Why is Worf in Engineering anyway?

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Fawkes was so full of shit. This isn’t about honor. I literally will not survive the task. YOU might come out of it stronger, let alone unscathed.

Edit: Bonus Trek connection with Michael Dorn as supermutant Marcus.

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Todd is a railroading DM.

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I don’t blame Fawkes.

I blame whoever at Bethesda wrote it and also whoever thought that was an acceptable plot point/ending and didn’t ask for changes (which I guess is Todd Howard but then again he wasn’t the director for FO3). They are so bad at actual logic and RPG design.

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Entirely fair. Fawkes is a generally great companion/tank/storage unit. The blame falls on the writers’ lack of imagination (and appropriate dev time). Not to mention Todd “it just works” Howard.

edit: even if it wasn’t under Todd’s direction, I’m still generally annoyed with his shenanigans. More so since eventually, I will wind up playing the next TES and Fallout entries. Presumably after a year post release and on a reasonable sale.

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Just a reminder, this is only implemented because of a game breaking bug that would occur when you tried to send him in to do the job. I remember because I encountered that bug; I bought the game disk day one and didn’t update it until later. You literally had to pick a different option because if you had him do it, he’d be like “sure thing that’s a great idea,” and then he’d walk in there and flip the switch and then the game would hard crash to desktop.

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I’m out of the loop. What’s the joke here? I’m guessing it’s a fallout thing?

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yes. the super mutant is immune to radiation, but you can’t send them in to do the job. apparently you originally could but it got patched out because of a game breaking bug.

which is weird; Bethesda games are known for their polish and general lack of bugs.

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Why not send an Exocomp or two into the tube of death?

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Oh no, what have you awoken…?! :-P (wrong show answers only)

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i could stand maybe ten seconds tops of a DRD sadly singing 1812 Overture as it died of radiation damage until I’d have to climb into the fuckin condiut myself to save it

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5 points

More light!

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I don’t think leading a platoon of Stormtroopers into the conduit would fix anything.

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Not true! It would be a fun way to spend an hour… :-D

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But radiation would damage electronics too, and Data is irreplaceable

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Possibly, but you know who has a history of surviving things that would kill any other crew member and has exhibited at least incredible radiation resistance even in that very same episode?

Also, it’s very un-starfleet to consider one member of the crew more irreplaceable or valuable than any other, even if it is true.

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38 points

Picard made the best use of his crew and their abilities, but he values them all equally.

One of my favorite retorts of his:

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well said

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Everyone on the crew is irreplaceable. Data wouldn’t want special treatment

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Nah, he’d just lose his memory for a while, then cause a radiation poisoning epidemic. Then be speared to death when he tries to fix it.

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Meanwhile on the USS Voyager:

Tuvok and Chakatoy encounter each other in the hallway near Holodeck 1.

Tuvok: Commander, I am concerned about the Captain’s continuous holodeck usage. She has not exited the room for the past three hours, and I believe it may be inhibiting the effective operation of the ship.

Chakatoy: It’s been a rough week. I’m sure she’s just blowing off some steam.

Suddenly, they heard muffled noises through the holodeck door.

Tuvix: I have a right to live!

(Excessive machine gun noises)

Chakotay taps his combadge.

Chakotay: Doctor, can you come to holodeck 1? I think something’s wrong with the captain.

(No offense to Janeway. Just a fun caricature.)

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