Star Trek Picard SPOILERS thread

[Truth Seeker]

Wasn't Saavik a Romulan/Vulcan hybrid too?

Doh...yupe she was too.

 

[Mallus]

I’m really going to miss Michael Chabon writing the emo Butlerian Jihad into Star Trek. And so help me god if they actually let Agnes turn herself in at Starbase 12...

Also, another precision hit with a photon f-bomb.

 

[Truth Seeker]

I’m really going to miss Michael Chabon writing the emo Butlerian Jihad into Star Trek. And so help me god if they actually let Agnes turn herself in at Starbase 12...

Also, another precision hit with a photon f-bomb.

And the count was 3...

 

[MarkB]

So, is it just me, or have they basically ripped off taken heavy inspiration from the story of Mass Effect? Total ban on true AI, cycle of extinction, and the Admonition is basically the Prothean beacon.

 

[Ryujin]

So, is it just me, or have they basically ripped off taken heavy inspiration from the story of Mass Effect? Total ban on true AI, cycle of extinction, and the Admonition is basically the Prothean beacon.

Wouldn't be the first time. (I believe this is currently on appeal)

“Tardigrades” Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Star Trek: Discovery Dismissed by Judge — Daily Star Trek News

A copyright infringement lawsuit against Star Trek: Discovery has been dismissed by a judge in New York. Earlier this year, Anas Abdin, the creator of an unreleased videogame called “Tardigrades”, filed suit against CBS, alleging that they violated copyright law by copying the concept of the game

www.dailystartreknews.com

 

[Truth Seeker]

So, is it just me, or have they basically ripped off taken heavy inspiration from the story of Mass Effect? Total ban on true AI, cycle of extinction, and the Admonition is basically the Prothean beacon.

100% correct...

 

[DammitVictor]

All the different characters in Picard have given me a stupid idea and I just can't let it go.

Star Trek D&D.

No, not a Star Trek RPG in the Star Trek universe. I've done that dozens of times.

D&D in a D&D setting with all of the humanoids replaced with Star Trek's aliens, with the United Federation and the Klingon and Romulan Empires and the ever-looming threat of the Borg.

I call dibs on playing the Romulan Monk: "Please, my friends. Choose to live."

 

[Hussar]

So, is it just me, or have they basically ripped off taken heavy inspiration from the story of Mass Effect? Total ban on true AI, cycle of extinction, and the Admonition is basically the Prothean beacon.

Well, to be totally fair, it's not like this idea is new to SF. Mass Effect hardly invented the concept.

 

[Dire Bare]

All the different characters in Picard have given me a stupid idea and I just can't let it go.

Star Trek D&D.

No, not a Star Trek RPG in the Star Trek universe. I've done that dozens of times.

D&D in a D&D setting with all of the humanoids replaced with Star Trek's aliens, with the United Federation and the Klingon and Romulan Empires and the ever-looming threat of the Borg.

I call dibs on playing the Romulan Monk: "Please, my friends. Choose to live."

Great minds think alike . . . although from opposite directions.

I've been mulling over similar ideas for a campaign recently myself. Merging Star Trek with D&D, with shades of Spelljammer, DragonStar, and Star Wars mixed in. A future D&D universe, replacing the Star Trek aliens with the D&D races and including magic in the mix. In a sense, a chance to "fix" some issues I have with Star Trek, or just explain away some of the more fantastical elements into being, well, fantastical!

Transporters aren't based on science, but magical teleportation. Medical and communication tech could also actually be magical. Command division is red, Science division is blue, Security is gold . . . Magic division is, green? Should there be separate Arcane, Divine, Primal, and Psionic divisions?

 

[Kaodi]

I was thinking Mass Effect too (though I have yet to actually play the games, ugh) . But one man's rip-off is another man's CIRCLE OF LIIIIIFE...!

Star Trek has had a massive influence on sci-fi, and perhaps it is only natural in turn that it becomes influenced by its own creations.