Star Trek - The Final Frontier (Beta 1.0)

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Updated list of playable races in the mod

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Vash is one of my all time favorite characters from the TNG era and she is one of the 17 additional playable races added to the mod overnight.

The last time that Vash was seen she had rejected Q and become a business partner with Quark. She was supposed to make more appears in the DS9 episodes but this never happened though she did reappear in a book series.

In the altered timeline of this mod and angered by Vash rejecting him, Q had thrown Vash out of her timeline in 2369 and sent her back to 2264... a time where technology was much more limited making it that much harder if not impossible to be an archaeologist and profiteer.

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The Galileo 7 is a popular TOS episode where the crew of the shuttle are attacked by Taurean (order 480-G) anthropoid who were were at approximately a Stone Age level of technology and definitely not warp capable.

The faces of the anthropoids were not easily seen in the episode but the pictures available of what they looked like showed them to be fairly ugly looking creatures. The original picture of them was not ideal for this mod however with the portraits I am creating for the mod the Taurean anthropoid looks really good now.

You may ask if the Taurean inhabitants were at a Stone Age level of technology surely they were not warp capable and should not be in the mod as a playable race.

All will be explained in the mod

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The character of Saavik appears in the mod in one of the time travel sequences of the mod ..... and not only is she in it but also the Mirror version of her which will be the dangerous and evil Saavik.

In the picture below on the left is the original Saavik. On the right are the 2 options I have for the Mirror Saavik. One being Robin Curtis as Saavik with a scar on her face...and the 2nd option being Kirstie Alley who would play a very good Mirror Saavik.

I will decide before mod release which one of these I go with.....perhaps both of them will be included in the mod and it is up to the player which one they choose.

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With the roleplay back stories I have referenced a book called Federation - The First 150 Years which is a good read for those who want to learn more details about Star Trek history.

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I do have to apologize for this mod taking longer than I thought to release. There is still more to do on the mod before it is released such as at the moment I am converting the resources used in the vanilla mod to resources unique to the Star Trek universe.

For example below is a screenshot from a spreadsheet I am creating in Excel which , as with the race bias file, will allow players who have Excel to generate random resource values in just a few seconds to change how this game is played.

As everyone is aware some areas of Distant Worlds Universe can be very complex and if you look at the resources text file it can actually be hard to understand what each value represents.

To completely replace resources I need to understand what each cell means and how it effects Distant Worlds Universe.
In Excel I put a descriptive row at the top of each column as shown below.

For each resource columns are colored for the many groups of 5 columns showing the prevalence and distribution of the resources for each line.

The resources are replaced with Star Trek resources used in this mod.
Values for those resources are then calculated using formula which changes the prevalence and distribution of the resources every time this spreadsheet is opened.

This is an exercise which will take a day or two to complete but is necessary.

The spreadsheet will also use this data to create a file which will be used in the role play for the trade and black market economy.

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Documentation for this mod including Role Play

This mod is being designed in a way that allows players of Distant Worlds Universe to play as the captain of a starship in the Star Trek Universe. There is a lot of detail going into this mod which hopefully will give all Trekkers an experience they have been waiting for.

I had originally thought to have documentation and everything needed for this mod included in the Library Computer Banks, called the Galactopedia in Vanilla Distant Worlds Universe..... however there is too much information that would need to be added and there was a real danger that it could effect playability of the mod.

I have therefore decided the following:


- In the next few days I will set up a Wikia specifically for this mod which will give detailed documentation and screenshots for how this mod works and how to play this mod in role play.

- The Wikia will explain how to prepare the USS Enterprise for it's 5 year mission under the command of Captain Kirk

- How to transport crew over to the Enterprise and follow procedures to leave Dry Dock.

- Procedure for determining where the Enterprise will go.
(To add randomness to the mod many aspects will be determined by the mod to simulate that what Kirk decides to do may differ from what you want to do.)

- How to respond to communications with Starfleet Command

- How to respond to Distress Signals

- How to transport landing parties to planets or other ships

- How to handle damage to the Enterprise after battle and which areas of the Enterprise have been damaged

- How to determine if crew have been injured or killed during battle.

- and a lot more



By using a dedicated page on Wikia this allows players of the mod to access the documentation outside of Distant Worlds Universe.
You can decide how you access the information in the Wikia that you will need to refer to when playing this mod.
You can refer to the Wikia online, save the Wikia on to your computer or print out the Wikia as a hard copy

As the Wikia is updated you will get a preview of the mod before it is released and ask questions here about how something works in the mod.
This way by the time the mod is released you will have learned how to play it already and start playing straight away.

I may also add a series of Youtube videos showing gameplay of the mod.

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The Return of Khan Wikia has been setup as shown below.

I will begin adding content to the Wikia starting in the next few days as I work out how the Wikia will work with the mod.

The link to the Wikia has been added to the bottom of my signature

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Before finishing up development on the blog before heading to work.......

I have added my first page to the Wiki page and this can be accessed here.
http://distant-worlds-universe-the-retu ... Set_Course

This wiki page shows how the USS Enterprise will move around the map when not specifically assigned a mission or responding to a distress signal.

[Kull]

Just an absolute butt-load of work going into this thing. I have to applaud the effort and dedication. I for one certainly plan "to boldly go where no one has gone before" (well, except probably you!)

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Just an absolute butt-load of work going into this thing. I have to applaud the effort and dedication. I for one certainly plan "to boldly go where no one has gone before" (well, except probably you!)

Thanks Kull..... your comment is greatly appreciated.

There have been many times already where I have been going where no one has gone before..... heaps of testing and planning going into this mod.

The great thing about Distant Worlds is how much of it can actually be modded and this is allowing me to create a unique Star Trek experience.

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Adding the landing party procedures to the Wiki in the next 24 hours.
Image created for the mod.

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Wiki for the mod takes shape with Role Play procedures......

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The Wiki for this mod shows more than 97 links I have setup so far on the main page of the Wiki.
These links so far link to non existent pages.

As the new pages are added to the Wiki the links will change from red to Orange.

However when you see the links it will give you an idea on what will be involved with the Role Play in this mod.

Note: This is still a Work in Progress with more links to add and around 150 pages to create.

The address for the Wiki is on the last line of my signature below.

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This afternoon I created the portraits for the Wiki for Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Checkov using the same animation technique I have used in the mod.

The cartoon effect is more apparent with the larger picture sizes in the Wiki.
With each character I tried to show something that made their character.

For example, both Spock and McCoy had one eyebrow lifted in classic looks,

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Several sections of the Wiki have been completed such as the topic about the map being used to re-create the Star Trek universe in the mod and the section about Spock where we answer the questions such as where is Spock at the beginning of the game, will we see Captain Spock and will Vulcan ever go to war with the Federation.

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New Federation ship added to the mod...........

Ranger-class starships were Starfleet's primary exploration vehicles of the early 23rd century and when they were replaced by Constitution Class starships such as the Enterprise the Ranger Class took on the role of sector patrol and diplomatic transport.

[Hattori Hanzo]

hi Rjord, I like your "Distant Worlds Universe - The Return of Khan" Wiki !!!!![&o]

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ORIGINAL: Hattori Hanzo

hi Rjord, I like your "Distant Worlds Universe - The Return of Khan" Wiki !!!!![&o]

Thanks Hattori

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The different components of the Starship Enterprise