Star Trek - The Final Frontier (Beta 1.0)

[rjord2021]

I am using my talents as a writer to script in new dialog for the races in the mod and the Klingons are the first to get new dialog.

Klingons will be true to form as they appear on Star Trek and when you meet them you will know them to be members of an honorable race of warriors.

There will be no nice words from them... no words such as "pleased to meet you" or "We are sorry. There must have been a mixup somewhere."

Klingons are never sorry and they would certainly not tell you even if they were.

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An example of the changes to the dialog........

When you contact the Klingons and receive a friendly greeting back from them you will get the following:

"You have a stupid, idiotic smile like everyone else seems to be wearing. Do you also have a tongue? Speak!"


Based on their friendly greeting you can imagine how they will greet you when they are feeling neutral or hostile towards you.

[rjord2021]

The Klingon dialog has been finished and it is really good. It is amazing the difference changing the dialog makes to the gameplay of Distant Worlds.

The Klingons cannot help but insult you even when they are on friendly terms with your race.
Below is the tail end of their response when the Klingons are accused of attacking your race.

"Instead of provoking us in this way give us the starship captain who claimed we attacked you and we will sentence him and his crew to spend the rest of their lives as our guests on Rura Penthe."


or this reply from an angry Klingon

"The Klingon Empire finds your race unworthy of our attention and you are nothing more than a piece of baktag.
Is there a pile of rotting forshak in here, or is that smell coming from your ugly carcass?"

As I finish each race I do a quick test in the mod and then move on to changing the dialog for the next race.

I am leaving two of the races to the very end as they have not uttered one single word in all the times I have seen them.

[rjord2021]

We are the Borg.

Lower your shields and surrender your ship.

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

Your culture will adapt to service us.

Resistance is futile.”

[rjord2021]

Dialog for the Borg has been added.


How do I work out what phrases are used by races such as the Borg without watching all 21 tv episodes and one movie the Borg were in.

First I google for a list of all episodes the Borg were in.
The first appearance was in the TNG episode Q Who.

Google star trek Q Who transcript and open up the transcript for the episode.

Search the Page for the first line uttered by the Borg and note it down.
Do so for all Borg lines for ever 22 episodes/film they were in.

I then analyze their lines and create a modified and extended script which suits Distant Worlds and work out what the Borg would say if one of their cubes was attacked.

Several hours work but well worth it when you test the new dialog with the Borg sounding like the Borg.



From Q Who transcript

PICARD: Because her people had contact with the Borg, I have requested Guinan to participate in this conference. You are aware of what occurred just now in main Engineering.
GUINAN: Yes.
PICARD: What happened between your people and the Borg?
GUINAN: I wasn't there personally, but from what I'm told, they swarmed through our system. And when they left, there was little or nothing left of my people.
RIKER: Guinan, if they were that aggressive, why didn't the Borg attack? They could have but they didn't.
GUINAN: They don't do that individually. It's not their way. When they decide to come, they're going to come in force. They don't do anything piecemeal.
DATA: Then the initial encounter was solely for the purpose of gathering information.
GUINAN: Yes.
PICARD: How do we reason with them? Let them know that we are not a threat?
GUINAN: You don't. At least, I've never known anyone who did.
WORF [OC]: Captain, we are being hailed.
PICARD: On screen.
(An interior view of the cube, all girders and scaffolding)
PICARD: This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the
BORG: (many voices speaking as one) We have analyzed your defensive capabilities as being unable to withstand us. If you defend yourselves, you will be punished.
PICARD: Counsellor?
TROI: We're not dealing with an individual mind. They don't have a single leader. It's the collective minds of all of them.
PICARD: That would have definite advantages.
TROI: Yes, A single leader can make mistakes. It's far less likely in the combined whole.
Q [on viewscreen]: Picard. Picard, are you sure you don't want me as a member of your crew?
WORF [OC]: Captain, the Borg have locked on to us with some form of tractor beam.
PICARD: We're on our way.

[rjord2021]

Being only 10 years prior to the Kirk era the characters announced so far for Star Trek Discovery have now been added to this mod.... though in different roles than they will be in on the show.

[rjord2021]

The dialog for the Borg has been tweaked a little bit in how they respond to free trade agreements and the such. Normally something the Borg would not entertain as seeking perfection is their ultimate aim.

However I have come up with an idea of how Borg can agree to free trade with the much smaller races while ignoring any idea of trade with the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, etc

[Dakkon7]

Can't imagine who would want to do business with the Borg. Not even the Ferengi would do that.

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ORIGINAL: Dakkon7

Can't imagine who would want to do business with the Borg. Not even the Ferengi would do that.

I will more likely tweak the Borg dialog a little more as I test it.

The races who make contact with the Borg for the first time will not be aware of exactly who the Borg are.

For the mod it would be more realistic if the Borg did not talk assimilation when trying to arrange trade.

I have to come up with a reason for why the Borg would want to trade.
Perhaps it is simpler to code it so that the Borg do not trade with anyone and just focus on assimilation of species in the alpha and beta quadrant.

This period is also a century before Picard met the Borg so will do some research on what the Borg were like 100 years before Picard.

[Dakkon7]

Hmmm... covert assimilation via trade, Sounds familiar. Could be an interesting mechanic if it could be implemented successfully. But I don't know if the Borg would bother with it, they could just send one large cube to assimilate an unsuspecting faction if they wanted.

[rjord2021]

Speaking of the Borg....

The new Star Trek comic series titled Boldly Go started last October and deals with events in the Alternate Universe months after the movie Star Trek Beyond.

What is of interest in this new series is that the first comic introduces the arrival of the Borg to the alternate timeline and it has given me a few ideas on how the Borg should be in this mod. Ruthless and deadly of course.

Another interesting thing was a Romulan first Officer on board a Starfleet vessel. As mentioned in this comic a Federation ship entering the Romulan Neutral zone would be seen as an act of war so this means there is no alliance with the Romulans in the alternate timeline ...... yet there is a Romulan First Officer on Kirk's ship...interesting.

The reason given for how a Romulan First Officer could be serving on a Starfleet vessel is entirely acceptable as her entire family were named as traitors to the Romulan Star Empire. I will consider whether she is added to the mod or not.

And finally, the end of Star Trek Beyond shows the ship that was being constructed which would assumedly be the new Enterprise but the comics show that in the meantime the Enterprise crew are on temporary duties on new ships with new roles and Kirk is on a one-year mission on another ship. Gives an idea of how much time it takes to build a new ship.

With what I saw in the comic it gave me an idea for the mod so I am looking at adding that into the mod.

[darkriot]

This is looking great. I cant wait to play it!

[rjord2021]

ORIGINAL: darkriot

This is looking great. I cant wait to play it!

Thanks darkriot

[rjord2021]

The new ship added to the fleet.......

Variations of this older ship will be used by Khan Noonien Singh

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After the Balance of Terror episode where the Romulan prototype Bird of Prey was destroyed, the Romulans fearing an invasion by the Federation arranged a deal with the Klingons which resulted in the Romulans acquiring their own version of the D7 Battle Cruiser as shown below.

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Test shot :
Another series of new planets added into the mod.


These are created from scratch and then modified in Photoshop to give the look I am after.
The world shown below has been added to those planets replacing the Desert Worlds in the game.

Believe it or not but this planet was originally Earth until I terraformed it with a new landscape and removed every drop of water except for rivers and dams.

The blue atmosphere is exactly the same as was seen around Tatooine in the opening part of Star Wars Episode IV.

I have also added in a blue tinge around the planet to show the atmosphere surrounding the planet.

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More and more planets added to the mod every day.

One of the new water worlds.

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Coming soon.....

[Kull]

"Downloads will come Ray, downloads will most definitely come"

[rjord2021]

ORIGINAL: Kull

"Downloads will come Ray, downloads will most definitely come"

Thanks Kull