well of course Kirk sounds like he's bored, there are no alien chicks to entertain him.

[JacksawJack]

You owe us a red shirt death still, Kiko. In fact, this is mission two, so you owe us two ensigns. Where do you think Soulspheres come from. Think of the Doom guys, Kiko!!! Think of the Doom guys. :(

[DeimosComaBlack]

@JacksawJack

Pfft, you think they're worth 100%? Ensigns are barely worth a 1% Health Bonus, always dying in one hit like that.

[JacksawJack]

@DeimosComaBlack

Ahh, but innocence, loyalty, and self-sacrifice, like that first Ensign possessed, carries great value in the underworld. Mwahahahaha.

[CandyCao7]

Woah. There is such thing as "Piratecy" in Space? o,o.

[Kikoskia]

@CandyCao7 I'd imagine so. Most would consider space a 'sea of stars' and in many science fiction settings, spaceships are their fleets are considered 'armada of the stars'. They often use military terms attached to seafaring combat and as such, having space pirates would make sense.

[Nevecus]

@Kikoskia

Though it would most likely be much harder to commit space-piracy. It's not like you can just sail up to another ship and hop over to steal it. Then you also need to know the many roles included in making a spaceship fly.

Can't really be common criminals now, can they? But we still find them in most Sci-fi games and universes, as you previously mentioned..

To top it off; greatly enjoying this new LP. Greatly.

[TheTimeSmith]

@Kikoskia Especially in this universe where teleporter technology is so widely used. It makes it easy for notorious pirate races like the Nausicaans to beam onto enemy ships or down to colonies, pillage the crap out of them then move on. On a side note, I pledge my loyalty and my peg-leg to you, Cap'n Kiko!

[DoctorKarnage]

@Kikoskia

Indeed, and with so much of space unexplored, I can imagine allot of Pirates would emerge quickly in order to reach the unexplored places before other forces can.

[thejman214]

@Kikoskia arr yee be right as we float through space with our pirate ships that some how move in space even though there is no wind in space and there be no air or gravity in space some how we preserver yarr :P

[predcon1]

@Kikoskia

Remember TailSpin? Don Carnage and his Air Pirates!

[tetsuv]

@Kikoskia can I point out that they tend to use naval ranks too

[CandyCao7]

@Kikoskia Thanks for repley at least.

[SenorJay]

@CandyCao7 Well, I guess its a matter of where there are ships, there's booty to be had, on a planet or otherwise. Yarr.

[LuigiFan210]

@CandyCao7 Wait... I thought everyone had heard about space pirates,mostly because of Metroid.

[CandyCao7]

@LuigiFan210 Sorry,I never played Metroid before.

[LuigiFan210]

@CandyCao7 Oh. In that case I guess it makes sense.

[AaronMahin]

When I played this, my 12-year-old self couldn't find the prefix code. I thought it was some kind of copyright protection in the manual (which I was missing), so I just kept hailing the Elasi, killing hostages until Starfleet Command pulled me off the issue and I went on to the next mission.

[Psych0Mikey]

In case you don't know you can adjust the speed of the enterprise by pressing 0-9 :). Makes the battles much easier.