Trek Talk - Episode 91 - SNW, Orville, STFC

Trek Talk with Tech and Kirk

English - July 05, 2022 04:08 - 1 hour - 270 MB - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
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Gary the Hate Camel presents a podcast with Tech, Kirk, Handy and Boom:

Guests: MadamStarGazer (66), PoorCoercion (60), Stratalorian (9)

Topics Discussed:

0:00 - Introductions, work avoidance, and truck talk!

4:05 - Latest episode of SNW, and how Tech has missed classic Trek trope style shows.

6:37 - Don't murder children?

8:25 - The world isn't fair, and people suffer. But people generally do the best they can to help when they're able.

14:33 - We go overboard with greed.

17:45 - Some retcon problems.

23:04 - Pike's hair is going to need some management.

27:42 - "Building Star Trek" documentary, and some of the differences in modern versus the original.

34:16 - Where Handy draws the line, and Gorn swamp ass!

35:20 - Star Trek 2?

37:23 - Orville talk, the horror episode!

39:13 - Episode writer was Brannon Braga, which as everybody (nobody but Tech and Brannon) knows is a co-producer of a bunch of Star Trek shows.

39:56 - The dark is too dark! Now let's kill these crewmembers...

45:39 - Scott Grimes played Malloy, who cares about American Dad?!?

48:09 - STFC complaints (this could take a while), though the Holodeck is nice.

58:58 - Scopely customer service issues.

1:01:20 - PvP improvements.

1:04:30 - Yell at Scopely!

1:07:30 - Debate on the game, and if it's still fun, despite the gameplay.

1:18:30 - Are people spending more now than during Covid?

1:20:24 - Feedback from newer servers on spend, and game cost in general.

1:25:21 - STFC suffers from a lack of meaningful and engaging content at this point.

1:26:22 - STFC could implement interesting systems, like Officer or Ship modifications.

1:28:52 - Change gameplay so you can PvP or raid to complete some dailies.

1:30:50 - Taking materials may not fly.

1:33:36 - Game was more engaging without shields, but the game isn't PvP oriented.

1:40:00 - Player marketplace.

1:42:00 - Ticketed events rewards are very meh.

1:45:01 - Handy refuses to talk shit about the alliances he hates.

1:47:18 - Tons of people get angry as fuck about this game, come talk about it!!! Then smack bases!

1:50:00 - Kick 'em while they're down!

1:51:16 - Sound cuts out, and resumes mid-discussion about strength of high level whales against low level ships.

1:53:52 - Combination level and power banding, to improve PvP!

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