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YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

Rockstar Games fired 34 workers recently, exclusively & in their entirety, people who were setting up a Union to improve the working conditions at the company. Unless R* offer all 34 people their jobs back & permit the Union to exist, I for one will not be purchasing GTA6.
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Didn’t realise November 7th is what #MassEffect fans mean by “N7 Day”, so here’s a slightly belated repost of my theory-crafts of the kinds of stats and abilities some ME ships might have if they were in #StarTrekOnline.

Alas, they'll only ever greenlight Kirk/Spock stuff because "iconography".

I still think there's room for worldbuilding in the Kelvin Timeline that doesn't need to hinge on the Enterprise and its crew. I think examining the long-term implications of the loss of Vulcan on the Federation and their 120 years advance-knowledge of the Romulan supernova could be fascinating.

Screencap from Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease", Worf looks through the open "EMERGENCY TURBO" door on the bridge of the Enterprise to see... the bridge again, seen from the ready room door area.

It's when there's an extra bridge, isn't it? 😉😂

Concept art for Star Trek: Final Frontier; an animated series that never got off the ground. This concept art depicts a Starfleet shuttle craft with an X shaped arrangement to its warp nacelles.

The concept art for the Dragonfly-type shuttles from the cancelled 2000s “Final Frontier” cartoon looked *a bit* X-Wing ish, but honestly looks closer to the Babylon 5 Starfury craft imo. But, it does make me think a Starfleet style X-Wing *could* work, it’d just be a challenge.

Magazine cover mockup featuring a Star Trek Online Jem'Hadar character in a pink pinstripe tuxedo with a bolo tie. "Gamma Quadrant Daddies First issue! In this edition: Kudak'alaan shares ironing tips Weyoun talks Patriotism Cheap Ferengi Deals!

Magazine cover mockup featuring a Star Trek Online Jem'Hadar character in a low-cut pullover shirt "Gamma Quadrant Daddies In this edition: Vla'Rek on low necklines -Odo's Oberth Horderves -Who's Who on this years 'Honored Thirst' Contest"

Magazine cover mockup featuring a Star Trek Online Jem'Hadar character in a sleeveless vest with a Polaron rifle slung over his shoulder "Gamma Quadrant Daddies In this edition: Pla'Zmuh on how to look good with guns... and 'Guns' Founder Salome Loves Cheese Garak's Fashion 'No-No's'"

While watching @vengeancegod.bsky.social's #StarTrekOnline stream playing around a lot with the tailor the other day, I had the idea to have some fun with some silly Jem'Hadar fashion magazine covers 🖖😂

Screencap of a Tumblr post; A faux-Voyager episode title card reads "Murder, She Holodecked" The text beneath reads "Season 1 - Alternate plan for the episode that ultimately became "Meld". After the suspicious death of Crewman Darwin, Tuvok's murder investigations leads to him using the holodeck to recruit J.B. Fletcher, known for her knack at figuring out murder culprits. The episode was cancelled and changed to a Mind-Meld shenanigan as "Murder, She Wrote" was coming upon its final season before cancellation and the studio were concerned there wouldn't be enough interest in this crossover. Disclaimer: This is a fan-made parody account and is in no way representative of actual unproduced episodes of Star Trek (nor Murder, She Wrote)"

Screencap of a comment from the post in the previous image. "I'm crying that this isn't real. I need holodeck Jb Fletcher doing her thing"

Remembered I did a similar idea back when I was running a 'gimmick account' about silly nonexistent Star Trek episodes, albeit as a single Voyager episode with Angela Lansbury guest-starring as a holodeck-recreation of JB Fletcher. Also, this comment from a like-minded Trekkie 🖖💛

Heck it doesn’t even have to be Star Trek, just a detective show with Tim Russ as the lead. lmk if such a thing already exists.

Reached “Ex Post Facto” in my VOY rewatch. This is a “Tuvok investigates a murder” affair. If there *must* be any more Star Trek shows in the vein of Picard, milking a nostalgic character in a new setting, instead of “Legacy” or “Year One”, I’d love a Colombo-esque Tuvok detective show. 🖖😂

a computer generated image of a space ship flying through a blue swirl Alt: animated gif clip of Star Trek Voyager with the ship going to warp

All in all though, I'm very excited to play the full game. Just playing the demo has put me on a real 'Voyager' kick and I've started rewatching the show, which has been a surprise -- It's definitely the Star Trek show I revisit the least, so I'm enjoying actually doing so for a change.
7/7

Looks like it might be worth multiple playthroughs to see the long-term effects of different choices, BUT, it also appears that there'll be no manual save-states, so this would mean replaying the entire thing from scratch, could get annoying if you want to change a season 7 decision for example.
6/7

That said, struggling to stay on top of resources is exactly the kind of thing I'd expect from a game retelling Voyager, as the frequent lip-service to resource issues without it ever actually mattering is one of the more common criticisms of the show, so fair enough if it does stay difficult.
5/7

There's a nice balance of resource management, exploration, narrative decision-making & a touch of space combat.
Resource management might be a touch difficult considering I was struggling to keep atop fuel when the demo is of the TUTORIAL!, but this may also be rebalanced yet (or maybe I suck😅)
4/7

Did get a bit of input lag, but that's not an issue with the kind of game this is; a mild frustration when advancing dialogue can take a few clicks, but otherwise not going to be a detriment. Possibly also just teething issues with the current stage of development that may get fixed pre-launch.
3/7

it'd go miles to making the whole thing more immersive.
Additionally, I for one would be fine with them hiring impression artists if the actual Voyager stars are too expensive or otherwise unavailable. The game is just kinda... quiet at the moment with no voices.
2/7

Promotional art for the upcoming "Star Trek: Voyager: Across the Unknown" videogame.

Played the demo for the upcoming Star Trek Voyager game, Across the Unknown. Seems very promising. Desperately needs some voice acting imo though. Given how expansive this game is and with branching stories, full-VA is unlikely, but even if its just a few generic sound bytes for each character,
1/7

Qib Battlecruiser from Star Trek Online

That said, my first choice for 'STO-original Klingon ship that could pass for a 32nd Century era ship' would have been the Qib. Always thought this one looked out of place in the 25th century and honestly would look at home alongside something like the Friendship or Merian.

Perhaps, but assuming I'm even right and its not coincidentally something that happens to look similar in this one quick shot, there are options, like it being a recovered 25th century relic. But I also feel the Qehpu' is both niche enough and different enough that it could survive such a retcon.

Screencap from the October 11th 2025 trailer for Star Trek Starfleet Academy; an unknown ship attacks the USS Athena. Numerous other ships are visible, albeit harder to make out in the background.

Screencap of the Klingon Qehpu' Class' store page in Star Trek Online

This ship from the Star Trek #StarfleetAcademy trailer looks a lot like the Qehpu' class Klingon ship from #StarTrekOnline... 👀 more STO-Originals becoming canon? Is it being retconned as a 32nd century ship or is it just 800 years old and heavily refit? 🤔 Or is it just something similar looking?😅

From the StarTrekStarships community on Reddit: How do you feel about the various attempts to fill out the Wolf 359 roster in licensed non-canon and fanfiction? (cough cough Akira class in STO) Posted by SHIELD_Agent_47 - 345 votes and 198 comments

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Star Trek Online screenshot of the in-game community market. The search bar has "Radiolytic Omni" in it and the results appear at first glance to be regular phaser beams, but their item name identifies them as "Radiolytic Omni-Directional Phaser Beam Array"s

PSA Heads up for anyone opening weapon packs in #StarTrekOnline to try and get the new Omni-Directional Radiolytic Phaser: It currently has the thumbnail of a basic Phaser Beam Array.

Exterior of Deep Space Nine; title card says "Best Laid Plans"

Edited Star Trek Online screenshot - beginning of new story mission "Best Laid Plans"; a Jem'Hadar player character stands in the conference room on Deep Space Nine. A Dialogue box from a character named Chairman Ksenneta reads "Didn't Loriss tell you? The Dominion aren't participating in this operation". The only player dialogue option is "Got it. Thank you Chairman"

Text arranged to look like Star Trek the Next Generation end credits. It says "Creative Director, Richard Hayden Written by Flo McQuibban"

How I expected the Dominion faction version of the new #StarTrekOnline story mission to go based on what Commander Jarok says in the first scene.

That's interesting. I'd assumed they were scripted, since one of the devs (don't remember who) mentioned in the stream on Tuesday that Thomas was meticulous with which ships should be there. 🤔 Does explain the random TMP era ship amongst mostly 25th century models if it picks from a pool of skins.

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

Excellent piece from @erininthemorning.com.
Destruction of the arts is classic fash behavior. Let us hope Netflix has the courage to hold.

Klingon Faction: IKS Bortasqu' - KDF Hero ship, Class namesake Hegh'ta Bird of Prey - Quantity: 3 Ketha Raptor - Quantity 2 Qehpu Battlecruiser - Quantity 1 Mogh Battlecruiser - Quantity 2 Romulan faction: RRW Lleiset - Romulan Hero Ship, Tulwar Dreadnought Melponar Warbird - Quantity: 1 - As seen in Lower Decks, variant of Mogai Class Kiith Warbird - Quantity: 2 - As seen in Lower Decks; based on original D'Dereidex concept art Rahhae Warbird - Quantity: 3 T'Varo Warbird - Quantity 3: As seen in Enterprise Kholhr Warbird - Quantity: 1 Ra'nodaire Warbird - Quantity: 1 Mogai Warbird - Quantity: 1 - As seen in Nemesis Federation faction: USS Enterprise-F - Federation Hero ship, Yorktown-type Odyssey variant Regent Cruiser - Quantity: 1 - Sovereign variant; Located with Klingon ships despite all other ships being clumped with their factions Duderstadt Spearhead - Quantity: 2 - As seen in Picard Hope Class - Quantity: 1 - Olympic Class variant Clarke Frigate - Quantity: 2 - 2411 Malachowski variant Alameda Raider - Quantity: 1 - 2412 Okinawa variant Saber Escort - Quantity: 1 - As seen in First Contact & DS9 Aurora Scout - Quantity: 1 - TMP era Nova variant

The new #StarTrekOnline story episode features a scene with numerous disabled allied ships. Apparently, there was quite some thought put into which types of ships should be present, so I went through and made a list of all the ones I found. Cannot guarantee I didn't miss any though.

This clean, technical, wireframe aesthetic is the signature style of the game's graphic designers, the iconic UK-based studio The Designers Republic. They created the branding for all the in-game racing teams, giving the Wipeout universe a sophisticated and believable corporate-dystopian future feel that was completely unique at the time. FEISAR (Federal European Industrial Science and Research) was the reliable, beginner-friendly European team in the racing league.

WipEout is 30!

Racing anti-gravity ship blueprints included in the original 1995 game design document:

Would have had these shots out days ago, but realised the fictional detective I'd named my ship after shares a name with a public figure who's currently shaping up to be potentially-a-bit-problematic-maybe. So I had to go in & painstakingly find all the same frames & angles again in the demo files 🙃

Star Trek Online screenshot - forward/dorsal/starboard view of an Echelon Class banking to starboard in orbit of Jupiter Station

Star Trek Online screenshot - Dorsal/aft/port view of an Echelon Class starship flying alongside a Sagan Class starship

Star Trek Online screenshot - aft view of an Echelon Class starship approaching Herald vessels. A Starfleet station is also visible on the right hand side of the image.

Star Trek Online screenshot - forward/dorsal/starboard view of an Echelon Class starship firing a phaser beam to starboard.

The Echelon Class was a short-range patrol vessel that bore experimental Traceable Payload weapons that allowed a target to be tracked after fleeing. These made the class invaluable during the Iconian War to track the otherwise unpredictable Herald fleet movements
#StarTrekOnline #VirtualPhotography

Lego tableau of the Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz and Ryan facing off with and reacting to an emerald coloured rock creature. Ryan holds a flaming torch and the Emerald carries a spear.

Lego tableau featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz holding hands. In the background, slightly bokeh, Ryan is chased by an emerald coloured rock creature with a spear

Lego tableau featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and Ryan. The Doctor holds a length of Rope aloft and declares "ROPE!" in a speech bubble. Ryan has his head in his hand and says "Don't start that again, Doctor..."

Lego tableau featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and an Emerald coloured rock creature looking upward, the image is tinted slightly bluish, implying moonlight.

Recently read " #DoctorWho: Molten Heart" by @unamccormack.bsky.social. Had a really fun time with it and decided to shoot some tableaus with Lego in homage.