TASHA YAR'S Logs | Star Trek Online Story Series E93
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2024
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Agent Daniels arrives unannounced with a declaration of unfinished business. Our time investigating the Enterprise C has left some unintended consequences.
There were survivors of that altered timeline and Yar may be among them.
#STOSS
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I don't get people's dislike of how Sela's arc ends in this. It's very Star Trek.
She doesn't die during a sword fight, get kicked down a bottomless pit, or tackled off a cliff and choked while falling into a volcano. She gets cornered, captured, has a heart to heart about her mother's fate and agrees to go to prison. End of story.
It's nice.
I think that what she found out in Midnight kind of broke her world view a bit, already, as well. The escaping from Starfleet HQ and finding another pocket of loyalists was sort of reflexively falling back on the survival strategies that had served her all her life, but her heart wasn't quite as in it.
This way, she gets to know her mother as much as one can, secondhand, though Data's memory probably makes for the most accurate secondhand knowledge one can be given.
The salute at Tasha's grave was a nice touch.
Captain: Hey Sela. You never returned any of my calls from the last party!
Sela: Oh...it's you....
Captain: She remembers me! *looks around at the crew*
Sela: *Sighing embarrassed*
Tarsi: (facepalm)
T'Mino (My Discovery Era Vulcan)
"Although I have Romulan Ancestry I must say that the complexity of Human Humor often escapes me."
Vicki T'Pharrell: (T'Mino's XO and significant other)
"It's... It's embarrassing."
T'Kira: (The Kid of the two)
"I find it... Interesting."
"Oh. It's you again."
If I had a gold-pressed latinum strip for every time I heard THAT greeting, I'd own my own moon.
What, are you secretly Quark's Arms-Dealing Cousin or some such?
I found the additional comments Rick made to Sela as Mark Hale over the course of this episode to be quite, amusing. It felt like there was genuine dialogue/banter between the two and a sense of familiarity rather than the blank-slate muteness the player-captain has due to game limitations.
Also I'm impressed with the Devs continued characterization of Sela making her a developed anti-villain antagonist.
Thanks! I do think that they did a good job (as best as they can because...STO...) with Sela's character. It sort of paints her as someone whose internal arrogance is so strong that she thinks only she knows what's best for her people and she still can't let go of the power, regardless of how much guilt she piles on.
@@CertifiablyIngame I've really come to enjoy interacting with Sela in the game. To borrow a line from the original Battlestar Galactica series, "Isn't she wonderfully devious?" She knows I don't like her or trust her, and I'm sure it's mutual, but she's willing to set that aside when our goals align. An excellent politician - or mob boss.
I think what makes her so fascinating (and tragic) is she has integrity and courage from her mother, and political savvy and the will to use it from her father. So her machinations lead her to places and people that her conscience doesn't like, but to her the best way to resolve the conflict is to succeed.
And Hale's sarcastic wit is the perfect complement to Sela's pride. I'd pay real money to see what you could do if you could write her dialog as well as Hale's!
@@CertifiablyIngame Supposedly, Denise Crosby enjoyed how STO fleshed out Tasha/Sela, which is why she was so willing to reprise those roles.
"Tell me about my mother."
"She was a brave and wonderful woman... Who saved the world."
34:48 When any actor depicts a VULCAN speaking like that, it's BAD NEWS for the characters. Because you have then are left with whatever could have messed up a Vulcan, THAT BAD! They live for self discipline, and hearing a Vulcan's emotional restraint at the breaking point... You know for a Vulcan that's their version of screaming their lungs out and ripping their hair out!
You could hear Seela's heart break in this.
But that ending..... wow
It hit me hard too, Sela has humanity within her, no matter how Romulan she appears to be.
@@joby-wankenobinolan3428 Remember, Romulans are just Vulcans without the fetish for cool logic, and Vulcans are very human... when they deem it logical to be so. 😊
Well, she'shad quite a revealing adventure. First to find out she was the cause of her homeworld's destruction, then to find out her mother was alive all this time and that pretty much everything her father told her was a lie.
"Tell me about my mother."
"Well to understand the tragedy of Natasha Yar you must first know of a man named Rick Berman..."
ïts not a tale the Jedi would tell you"
Funny how STO has treated Denise Crosby much better than the producers of the actual show. She should have been in NEM...
STO is canon to me.
its the snark Rick adds to the character that makes this so much more fun to watch then just a dry play through.
I am very much a fan of the way Cryptic resolves the stories of Tasha and Sela.
Daniels reading temporal reports "Hale, did you just break YOUR OWN timeline? That is impressive, even for you."
OR
*cracking sound* Daniels "Hale, what did you do?"
This mission irks me so much because originally it was long after the Temporal Cold War Arc yet the put it here because... plotholes. This "chronologically" happened during the Tzenketh storyline, not long after discovering a long-forgotten space station, thus why Daniels here looks fine.
Yeah, most of their changes to the story arc made sense when they started cleaning things up, but then they got sloppy.
i hate temporal mechanics too, don't feel bad.
Seeing Yar's grave and Sela's reaction actually bought tears to my eyes... which is rare for this particular game
Ah, yes. Out of all the election nonsense, at last, a breeze of sanity and refresh from my favourite UA-camr.
Thanks Ric.
President Okeg colluded with the Romulans!
@@MgaTalunanKayo Dang it!
@@MgaTalunanKayo I give up.
@@MgaTalunanKayo Well, yes? We've been allies with the Romulan Republic for a while now, you know...
This just hits me in the heart so much hope she finds the peace she is searching for.
Well i recently started playing STO and i have to admit it only boosts my respect for the series here. So much damn fighting in this game... You know exactly that a peaceful solution results in a third party being shot at or a bruise them into submission. I am only at the Borg story by now and got beaten over and over again by two cubes v9ut hightailing out of combat doesn't seem to do anything. So my deepest respect to Rick and thanks for making this series. It is way more approcable and joyful in this way. Captain Illia T'Ye V'yger of the USS Dilandau over and out.
The right BOFF abilities are essential. You can heal hull and shields, stop the Borg from taking over with Hazard Emitters. Also make sure you understand what the different gear does. Like which makes you tankier, and which buffs your weapons.
@@BNutsThank you for the tip i only struggled with the cubes and the diamond in the fluidic space. I found a solution to my problem in a very unusual way. I have very high armor plating and so far all of my addons/abilities either boost shields or hull this allows me to simply outtank allmost every enemy so far encountered and it helped to get the cubes down to 45% hull damage before i die... So i lured them by accident to my spawn point and throw my dead bodys on them... For about 4 Times
After that battle i took some raxing tries on the delithium trading... The ingame menus especially on Xbox aren't my favorites tbh but i managed to buy 28 zen...
For my second attemp on online games after 5 days of playing i feel allmost comfortable by know.^^°
@@CRYOKnox The Borg are able to take shields down very quickly and very easily, which is what usually makes them such a big threat. Hull heals are good for keeping them from burning through your ship, and you will want to have Hazard Emitters available to you as often as possible. Keep moving, because they can punish you with their plasma torps, and keep doing strafing runs against the same facing as much as you can. The good news about those torpedoes is you can also shoot them down. If you have Fire at Will or Scattering Fire you should be able to take those out without actually targeting them. And depending on your career-based skills and Traits, you should be able to keep your hull even higher.
The funny thing is that as my main is an Engineer, I can only use her Support Fleet III when the ship's hill is 50% or lower, so I want it to fall low enough to enable it, and then use Support Fleet followed by Miraculous Repairs. Tactical Officers will want to pile on their buffs, and Science Officers will want to keep the enemy offline as much as possible.
It also matters which energy type you're using on your weapons. Plasma and antiproton both do bonus damage in different ways. Phasers can offline one random system. Disruptors and tachyon both do damage to shields. Polaron can offline a subsystem. Which one you choose to go with generally depends on which career track you're on (or your endeavours for the day), but remember not to mix them into a rainbow boat, or you're spreading the damage buffs from Tactical Consoles too thin. Alternatively you can build a torpedo boat by using mostly or all torpedo weapons, and punishing enemies with those.
If you need help I can assist in the mission. I have did all the story arc's in the game some missions are solo but other can be done with others.
i think i hitted a very hard part for single players. I am now in the dyson sphere and have to get this control points. I just starting to understand the buff debuff abilitys in ground and space combat a bit. Just grabbed my third ship and try to manage my over cluttering inventory as good as possible. Now using a Galaxy class with my latest level up. Im still rainbowing my weapons because i didn't thought about using the buff consoles on anything other than on my two mine launchers at my aft. I at least reduced tge amount if dying to 1, 2 times against a cube. Im in scinece but took as many buffs to hull, shields, and regen as i could. Its my first typical char a jacknof all trades and i guess i made some hard mistakes for buffing decisions but hey getting better means learning... Hard way (V'ger will be the most known DIA Captain ever being more times revoked as tribbles could get babys).
Oh and thanks for the help offering i may come back to it. Im still new to online games (STO is my second) and after a bit (lot) of frustration i took a little break for Fallout and Mass Effect.
Rick; the USS Pastek is from the 29th century, not the 26th century. Just pointing that out.
This mission is an amazing fan service hosted by actress Denise Crosby. After playing i felt more sympathy for Sela, if only she got more guidance from her mom, she would be in a better state
4:47 "I've got a bad feeling about this," says Daniels. Sounds like he might've learned that little phrase from a certain galaxy far, far away.... 😁
He heard it from someone from the Andromeda Galaxy?
Poor Tasha Yar. She's had such a hard life.
Both of her.
Yea, but there was that one dialogue, that stated she had a long a good life with her new partner. A simple life.
@@airnoiphongsavath8509 She didn't live happily ever after, but she lived and she had happiness.
Great sendoff for Sela after the Iconian War and everything that lead up to it.
STO has made Sela so much more complex then she already was lol
9:35 if only there was a T6 Pioneer class. The hilarity of Sela in a TOS styled ship that clowned on her fleet would have been really good.
Every week brings us closer to Captain Kuumaarke . The best Original Character in STO.
39:00 ; "Two'Nae". If it turns out there is a "Three'Nae" things will really get out of hand.
Picard --> 🤦♂️
A Fistful of T'Nae
Probably the best send off to Yar than she's ever got.
Not true! This episode is meant as a coda to the entire Agents of Yesterday storyline, after all the missions and the climax as a last bit of closure. Daniels is snagging your character because of your history with Sela. This comes after the great setpiece. Actually, most of these episodes should come after the Sunrise trilogy.
Just thinking about this; For us, it's been ages since the Enterprise C incident, but for the USS Pastak it's probably the same day. Ain't time travel grand XD
Yeah this is definitely supposed to be set after the temporal cold war arc. Thanks STO...
"Quaint little ship..."
Me in my Lexington class dreadnought: **indignant sputtering**
I like my dreadnought cruiser with 3 nacelles Yamato class I think
Me with my Matsumoto class
Me in my Inquiry: ''little and Riker-approved, thanks!"
19:15 Tal Shiar prisoner 24601 is an easter egg from “Les Misérables.” That was Jean Valjean’s prisoner number.
Thank you for doing these videos it gives me a different view of the missions that I have done in the past. Fleet Admiral Robert and the U.S.S. Challenger (NX T6 lobi) stand by to assist.
5:11 this has to be the best example of way you give your character custom dialogue that matches what the game characters say.
Wow, for a moment, I thought that beaming Sela onto a 29th Century Starfleet Time ship could be a bad move had she had other ideas in mind... Call me paranoid but when Romulans are concerned and especially Sela...
A year late but you ain't paranoid
Thanks for the episode Rick, it was so sad to see the fate of Tasha...
With all the history Sela and Hale have at this point that entire conversation at around 9 minutes felt more like a Romulans bad attempt at Flirting... and thats my headcanon from now on
i know this came out a few days after Halloween but i find this to be a great Halloween story or rather a ghost story. for what else is a ghost but a memory that refuses to be forgotten? I do hope Sela is finally able to find some peace after all this
Ty! I'm a Subscriber who breathes a sigh of relief whenever u release another installment of ur several playlists in my Library. If I clicked Like on all ur videos I enjoy, then I'd never be able to find any of the few fm other ppl I've marked thusly.
I really should start playing again. This chapter warms my heart ever so
I had forgotten about this mission. Well done on portraying it.
That moment at the end of the episode felt like a teaser for something that never materialized.
Truly a great episode, almost sad 😥
Great work, thank you 😊
I love your videos. Your humor makes the game play so much better
Though just a brief moment, the saluting of Natasha at her grave illustrates the honor so often displayed in ST. This is sadly missing in both recent incarnations of the series.
You deserve more subscribers. Truly the last Star Trek content left Gene would be proud of holding the spirit of what he wanted it to be.
a new episode everyweek and loving it!
"It's a Starfleet vessel, we're not going to execute you." Because Section 31 doesn't execute people, they just make problems quietly disappear - often with a transporter set to maximum dispersal pattern.
Rick makes video, I click, I watch, I like. Well done sir.
Obviously the guy in the epilogue was originally supposed to be Data, but given recent temporal retcons that can't be the case, since in the current timeline he was never revived fully. Assuming this stays true of course.
Could be Picard. But I wish We could see Data in this Countdown comic was the better version of the fate of Data.
@@barrybend7189
Picard wouldn't have known jack crap about her.
Only Data would have known her better than the old French English man...
He's back! As of s3 of Picard.
I was planning to do the first Star Trek Online cinematic show, than found this, good job!
That mission just seemed to drag on and on. To me it should have been broken up into maybe three missions.
Love the salute.
Enjoy your videos very much. I don't play this, but probably should. Nice to see/hear Tasha again, even if it's a bummer.
I think the reason Sela is scared that she'll be executed is because that's what she would do in your place. She's exceedingly dangerous and has escaped too many times for anyone to be confident that they can hold on to her for long. If she was in your shoes, she wouldn't let someone like that live. It's a relatively pragmatic approach. On our best days we'd all ideally like to have criminals rehabilitated, but the sad truth is that some people can't be rehabilitated. For example, you can't cure psychopathy. Any psychopath who goes violent can't be rehabilitated. All the efforts to attempt to use therapy so far have only increased recidivism. It's theoretically possible to use a dopamine inhibitor to treat psychopathy--psychopaths have brains that reward them for following their impulses and the amount of pleasure they derive from following their impulses is stronger than the pleasure normal people experience. But think about the implications of doing so: is sentencing someone to never experience happiness from anything for the rest of their lives better than sentencing them to life in prison? I think most people would say it's a far crueler fate.
Some kinds of criminals simply can never be cured. The best we can do is protect other people from them. I think Sela knows that about herself which is arguably way more character development than you gave her credit for here.
I mean, she might also actually think that's something the federation does. Most hardcore star empire people probably assume the federation's image and rep are just good and pervasive propaganda, it's certainly what the tal shiar and senate were always telling them. Sela maybe can't believe the federation could actually be mostly as self-described.
19:10 Where are my crossover Star Trek/Broadway nerds at?
Les Misérables, Jean Valjean.
Let’s not look them in the eye. Especially since I for one do not want to be here until I die!
So she meets with Data at the end.
I guess Sela requested some data from Data
Probably the best source of personal knowledge. In that his memory is perfect, not because they hooked up, mind out of the gutter! :P
And Data shows up at the end.
In my opinion it would’ve been more impactful to call up Admiral Picard to fulfill Sela’s request, but the ending is nice either way
It just hit me that it’s supposed to be Data so nvm
Only if they was willing to shell out half a million for any likeness of that terrible character.
To this day I still wish Picard died at the end of the Borg arc and Riker taken over because around that time Roddenberry was kicked upstairs and better writers took over.
4:47 wrong franchise
I always got the impression this episode was set after the Iconian War and Future Proof story arcs. This would make sense with Daniels being back in good health, and Sela ultimately surrendering and agreeing to go to jail.
Also, it was released after these arcs in the real world as well.
I hope we get to find out who the mystery man is thats pulling all these strings,also anybody else feel like we should have a Kelvin timeline story line(and i mean full story line)
Semi-used future, shaky cam, lens flares, people getting spaced, the ship getting beaten to an inch of its life, an over the top madman wanting to blow up some important location out of petty vengeance, where to start...?
@@BlueSatoshi
You forgot ship powered by beer!
"she seems eratic and attacks us with a disrupter she found" Well she was one of Captain Hale's Commanding Officers for awhile. And Vulcan's don't generally find stress relief in heavy drinking and green strippers the way Admiral Quinn does. So shoot to kill on sight it is!
So Pictae is the Tal Shair's Shadow Town, then?! If anyone has played as a Republic character in SWTOR will know what I'm talking about!
Shouldn't that be Imperial? Agent specifically?
@@thomasjoychild4962 In Swtor, you visit shadow town as part of your quests on Nar Shadda. Mainly the fallen Jedi quest as well as your republic class quests there. But on the imperial side, the Agent class you do go to a specific section to visit a former watcher incarcerated there.
@@RockRedGenesis Ahh k, I've only seen let's play class story videos and it only showed up in the IA one, but gotcha.
That intro was so introsting 😝
Wasn't Captain Hindsight actually the commanding officer of the USS Obnoxious?
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, and over the neighbor's dog?
In THIS episode, we have: T'Nae suffering from entropic cascade failure.
I love these episodes
That was a good mission.
Didn't Sela sell out her mom when she tried leaving?
She screamed and it brought guards.
I mean she was a toddler when it happened right?
@@pjmetzen3483 Not exactly but she was less than 5 years old, I believe. Not enough to make an informed decision, so she really can't be blamed.
@@cpasr8065 Yeah, she was a kid who didn't want to be taken from her life.
Loved this episode, it was great
Can you not rotate the camera around your character in the PS4 version of this game? I can't figure it out.
41:05 DATA!!!!!
You’ll note the unsaid portion of Daniels briefing “There’s a temporal duplicate of Admiral T’nae running around... AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!”
Actually, it is his peoples fault. They *had* a timeship right there, when sending the Enterrpise to when it was needed.
While the player Character did not even have his prime timeline memories.
@@christopherg2347 Yeah, like I said in the other video. These two missions really get completely broken by the TOS character start that bumps you forward as a “Temporal Agent” from the 23 to 25th century. The Mark Hale character and his crew should not have lost their memories, at least not of each other. They jumped OVER the Temporal Incursion caused by the Enterprise C. They would recognize the story Castillo and Yar were telling about the ship believed destroyed in heroic battle in the past, mixed up in timey wimey weirdness, because they did it first. “Enterprise C! Bah! Been there done that! Let me tell you about the Pioneer class Armitage! Oh and did a weird Future dude named Daniels show up yet? I’d like a word with him.”
that was...touching.
Another dose of sanity in 2020. Hale's getting sloppy though, no genocide or obliteration of a timeline in a while now.
He can't break what was already broken in this one: the timeline.
Or, more likely, it’s set chronologically when it’s set and they put in the wrong version of Daniels...
thank you
Wow that is a lot to keep take of time travel through space
Excellent!
23:53 ha lol
'' Hailing frequencies closed sir ''
That must be Data visiting her in prison, right?
B4 with Datas memories if there sticking to canon but yeah the pale skin, haircut and engineers uniform seem to fit the bill. Whether it was done just for us fans or for a plotline in the future where yet to find out..
Thoughts on the new mass effect teaser trailer & perceptions & where the story may lead?
as chief o Brian once quipped: 'temporal mechanics'....
I wonder if Daniels is the Envoy... or somehow an alternate timeline/reality/place/thingy version that seem to be merging with OUR Daniels. Somehow. Trans-dimensional Recursion Wave Entropy?
Celia’s last line got me
24601, same number as Valjean from Les Mis.
You missed a golden opportunity to say by the power of love :P
Is that tasha yarr's voice actress? Lol
Jean Valjean… Who am I? i'm 24601
If you’re Valjean then I’m Chavert.
@@Enterprise-D666 Who’s Chavert?
@@koppadasao He’s the inspector who chased Valjean.
@@Enterprise-D666 His name is Javert
@@koppadasao I was close in the spelling.
I see what you did there, with 24601.
Wait a minute. Data is dead!
And the 31st century Starfleet no longer exists!
Gah, I hate temporal mechanics.
He's back now, and the prison Sela's in is one "current" to the STO time period. Daniels' 31st century organisation isn't quite starfleet, just starfleet-like according to Enterprise.
who's the guy who talks to Sheila at the end and she asks tell me about my mother who the hell is that person who is it is it Picard who is it
It's supposed to be Data. Before Picard aired Data had been reborn in B4 and had reclaimed his position in Starfleet, even captaining the Enterprise after Picard became an Admiral. Now since Data is truly "dead", it's unknown who that is
@@nathanielheilmann7351 these events take place after Picard and seven of nine is still like her voyager self so why can't it be Data?
Oh, that is Data. Back in nemesis he copied his memories over into B4. But his personality did not fully resurface, until they installed a new Emotion Chip. Then he was pretty quickly reinstated and took over the Enterprise.
sto.gamepedia.com/24th_Century#2385
However things are more then a bit in flux right now, given that Picard is canonizing different events right over STO's neat history....
@@cormacmacsuibhne2867 Because that's conflicting with new canon.
@@cormacmacsuibhne2867 And they only have Seven looking liker her voyager self because the Delta arc is an homage to Voyager (and in-universe its handwaved as "So people who have dealt with Voyager know its her") while she returns to her Picard self after leaving the Delta arc
The point of this mission was almost certain to write Sela out of the narrative
well .... you say tasha is dead , but ....most of her missfortune is due to timey wimey things ......... so ?
How can anything be *after* the temporal cold war?
this mission always confused me in terms of what it is meant to contribute to the story or chapter
Hey, but rewards are nice.
Also, it bothers the hell out of me when my toon just fired on the Tholian ships over the planet, instead of just, I don't know, talk?
There goes Starfleet's ideal of pacifism.
It's meant to close up loop-holes from the Enterprise C mission. After all only your captain was beamed away from the Enterprise-C by Walker. He didn't evacuate T'nae
@@nathanielheilmann7351 "Walker, dind't you forget something?"
"I got myself, my ship, the Captain..."
"what about T'nae?"
"Oh, dangit. Not again!"
"Walker!!!"
Closure. That is enough. The rewards are also a nice bonus.
@@christopherg2347 The TDI are absolutely incompetent.
24601.... jeez