Discovery Predictions Now True, SFI.org, Thoughts on 'Vaulting Ambition'

Oh, and welcome to Future Amperfect. I'm your

CEO, Admiral Phillips. And in this episode, I'll

be covering a multitude of things and putting

in a little Q flash in between them all. Starting

off, I'm going to talk about a little bit of

the journey of the podcast as where it's going

to go. And we're going to be doing some Star

Trek discovery conversations, some of the...

prophecies that have come true, and SFI .org,

Starfleet International, and Star Trek Online

hitting its eight -year anniversary. So yeah,

getting right down into it, we're gonna go to

Star Trek Online. So as you know, I'm a huge

fan of Star Trek Online. Despite my irritation

and misgivings with it earlier in the year, or

last year, that is. I've grown more accustomed

to the awesomeness that is involved. And they're

celebrating their eight -year anniversary. And

the beautiful thing about this is it benefits

the player in every way. So, the other day, they

were giving away free t5 ships So basically There's

different levels. There's just t1 2 3 4 5 6 and

then the t5 upgraded so from Friday through Monday

Friday that the 19th through Monday the 22nd

They're doing the free ship day. So they're you

head to the section of the sea store and If you're

a Klingon you get a t5 Beryl bird -of -prey retrofit

If you're a Romulan need to get the t5 Deleon

Warbird retrofit and if you're Starfleet you

get the t5 Defiant tactical escort retrofit,

which is beautiful because if you have any other

ships that take a cloaking advice the Defiant

comes with a cloak so you can use it and So like

if you have the Aquarius You can use the Defiant's

cloak if you had that special galaxy class dreadnought

that has the capability you can use it. So I

now have the Defiant on all my Federation characters

and have the cloaking device so I can use it

elsewhere. Which has been one of the ships I've

been after anyhow. I eventually want to get the

dreadnought galaxy class and then the regular

ones so I can do the saucer separation because

the saucer I can use on the Odyssey class. Starship

so It would be kind of awesome if you could use

it on the Constitution class Kelvin or prime

timeline So yeah, so that that was one of the

the new things that came out. I'm not sure what's

coming next they are teasing some new story elements

and They're also teasing the discovery lockbox

and they've they fully rendered the the Shenzhou

and the Discovery and the Sarcophagus Klingon

ship in the Lockbox universe. And I'm kind of

excited for it in a sense, except for the fact

that I know that the odds of receiving the ship

or anything regarding it is slim to none, just

because of mechanics of gaming. So anyways, you're

going to be rewarded with either the ships, different

weapons. The Discovery is a cross -field class

science vanguard, T6. So it's originally created,

you know, to be the vessel of scientific endeavor

and obviously, you know, that's the battle of

binary stars and so the science vanguard is what

they're calling this. They actually show it by

Earth's space dock doing the the mycelium teleportation.

jumps. However, it comes with a console called

Universal Mycelium Ambush, which when the power

is activated, your Starship's weapons will be

temporarily disabled as your ship instantaneously

moves forward to a destination some distance

from your current spot, which will be kind of

awesome if you're playing and then you need to

get out of that spot and then you use it to get

out of it. Says upon arrival at your destination

a pulse of energy is discharged impeding the

engines of nearby ships while enhancing your

own starships weapons for a brief period After

a few seconds multiple payloads of torpedoes

are released and your starships weapons are briefly

disabled again in order to instantaneously move

backwards to your original position so Yeah,

I it says in if you create the Complete the starship

mastery plat path that they have for a lot of

these t6 ships You get Black Alert, which is

a temporary adjustment to the Spore Drive, allowing

temporarily displaced duplicates of your ship

to assail the targeted foe with torpedo spreads

for a brief time. So you initiate sequence by

activating beam overload, cannon rapid fire,

or intelligence bridge officer abilities. And

then they have the Sarcophagus Dreadnought, which,

going back to the discovery, I would love to

play that ship in the game. just because the

Kelvin Constitution class ship is just awesome.

So the sarcophagus dreadnought carrier is massive,

supposedly dating the early Klingon empire thousands

of years ago, but yeah, I'm not going there.

So anyways, they have the universal console,

the multi -target tractor array, which has like

a multiple tractor beam system. that grabs everything,

that just de -habilitates everything. It's a

total of 12 tractor arrays activated by this

ability, which targets all nearby foes, severely

slowing them and dealing moderate amount of kinetic

damage to the hull. And it says if any foe is

caught by more than one tractor, the damage of

each is increased as the tractor beam tears the

unfortunate ship in opposite directions. So yeah,

and then they've got the honored dead which will

serve as your shield As your whole is depleted

in combat your casualties you suffer will be

added to the defensive capabilities So yeah,

it's it's kind of cool and then they got the

the Walker class light exploration cruiser the

Shenzhou which is the Lobby store, which I'm

sure it's gonna be expensive The addition of

the you know intelligence vessel anyways, they're

saying that it's It's gonna be available as Well,

and they're going to have as its trait the Vulcan

hello Which is you know, it's weapon power drain

and gain shield and armor penetration bonus and

So yeah, I'm kind of I'm kind of excited to see

some of this stuff in the game, and they're also

going to have a new set of genetic re -sequencers

in order to unlock access to two new ground traits,

being universal laws for lackeys, which is while

in combat each second you gain bonus and then

brutal impetus and then space, as context is

for kings, and duelist fervor, and... The universal

kit modules for scientists and engineers are

Choose Your Pain, Parabellum, and Miniaturized

Spore Relay, Teleportary Short Distance. So,

leaving mines behind. So, it's gonna be kind

of cool. You get a special requisition pack,

Discovery Disruptor or Phaser Weapons. They're

also unrolling the some temporal rift stabilizers,

multi -dimensional waves, enhanced induction

coils, destabilizer, evaluative, hazard shielding,

as well as a hairy mud outfit in the Lobby store.

And they're also going to have the new Phaser

full -auto rifle. and the new Discovery environmental

suits, which I like the environmental suits for

Discovery, don't get me wrong. That's one of

the few things I enjoy. And then they're also

going to have the pets in the Lobby store. So

all of this will be available on January 23rd,

which is kind of cool to hear. And then, kind

of going back to... to more of it, they're going

to have another mission dropping soon, which

is the Scylla, and basically, Scylla and Charybdis,

the battle against the Zinkethi, I'm looking

forward to this as well. I think that the game,

it had a really crappy rocky start when it first

came out, but I think that it's actually hitting

its stride now, and it's getting a lot more of

the trek. added in, plus building out the mythos.

I kind of look forward to seeing what they do

with the discovery stuff as they start to incorporate

more of it and kind of build into that timeline

of Star Trek Online and incorporate that elsewhere

in the show and in the game. But yeah, if you're

not playing it, it's free to play. There's a

lot of stuff going on in the game, so just be

sure to check that out. So I'm gonna take a quick

break, go back to Starfleet International, and

we'll be back. So I know that Mike the Birdman

Dodd used to be a member of SFI .org Starfleet

International. I never knew what was entailed

in Starfleet International when I had previously

heard him talk about it, and I joined it last

Monday, and since then I've taken close to 20

classes with about eight more that are in my

queue right now. It's just it's ridiculous amounts

some of it like Star Trek generations trivia

quotes characters and information I Blitz through

that because I know the film Star Trek 6. I'm

gonna have the same boat I think I also took

stuff on like temporal mechanics stuff on the

mirror universe It's very in -depth on the mirror

universe and quite helpful actually In understanding

it if you weren't too well versed in it prior

to discovery And then there's, you know, character

profiles, there's ship schematics, there's all

kinds of other stuff. So there's plenty in there.

They've got to have close to like a thousand

classes on this setup. And it's not expensive

at all to join. I thought it was, and that's

why I've never joined it before. Had I known

that, I would have joined sooner. So I'm going

through like a lot of the Starfleet stuff now.

I joined a region, I joined a chapter. I'm having

a lot of fun with it. So be sure to check out

SFI .org if you want to find out more. They've

got a ton going on over there and they're revamping

their website right now. So yeah, it's awesome.

So I'll probably be doing regular bits on that

as well in the show along with Star Trek Online

and random Star Trek and Discovery stuff. So

I'm going to jump into Star Trek Discovery now

because Well, at least the information as far

as Twitter is concerned. Trek on Tube last Monday

had a prediction saying that the mirror Lorca

theory, if I were to explain it, both Lorca's

prime timeline and mirror universe, switched

places somehow when they had the Buran. Mirror

Lorca in the Prime timeline learned about the

discovery and put himself on board as captain

with the intention of using it to get home. And

having a powerful weapon to use against alien

scum, Prime Lorca found himself in the Mirror

universe didn't like it, so he created a movement

and rebelled against the Emperor in the system.

So another theory is that he went to the Prime

timeline on purpose to get Burnham. He killed

Mirror Burnham, made an enemy of Empress Georgiou,

and presented Prime Burnham to her as his way

of absolution or pardon, but I don't think that

that was it. I think that he wanted to get on

the ship and couldn't get on it and wanted to

be able to take her down from the inside because

he's a capable crazy captain. So I do love the

fact that we basically got that with Lorca. They

don't explain what happened to the Prime Timeline

version, but all these stuff came out at the

end of the episode as far as like his eye issue,

as far as like... some of the stuff and i gotta

be honest i kind of knew what was coming it's

i i i just i'll get back to that in a minute

anyways but you know they had mirror stamets

and stamets conversing they had stamets miraculously

heal himself they had the Klingon with Valk and

Tyler separating because it is actually a Klingon

body shaped to look like Tyler but Tyler's persona

is implanted in there with Valk and the Klingon

has to separate Valk and Tyler in order to make

them survive so Valk is dead because she did

the death cry and so and then you get Burnham

in the episode telling the Emperor you know basically

you know it's There's nothing, you know, she

was gonna kill her anyway, and so she's like,

hey look, I'm from the other universe, I'm just

trying to get home, I really don't want any trouble

here. And so, Giorgio is like, do you know what

happened through the Expanse, and what happened

to that crew, and that's why it's sealed off,

and part of why it's sealed, and part of the

Federation, and how toxic it is, because she

kills like six of her guards, and leaves one

alive, as like, you know, clean this up, and

you speak of it, I kill you. so it's it's it's

just kind of funny watching a lot of this stuff

play out in the show even though I've kind of

suspected a lot of it from the get -go so it's

it's I don't know I mean I enjoy the show it's

not terrible it's just not all that well written

like to where I still feel like I don't really

know the characters all that well and they don't

really mesh together all that well And it's like

a lot of personality thrown in there that is

inconsistent with itself consistently, if that

makes any sense whatsoever. I do like, you know,

the aesthetics of the second half of the season

more. I find it cleaner and easier to look at.

Like it's getting closer to that original timeline

type of look. I'm wondering how you know whether

they're gonna show the defiant or not by the

end of the season And if they do it'll probably

be Lorca's But who knows Lorca may live or die

at this point and he may be the one of the cast

members that that's gone You may actually see

the original Lorca like turn up in the other

universe at some point like this Lorca could

be closed doors you might not see this one again

and then he gets to play a whole new version

of Lorca in the next half of the show. Which

I would be down for as well. You get to see Saru

actually like being commander and kind of ballsy

and it's kind of disgusting what they did with

the Kelpians on Jor -Jor's ship eating their

ganglia. It's just weird. There's a lot of stuff

in this show that's like purposely shock value.

for the purpose of shock value. Like, it's not

even all that entertaining. You get the ganglia

thing, you get Giorgio massacring her crew right

in front of, you know, and then you get the different

aspects in the brig. Just a lot of the stuff

I find to be kind of meh. But I did go back and

watch a lot of the mirror stuff so that I could

kind of have some context. It's if like I said,

it's not terrible, but it's not great either

I'm still I'm still trying to trying to find

Coming ground and not hate on the show directly

like it's And I have to agree with like various

articles. I've read Like there's one on screen

rant where they said discovery is still missing

the spirit of Star Trek You know, they've got

like these these kind of Stereotypes for a lot

of their characters and they're they're very

like not invested in short -sighted in various

degrees But I feel like they should have almost

waited for some of this and built up a little

bit of the characters first Because there's really

nothing in the way of like the exploration Humanity,

you know mission of hope wisdom and in friendship

or anything. It's just kind of like Crapping

on itself constantly and I feel very disinterested

in a lot of the characters like there's Like

I want to like Stamets I want to like Saru I

want to like Lorca I want to like Burnham There's

a lot I want to like about it, but there's a

lot that just doesn't really fit with me I don't

like this whole Game of Thrones style which is

probably why I enjoy the Orville much more. And

Discovery kind of tries to have these big surprises

and huge plot twists, and then they just fail

epically when it comes down to it. Because I

feel like there's enough poor writing in the

show that it's too easy to figure out. And they're

they're trying to play they're trying to screw

with us in a sense like I get this vibe like

almost how Abrams did with Into Darkness. Oh

No, Benedict Cumberbatch is John Harriman not

not con and then he's like Con and I'm like,

yeah, I kind of saw that coming a mile away and

it that's kind of how I feel with this so it's

Basically, it's it's almost that no crap Sherlock

You know of what most fans have seen all of these

revelations have been coming a mile away the

ash and Bach thing You know Lorca being from

the mirror universe since like he showed up just

because he's a total dick And he played it remarkably

well in the prime universe for the sake of playing

it. But a lot of it, I just... I mean, some of

the surprises were still good, like the Lorca

thing, like the revelation of Lorca I really

liked, because it kind of gave it a little bit

more to his character, because we didn't really

get much out of him. And Giorgio, I'm kind of

like, eh, I mean, she's giving me information,

but it's not... I could take it or leave it at

this point. I don't know. I guess I'm just kind

of expecting more out of it, and I'm not getting

it. I'm getting more Game of Thrones and less

Star Trek vibe. Not saying I don't still support

it as a Star Trek show, because I do. I love

Star Trek in all its capacities. Even if I dislike

and take a dump on the show to some degree, there's

still enough there for me to like it, to watch

it. Like I'm not a huge fan of Enterprise, but

there are aspects of Enterprise, you know, like

when they hit up the Borg when they have the

The Nakul when you have Agent Daniels when you

have Various scenarios where they're they're

playing around with canon like the whole Klingon

virus thing so I mean certain aspects and then

the the Mirror Darkly episode which didn't take

place in the Prime Universe whatsoever and So

I mean, a lot of those scenarios I found to give

it more depth and liking, even though the show

as a whole wasn't that great. And so I feel like

there's certain episodes that are gonna hold

this up and certain ones that are gonna tank

it. And then I still think that the Harry Mudd

episode was the best Star Trek episode we've

gotten out of Discovery so far. In all degrees,

I think that that was the best, my favorite episode.

I could watch that over and over. Yes, it's kind

of a standalone, but I felt Mudd was a very compelling

villain, even if he's a one -off. But the way

that he played the whole scenario down, like,

I didn't like the club scene of the episode,

but, you know. This episode, I found myself fast

-forwarding through parts of the show. I just,

I was... And I've done that with the majority

of Discovery if they start getting to the you

know Trying too hard to make a relationship scene

or something I just I'm not invested so I don't

care and it's not like watching You know Troy

and war for Troy and Riker or you know It almost

feels akin to Every time Kirk bedded a woman

in the original series That's what I get out

of it because like even those like I'm like yeah,

come on. Let's go on like I don't It I get it

they were doing it for that in that time period,

but I just I didn't care for it So I think that's

why I enjoy TNG DS 9 and voyage are better in

that sense is that they just they have strong

characters. They have strong personas. They have

an overarching plot DS 9 is probably the best

serialized one we've gotten But you know it again,

it's they're still finding their footing I'll

give them the benefit of the doubt until season

2 But I still find it I still find it crazy that

You know a lot of these tropes can be better

than what they're they're doing and I feel like

There's things they could do that would just

be totally off the wall. DS9 had some of the

most prolific writing in Trek and thought -provoking

storylines. I think that's why when I was younger

I didn't like it, but I actually love the series

now. and and you know Tyler having the post -traumatic

stress disorder thing which was kind of interesting

because you never really got to see that out

of certain characters and then they were like

Thank you. It's Valk which I again I knew that

But it's I don't know there's there's just a

lot to be desired and I think that There's things

that they could do better on the other hand though

somebody thought it would be funny to piece -together

continuity of track like Robert Meyer Burnett

on Twitter who's a filmmaker, you know, genre

connoisseur type of person. Anyways, he says,

you know, Star Trek CBS has There's nothing in

it which has any connection to previous Star

Trek. Can ensure there's Tribbles, Klingons,

Sarek, Starships, etc., but Beyond the names

of these things, they've been completely reimagined

to almost unrecognizable, which is about true.

Somebody put in there under the Prime Continuity

thing, I think the argument that the TOS ships

can't look good on modern times is ridiculous.

It's the same Millennium Falcon in Last Jedi

as in New Hope. And I kind of agree with that,

you know, you have they show like the cage for

instance with Lorca standing in there and you

have the cage crew and then they show the discovery

with with Captain Pike Standing on the bridge

of the discovery next to Lorca and I get it like

it it would still work. It's just I'm not understanding

why all of Starfleet has those weird getup and

you know at the same time that Pike is running

around with what's on the enterprise And yeah,

so I don't know it's still It's still kind of

a Wait and see scenario, I guess I'm Trying not

to take like I really love the show like all

of Trek and I'm trying not to take a dump on

it but There's just a lot to be desired about

the show. What do you guys think? What are some

things that surprise you? What are some things

that you hope happen? What are some theories

that you have as a whole of the show? Do you

think it's too dark? Do you think that it needs

to go back to the Prime Universe? Alright, how

invested are you in this Mirror Universe subplot

that they've got going now? I like the Mirror

Universe subplot much more than the Klingon subplot.

I hated the Klingon subplot they were doing in

the first half of the show. Now, once we got

to the second half of the show with the Mirror

Universe on game, I'm good, but I just think

that there could have been better things to do

in the show, so... Sound off, give me your feedback.

Feedback at AlterGeek .com. Let me know what

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