Just skimming the tail end of that thread on BGG. Looks like one of the main complaints is SFB doesn't follow Trek canon-history. Someone replied, "Unless it's a parallel universe [...] it won't make sense."

Well, my answer to that is, "Read my short-story posted on Trek-BBS."

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Garth L. Getgen

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 08:32 am: Edit

The guy feels like his childhood was stolen because SFB isn't canon and that somehow ADB should be punished and Paramount should crush the game. He's got problems.

By Burt Quaid (Burt) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 09:43 am: Edit

Bless his heart

Burt

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 05:13 pm: Edit

Oh my, what a tempest in a teapot.

I answered him. It won't make him happy, but it should stop some of the rumors floating out there.

However, I must remember that wrestling with a pig only gets you dirty and makes the pig happy.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 05:17 pm: Edit

Must have had a proposal rejected.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 07:01 pm: Edit

If I acted that way every time SVC rejected one of my ideas, I'd be locked up in the loony bin.


Garth L. Getgen

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 09:31 pm: Edit

Light weight.

Wait until you get as many rejected proposals as MJC and I have.

Only THEN will I take your self assessed mental stability issues seriously!

HA!

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 09:56 pm: Edit

Jeff, I've seen some of your submission, so I already question your mental stability. [GRIN]


Garth L. Getgen

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 11:21 pm: Edit

You are about number twenty one or two on the list. About thirty years late.

Keep working, you might get there… eventually!

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, September 15, 2023 - 07:48 am: Edit

To be fair, SFB is a combat game

no combat = boring

By Steve Stewart (Stevestewart) on Friday, September 15, 2023 - 08:51 am: Edit

"Tempest in a tea-pot."

thank you Jean, I am totally stealing that phrase next time I get a silly question at work!

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, September 15, 2023 - 09:14 am: Edit

My final reply to him:

"You are not only tilting at windmills; you're doing so with neither a lance nor a horse. Go home."

By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Friday, September 15, 2023 - 03:21 pm: Edit

Even with Jean providing factual information, he still wants to debate whether SFB is legit. He may legitimately not be able to wrap his head around this concept.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, September 16, 2023 - 01:46 am: Edit

Legit, yes, Paramount would have crushed us 40 years ago if we were not.

Canon, nope, didn't try to chase that moving target. When we started, Star Trek was dead and were flatly told by Paramount that it was never coming back to television so we expanded in our own directions. It would drive us and our customers crazy to change the rules after every episode airs trying to match the writers' latest plot devices.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Saturday, September 16, 2023 - 12:00 pm: Edit

IIRC, the biggest change in SFB that came from anything Paramount did with Trek was after movie #6. As I remember, SVC, after that movie Canonized ships having some ability to fire while cloaked, you said something to the effect of expecting a #2-load of proposals to that idea and created the FRAX Axion torpedo to pre-emptively address it.

Aside from that, the two universes have consistently moved in different directions, which IMO is for the best; both have their own unique color.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Saturday, September 16, 2023 - 05:33 pm: Edit

Jean, this is definitely a case of not trying to convince the person you are talking to, but correcting their misinformation for those reading along!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 01:47 am: Edit

I think that we've all heard that US "pennies" (actually, "one cent pieces") cost 3 cents to make, but nobody has the political courage to get rid of them. The mint has to make billions since nobody picks them up if they drop and every household has a jar of them that are not in circulation? Given that we cannot get rid of it, could we come up with a solution?

1. Switch to a cheaper metal, like steel.

2. Make the one-cent coin smaller.

3. Let corporations sponsor runs of 10 million pennies for 5 cents each. For that matter, let churches, movie stars, political candidates, rich guys like George Soros or Elon Musk, famous authors, sports teams, or anyone else with the money to blow do that.

4. Any other ideas?

By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 09:17 am: Edit

Incentivizing EFTPOS will help kill the one-cent piece, in fact it'll reduce coin usage generally. I have gone a couple of years without using any cash at all, in fact it may even be longer than that. The (retail) banking and payment systems in the U.S. seem to be quite backward compared to other first-world countries, from what I can tell. There are exceptions, for example Germany seems very conservative in this regard, but USA seems behind hte curve here

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 09:30 am: Edit

I choose to use local companies for things that I need done as a homeowner/resident of my county. I pay cash to those folks. This keeps 100% of what I spend in my community instead of sending a small percentage of what is pulled from a plastic transaction to a huge bank. It saves the contractor some money in fees. I also make a deal with the contractor in most cases for a cash price which also saves me money.

Cash is still something that should be used.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 12:56 pm: Edit

I certainly hope we stay backwards and keep cash as an ongoing viable payment option. It's one of the keys to freedom.

--Mike

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 03:12 pm: Edit

Major Luddite here who doesn't trust computerized/electronic monies; believes hackers have the ability to access them easily enough and the more we use them, the more avenues of access we open ourselves up to their shenanigans.

Continued use of cash is our best defense, until and unless we start hunting the hacker/thieves down and turning them into earthworm amusement parks.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 03:20 pm: Edit

More the worry of doing away with most cash transactions. Forcing everyone to get a card. That stops any work under the table. Good luck paying the 14-year-old to mow your lawn, He has to report the tax.
Then there is the worse bit. Oh you have to use the card. FEES go up everywere.

By Kevin Howard (Jarawara) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 04:58 pm: Edit

I keep worrying about the day I hand the cashier a 20, and he says "oh, just scan that bill through the machine there", or instead of change he hands back the 20 saying "you still have $3.17 on that bill, you can refill to full at the bank if you want."

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 05:22 pm: Edit

That is all a wider issue. What about the penny?

By Kosta Michalopoulos (Kosmic) on Friday, October 04, 2024 - 05:34 pm: Edit

Canada got rid of the penny decades ago, and nobody misses it (well, except maybe for coin collectors). I don't understand why it is so difficult for the U.S. to do the same.

As for the use of cash in general, it is going out of style. Ask any young person you know - do they carry cash with them? Most of those I know do not. They do not even carry a credit card. They have their phones with them, and their Apple or Google pay app. And the expectation within the retail sector is that they will stop accepting cash payments within the next decade or so, unless mandated to do so by the government. Many already refuse to accept cash for larger purchases (anything over $20).

Yet another thing us old fogies will have to get used to.