The Demon Horde | Star Trek Online Story Series E118

[@ppenmudera4687]

7:32 "Victory is Life!" - "So is Raktajino, but I don't say it every five seconds" Wauw that line made me laugh

[@KenshiImmortalWolf]

it's amazing! it captures kira's sass perfectly

[@christopherg2347]

Given that Raktajino seems to be Bajoran Coffee, I think Admiral Janeway would agree with "Coffee is life".

[@HogtreeOctovish]

@@christopherg2347 I thought it was Klingon coffee. But since it was a favoured beverage of the Emissary, it seems obvious that Kira would develop a taste for it.

[@christopherg2347]

@@HogtreeOctovish You are right, Klingon Coffee.

[@barrybend7189]

​@@HogtreeOctovishyet Janeway never had it despite visiting DS9.

[@CorvoFG]

I think Odo’s behaviour is more desperate than outright dishonest. there’s more to his relationship with the rest of the founders than we know.

[@That80sGuy1972]

Well, Odo is young enough to not fall under the typical Founder dogma and actually have both a moral and rational center. Perhaps, in his mind, he is bringing order via shattering the old to bring better order... a hard thing for Founders to do considering they do their best to keep fixing what does not work because they don't see it as broken because it worked before. If humans were like that, we'd still be stone age hunters and gatherers advancing no further than Cromagnon.

[@kinagrill]

I saw no other path... and chose the lesser of evils.

[@whirledpeaz5758]

I can imagine the Klingons' reaction learning of the existence of the Fakiri (Sp?) "Q'pla! We get to kill them Again!?"

[@BNuts]

By now, in the Klingon story, not only have you encountered and fought them, you've also gone to Gre'thor, defeated Molor, and been granted a copy of the Sword of Kahless by one of his clones.

[@BlueSatoshi]

@@BNuts You don't get the blade anymore in the revamp, sadly.

[@kevinramsey417]

@@BlueSatoshi My recruit did.

[@hogbmain]

@@BlueSatoshi I know, can we get some silence for the new players who don’t get the sword

[@michaelgreenwood3413]

@@BlueSatoshi You still get it. I got it about a week or so ago.

[@AIConstantine]

Keira, to Weyoun: “Are you insane?” Did…did she really have to ask? I mean, she dealt with the older Weyouns….

[@BNuts]

There was indeed a Hur'q attracting beacon on the station. You can find it in one of the rooms.

[@bjorndejonckheere8677]

I’ve heard there was one, but every time I did the mission I never came across it, is it accommpanied with a gameplay reference? Say a piece of speech from one of the team?

[@goldenknight578]

@@bjorndejonckheere8677 It's the room Hale passes at around the 12:15 mark as he's trying to leave the station. The door will be locked until this point in the mission.

[@johnsimonson2368]

@@bjorndejonckheere8677 When you clear the room with the fighting Hurq and Fe'kihri and go to the hallway, and Dukon mentions going back up to the main floor, the room at the 12:13 time in the video becomes unlocked. That brings up a discussion as to who placed the Hurq lure there and possible motives. Who would want to try to kill us, or strongly encourage us to leave the station as quickly as possible without finding out more? Those who have already played the campaign will know, but it is a good easter egg for those who always try to look over the maps carefully before exiting an area.

[@JDEhlert]

@@goldenknight578 Thank you! I thought I noticed that it opened up, but the visual went by so fast... I have that story coming up for one of my toons. Guess I'll take a look.

[@snowts]

lol, that smash cut back to the ship... just about killed me...

[@ericwilliams9117]

I lost it at the hard nope out of there! Thanks for the laugh!

[@TheEthicalOutlaw]

What amazes me is how Gene Roddenberry/Star Trek had plausible science for every aspect of lore in the canon universe, not only did they expand ideas but they made them plausible by reasoning how this could be through science. Thats legendary. To create such outworldish ideas and then literally being able to scientifically justify these things down to the very molecule. Turns out, so much of what is in the show is literally on the horizon for us in science and tech. Decades ago we thought this would never happen and was farfetched. Now look at us!

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

3:00 ; If only missions in STO were that non-linear that one could just give up mid-way. Caught me off guard but that made me chuckle a little. However it's a unofficial Starfleet motto to do things the hard way, even when they logically don't need to.

[@daveh7720]

"Don't give me that look." In fairness Hale, you did deserve it.

[@AstoundingCameron]

Here we are once again for another episode of this phenomenonal series

[@ptonpc]

It makes sense that the Dominion would have tinkered with Hur'q. Perhaps all the ones we have seen are in cold turkey, craving something they don't know what.

[@valor1omega]

"....eep" That made me chuckle. I remember this mission, my engineer made quick work of that mission, mines, turrets, and drones tends to do that though, lol

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

21:00 ; Foreshadowing towards reviewing the early Klingon story arcs eventually. Will look forward to it. Until then, lets see how many more of Mark Hale's phobias this current arc will uncover.

[@darthdragonborn1076]

2:56 frag this pancakes im outta here. Also like to add if mark was a klingon. Id just be seeing him running all the way back to the wormhole screaming like a little girl

[@richmcgee434]

The drive trails on those Fek'ihri ships would make the orks in Battlefleet Gothic jealous. "Oi, lookitdat! Mekboy, 'ow come our engines ain't all fiery and smoky like dose spiky git kroozas?" "Ain't got da right gubbinz for it, Kaptin." "Yeah? We'll go bust 'em up some and you can get you gubbinz straight from da source."

[@nathanielheilmann7351]

The Fel'khri ships use a phasing ability, akin to what the USS Pegasus did in TNG

[@barrybend7189]

Something also happened as they appear to use Iconian like technology and inhabit Grethor which is like the Klingon's version of the Celestial temple and fire pit in Bajoran mythology.

[@XX-sp3tt]

The Hurq are STILL sapient? That's a whole level of terrifying that they're in a 'I must scream' state.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

I think... they're maybe not fully sapient when they're in their feral state, but they come to consciousness very quickly when provided with what they need to not be in that state. From the body language, I got a kind of waking up vibe. "Whoa! Where AM I and why does my head hurt? Who are these people and why are they looking terrified and pointing weapons at me? Okay, hey, not a threat, small and well-armed beings, I'm going to need some help because I am FREAKING our right now."

[@tba113]

I guess Earth lost its history of horror movies and games during the Eugenics Wars. Otherwise, Hale & Co. would have had some idea about how turning on the master power switch in the hidden bio-lab will probably help them get the files or samples or whatever else it is they're there to collect, but it absolutely will 100% of the time release the sleeping monsters in the basement.

[@aiosquadron]

The LITERAL demons in the basement this time, may I add.

[@Peregrine57]

Just about every mission in this arc, you receive vials of Ketracel White as a reward. Which only Jem'Hadar can use. You can feed it to Tribbles, and maybe get a Dominion Tribble if you're lucky, but it's useless to non Jem'Hadar players and BOFFS. You also can't trade or sell them, because they're bound to character. This mission begins dropping hints that the White is going to play a part in the resolution somehow, so I ended up saving all the White, thinking that the mission rewards were going to be a key later in the arc. Without getting into spoiler territory, let's just say that I still have some 60 odd vials of White. Facility 4028 has a Jem'Hadar bridge officer you can pick up as a reward, so I replayed that mission so at least he can get some use out of them.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Yeah, all my ones ended up mainlined into my new Jemmie security officer, too.

[@scarface1138]

With weyoun's actions, I'd pay billions of Latium for shran to beat the living hell out of Weyoun at the next hell in a cell. lol

[@johnedwards3198]

Liquidator Brunt has set up odds on it already 😉

[@Anthyrion]

Well, we never saw a Vorta in Hand-to-Hand combat so i would say, they are more Ambassadors of the Founders and not fighters. The Vorta are the spokesmen of the founders. Diplomates, Spies and Intrigue Spinners while the Jem'Hadar are their soldiers. So... my Latinum is on Shran :D

[@johnedwards3198]

@@Anthyrion Vorta also have very poor eyesight although their hearing and impeccable scheming could give Weyoun an outside chance... Also if Weyoun dies, they'll just clone Weyoun version 56 or whatever they're on these days so wouldn't be gone long

[@Anthyrion]

@@johnedwards3198 Well, because i played this storyline too, i'm not sure they would clone another Weyoun if this one dies. But i don't wanna say more because of spoilers :)

[@smartgoku9048]

wonder how that would go since the same actor plays both. either way weyoun would totally lose everytime.

[@Anthyrion]

Well, the reason why the Hur'q want THIS specific asteroid station should be obvious. It contains the Ketracel White. As we saw, the big Hur'q seemed to be reasonable when the White spreaded over him.

[@Kitsula]

Speaking of Discovery Klingon resemblances - It was probably unintentional but I like how the Hur'q ships kind of resemble Discovery Klingon ships too with the ornate details (most of them), jutting spires (eg Qugh), and large lighted sections (e.g. Sarcophagus & Sech) - even the Swarmer ship resemble things like the DaSpu'. Which makes sense given they were ether the first or most advanced warp ships the Klingons had seen after they were invaded by the Hur'q and they probably adapted and were inspired by the Hur'q's technology/styles of craft after driving them off of Qo'noS.

[@Noms_Chompsky]

You can just blow past the Hurq on Fe'kihri battle royale to the exit. Your duders or the tag-alongs might open up on the assembled baddies but the exit exits everybody.

[@MisterPuck]

You know, based on your videos about the Klingon afterlife, if the Fek'ihri were real _before_ the Dominion created them, then it would make sense that the ones they created would be uncontrollable if we presume that they became inhabited by the spirits of the real Fek'ihri.

[@JDEhlert]

I'm beginning to suspect that the whole Klingon Afterlife is a subspace realm created by the nightmares of early Klingons right after they fought the Hur'q and stumbled out into space and they saw the Dominion version and went, "Oh! New army! Go get 'em Treachery! Now!" ;)

[@generaljoe3447]

Man, I'm re-running this mission atm and Kira keeps getting stuck in the wall on the lower level. Gotta love STO's jank.

[@christopherg2347]

IIRC, the Fek'ihri hat the Klingons encountered were actually a Iconian Creation, also based on the Legends as well. So despite the Dominion and Iconian Fek'ihri, there might still be original Fek'ihri as well. If they were real. As for Discoveries "Ship of the Dead" and "Ship Cutter" starships: It is strongly indicated they predated even Klingon designs of Discovery. They might have dated back all the way to the original post-hurq Empire.

[@Janoha17]

Given the latest episode mission released in-game, signs say yes.

[@michaelgreenwood3413]

some of them were also specifically house-designed, rather than Imperial standardized, so there's that too. Klingons do love their Aesthetics, and they'd go for form over function if they're not supplying a unified imperial fleet.

[@marcosbravo9645]

I was watching DS9 a few hours ago and I had forgotten what the Link does for Odo. He joined with that female founder a couple of time and didn't care if the rest of the quadrant lived or died, and if it weren't for the prophets, it would have died. I guess staying in the link for decades might make him do that. The Link doesn't seem very different than an addictive drug, a drug that makes you absurdly apathetic.

[@gagaplex]

Yeah, I gotta say: Odo doing evil "for the greater good" is perfectly in line with his flaws from the show - massively magnified by his lack of contact to his friends/his continuous immersion in the Great Link. Really good character development for once.

[@WhiteWolfCa]

Ok I've been playing STO on and off for the last few years and it got me back in watching TNG of late which has affected my KZbin recommendations. Well as it turned out, your lore videos showed up and now STO video.. so, my good sir, you have yourself another subscriber. Keep up the great work

[@nickjohnson8812]

Can’t come out fast enough 👏🏼 keep up the good work

[@valor1omega]

Those ships the standard non-zen coin carriers tend to be fun to use.

[@yazanbaddawi9683]

Still better than all the recent star trek shows.

[@therookie7060]

If you got the offer to play Mark Hale in your own official Star Trek show, would you accept an offer like that?

[@danielfiene7770]

That may have been the first time in the history of Star Trek that a Vorta actually shot something and of course it was counterproductive to his own cause.

[@Noms_Chompsky]

Although I've played the story arc a half dozen times, nothing compares to Mark the Snark.

[@Reddotzebra]

So I guess the reason the Dominion gave up on using the Hur'q as soldiers is that when they tinkered with their genes they inadvertently did something even more horrifying than they thought. My guess is that since the Hur'q have that long sleep cycle, instead of being dependent on Ketracell White for survival they probably just go insane if they don't get a steady supply. That's why the Dominion made enough of them to be a threat before realizing their error, and then they just used them for an extortion racket.

[@Werezilla]

That' was the Spirit of Treachery addition? I must admit, a random enemy that doesn't say or do anything unique is underwhelming compared to its role in the earlier Fek'ihri arc. Also I think Transformers Prime fans we're thinking the same thing when Weyuon shot that Hurq. "Weyuon, we needed that!"

[@Lukos0036]

Where is the Doom Slayer when you have demons needing killing?

[@BNuts]

In Hell.

[@adams4075]

Need to get cloaking Tech before going back into the Gamma Quad. Might be useful for the Alpha. Since the Romulans are not the super power they once were. Being of two or more factions the UFP should consider all treaties with the Romulans Null and void.

[@feralcrafter7043]

Always a great recording

[@Lans32485]

Aww, was hoping best mission would be next, but the new Klingon early missions are fun too.

[@JDEhlert]

Yes--agreed. But we need the Klingon Arcs to understand some of what's going on.

[@markfergerson2145]

Makes me think about dosing random aliens with Ketracel whiteto see if anything happens.

[@BlueSatoshi]

In STO, if anyone other than Jem'Hadar ingests it, they get pretty sick for a little while.

[@markfergerson2145]

@@BlueSatoshi That Hur'Q got real communicative after being hit with it though, and it didn't seem to be coincidental. Maybe the Founders only messed with Gamma quadrant species... no, we know they played with Klingon genes too. You sure Klingons only get "sick"?

[@BlueSatoshi]

@@markfergerson2145 Should've clarified I meant every playable species besides Jem'Hadar.

[@markfergerson2145]

@@BlueSatoshi Then why didn't the Hur'Q seem sick? It went from mindless killing machine to asking for *help*. How do you know *every*other playable species gets sick, have you tried them all? There's an anomaly here.

[@BlueSatoshi]

@@markfergerson2145 From the STO Wiki: Consumed by non-Jem'Hadar: -40% All Damage for 1 min -40% Maximum Hit Points for 1 min Reduced movement speed for 10 sec Consumed by Jem'Hadar: +10% All Damage for 5 min +20% Max Hit Points for 5 min +25% Increased Run Speed for 5 min Empowers Shroud for 3 Hours of Game-Time

[@markizzmarkey298]

The game is getting better and better. Thumbs up. Years ago i played it and it was more buggy

[@laahocsm0019]

I like to think that the Fek'Ihri are actually real mythical deamons that the Founders somehow found out and decided to clone. That would be so much more fun then having the entire klingon mythology be some random dominion cloning experament.

[@robertfarr9186]

So in the larger mythos picture does this mean the founders were the Klingon “gods” that they killed off?

[@445588997]

I'm so disappointed that there's no shouts of "RAMMING SPEED" when ramming... ☹️ Now my life is incomplete.

[@richmcgee434]

You could just play Battlefleet Gothic for a bit and get your fix that way. :)

[@alakani]

5:02 sounds like my ex, especially the second part

[@roundbrick4890]

Day 26 of asking certifiably ingame to cover the borg assimilation process

[@shaunwatson6354]

PLEASE do a video about the guy with swords in his back

[@JDEhlert]

I think he's planning to do a run-through of the Klingon Story Arc where Treachery appears in one of the episodes.

[@JaredLS10]

Keep it up.

[@kinagrill]

One annoying thing with this mission is the level of 'duuuuh' brain. I mean it's literally obvious that Kretracel-white seems to have a biological effect on the Hur'q.... so why not make some grenades with the stuff, have a conversation and BAM, you dun have tons of dumdum brain spacefaring aliens being idiots.

[@M1ABRIMSvsPANZER]

So the Hurq are crazy due to Ketrisel white withdrawal?

[@samuelcp100]

The research report said they needed a substance of their planet could be that the white was based of it.

[@M1ABRIMSvsPANZER]

@@samuelcp100 and the planets they hit in other parts of the game where found to have the components for it.

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

5:45 I jsut love the Oxnfree music there (and if it'+s music from somewhere else ....... no it's not)

[@kaloyankatzarov9284]

Noice

[@KalRandom]

Only problem with these, is there to short, and you don't have more subs.

[@golgarisoul]

*Oh my gorn.*

[@reecewestmoreland6137]

Just a thought with the next story arc starting with simulations do you think you'll be switch uniforms to the disco one and ships to a 23rd century one, then once the sim missions are over switching the ships skin to it's 25th century version. All this being while the Armtures in for repair and refit ?

[@isaacdestura7495]

Wonder if the klingons are scared that the hurq and fekhiri are awakend or excited for a true challenge in combat

[@jasonskeans3327]

On the outside exited inside they are shitting themselves

[@johnmastroligulano7401]

I has broken the interwebs yet again~~

[@8472turtle]

Awesome video but still many questions left over

[@goldenknight578]

The mysteries in this story arc are part of why I think it's one of the best in the game. Don't worry, though, many answers are coming very soon.

[@TurKlack]

Come to think of it. This Battle between the Felkir and the Hurq might just be a Klingons wet dream. To fight 2 Ancient Enemies? Surely they is no better Battle.

[@Eucep]

Oh, weird update to see Treachery there.

[@john_mystery]

Something tells me the white has something to do with the hurq and why they went aggressive.

[@dannylesbile8592]

Those scorpion bugs look like giant lice it would have been funny to see changing researchers each one with a giant louse on their backs starving

[@RomLoneWolf23]

Oh, does this mean we're going to get a KDF playthrough in the near future?

[@randyranderson690]

The best kind of 3-way is a Star Trek 3-way

[@josephem]

You can run through the fight to make it through the exit.

[@smartgoku9048]

just so you know rick you can in fact just run through them. there's no need to kill them all.

[@philly83]

I like the barge ships

[@dannylesbile8592]

I would have already surmised that tetyracel makes them sane I would set derilicts with armed volunteer's n create a tetyracel sprinkler system when they board and large tetyracel bombs for boarding their ships also tetyracel grenades

[@ThatRobHuman]

could this mean Marta was a founder left behind?

[@lonsunocook]

I wonder how the Hur'q would stack up against the Raccni...

[@jasonskeans3327]

Hur'q win

[@lonsunocook]

@@jasonskeans3327 thanks for that opinion. But that doesn't really explain why or in what ways the Hur'q are superior or inferior to the Racni

[@jasonskeans3327]

@@lonsunocook the Hur'q technology is vastly superior in every way energy weapons transporter tech warp and replicator tech

[@gallendugall8913]

Hur'q The Klingons want to know how to destroy them The Federation wants to understand them I want to know what they'd taste like

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

More like metallic, because they have germanium based biology.

[@yodaslovetoy]

Chicken

[@doncalypso]

@@yodaslovetoy chicken but with the consistency of shrimp....

[@BNuts]

Xiangling (Genshin) would use them as one of her ingredients. She would cook a dragon, so why not Hur'q?

[@financiallyunstable1109]

Yes and I want a ewok steak too.

[@wolfbane7497]

Every time I see episode of this game it reminds me of how crappy Star Trek Discovery is. And how phenomenal Star Trek online is with its storytelling and game play and it's sad that a video game can tell a better story than a show with a high budget.

[@kevinramsey417]

Let's see of you're still gushing about the storytelling when J'Ula shows up.

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

@@kevinramsey417 I ran those missions recently, they aren't that bad. I thought "Oh great this is gonna suck since it's from discovery" but the STO devs and story writers did better with the characters than discovery did, even got me to kinda like J'Ula a little bit.

[@christopherwilson7092]

Why is kira a captain, and not general

[@goldenknight578]

Because she's in Starfleet now and not the Bajoran Militia.

[@dannylesbile8592]

Asteroid chef

[@joshamjiamjsmkokjsmcocjsm6501]

Good devil aka protector of Christ

[@nsr-ints]

Teacup grip, really Kira? You've grown rusty. You know that doesn't help with recoil at all, and is a terrible grip... (In reality: lazy animators. But one can joke.)

[@justadog8248]

blink

[@denalexanderobach5461]

startek becoming more and more like warhammer with these tyranid wannabees and demon hordes

[@mittensfastpaw]

Man... The Dominion legacy is just awful. Eewww... No! Keep Discovery away from the only good Star Trek left! Awful!

[@stephanlier5542]

Why does he give his character no individual clothing standard is boring