CAPTAIN'S BLOG

Personally I am VERY excited from what I have read so far, I know I am gonna make a new toon to play through the new content with, I did it with Delta recruits, I will do it with this.

I am also musing about whether or not to get the big package offered "free" ships etc. is mightily tempting to me, especially seeing as I got a lifer account and want to support them some more, yes, I buy zen like most other player do ever so often, but I see it as a way to give them a lil thanks for makeing such a great game and still make it better all the time.

I have a Lifetime account as well & I used to buy Zen most times whenever there was a sale as an act of showing support even when I didn't need it till a couple of Summers ago when they banished the dilithium store & retroactively converted some of my non-binding to character-bound items. I sent in a ticket for customer service & showing the activity showing how I had used my account bank to move the items around to one of my "mule" toons for later use. Still no help & they wouldn't even make them account-bound which would had allowed them to be used. I had bought like a dozen, a lot of dilithium for me, & since I have 17 toons I had planned ahead for when I leveled those others toons up. I still keep all those items on the toon to remind me not to buy anymore Zen now LOL. Point: I'll gladly support a game that shows support for me as a player too but not blindly.
Nevertheless this Agents of Yesterday does seem promising, but potentially limiting unless totally for Federation. After all we can only pilot 1 starship at a time. Any consoles that the ships come with will end-up being the selling point, otherwise, it so far appears to be like a 1/2 expansion, but I'm sure there's still lots of details to be released.

I have to admit, I'm not excited for this.

I don't know why and forgive me for saying so, what the is the bloody facination with the '60's trek? Granted it started all of it off but I cannot fathom why it is so popular -especially- in America. Beyond it's quintessentially American hallmarks of sexual innuendo, chest-beating and wars there isn't anything of substance that happened. Yet, here we are 50 years later and all -any- star trek franchise maker does is go back to it; Star trek movies, Fan made movies, games. For a series about the future and the betterment of mankind I do find it woefully ironic that all we do with it now is go back to it's past and want to see more explosions and wars.

Roddenberry must be turning in his grave.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I loved -all- the TOS movies, infact I believe there was more substance in the movies than the TOS Episodes. Therein lies my problem. I just didn't feel like it was "Star trek" until TNG, exploration and the feeling of being on the frontier, TOS gave me the feeling of always going out and looking for a fight or something to screw more than anything, I just didn't find it was done in a tasteful way.
Now we seem to be looping back to TOS-era movies and games and they're not much better, infact they seem to go that way because they depict a more violent, unstable Starfleet and can thus, get away with the conflict. To me it seems like the writers are taking the easy way out and going with something as simple as a curious "Don't give a crap" human race and an unexplored Galaxy rather than an established set of rules and a curious but stand-offish federation.

As a rebuttle to the end of your reply; I don't think any -Fans- do think that but these aren't done for the fans, they're done to pull in more people .. and what do these new crowds like? Chest-beating, 'splosions with T&A thrown in. Which pretty much somes up Star trek '09?

You are applying 2016 sensibilities to a show produced 50 years ago. Times have changed, and perceptions with them. I happen to prefer the two-fisted Kirk approach, Picard was always a little too professor-like to me.

But then what do I know? I'm just a chest thumping barbaric American...

Where is the bank or even the mail in AoY i can not find it anywhere's at all on bridge or elsewhere ,Please help

Sparticus, If you are in one of the TOS ships, go to the crew deck and in the conference room you will find the bank.