Here's a random! I saw an episode of Voyager yestarday.
They met a group of beings and called them the Think Tank.
They were very smart, had advanced technology and went around helping people for a ceurtain compensation. (with Voyager, they wanted Neelix's recepie, Chakotay's figurine and 7of9, well it was all actualy a scam to get 7 to join their group...)

yeah.. jason alexander was playing in that one (george from seinfeld for you ignorant ones lol) good idea

what about the ship swalllower in vger... i dunno if you wanna keep its ability to make you see things but its a cool idea...

i assume the evil caretaker is in it ? (the 2nd one)
and ninjas.. there ought to be alot of ninjas in space....

what about the space station that was in "enterprise" they repaired it and kidnapped mayweather (the black dood)...u can have that.. a station that repairs and refuels.. in exchange for half a dozen of officers ??? just an idea

I'm ignorant! (What's Seinfield?)

I think the idea about the 'Think Tank' has been mentioned before (Possibly in another thread) but it was never discussed. Even if they aren't considered as a random, it might be a good idea to have some randoms where some race tries to pull a scam on you.

By Vger, do you mean the Motion Picture, or are you just being lazy and abbreviating? (In which case, the abbreiviation for Voyager is VGR)

In the case of the Motion Picture, I think the ships/planets were destroyed, and a copy was madeinside Vger.

In the case of your inaccurate laziness, the living nebula is in.

For the ninja's...I think we could add nunchuks as a weapon

And I think the Enterprise station has again been mentioed before (Can't think where though)

Of course, all that may have been another pigment of my imagination, in which case, i'll go paint that flutterby...

goody, can you attack the ship eater ??? is there also the planet eater from TOS ???

and YES..... vger is voyager.. among other trek friends, ive taken a habit of saying vger with an extra E..... strike me down now oh muckus infested god !!!

nothing ? guess ill go on....the think tan can do 2 things.. when in a sector with your planet... things from your stuff could vanish.. like credits and metals (deuterium and dilithum and other stuff) as if the pop of that planet made a deal with the think tank....

and sometimes they could attack... OR.. they could just take stuff from different sectors...until you destroy them....

btw.. george costanza was played by a Jason Alexander on a show called Seinfeld wihich was based on the stand up comedy of Jerry seinfeld. The show was based on random life events, which other people described as "nothing", Costanza was a short balding chubby guy who at fist lived with his parents, and he was among the group of seinfelds friends...
your sarcasm made me do this..

Well, that's OK for the Tank, ragezOr.
I had a different idea, well a bunch of barely connected, and incoherent ideas:
They are a tactical random (you can engage them), if you destroy them, you get a big research boost in all fields. But they only stick around for a few turns, so you don't get 10 turns to get a little fleet together...
or
You loose resources when they're in a system, but the system gets a bonus; food or industry...
or
whatever someone can think of...

the 1st and 2nd combined would be perfect

cool.. someone actually likes my idea

random event for planets
im surprised this hasnt come up... but.. youve all heard about how earth might 1 day go thru another ice age ? well why not in the game. .. if your planets can suddenly become barren (in birth1).. why not your planets go through an ice age (termporary or permament).. if temporary.. it can come out of the ice age as another type of planet ?.. better or worse

just a thought
dont skin the idea man..

Hmm...I like it...but i'm not sure of the specifics...we'll have to discuss it on sunday...and this time, you can join in!

next sunday ?
.. cool.. how ? like on msn or mirc ?

MSN. There is an announcement in general chat, "MSN meeting about random events"

cool, do i gotta add anyone in particular ???

hmm. Add OmniQ and Matress, maybe...
Matress, cause he's always there on time (for now, at least), and OmniQ is the one who edits the Randoms list!

Yes, i'm always on there on time! (Same can't be said for you CVN!) Na, you had a legit reason, and Michae1ange1o just forgot the day!

Still don't know about the others tho.

Ragez0r, you don't have to bother looking for people at the moment. On sunday, me or iwulff or someone else will just invite everyone into one big conversation. When that happens, you'll get a list of people who you can add as contacts. You can sort it out then.

That's how I ended up with all the guys in my contact list. I just entered the conversation that iwulff had set up. i got the screen then, and i've been chatting since! (On MSN, i'm not making a reference to the length of my posts...i've just done a nice long one about DNA on the race pics thread, if anyone is interested...)

Just get Matress in; he invites you and then you add people as you want...
Btw, I DID read your disambiguation on DNA! A most insightful review of what I learned a couple of months ago in Biology...

excellent.. so mattress.. whats your msn buddy
or you could add me ragez0r@hotmail.com
zero not an O

Don't worry, I knew it was a zero!

I've added you to my contacts list. You're one of us now!

One of us! One of us!

If the race species 8472 are in (either diplomatic or random, technically they should be the major race as in the ST universe the federation now has basic diplomacy with them. But then again 8472 are a TAD too powerful to be a major race so they might stay random) However if they are in can we give them a differnt name as well as let's face it calling them by the name what their orignal foes gave them (ie the borg) isn't very diplomatic to say the least. And voyager of all people should had a chance to know their actual names considering they had a meeting/cease fire deal with them.

I think it has already been decided that they will be in only as a random.

Of course, people will likely make a module for them, once the game is released, so don't count this as final.

You have a good point, anyway. It's possible that the name 8472 gives itself is simply unpronouncable by species from our dimension, or that 8472 doesn't actually have a name!

They are from another dimension, after all!

I agree with you completly, my felow member of species 5618.

Desist for your besmirchment, Nuclear Aircraft Carrier! I am a member of the offshoot of species 5259, and don't you forget it!

So what you're telling me is; The Borg don't have a designation for Romulans... (<-me laughing at Romulans)

Either that OR Roms are actualy considered Vulcans. (<-me laughing my a$$ off at Romulans)

Well we talked on MSN, so you know that we just don't know...it's a failure that my operatives will come to know as unacceptable...

Oh, boy. I'm going be killed by Tal Shiars before noon, am I... (:lol:)
Now, realy, why didn't Janeway ask Species 8472: "Anything shorter, maybe?"

S. 8472?
8472?
Big, ugly, extra-dimentional freaks?

Somehow, I think it is more along the lines of ahglarHAmisVLATblEHro or something...

That's probably why Janeway kept to Species 8472...

Well, it must be that. Because it's impossible she's such a bad captain not to care at all about their real name.
8472!
That is a Borg designation. We are actualy called John
WHAT EVER! Save it for someone who cares!

She wasn't exactly the perfect diplomat though, was she?

'Any agression against this ship will be met with the deadliest of force!'

Perhaps we should just have a random name generator put in for species 8472?

Names generator:
Jolly
Frank
Miđo
Tripper
Lassie
...
I can make more if you like these

how can 8472 be a major race if they dont even exist in our universe ?

Well, that's why they'll be a random event

but i saw them in the gamedata faq as a race, not a random event