Trying the advice of opening the game directly from STO rather than Arc. Stuck in a big patch at the moment but I'll keep you posted.

As much as I like him, I have to disagree with George Takei.

Both JJ & original Sulu had zero to almost zero onscreen reference to their sexuality before this, & whatever happens just in books is not canon.

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It's a reboot. It's a reboot. It's a reboot. It doesn't really effect what gene Roddenberry created all those years ago by making changes if you think those changes will improve the character and the movie.

For me it's very similar to the decision to change Starbuck into a women on Battlestar Galactica. It was a very male heavy cast so they made a change that a lot of people didn't like but Starbuck is like .. one of the best things about that reboot.

I don't think this an appropriate analogy. BSG was a clear and decisive reboot. The JJverse is intrinsically linked to the Prime timeline.

But it begs the question of why essential character traits that define Kirk (his libidinous virility), Spock (conflicted, dispassionate haughtiness), McCoy (cantankerous humanism) are preserved in the JJverse.

On one hand, it gets to the headache-inducing crush of how the JJ universe relates to the Prime universe. Like - what are those rules, beyond the explicit cinematic meta-rationale, that JJ and his writers take such obvious pleasure in deconstructing.

But at a deeper level, it demands we take a position on what makes someone gay. Genetics? Environment? Some synergistic confluence of both?

I mean - enough of Prime Sulu is left in John Cho, that he still took up fencing. What are the odds of that?

So if you believe the biologic rationalizations for homosexual orientation, or even if you don't - why shouldn't JJ-Sulu's orientation reflect on Prime's?

I wish he'd just smiled and said "That's nice" so it didn't take a bit of the gloss away from the first openly-gay Star Trek character.

I'd like to think George has done enough IRL advocacy work that should plenty enough to trump our silly little make-pretend fictional universe.

FWIW, Simon Pegg's posted an articulate, reasoned response to George over at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/08/simon-pegg-defends-gay-sulu-after-george-takei-criticism

Also i think GR would have other more glaring issues from all of the jjverse movies.

I think it's sad that he's chosen to be negative about it despite that he totally has a point... to an extent.

It's a reboot. It's a reboot. It's a reboot. It doesn't really effect what gene Roddenberry created all those years ago by making changes if you think those changes will improve the character and the movie.

For me it's very similar to the decision to change Starbuck into a women on Battlestar Galactica. It was a very male heavy cast so they made a change that a lot of people didn't like but Starbuck is like .. one of the best things about that reboot.

I wish he'd just smiled and said "That's nice" so it didn't take a bit of the gloss away from the first openly-gay Star Trek character.

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Rather than type it all over again, I'll just link some of my earlier tech advice for another fleetie with crash issues. There are explicit directions for bypassing the Arc launcher and loading only STO itself, as well as how to perform a full and clean remove/reinstall of the game.

TOPIC: Crashes and a virus

Hope it helps.


PS: If you're running AVG, either get rid of it and use something else or at minimum add the STO folder and EXE to the scanning exceptions. AVG and STO do not play well together.

Also...

Load the launcher.. plop in your password etc... and before launch, click options..
click safe mode..
Than launch the game.
hopefully when/if the game loads to your character select screen...
click options again...
go onto the graphics tab
make sure "Reduce file streaming" is ticked ON

it helped me when loading screens caused game crashes on my PC

(if you've tried that approach already forgive me)

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it tomorrow.

Hmm, when the launch window pops up, asking you to enter your username and password, hit the options button at the top right corner of the window. Check the 'force verify' button and let it check all of the game files. This might help.

Tomorrow, they're doing extended maintenance on the game - maybe that'll fix the problem? Short of that, I think you may need to try an uninstall and reinstall of the game itself, rather than just the Arc client.

Hope you're able to get in :(

After this new check-all-the-files-and-restart, I got a new message that looked like a game crash, but this time it said there were missing files. Um...?

So, I thought I'd give the expansion a whirl. Arc wouldn't load the game right, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Arc. Then jumped through several hoops several times over to get the game running. I've had it stall out on the Loading screen--one reason I haven't played in months is that I can't get into the game no matter which of the 37 googled fixes I try. Now there's a new thing it does: Once in the loading screen, it crashes outright. Crashed twice already, gonna see if the third time is the charm. Since I'm planning on writing a review for a gaming publication, this doesn't bode well for the review.

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