450 – Star Trek Rumors, CBS Streaming, & More Legendary Starships | Priority One: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
We trek out new Star Trek, House of Brands, Frakes on Gene’s Vision, we continue to review Legendary Starships in Star Trek Online, & “Stardust City Rag”
seannewboy on 2020-03-16
cq1) Heck no, leave the dead alone.
cq2)nope, no interest.
Very entertaining, thanks for all of your hard work.
Tyler Maxwell on 2020-03-10
Should William Shatner Reprise His Role As Captain Kirk, Either as a Cameo or in a Title Role a la Picard?
WHY?! He (prime Kirk) BE DEAD. D-E-D DEAD. We saw him DIE in Generations; there’s NO MORE STORY TO TELL. Part of why I think that Picard has worked the way it has is that not only did Trekkies and casuals alike REALLLLY want the character and the setting back on TV, but Picard himself still had a lot of room to evolve and grow while saving the galaxy in the process. That’s the WHOLE REASON why Sir Patrick even agreed to do the new show in the first place; ‘cuz it wasn’t just a Next Gen reboot, but actually has a purpose beyond rehashing the show from 20+ years ago. Kirk, on the other hand, all his great adventures are behind him. He DID everything that he needed to do to be OK, and passed the torch on to other characters (like Picard). Maybe PineKirk (or perhaps a DiscoKirk?) could do some random prequel stuff (if there’s someone out there that actually wants that), but anything past that is just bringing Kirk back to…well, bring him back. To do nothing but exist for fanservice. Yay.
Are you more likely to pick up the MACO or Wrath of Khan costumes now that they’ve moved to the Lobi Store?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t they essentially more expensive now? Take the MACO uniform, for instance. It used to cost 2 “MILL-ION” dilithium, which certainly always sounded like an absurd amount of time-gated currency for the one costume. (Per CHARACTER too!) Assuming a 425 dil/zen exchange rate (the dil exchange has hopped above and below that line in the last week or so since the admiralty dilithium nerf), that 2 million dilithium would convert to ~4700 zen, or just over $47 US.
Compare that to the new Lobi Store price at 300 Lobi. At a rate of ~4 Lobi per opened Lockbox, each of which requires a Master Key to open them, it’ll take ~75 Master Keys to get that 300 Lobi. At 125 zen a piece, purchasing 75 Master Keys costs a total of 9375 zen, or just under $94 US. At a 425 dil/zen exchange rate, that converts to just under 4 million dilithium. Basically the costumes are now DOUBLE the price in Lobi store compared what they used to cost in dilithium. AND, they’re still character bind-on-pickup, AND the costume textures are still the fuzzy launch-era quality ones from when the costumes were first released; why would I want to pay DOUBLE the price for the same half-finished product?
Of course, all of this comparison is heavily dependent on the dil/zen exchange rate, so if the conversion rate went down, then a player could potentially earn the same amount of zen/Lobi for a much lower amount of dilithium. But in order for the same 300 Lobi/75 Master Keys/9375 zen to be obtainable at the original 2 MILL-ION dilithium price point, would require a dil/zen exchange rate in the low 200s (~213 dil/zen); HALF the current exchange rate for Zen, and a rate which hasn’t been seen in-game since March 2017. I’m having a hard time seeing that rate happening now, no matter how many dil nerfs+sinks that the devs introduce into the game. 🙁
Star Trek: Picard, Episode 6 — “The Impossible Box”
The scenes with Picard and Hugh were pretty solid, and Soji finally learns the location of her home, before going ‘Robo Hulk SMASH!’ to narrowly escape being killed by Narek’s Romulan child’s toy (of COURSE the Romulans put lethal gas canisters inside their toys), so the main plot is actually moving now! The ‘Jurati and Rios GET IT ONNN!’ scene seemed kinda pointless, just sexytime drama for its own sake. And how the hell did Elnor, ya know the newbie who JUST left the assassins convent for the first time and knows NOTHING about the galaxy at large, use the transporter in the back of the room to get off the ship completely undetected, somehow sneak his way around a BORG CUBE, AND end up at the one hidden spot that both the Romulan super spies living there AND many of the BORG didn’t know about, just in time to save the day? That’s a lot of plot convenience there, buddy. :p And then Elnor just decides to stay behind (probably ‘cuz he has to fight other Romulans to look cooler than them or something) to cover Picard and Soji’s escape through the trajector, when he could have just, ya know, WALKED THROUGH AFTER THEM. *facepalm*
ChiyoUmiku on 2020-03-07
Definately going to be popping some lockboxes for the Wrath of Khan uniforms so my 23rd TOS Team can have the best looking starfleet uniforms ever.
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