Tasha Yar, Assimilated | Star Trek Online Story Series E189

[@ErikWarhammer]

Adding this timeline to the list of "Everything Section 31 FUCKS up for everyone."

[@patrikhjorth3291]

S'Kenn: "It is going to take more than the Borg can muster to kill T'Ket of Iconia!" Hale: "Yes, I'm aware." Dammit, Ric. That's some pretty fine voice acting on your part.

[@Sumaire_STi]

14:22 - Just as I was saying aloud, "I've seen enough hentai to be concerned---" you dropped the "Oh no! A monument to all our sins!" and I friggin' LOST IT, hahaha!

[@MisterPuck]

"Oh no! The monument to all our sins!" Nice Halo reference. lmao Personally, I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop where the Atherians end up being _their_ universe's Borg, one that's already won and assimilated everything. Their sayings and cadence are very similar to the borg. This whole thing is likely a ploy to usurp control and assimilate the Borgs of other universes before continuing on to assimilate the rest of the species there. I mean they just _suddenly_ and very _conveniently_ popped up with advanced technology capable of holding off the Borg out of nowhere, and just _kindly offered it up to the UFP._ Makes you wonder how they would ever struggle with how effective it seems to be.

[@Eggstree1]

1:34 : She has....issues. LOL. THAT'S putting it mildy!

[@A_Anderson501]

had a good chuckle at that Halo reference

[@robotechsto1984]

What Rick say's is exactly what I thought when I saw the promo pic for this episode/ event in game.

[@Thyrork]

same :D

[@Gangerworld]

Man.... Armiger's saucer separation is so fucking cool. Despite being in my 40s I feel like a kid again watching TNG Enerprise's saucersep for the 1st time every time I see it.

[@brianstiles1701]

Stametts: It IS fucking cool!

[@dougsmith6262]

Same, 100%.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

I'm in my 40s and playing the that game, so I can relive those moments I had as a child. :)

[@biggaymike1983]

@@sleepingbackbone7581 apparently, us 40somethings just have some of the best childhood moments for reliving. So long as DECA is half as good for STO as Cryptic has been, we'll still have so many more awesome moments to look forward to, even whilst we miss some departing Dev's.

[@remicupcakes]

14:22 I lost it at that line XD

[@phaserman]

I thought they mixed Halo in the game there 😂

[@AIConstantine]

I did too.

[@barrybend7189]

Somehow in my playthroughs in the space segments my Oberth was the one doing excellently against the borg. All other ships got bodied.

[@CRYOKnox]

This Borg now that you are trying to lure them into the range of the explodium detonatin, that's why Queen Tasha ordered to only tickle your shop.

[@sourabhdeb701]

So the narrator doesn't give any star trek online for months. Then suddenly 2 episode in a week. Anyways loved it 😍😍

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Well, he has caught up with the game's release schedule, and has to wait for new missions to become available. That usually only happens every few months.

[@biggaymike1983]

@@patrikhjorth3291 And it's gonna be a little longer than normal too, as the handover to DECA has left them behind on release schedules, but instead of crunching to get stuff out, they've pushed the latest release back instead, to ensure they have time to get it right.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

Overall, this mission was okay, though an odd side-addition. And I have similar general thoughts to that organization of the timeline of that alt-universe. The Control Borg do indeed share a lot in common with the Flood from Halo, just with more metallic components. 12:50 ; The submachine gun is a better weapon to use if you have it.

[@Shatterverse]

Once again I'll propose the cloaked wrap missile swarm strategy. It's stupidly simple and relief on the laws of physics to do the job, something the Borg can't adapt to. So you start with a large missle - basically a dense alloy slug the size of a starship outfit it with a souped up warp drive and independently powered cloaking divice. Give it simple _terminal_ guidance, a firewall, and an encrypted physical data port. The port physically links with a ship like a runabout with it's own cloaking device, and a single pilot. You then have the runabout steer the big bastard to the DZ, along with enough friends to overwhelm the targeted group of Borg like 5 or 10 times over. Then you kick it up to maximum warp and each runabout manually locks in a target. At minimum safe distance each runabout disconnects and runs for it under cloak. The missiles continue at warp 9.99 or whatever, terminal guidance overcoming Borg evasive maneuvers and volume compensates for tractor beams and point defense. Then you let physics do the rest. With any given kinetic payload enough to crack open a planet, there's basically nothing the Borg can't do about it. No amount of shields can stop that kind of raw kinetic energy, and any missile that loses a target will just fly off into deep space until it's fuel runs out - which if you plan correctly, should be like an hour after impact. You can tow home strays and reuse them. If the Borg catch one, so what? It's nothing they've never seen before, and if you follow up with a second stand-by wave to take out any Borg salvage Ships the exact same way, they still never know what the hell obliterated them. And that's it. You didn't fuck around, you didn't use fancy tech the Borg can assimilate, you just saturation bombard them and don't stop for anything short of total victory - no matter how many planets you have to obliterate in the process.

[@Shatterverse]

It's like with infantry weapons. You get one of every different kind of rifle - phaser, disruptior, ammo replicating slug throwers, etc. and make them into a _gatling gun. Set every energy weapon to randomly self-remodulate on a random cycle that cuts them out of fire rotation while remodulating. Then you mow down drones that literally can't adapt fast enough to the volume and variety of hits fast enough to help his buddies, even if they do get their heads out of their asses and swarm 10:1 like they should given a cube has tens of hundreds of thousands of drives in board. Seriously, Star Trek never considers the practical applications of their technology through enough. You'd think they'd have switched to guns that shoot bullets with built-in ammo replicators for anti-Borg combat by now, with a built in phaser they can switch to if needed.

[@TheTiredTortoise]

I enjoyed reading this comment

[@DerDrecksack87]

​​@@Shatterverse they even have an episode in DS9 that evolves around a ballistic rifle that can even lock targets trough walls, just send a few squads armed with those and let them snipe the control nodes trough decks so all the drones lose connection, or use torpedos filled with the stuff that liquified the queen in First contact, a borg cube is not exactly segmented with decks & bulkheads, you would get most of the drones with a barage. They could also just pack several Mirandas full of mines & torps and just ram them into a cube during fighting. There are just sooo many ways to exploit the prime timeline borgs it aint funny, but they are still the best TNG bad guy, after/during Voyager that changed but not really because of the Borg being weaker but more like Janeway being ruthless, if the Federation paused its morals and really would go all in regarding the destruction of the borg, they could do it(even without the temporal shennanigans).

[@samuelcaponi4516]

Tasha can never get a break can she

[@NCC-72545A]

Loooonnng liiiiiiiive the Queeeeeeeeeeeeen. LOL. Joking, aside. One thing that would really have been creepy and wrong is if the Mirror Universe's Borg Kingdom made contact with this other alternate universe's Control Borg. Talk about an unholy union between the Harry Kim Borg King and the Natasha Yar Borg Queen 😱

[@danielseelye6005]

Um... That's "Threshold" levels of wrong. 😳

[@VulpisFoxfire]

This is Harry Kim...he still wouldn't get a date.

[@NCC-72545A]

@@VulpisFoxfire Something tells me that mirror universe Harry had a better luck with the ladies before his assimilation. Then prime universe Harry ever did.

[@Markos_Malitsos]

I'm glad I waited for this to release on console before watching this video. This was a really good mission.

[@TheTiredTortoise]

9:09 special beam cannon moment Shout outs to Piccolo

[@margotrosendorn6371]

I'm a romulan main, so meeting Sela had me absolutely livid at first. VEANGACE FOR VIRINAT!!!

[@TheFreelancer131]

I love Ground Combat in this game it's become my favorite aspect of the game. Also that Halo Reference has me ded 🤣

[@VGJustice]

Oof, you are definitely in the minority on that one. More power to ya!

[@TheFreelancer131]

@@VGJustice Oh I know XD Believe me. But to be fair I have a close Nit fleet With my Wife and Daughter who we all built our Builds around one another. With my daughter having built an interesting Healer style build which is also fantastic. I don't care what anyone says this game Shines brightest when you take advantage of the team play aspects of the game :p

[@Tyku031]

As a supplement to my comment from last week explaining we have seen Administrator V'Lar before in the mission midnight - Healer S'Kenn can also be found in that mission as the healer who heals V'Lar's herald.

[@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon]

I'm still of the mind that the Atherians are out to get the World Heart. I'm betting that the one that got destroyed in this episode was just a decoy. The ally who sacrificed himself so everyone could get to the shuttle isn't really dead. I bet you he is going to stay there to steal it.

[@VGJustice]

I have a somewhat different theory. What if the Atherians are collecting the Borg? Let Grendat-Bex be assimilated in order to gain control of... well, Control. Bringing in the Borg of several realities into a single place could fall in line with the phrase the Atherians keep repeating.

[@zazaranger5]

More like some alternate version of the Iconians

[@zooropa04]

Yeah, this was the first mission where the ground combat truly felt tedious and more frustrating than fun.

[@Eucep]

I am going with two possible origin theories of the Aetherians in STO. 1. They are the race which probably in an era after the Iconians existed in one universe and the Borg are their creation. In our universe, I think those Aetherians then evolved into the Q. 2. The Aetherians are Borg, but Borg whose 'assimilation' did not involve taking over, but in stead copying others and only refining their own race, thus evolving those Borg to a far more advanced species which far more closely merges tech and organics.

[@Eucep]

Also on my playthrough, with me using easy to get maxed out gear, I steamrolled the ground combat mainly with my Advanced Herald Antiproton Beam Projector. And in space I use a Ba'ul Sentry Vessel fully geared with Ba'ul weapons, when Kuumarke joined in, the queen was already as good as dead thanks to sentry mode.

[@Janoha17]

I've seen a suggestion that the Aetherians are Deferi. I suggested that the Deferi became the Aetherians after finding the Precursor Archive in their space.

[@christopherwilson7092]

This you should add a retrofit. And discuss that you have opted for the reverse engineered weapons pod from the terran uni . To aid in the Borg conflict . But stress it's not permanent

[@Maksa-cb4os]

2 episode in one week. We are blessed. Thank you

[@Cdr2002]

“Leave me alone D’Vak”

[@LMG1792]

Haha a gravenind borg

[@michaelproulx4811]

Think the Etherean race is there universe version of the Borg. The huge difference between them being that they are benevolent instead of malevolent like the Borg. 3 main reasons for this 1) they seem immune somewhat to the Borg 2) They use geometric shapes for there ship like the Borg but they go with diamonds shape verses the cubes the Borg use. 3) there catch phrase "Through Harmony , we are secure Through Unity we are strong" seem like a kinder and more welcoming version the Borg's "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.".

[@gmradio2436]

The bio component seems to be derived from Ioconians. I am convinced that they will turn on us eventually. There story has holes in it, and many convenient happen stance. Feels like working with the Borg, Terrans, Ferangi, or Romulan Tal Shiar. I will be betrayed eventually.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Btw, I usually rather like ground combat in STO, but the fight at the shuttle landing was just frustrating. Getting instantly swarmed and overwhelmed, having to respawn multiple times no matter what I tried, really put a big dent in the pacing of the mission. A good boss fight or similar should push you to your limit. I liked the fight with the Borg King, for example. Getting repeatedly stomped into the ground, and only winning because you can respawn a bit quicker than the enemy, isn't much of a challenge.

[@CRYOKnox]

Can't wait to have this episode bdeop on consoles my PC character is more of an early story catch character where I really have a good build on Xbox.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

Certain anti-borg-specific weapons and reputation buffs I find do significantly help with that section. Though it indeed is still quite brutal.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

as an engineer class i had only minor issues with that mission. certain kit modules help A LOT, too. :)

[@Janoha17]

@@occultatumquaestio5226 Control Borg are also particularly vulnerable to extreme temperatures, so cold and fire damage are pretty effective. I find that the Anchor of Gre'thor kit makes short work of the Control Borg (at least in the Battle Royale TFO) I also bring out the I-Mod rifle.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

@@Janoha17 ; I mainly used the submachine gun for that mission. Quite effective against the nanite swarms and drones.

[@dramonmaster222]

Infinite Realities Mean Infinite Possibilities.

[@christopherg2347]

1:57 She called them "varuulir". That word is either vulcan or romulan in origin. 15:01 Is that reponse a Star Wars 6 reference? 16:30 That response. Picard, Yesterdays Enterprise. When the Klingons demand a surrender. 23:39 Grendal Bax does put me at ease about the Aetherians. This was the first time one of their own risked their live in battle - and even sacrificed himself. 25:07 I wonder what borg variant they cook up next? Iconian Borg? Borg that assimilated the Voth?

[@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon]

There was already an Iconian Borg in one of the Discovery arcs.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon In the Excalbian simulations rather than the Discovery arc, but you were in them with a copy of Burnham.

[@damo021]

I wouldn't mind a T'Kon universe, be cool to see what it would be like with them still around.

[@christopherg2347]

@@damo021 Star Trek Resurgence involved the T'Kon. Or at least a splinter faction of them.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

@@damo021 You could always go ask Portal Six-Three, if you feel like living dangerously.

[@Brian-ok2bh]

"I've been Rick" If he's been Rick, who is he now?

[@Kythalia]

"I am and always shall be... Rick."

[@KOBRAMASTER]

He was assimilated

[@NightridingDoom]

This is going to continue next year. The developers have pushed the update to the story back massively. Tip: Check out the borg alert, I've countered all 3 variants once

[@shmee123ful]

"Oh no a monument to all our sins" I see what you did there. But in all honest the flood would spank the borg

[@AdmiralPrestonJColeTheGigaChad]

No arguments there......the Flood on an intergalactic level can bend reality to their will.

[@Nachtfalke-NSKR]

14:18 I really want to see what a borgified UNSC looks like.

[@mahmoudsalaheddine8358]

I have a fun theory: this timeline is part of the timeline shown in TNG “Parallels”, where Riker says “The Borg are everywhere!”

[@markfergerson2145]

There are just too many Uber-powerful species and artifacts in the Trek universe for some of the threats to be believable. Example- the Borg origin story is said to be shrouded in mystery. So, why hasn’t anyone asked the Guardian Of Forever to show them the history of the Borg so their origin can be cut short before they get going? Yeah yeah, timeline meddling. In this case the cure has to be better than the disease.

[@enisra_bowman]

i think it is infinite more fun if in a Group than having to play with your NPCs that to often get themself killed

[@barrybend7189]

The Guardian my know of all possible starts of the Borg but I don't think he'd divulge this info as time travel to that start would likely break causality.

[@margotrosendorn6371]

Poor Tasha Yar just can't catch a break. Is there any universe where she lives happily ever after? :(

[@Phil-D83]

Some very creative writers for sto

[@Iceflkn]

The Etherians sound like the Borg.

[@robgreca6371]

Hi, loving the Star Trek Online series. Will you be continuing more videos of this series next year?

[@khyron8509]

Am i seeing things or does Tasha Yar have Romulan ears ??

[@ksiaa814]

Could be possible their reusing assets because she's basically the same thing as her daughter same actor.

[@ksiaa814]

I actually reviewed it a couple times and it's definitely a reused model supposedly what happened is they didn't have time to do another separate assets so it's probably just a reused model.

[@MischaHosten]

It's Sela Tasha daughter

[@khyron8509]

@@MischaHosten Yep Sela has Romulan ears but her mum Tasha Borg queen also has Romulan ears but @ksiaa814 seems to have a reasonable explanation though 👍

[@andrewantolick7813]

If one of those Ultra Tentacle Piles said "This is not your tomb, but you are welcome to it" I would be not surprised.

[@Thyrork]

The Aetherials(?) catchphrase just bugs me. It feels like something a nicer-timeline borg would say.

[@Shatterverse]

Another example of the Federation having a solution once that they never used again. They need to grab a copy of Janeway's neurolitic pathogen and spread it around some more.

[@zazaranger5]

I dont know how you feel Rick, but I got a really bad feeling about those Atherians. I got a feeling that theyre some form of the Iconians, Either the Mirror Universe or maybe the Kelvin Universe. Whats your take on it Rick??

[@Vaderian88]

Hey Rick, or anyone that can help me out. I'm looking to get an Odyssey class myself, which one has the chevron separation? I play more of a tactical playthrough. And do I need to spend EC, Lobi or Zen for the one I would like. Thanks for any help.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Zen. It's a C-store ship.

[@Vaderian88]

@@VulpisFoxfire Cheers mate, good to know.

[@Searly255]

I think your point about it being the fate of the federation might be where they are going with this, at some point after a lot of losses the federation is going to have to tell the atherians no.. that might affect the harmony and unity somewhat

[@s_mores]

oh no Shai-Hulud

[@ALPHAOMEGA1500]

I do have a question. What would a playthrough like this do as a romulan or a Klingon be like. If you did it like this. You started several characters. One a romulan Republic character siding with the KDF and I think you did a Klingon character too. Would their storyline be as long as the Federation side ?? Also would you consider fininshing off those other characters storylines ??

[@jaredcolon4535]

So the "control borg" I assume it is from control section 31s discovery evil AI

[@boxtears]

Wait, what? I've been out of the loop, why is Sela a Starfleet captain now?

[@AzraelThanatos]

An alternate universe there, this season for STO is dealing with several of them.

[@CRYOKnox]

Parallel universe -> different history. It's not STO main timeline Sela.

[@KatanisPSN]

Does anyone know if there are any hidden items to collect in the mission? I know the devs like to throw them in from time to time. I noticed Captain Sela's Phaser is an "Anti-Borg" colored version of the Fleet Phaser. I wonder if that will become available?

[@alphaone5406]

i still dont trust the Atherians, also with control borg will Leland Return?

[@admiralastronaut]

I am really starting to hate the Borg

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

just now!? I hate them from day one. :D

[@lizardmilk]

Why is the Saurian name, Geko, unfortunate?

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

a gecko, species of a small lizard here on Earth. Saurians are humanoid lizards......it was a joke.

[@lizardmilk]

@@sleepingbackbone7581 I mean I know what a gecko is. The character is named after my character. I just didn’t get the joke I guess.

[@SpaceTimeish]

Who's doing the voice for sela and queen borg tasha. Doesn't sound like Denise crosby

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

apparently, it is Denise Crosby. she gave her voice to ingame Sela and Tasha.

[@nonamegiven202]

Let's always remember those thick thighs that saved Hale's life.

[@Matthewridley-np7fi]

Is there any end to star trek online i have just started so i just want to know

[@CertifiablyIngame]

The story is still unfolding but the episodes are released every couple of months, Everything in the Story Series (except for a couple of missions) are there as a backlog of content to go through! Hope you enjoy your time with it!

[@Matthewridley-np7fi]

@CertifiablyIngame thanks I really like your videos they help me get into star trek

[@Tonydjjokerit]

Is there a mirror Species 8472?

[@SJKNOL]

Given the earlier mention of Fluidic Space being "connected" to multiple dimensions, I would guess not. That does however mean that it's oddly specific Species 8472 ended up messing with "our" dimension

[@kineuhansen8629]

i forsure always had troube to deal with the annoying ground battle in sto i sometime feel the game was never ment to have it

[@Iceflkn]

The Iconians are so advanced but still put all their eggs in one basket?

[@shmee123ful]

Me thinks this reality is beyond saving, someone phone the TSA time to prune

[@milkcookies7753]

❤️‍🔥

[@wolfbane7497]

I STILL DON'T TRUST HER !!!

[@devmag52]

Control? 😂😵‍💫

[@jackieanderson9408]

🖖🏿

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

Why not just say she is still alive being assimilated into a black tarry looking thing?

[@wanderer3120]

502

[@ThisIsMeAndNotYou]

642

[@metairie33]

1st

[@Anthyrion]

To be honest: I didn't liked the episode, when i played it. It didn't add anything really new to the story and the Borg, you were fighting here, aren't even the same Borg, that you fought before. For me, it felt like the writers wanted to throw someting into the line just for a bit nostalgia bait. Sela's story in STO was done after the Iconian War, so why did they had to throw her in now again?

[@Flight--tz5nf]

Worst than the last episode. Craptic mucking thinks up yet again. At least my Niagara Class did well. The ground combat. The amount of Borg was beyond absurd. It wasn't even fun. I didn't die. But I ended up leaving the mission. It's just wasn't fun dealing with the insane amount of Borg. I was remodulating literally every few seconds rather that fight the things. Then when I did return. (for completion purposes) 90% where gone and I progressed to the final part.

[@Janoha17]

It does make it feel like overwhelming odds, a bit like the last stand in Home.