Adding this timeline to the list of "Everything Section 31 FUCKS up for everyone."

S'Kenn: "It is going to take more than the Borg can muster to kill T'Ket of Iconia!" Hale: "Yes, I'm aware." Dammit, Ric. That's some pretty fine voice acting on your part.

14:22 - Just as I was saying aloud, "I've seen enough hentai to be concerned---" you dropped the "Oh no! A monument to all our sins!" and I friggin' LOST IT, hahaha!

Man.... Armiger's saucer separation is so fucking cool. Despite being in my 40s I feel like a kid again watching TNG Enerprise's saucersep for the 1st time every time I see it.

had a good chuckle at that Halo reference

1:34 : She has....issues. LOL. THAT'S putting it mildy!

Somehow in my playthroughs in the space segments my Oberth was the one doing excellently against the borg. All other ships got bodied.

So the narrator doesn't give any star trek online for months. Then suddenly 2 episode in a week. Anyways loved it 😍😍

Once again I'll propose the cloaked wrap missile swarm strategy. It's stupidly simple and relief on the laws of physics to do the job, something the Borg can't adapt to. So you start with a large missle - basically a dense alloy slug the size of a starship outfit it with a souped up warp drive and independently powered cloaking divice. Give it simple _terminal_ guidance, a firewall, and an encrypted physical data port. The port physically links with a ship like a runabout with it's own cloaking device, and a single pilot. You then have the runabout steer the big bastard to the DZ, along with enough friends to overwhelm the targeted group of Borg like 5 or 10 times over. Then you kick it up to maximum warp and each runabout manually locks in a target. At minimum safe distance each runabout disconnects and runs for it under cloak. The missiles continue at warp 9.99 or whatever, terminal guidance overcoming Borg evasive maneuvers and volume compensates for tractor beams and point defense. Then you let physics do the rest. With any given kinetic payload enough to crack open a planet, there's basically nothing the Borg can't do about it. No amount of shields can stop that kind of raw kinetic energy, and any missile that loses a target will just fly off into deep space until it's fuel runs out - which if you plan correctly, should be like an hour after impact. You can tow home strays and reuse them. If the Borg catch one, so what? It's nothing they've never seen before, and if you follow up with a second stand-by wave to take out any Borg salvage Ships the exact same way, they still never know what the hell obliterated them. And that's it. You didn't fuck around, you didn't use fancy tech the Borg can assimilate, you just saturation bombard them and don't stop for anything short of total victory - no matter how many planets you have to obliterate in the process.

"Oh no! The monument to all our sins!" Nice Halo reference. lmao Personally, I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop where the Atherians end up being _their_ universe's Borg, one that's already won and assimilated everything. Their sayings and cadence are very similar to the borg. This whole thing is likely a ploy to usurp control and assimilate the Borgs of other universes before continuing on to assimilate the rest of the species there. I mean they just _suddenly_ and very _conveniently_ popped up with advanced technology capable of holding off the Borg out of nowhere, and just _kindly offered it up to the UFP._ Makes you wonder how they would ever struggle with how effective it seems to be.

I'm still of the mind that the Atherians are out to get the World Heart. I'm betting that the one that got destroyed in this episode was just a decoy. The ally who sacrificed himself so everyone could get to the shuttle isn't really dead. I bet you he is going to stay there to steal it.

14:22 I lost it at that line XD

I'm glad I waited for this to release on console before watching this video. This was a really good mission.

Overall, this mission was okay, though an odd side-addition. And I have similar general thoughts to that organization of the timeline of that alt-universe. The Control Borg do indeed share a lot in common with the Flood from Halo, just with more metallic components. 12:50 ; The submachine gun is a better weapon to use if you have it.

As a supplement to my comment from last week explaining we have seen Administrator V'Lar before in the mission midnight - Healer S'Kenn can also be found in that mission as the healer who heals V'Lar's herald.

Loooonnng liiiiiiiive the Queeeeeeeeeeeeen. LOL. Joking, aside. One thing that would really have been creepy and wrong is if the Mirror Universe's Borg Kingdom made contact with this other alternate universe's Control Borg. Talk about an unholy union between the Harry Kim Borg King and the Natasha Yar Borg Queen 😱

I am going with two possible origin theories of the Aetherians in STO. 1. They are the race which probably in an era after the Iconians existed in one universe and the Borg are their creation. In our universe, I think those Aetherians then evolved into the Q. 2. The Aetherians are Borg, but Borg whose 'assimilation' did not involve taking over, but in stead copying others and only refining their own race, thus evolving those Borg to a far more advanced species which far more closely merges tech and organics.

Btw, I usually rather like ground combat in STO, but the fight at the shuttle landing was just frustrating. Getting instantly swarmed and overwhelmed, having to respawn multiple times no matter what I tried, really put a big dent in the pacing of the mission. A good boss fight or similar should push you to your limit. I liked the fight with the Borg King, for example. Getting repeatedly stomped into the ground, and only winning because you can respawn a bit quicker than the enemy, isn't much of a challenge.

This you should add a retrofit. And discuss that you have opted for the reverse engineered weapons pod from the terran uni . To aid in the Borg conflict . But stress it's not permanent

Think the Etherean race is there universe version of the Borg. The huge difference between them being that they are benevolent instead of malevolent like the Borg. 3 main reasons for this 1) they seem immune somewhat to the Borg 2) They use geometric shapes for there ship like the Borg but they go with diamonds shape verses the cubes the Borg use. 3) there catch phrase "Through Harmony , we are secure Through Unity we are strong" seem like a kinder and more welcoming version the Borg's "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.".

Tasha can never get a break can she

Haha a gravenind borg

Infinite Realities Mean Infinite Possibilities.

I love Ground Combat in this game it's become my favorite aspect of the game. Also that Halo Reference has me ded 🤣

Yeah, this was the first mission where the ground combat truly felt tedious and more frustrating than fun.

"I've been Rick" If he's been Rick, who is he now?

There are just too many Uber-powerful species and artifacts in the Trek universe for some of the threats to be believable. Example- the Borg origin story is said to be shrouded in mystery. So, why hasn’t anyone asked the Guardian Of Forever to show them the history of the Borg so their origin can be cut short before they get going? Yeah yeah, timeline meddling. In this case the cure has to be better than the disease.

I'm a romulan main, so meeting Sela had me absolutely livid at first. VEANGACE FOR VIRINAT!!!

"Oh no a monument to all our sins" I see what you did there. But in all honest the flood would spank the borg

2 episode in one week. We are blessed. Thank you

9:09 special beam cannon moment Shout outs to Piccolo

Am i seeing things or does Tasha Yar have Romulan ears ??

I dont know how you feel Rick, but I got a really bad feeling about those Atherians. I got a feeling that theyre some form of the Iconians, Either the Mirror Universe or maybe the Kelvin Universe. Whats your take on it Rick??

1:57 She called them "varuulir". That word is either vulcan or romulan in origin. 15:01 Is that reponse a Star Wars 6 reference? 16:30 That response. Picard, Yesterdays Enterprise. When the Klingons demand a surrender. 23:39 Grendal Bax does put me at ease about the Aetherians. This was the first time one of their own risked their live in battle - and even sacrificed himself. 25:07 I wonder what borg variant they cook up next? Iconian Borg? Borg that assimilated the Voth?

I am really starting to hate the Borg

Some very creative writers for sto

I think your point about it being the fate of the federation might be where they are going with this, at some point after a lot of losses the federation is going to have to tell the atherians no.. that might affect the harmony and unity somewhat

The Aetherials(?) catchphrase just bugs me. It feels like something a nicer-timeline borg would say.

oh no Shai-Hulud

Poor Tasha Yar just can't catch a break. Is there any universe where she lives happily ever after? :(

The Etherians sound like the Borg.

If one of those Ultra Tentacle Piles said "This is not your tomb, but you are welcome to it" I would be not surprised.

So the "control borg" I assume it is from control section 31s discovery evil AI

i still dont trust the Atherians, also with control borg will Leland Return?

I do have a question. What would a playthrough like this do as a romulan or a Klingon be like. If you did it like this. You started several characters. One a romulan Republic character siding with the KDF and I think you did a Klingon character too. Would their storyline be as long as the Federation side ?? Also would you consider fininshing off those other characters storylines ??

i forsure always had troube to deal with the annoying ground battle in sto i sometime feel the game was never ment to have it

Wait, what? I've been out of the loop, why is Sela a Starfleet captain now?

Does anyone know if there are any hidden items to collect in the mission? I know the devs like to throw them in from time to time. I noticed Captain Sela's Phaser is an "Anti-Borg" colored version of the Fleet Phaser. I wonder if that will become available?

Hey Rick, or anyone that can help me out. I'm looking to get an Odyssey class myself, which one has the chevron separation? I play more of a tactical playthrough. And do I need to spend EC, Lobi or Zen for the one I would like. Thanks for any help.

The Iconians are so advanced but still put all their eggs in one basket?

I STILL DON'T TRUST HER !!!

Why is the Saurian name, Geko, unfortunate?

Me thinks this reality is beyond saving, someone phone the TSA time to prune

Who's doing the voice for sela and queen borg tasha. Doesn't sound like Denise crosby

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Is there a mirror Species 8472?

Is there any end to star trek online i have just started so i just want to know

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Let's always remember those thick thighs that saved Hale's life.

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To be honest: I didn't liked the episode, when i played it. It didn't add anything really new to the story and the Borg, you were fighting here, aren't even the same Borg, that you fought before. For me, it felt like the writers wanted to throw someting into the line just for a bit nostalgia bait. Sela's story in STO was done after the Iconian War, so why did they had to throw her in now again?

Worst than the last episode. Craptic mucking thinks up yet again. At least my Niagara Class did well. The ground combat. The amount of Borg was beyond absurd. It wasn't even fun. I didn't die. But I ended up leaving the mission. It's just wasn't fun dealing with the insane amount of Borg. I was remodulating literally every few seconds rather that fight the things. Then when I did return. (for completion purposes) 90% where gone and I progressed to the final part.