CAPTAIN'S BLOG

The whole thing made no sense to me. It looked to me like none of the Iconians would have survived without our help, meaning the war would never have happened, and we still let them go. The last 5 years was our fault and instead of undoing the changes we made we let billions of people die in wars that shouldn't have happened.

I was pleasantly surprised with the ending of Midnight. The earlier episodes had led me to think we were going to be the attacker who almost destroyed the Iconian civilization. Turning Star Trek into Mein Kampf and the Holocaust was not a prospect I was looking forward to.

Besides, both the holographic and actual attempts to change the past turned out to be disasters. Who knows what would have happened if the Iconians had actually been destroyed.

I'm a sucker for time travel stories, but most of them aren't very well thought out. Just about all scientists have convinced themselves that time travel is impossible, and the ones who aren't convinced don't understand the Theory of Relativity. By writing a story in which the present day history is unable to be changed by the time travelers, but their actions in the past are able to change the future, the authors avoided the paradoxes that plague most time travel stories. (The existence of a paradox is always the result of an incorrect or incomplete
explanation of an event.)

I thought the action in the story was a good mix of space action and ground action, mixed with a healthy dose of diplomacy. As far as the battles lacking the scale of a true Armageddon, you can only do so much on a small screen. Even on the big screen, the producer off the movie "Troy" was shocked when he saw what a thousand ships looked like on screen. He immediately cut the number down to a hundred and the movie was the petter for it.

Now, since our next series will be built around exploration, Im going to explore the galaxy map and see where they put Dewa III.

You missed the biggest loophole: just go to Dewa II (heck we have a transwarp) and give the world seed back. there problem done. No reasons for the iconian to be mad.

That is going to be a massive review, cannot wait for it.

I definitely did like the ending of Midnight, and it was a well deserved ending over all the other stuff we still have to deal with...

Akin, all the new plotlines or plot holes we get in Season 11: A New Dawn.. akin to the canon enemy from the shows finally coming to STO.

Overall the whole Iconian story up to Midnight has left me cold. The Iconians, to me personally, seem to be creatures that escaped from Nerverwinter and the whole story line seemed rushed and half baked.

However..."Midnight" I thoroughly enjoyed. I did spot the plot holes which gave me a WTF? moment or two but overall I thought it was a well laid out, well thought out finale mission.

Sela SHOULD have been arrested on sight when she set foot on Earth, but I would guess that she would not have resisted given her remorse at the fact that she was the cause of the loss of her home world, and the effect of that on her mental health. I think there may be a spin off mission or two on the cards based on that point alone.

I'm just pleased to see a line drawn under the Iconian story now and REALLY looking forward to the prospects of exploration.

I actually liked midnight, but I felt it should have been much longer. 3-4 Episodes exploring the time of the Iconians and the enemies they made. Overall though at least it didn't end with 'it was all a dream' aka, this never existed in history which I was afraid of with the Annorax

On June 22nd, I stated my feeling that we may travel back in time 200,000 years and witness the events. I'm glad that we did not actively participate in a genocide here.

Like Attilio, I like having T'Ket as a potential villain in the future.

I wonder, if the return of the Dominion btw is an indicator as to what awaits in Season 11. Wouldn't it be awesome to finally get into the Gamma Quadrant?

Loved it as well. That it was that angry Klingon who convinced us in the end, that they stayed true to Star Trek's high ideals, ... everything Worked.

IMHO there are probably no plans for T'Ket right now. She's just there to justify from an in-game view why We're still playing Gateway to Gre'thor etc. after the Iconian war ended.

As to Sela: One of the blogs on Cryptic's web site explains that she's expecting to be arrested soon, that everyone's just too happy to see the war end to deal with her right away.

But yeah, I'm curious what becomes of her. I don't think it befits the character to suddenly be good, but I'd love to have her (and Denise Crosby's voice acting) back in the future.