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I'm on a roll in gauntlet. Picked up Caretaker about a month ago, Balok from a 3-streak last week, and today Armus dropped from an 8th place finish--only missing Guinen now I believe.

Ancient Humanoid is set to have the "cultural figure" trait, it is part of next week's server release.

Sure would be nice if Li Nalas had the cultural figure trait he deserves for an entire month of cultural figure bonuses...

This mega is off to a weird start. WRG picked 'Divine being' and 'Historical retelling of man who ended 700 years of strife' as the two crew to kick off their Cultural Figure mega and gave neither of them the Cultural Figure trait. Not only does that make them useless for the rest of the month, but it's just not true to the show and makes their inclusions make that much less sense.

Quarren of the Kyrian's traits are kind of a mess. Casual and Linguist do not fit his episode at all. We only ever see him "on duty"/working as museum curator and entangled in a volatile social conflict throughout the episode - perhaps the trait was conflated with Civilian.

There's also no evidence of his skill in languages, which are not referenced at all in the episode and presumably a universal translator is being used. I'm guessing based on these two traits and the new Historian trait that someone felt a bit stuck after Exoarchaeology and didn't want to leave him at one trait?

Missing traits:

Kyrian - His race.

Civilian - He works at the Museum of Kyrian Heritage and is referenced as the owner ("You built this museum"), though it's not clear if that's a literal statement or referring to his work building the museum's prestige. There is no military affiliation mentioned in the episode.

Investigator - He works to uncover the truth of the situation from about the halfway point of the episode through questioning people and helping to reconstruct the tricorder to uncover empirical data.

EMH: I never meant to throw your beliefs into doubt, but I can't deny what I know to be true.
QUARREN: I realise that now, and I want to know the truth. And I want the Arbiters to know it, too.

VASKAN ARBITER: I'm sorry you see it that way. I think we are obligated to hear what the Doctor has to say. Proceed with your investigation.
QUARREN: Yes, Arbiter.

QUARREN: The Kyrians are demanding you be punished for your crimes, but the Vaskans want to hear your version of events again. They want to continue the investigation.

Inspiring and Cultural Figure - The end of the episode reveals that the previous ~40 minutes were a retelling from a historical museum further in the future and that Quarren and the Doctor both inspired a massive cultural shift after nearly a millennia of conflict and were important enough figures to be included in their history books as the catalysts for that change.

TABRIS: It was a pivotal moment in our history. As a result of the Doctor's testimony, a dialogue was opened between our peoples. Eventually, we found a new respect for our divergent cultures and traditions. The efforts of people like Quarren and the Doctor paved the way for unity. Quarren died six years later, but he lived long enough to witness the Dawn of Harmony.

Current trait set: Casual, Exoarchaeology, Linguist, Historian

Proposed trait set: Kyrian, Exoarchaeology, Historian, Civilian, Investigator, Inspiring, Cultural Figure

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Ancient Humanoid is missing the Explorer trait:

We left our world, explored the stars, and found none like ourselves. [...] Our scientists seeded the primordial oceans of many worlds, where life was in its infancy. [...] The seed codes also contained this message, which we scattered in fragments on many different worlds.

There's also a strong case for Inspiring. Humanoid's message was clearly meant to be that and a Romulan commander contacting the Enterprise with honied words is extremely unorthodox. He was moved by Humanoid's speech and/or their shared journey with the other species set in motion by Ancient Humanoid.

HUMANOID: It was our hope that you would have to come together in fellowship and companionship to hear this message. And if you can see and hear me, our hope has been fulfilled. You are a monument, not to our greatness, but to our existence. That was our wish, that you too would know life, and would keep alive our memory. There is something of us in each of you, and so, something of you in each other.

ROMULAN [on monitor]: Captain, my ships are leaving orbit for Romulan space. Until our next encounter.
PICARD: Until then.
ROMULAN [on monitor]: It would seem that we are not completely dissimilar after all, in our hopes, or in our fears.
PICARD: Yes.
ROMULAN [on monitor]: Well, then. Perhaps, one day.
PICARD: One day.

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With the introduction of the Historian trait, there are two other existing crew who claim that as their profession.

Aleek-Om

Captain's log, stardate 5373.4. [...] Our mission is to assist a team of historians in the investigation of Federation history. [Aleek-Om and Grey are referenced]

Marla McGivers

KIRK: I'll need somebody familiar with the late 20th-Century Earth. Here's a chance for that historian to do something for a change. What's her name? McIvers?
SPOCK: Lieutenant McGivers.

MARLA: Not personally, Captain. Professionally. My profession is historian, and when I find a specimen from the past alive, I'm in the sheer delight of examining his mind.

If you want to expand the trait a little bit to crew whose jobs aren't strictly that, but have a good deal of experience and demonstrate proficiency in that area, there are several other crew such as Galen, Picard and Number One, etc. who would qualify. Shan, if you could let us know how WRG intends to apply the trait in the future, that would be very helpful.

Maybe TP should stop basing things around traits if they aren’t willing to get the traits right.

AviTrek wrote: »

Mirror Cartman wrote: »

I cannot see an obvious trait from the campaign Sahil, so bonus crew could be season 3 Discovery crew. I'm guessing the new Tilly is from season 3.

Even more confusing than Sahil, I don't see any obvious trait for Kira. Spiritual and Maverick are the only two possibilities. We just had a maverick bonus event and I don't see spiritual being used. I guess either is possible or Kira could not be a bonus crew after her first event.

In the last mega only three of five golds were innovators. Three megas ago, none of the golds were survivalists. And, to their credit, in between was a very focused Tribble mega. Their theming and cohesion seems somewhat ephemeral.

Maybe it's a Cultural Figure mega to go with the new collection so they picked a literal God in Prophet Kira to kick things off and just forgot to give her the CF trait.

Welcome to the official Star Trek Timelines changelog!

Greetings, Captains!

With this week's server release WRG made the following changes to the game:

Li Nalas' SEC proficiency score changed from (260-508) to (296-512).

Thank you for playing!

The STAR TREK TIMELINES Stealth Change Monitor Team

W.W. Carlisle wrote: »

It's November now. We have two months to go. How's everyone doing? I hope everyone else is as happy with their progress as I am mine.

Nice job @W.W. Carlisle! So nice to be able to hit personal goals.

Since I last popped into this thread I've hit all my original goals plus some extra ones. All my episodes are now done at Epic level (goodbye galaxy map) & I've had a few +#1,500 event finishes recently, and I'm at 330 unique immortal cards.

I said I wasn't going to make any more goals but I reckon I might sneak two more in - try for a top #250 finish (will have to be a skirmish and probably a re-run/flashback), and level up my top #50 voyagers to see if I can hit 10hr more regularly.

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