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For example .. even exemped down to 15 for Posi 1, my stalker can break Alphas no problem. But aggro sheds of me like the tide. A brute would do better there.

True. Just easier on melee classes to get there.

Ok. So all this quarantine stuff is bringing out all of the wild ideas.

I don't know. Consenting adults and all that. Long as they don't forget the safe word.

My suggestion was more along these lines. Execs and audiences were totally fine with Kirk kissing aliens, as long as the were white aliens. Then there was the Uhura kiss which raised concerns. I do not know if the Elan of Troyus kiss also raised any similar concerns since that one is never brought up. Unlike some of the white aliens Kirk is never implied to have had sex with Uhura. Heck the kiss is coerced even.

Yes. But my "decades" question was about Iman.

That one wasn't Iman.

Okay. I looked it up. "Plato's Stepchildren" was season 3 episode 10 Nov 1968 "Elaan of Troyus" was season 3 episode 13" Dec 1968. So the Uhura kiss came first. Also the historical resistance to interracial relationships in the US was most focused against White and Black people dating. I don't know why this came back up. I certainly don't have a problem with interracial kissing. The execs were worried that people would have issues with it based on attitudes at the time. Star Trek has been commended for making this step. People were fine with Kirk kissing white Aliens during the first 2 seasons. By the 3rd season viewership was evidently way down. So that also may have been a factor somewhere.

Wasn't that one decades later?

Those were probably after the Uhura kiss though? The Uhura thing was supposed to be a thing that worried the execs? But these are good points.

That was actually my original point. It wasn't until this kiss that the execs got nervous

I will point out Enterprise is probably my favorite Star Trek Show. Even with the continuity stuff. Then probably TOS Then Picard.

If you just want to break alphas, any Melee class will be fine. Scrappers can sometimes tank, but not as well as a Brute or Tanker. No Taunt, less threat, Some Secondaries without Taunt Auras, and all that. But its an aggro thing. Not a Survival thing.

hmmm I think you are right. So my point might be moot. Ragnarok though doesn't really throw them. I get almost 99% knockdowns when they move.

Interestingly I have this the same way in Spinning Strikes. I kept it to get the 6 IO bonus. It very rarely causes any knockback, so rarely I almost never notice it happen.

Depends on what you mean by Cannon. I was the viewer. I was bothered by that stuff. The very first episode broke the old Klingon Story, etc. Saying something that retcons a bunch of stuff is Canon so it doesn't violate Cannon really misses the point. Or relies on a bunch of other kludgy Retcons, etc. The question is how it approached previous canon. Its a continuity problem. As I said years later (Quite a few) I came to a more zen approach to that stuff. And decided to just watch it for what it was.

You have to qualify WHEN (RL) in Star Trek History it said that. Since Star Trek Cannon History spans over 50 years of RL time. During the 1960's and 1970's Cannon The Pre-warp exploration of parts of the Federation was a thing. As was the pre-warp Romulan war. It was supposedly fought with Lasers (The Enterprise has lasers in the First TOS Pilot) Not Phasers. It occurred only in space with Romulans and Humans not even knowing what the other looked like. This concept was first introduced in TOS Episode "The Balance of Terror" and was expanded upon in official source material they tried to get us kids in the 1970's to buy. This was "sort of" retconned later. By "sort of" I mean they changed it to No Alien Contact until the warp drive was invented. But they never addressed the earlier cannon specifically. But once they start retconning its already started ... The inconsistent internal dynamics have already begun. Enterprise was obviously following the Cannon as Established in "First Contact" TNG movie. ====== Its not the only thing like that. Klingon First Contact and the resulting war was supposed to have been fought by Captain Garth of Izar. The guy who takes over the Looney Bin in TOS Episode "Whom Gods Destroy". He was supposed to be Kirk's idol for how he handled that situation (the Battle of Axanar). There was supposed to be a sort of Hot/Cold semi-cease fire that existed after Garth's decisive victory. This was later semi-retconned as well to have possibly been someone other than the Klingons. As the Klingons were not specifically mentioned in the episode, but were identified in other materials, and then expanded upon in additional materials, and so on. But the Klingons get adventurous again in a conflict over the planet Organia in TOS "The Errand of Mercy", The Organians end up being Q-Lite types and enforce a Peace Treaty that makes it so Klingons and Federation can no longer fight. This is to set up a cold war situation so the Klingons could be Soviet Expy's to conflict with the Federation's NATO Expy status. This stuff was also conveniently forgotten later, and non specifically retconned. Because not being able to have big fights with Klingons was considered boring. Star Trek Cannon is a mess. Originally the sources were pretty limited. TV Show, Cartoon, and a handful of print publications. This was officially released stuff way way before the internet. Later of course came novels, games, etc. As the conflicts increased over time eventually the cannon status of additional materials outside of the shows/movies was removed. Some writers made token nods to stuff that had been held as fan cannon by long tradition. Others didn't. I think all long lived Franchises with lots of materials eventually run into these types of continuity problems. Trek has been a very successful franchise so it has had a ton of things released for it. Its no longer possible to have Read/Watched/Learned all of them. But way back when it was. Its like what eventually happened with Star Wars. They eventually declared print sources (mainly novels) non-canon. Which bothered a lot of people since Star Wars at least for some time claimed all its novels were policed and cannon. ===== So the real question is which RL era of Star Trek Nerd I would be. Not whether I am one. Although Trek is not really my favorite franchise. For TV Shows that would probably be The Expanse. Which due to its much smaller number of Novels and Episodes is less prone to this stuff. Ironically of course even so, there are major differences between the novels and the show.

Blatantly violating the cannon of the Klingon first Contact, etc, was just as Jarring to a Sci Fi nerd that grew up in the 70's as the major appearance and cultural changes that were introduced in the 1st Episode of Discovery.

First Episode: Klingons on Earth, return of body before ever contacted (TOS Cannon). Klingons don't care about bodies (TNG Cannon). Klingons should have been closer to the time of Star Trek Discovery, Contact definitely did not predate the Romulan War. Later - Romulan War - This war was supposed to be fought Pre-Warp (which was dumb) and at no point were Romulans ever seen, The entire treaty was done by radio. Vulcans did not know that Romulans were Vulcanoid, but Spock said it did make sense when they found out (TOS+Released materials in the 70's Cannon) The one regularly Brought up is the contact with the Borg. Which were not supposed to be ever contacted until Q intervened (TNG Cannon) Though that was also messed up in First Contact movie. The contact with the Ferengi was also against Cannon. (TNG / DS9 Cannon) One of the Issues with unavoidable Fladerization and doing a Prequel. While it initially bothered me, I later realized that no other 'verse ever has remained internally consistent either. ============= Some things were just new - Not strictly Non-Cannon, but not previously ever discussed despite lots of material. Such as - The Vulcans being Patronizing limiters to Human development. The Andorian conflict with the Vulcans, including the new wrinkle of competing for territory. The Green Orions actually running their Society, previously they were an enslaved minority.

That's the problem you supposedly aren't getting. The marketers are not creating currency. They are being paid by others. What you are discussing is called Adding Value. It has nothing to do with Money Creation. Its a prime target for taxation in a lot of Economies, resulting in a Value Added Tax. Sort of what we already have. (Ish)

You can do this atm with STJ and Crushing Uppercut. It makes a great location for the Winter Purple Set with added hold. Though maybe not as cool as Stoning them.

I didn't like the theme song. But I love Enterprise. Originally the fact the writers played loose with the canon bothered me and I stopped watching when it was a new show. But years later I realized writers in general don't follow canon on anything anywhere. And so I decided to watch it on Netflix. Even the first season is cool in many ways. They don't trust transporters. Their tech barely works. They are unfamiliar with Aliens. The ship is making revolutionary changes like encountering Warp 2 Cargo ships that take years to travel their routes. There is a lot more there than at first glance.

Wow. I think the pro monetary inflation guys actually know there is a difference. They just think price controls are somehow a better limit, for them, than any sort of monetary policy. Makes sense. If you have a money printing press, and you can also control prices, your spending power is vastly increased. Who cares about everyone else. They can just make farm toons too. Welcome to County of Farmers

Of course if you are soloing arcs you will have more money for your build than if you are Teaming. I made hundreds of millions just selling off Converters I bought with all the reward merits I had earned by the 30's

I did have to shut General off. SMDH I thought most people that played this game were reasonably mature. Guess not.