So, about that giveaway I mentioned....

No sooner do I make this posting http://startrekquesnel.blogspot.ca/2016/01/hurry-i-just-found-out-giveaway-from-sto.html  that I jump into the game and try to collect my prizes. However, I run into a slight roadblock to that goal. It seems it wasn't available to me, despite following the directions given.

So, I opened up the Star Trek Online forums and made my first posts there http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1211143/seems-i-am-not-worthy-to-claim-a-giveaway in hopes of getting a response from the community. I had suspicions of this possible scenario, since I tried claiming other prizes that wouldn't go into my account, but from promotional codes.

The first answer back was what I was expecting. I had held out hope, since this was a special occasion, I could still be able to claim these ships, even to be unlocked by my characters at a later date. However, this just wasn't meant to be.

Too bad, doesn't give me much incentive to keep playing now, does it?

Hurry, I just found out, a giveaway from STO!

Since I have been spending most of my gaming time on Star Trek Timelines, I haven't kept any of my eyes on Star Trek Online. So, with very little time left to cash in on a giveaway, I will post this here, just in case you happen to be playing too and didn't know about it either https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9739823

Starship Sunday V

Starship Sunday is a showcase feature of cannon spacecraft seen in Star Trek television episodes and movies.

This week; USS Bozeman, NCC-1941, Soyuz Class. Seen on Star Trek The Next Generation, Episode 5x18 Cause and Effect. First aired 23 March 1992.

In 2278, Starship Bozeman entered an area of space known as the Typhon Expanse and was reported lost when it entered a temporal distortion. Later, in 2368, the Bozeman was able to escape the distortion and encountered the Enterprise D, but both ships collided, causing the Enterprise to be destroyed. Being within a close proximity to the unstable temporal distortion, a temporal causality loop was formed where Bozeman continually and repeatedly encounter, collide and destroy the Enterprise over and over.

Eventually, the Enterprise crew would change this pre-determined series and outcomes of events and both ships were freed of the loop. The crew of the Bozeman would learn there were almost one hundred years in the future, from when they started their last voyage.

The Bozeman, still in active service, would be forced to make a course correction when the Amargosa star was destroyed in 2371. Two years later, the Bozeman was back in action when a Borg cube invaded Sector 001, a part of the defending Earth fleet.

Make time for the lines

In Star Trek related gaming, I have been spending a little more time on my Android app, Star Trek Timelines than my PC game. Slowly leveling up....

....discovering some interesting bugs, some which are amusing....

....another gave me a temporary advantage to the game.

I finally collected a doctor, a character with a very elusive trait it seems, to finish off some previously uncompleted missions, due to being locked to not having one.

Although I have unlocked a lot of the universe so far, I find myself going back to finish off episode and playing them over and over, in an attempt to collect rare rewards and level my characters up.

There's no hurry really, I have all the time in....

What ever happen to....

....the Vulcan Shuttle Surak? Only ever seen for a brief moment, during Start Trek The Motion Picture, delivering Spock to the disabled Starship Enterprise. I thought how it docked was pretty cool too!

However, after this short scene, it was just gone. And, when I mean gone, poof, never to be seen again onscreen. This has always struck me as odd, since Star Trek, from the shows through the movies, has recycled many ship models in either their original form or modified to stand-in for something else/new. But, not this one?

Even out in the real world, only one model was produced. Although the box art has been updated over the years....

....finding one in a local store can be a daunting task. The internet has opened up the possibilities of acquiring one with better success, these days.

Still, I wonder if this forgotten ship will ever make another appearance onscreen, someday....

What if?

With the third Star Trek movie, set in the J.J. Abrams' re-visioned but alternate universe, set for release soon, I thought I would have a look back and consider something. With a new cast and other big changes, what if one thing wasn't changed from the Star Trek most of us have known all our lives?

If you have seen the first two films or not, you might be familiar with the above picture anyways. Right before the first movie rolled into theaters, there was a mass media blitz of commercials on just about every electronic device that could broadcast them.

This simple scene from those commercials, showing the Enterprise under construction in an Iowa field (yeah, but don't go there) set in motion a mixed bags of emotions on how this icon was....changed....improved....altered....pick your own wording.

However, what if the ship remained as it always was, as many wished it would have stayed as, how it could have been....

 

Starship Sunday IV

Starship Sunday is a showcase feature of cannon spacecraft seen in Star Trek television episodes and movies.

This week; HMS Bounty, Klingon K'Vort Class. Renamed for Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, released 26 November 1986.

In 2285, the commander and crew of the late Starship Enterprise captured a Klingon Bird of Prey, while in orbit above the Genesis Planet. Under new command, the Bird of Prey left orbit as the unstable planet exploded and traveled to Vulcan. It was there, during a three month period of exile, the ship was named with a nod to historical irony. 

The Bird of Prey departed for Earth, only to be informed a probe of alien origin was causing environmental havoc to Earth. The crew, deducing the probe's intentions, traveled back and time, collected two humpback whales, then traveled forward in time, so a response to the probe could be made.

When the Bird of Prey arrived back to the correct time, it was caught in the same effect as other starships, losing power. Unlike the other starships, the Bird of  Prey returned inside the atmosphere and was crashing to the Earth. Narrowly missing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Bird of Prey made a water landing in the bay. The whales were freed from the sinking ship and the crew was rescued.

It is unknown if the ship sunk to the bottom or was later salvaged by Starfleet Intelligence.