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Interesting theory. If you’d never previously seen “Discovery” called STD, what made you choose it?

Care to explain what you mean?

Seems like something you’d want to discuss with your doctor.

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.

I think in this case it’s likely a WizKids thing, but yeah, licensed games can frequently be prettier slapdash.

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.

Hollywood nepo babies are a real problem.

This is the type of quality c/risa needs. Thank you.

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."

What does Burnham get served to her?

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”.

You are awesome.

Accurate.

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.

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.

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.

Mariner seems like she's done self sabotaging, so none of them, really.

I really enjoyed Resurgence starting out, and without giving too much away, I liked the general thrust of the story, but man there are certain points along the way where you really see the Telltale cracks in the Trek facade.

It was a lot to scrub through every episode of Trek to find all the relevant instances, but I do feel like that’s the sort of accuracy people have come to expect.

Nice catch. Thanks!