Fun fact: Lieutenant Uhura's actress, Nichelle Nichols, was paid more than her co-stars during the first season of Star Trek. This was an unintended consequence of the network's racism and sexism; executives initially refused to make her a regular cast member, so she earned a guest star's salary for every episode.
But then he got stuck in the energy ribbon in Generations and the last three TNG movies were Picard imagining himself as an action hero. (At least he didn't fall in love with a candle).
Spock: These are Starfleet personnel; we should engage them non-lethally, Captain. Kirk, performing Fireworks with a phaser rifle: THIS PARTY'S GETTING CUH-RAZY!
There's a lot of Gorn killing in this. I seem to recall that the TOS episode had 0 gorn killings and actually had a lesson about showing mercy and understanding the pespective of your enemy.
Ben Lunaris Plague: “Hello, Super Best Chumps! Now that I have you in my grasps, I’m going to describe to you mating habits of the African Zebra!” Captain Matt: “You fiend!” Plague: “With these hand drawn visual aids!” Second-in-Command Pat: “Let’s hear him out, Captain. I-It’s the logical course of action...”
@@GenericSoda To be fair, that was Prison Break. Maybe Pat just dies during these LPs Matt puts him in. Though, Matt still sounds like he has some life in him. Maybe it's just Pat or maybe Matt's just strong willed.
Karl Urban pulled a nuanced and complex character out of the fucking DOOM movie, and he gives no shits about this role. What does that say about this bullshit.
Remember that time the crew had to deal with those two alien races that hated each other because one half of their face was white and the other black but the sides were swapped on one?
Remember the time when Kirk teamed up with President Lincoln? Remember the time when some generic hot women stole Spock’s brain and McCoy had to control Spock’s body with a remote control? Season 3 was strange.
I remember when in TNG it was fairly rare for a handful of phasers to be shot at the enemy and Photon torpedoes were a last resort. Now we have some ADHD laser light show firing trillions of photon torpedoes like they were grown from Michael Bay's uterus.
Picard was only that thrifty with the torpedoes because the effects shots were crazy expensive to do. The writers had to come up with reasons for the Enterprise to drop out of warp sometimes because the star streak effect was too expensive to do. The "ADHD laser light show" in this game looks terrible, but the big battles in later DS9 (or Babylon 5) were great.
Jank: the final frontier. These are the voyages of a couple of canucklefucks on the starship Zaibatsu. Their many-year mission: to explore bad games, new and old. To seek out unintentional humor and riffably terrible writing. To boldly go where no lets player has gone before.
How great would it be if the next episode was just ten minutes of Gratuitous Space Battles before they slowly realize that they're playing the wrong game because the space battles are actually not quite as gratuitous as in Star Trek?
1:44 Hey, get out of here Kingdom Hearts - Final Mix. We're trying to play Star Trek! 2:42 Hey, go back to Mass Effect, Sovereign. We're trying to playing Star Trek!
You should go easy on Sovereign. He's just trying to pay his bills after the trash fire he was in. If you were in Mass Effect 3, you would be begging to appear in Star Trek: The Movie The Game too.
Epic music swells as Kirk and Spock are forced to surrender their weapons for no other reason than that the game doesn't want you to be armed at the start of the next segment.
“Yeah Star Trek!” Yeah nothing says Star Trek quite like an Ebon Hawk segment. You guys are doing Picard’s revenge rant from First Contact but the actual appropriate line is Kirk’s “Let them die” from Undiscovered Country.
I think even Kirk would know it makes no sense to pursue through a portal they both don't know their ship can survive or what is on the other side, while a large amount of the crew is injured. Oh and if they die, Starfleet knows nothing.
This reminds me the time when Matt and Woolie talked about the idea of the enterprise shooting lasers at all directions nonstop. “We’re continuing to smoke all motherfuckers in the galaxy”
I like this play through, but Pat should forma Spock Prime to fit umbral intensify and vitality. And Matt's Phaser riven is fine too, so he doesn't need to keep cycling it trying to get red crits. Just use 60/60 mods and build it for 100% status.
@@flightlessagbsls fine I'll explain. Pat's able to get away with using corrupted mods to boost his ability strength on Spock Prime, but using umbral intensify will let him make a quality build that won't push him into negative power duration. Easier upkeep better efficiency, and more hp too for just ~3 forma. And Matt's riven is fine, I know it's not god tier, and lacks a great negative. But Matt's getting consistent orange crits with it, and viral slash builds scale way better than pure crit.
Man this Commodore is so overly animated, which is saying something given that most Starfleet Commodores and Admirals end up being evil or morally bankrupt.
If memory serves right, DE had an interview where they talked about Star Trek's development. The two things that I remember from it are: Steve, one of DE's lead designers, wore Spock ears almost every day for the first half of development; and that around the midway point of the game's development, a couple of men from the publishing side of the game came in and pretty much told DE to gut and completely rework the game while still keeping the same deadlines. The problem is that I can't remember for the life of me what interview they said this in.
Remember that time on Star Trek when an alien race made first contact with humanity and immediately assumed they were gods because there was a legend or some shit about a human that would develop psychic powers and there was also a bounty hunter named Baraka Bahma? No, wait, that's not Star Trek, that's Advent Rising. Hey, maybe you guys wanna play Advent Rising sometime? It's jank space opera too.
OH MY GOD THE SPACE BATTLES *KINDA* REMIND ME OF THE GAMEPLAY THEY SHOWED FOR THE UPCOMING RAILJACK EXPANSION holy shit i can't believe they're pulling stuff from this game to use
I'm counting the camera jankery in the enterprise section as a camera gaff, because I REALLY want to see one every episode. Also this gets harder and harder to watch every episode as a Star Trek fan, jeezus
You know how for most let's plays people get really mad if you don't play it right or miss obvious things? This is a let's play where I only want them to fuck up more. It's hilarious
12:55 Might as well just flash THIS GUY IS THE BAD GUY on the screen. There's some major nuance at work when you layer on such traits as Superior Officer, ensuring the future of an organization, disdain for the lives of his men, and talking about earning status through action all in one scene. What a smart game.
