{"id":838,"date":"2024-09-12T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/?p=838"},"modified":"2024-09-12T20:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:17:29","slug":"star-trek-excalibur-meet-the-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/2024\/09\/12\/star-trek-excalibur-meet-the-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Excalibur: Meet the Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While watching more tutorials for Captain&#8217;s Log, I was able to review my original first mission (which may become the second mission) and came up with a bunch of crew members as NPCs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-839\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excaliburcrew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excaliburcrew.jpg 538w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excaliburcrew-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excaliburcrew-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting that Illyrians are listed as Enterprise-era species, which I suppose makes sense, given <em>Strange New Worlds<\/em> takes place before The Original Series-era.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m considering the original mission as the second mission because I&#8217;m going to take a suggestion from a couple of Solo RPG tutorial videos, and start In Media Res, a time honored story telling method used in so many of my favorite movies (<em>Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai<\/em>).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"WaaZC Zh8Myb\">\n<div class=\"rPeykc PZPZlf\" data-attrid=\"SGEParagraphFeedback\" data-hveid=\"CCwQAQ\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwja8eaT9L6IAxVUIUQIHa_aBgYQo_EKegQILBAB\">\n<p>In medias res is a Latin phrase that means &#8220;in the middle of things&#8221;.\u00a0It&#8217;s a literary device used to describe a narrative that begins in the middle of the plot, rather than at the beginning.<span class=\"UV3uM\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried using CoPilot to create a crew photo, but I can&#8217;t get it to use the Enterprise-era uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>These were the best two.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-840 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew2-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-841 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/excalibur-crew.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The AI apparently doesn&#8217;t know what an Andorian, Aenar or Denobulan looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t touch that dial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching more tutorials for Captain&#8217;s Log, I was able to review my original first mission (which may become the second mission) and came up with a bunch of crew members as NPCs. 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