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USSBurritoTruck, to startrek in Star Trek: Discovery - Black Alert board game first impressions
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Care to explain what you mean?

USSBurritoTruck, to startrek in Star Trek: Discovery - Black Alert board game first impressions
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Seems like something you’d want to discuss with your doctor.

USSBurritoTruck, to startrek in Star Trek: Discovery - Black Alert board game first impressions
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Yeah, despite the number of Trek boardgames that have been made, there are not a lot that try to simulate an actual scenario from the episodes in this way. Most of them tend to be 4x, or a fairly abstract ruleset with the Trek theme pasted on.

But this game is so specificity trying to emulate the feel of those episodes that I have to imagine it was what the designers set out to do.

The strangest thing about it is that those episodes aired in 2018, and the game took this long to hit the shelves. I know Trek that Trek licensing can be kind of slow, but this seems extreme.

USSBurritoTruck, to startrek in Star Trek: Discovery - Black Alert board game first impressions
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I think in this case it’s likely a WizKids thing, but yeah, licensed games can frequently be prettier slapdash.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in When is season 4 anyway?
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There’s no in universe justification for Adira. She doesn’t come from a backwards culture

Regardless of your opinions about the storyline, you can address the character by their proper pronouns. Or you can choose to no longer post here.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Cope
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It 100% did involve Kurtzman. People out here just making up whatever nonsense fits their narrative. Clown shit.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Cope
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Hollywood nepo babies are a real problem.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Columbo investigates Star Trek. (source: cursedtrekedits on tumblr - more in comments)
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This is the type of quality c/risa needs. Thank you.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Cope
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Edit: changed “STD” to “discovery” as apparently we’re in middle school

Buddy, considering how absolutely childish the moniker “STD” has always been, you’ve got no ground to whine here.

Secondly, at least in middle school, children are taught the meaning of the word, “objectively.”

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in When is season 4 anyway?
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What does Burnham get served to her?

USSBurritoTruck, to startrek in Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x10 - Old Friends, New Planets
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Some of the bottles of alcohol on Orion in “Something Borrowed, Something Green” did have the Orion captain’s face on them.

It does seem like a missed opportunity to have Admiral Vassery refer to them as Or-ee-ans though, considering he was established as having a speech impediment in “Moist Vessel”.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in A 3 part origin story...
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You are awesome.

Accurate.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in A 3 part origin story...
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What I like about this is that in Star Trek Adventures, a 1 always counts as two successes.

So, normal difficulty for operating the transporter is 2, but O’Brien is clearly in the transporter room, which reduces the difficulty by 1. We don’t know if the ensign started out on a transporter pad, or if the intent was to beam her to one, but under normal circumstances, the highest difficulty for the roll would be 3.

O’Brien has base two dice, and we know he got a 1 on the one the one die in the meme, which is already two successes. The only official stats for O’Brien are in the DS9 Player Characters pdf, and he has 10 Control + 5 Engineering, so if he rolls 15 or less (75% chance) he gets that additional success needed. He also has Focus in Transporters, so on a 5 or less (25% chance) he scores an additional success on top of the first.

Transporter rolls are also aided by the ship, which means the Enterprise D gets to roll one die, and the official Enterprise stats give it a 9 Sensors + 2 Engineering, so it needs to roll an 11 or less (55% chance) to score one success, and ships always roll with Focus, so on a 2 or less (10% chance) to get two successes total.

Also, O’Brien has the Technical Expertise Talent, and whenever he rolls a task aided by the ship’s Sensors Attribute, which is the case here, he can re-roll one die including the die that the ship rolled.

Of course, there could be a situation where this particular difficulty was increased by the GM for some reason, but O’Brien should know that before rolling, and could have purchased additional dice with Momentum, or Threat if the Momentum pool was tapped. The likelihood of O’Brien of all characters failing a transporters roll so badly that someone dies is just incredibly small.

All of which is to say that Chief Miles Edward O’Brien murdered that woman.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Discount Vulcanoids
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Garidian. They’re a subject species of the Romulan Star Empire, and use similar ships, but theirs are a pale brown/grey with red designs.

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/b292a853-7d30-4703-b3a8-dc512b99ab3c.png

One of them showed up in the PIC prequel tie-in novel staring Troi and Riker, and apparently they’re in STO now as well.

USSBurritoTruck, to risa in Starfleet Academy of Delinquents and Troublemakers
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Mariner seems like she’s done self sabotaging, so none of them, really.

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