Stress, why don't you have someone contact this guy and see if he's happy with emailing you some higher res pictures for the mod? He seems to be into FanFiction and stuff so hopefully he's approachable. I for one would love the Sam Niel picture.

http://www.lighttrek.com/crew.html

Existing characters???  You mean like Worf commanding the Defiant???

So, perhaps if I could find some pictures of other Captains, Officers, etc, then it's possible you'll use them instead?

Also, what about Data? In theory, he'd still be around (or B4, or whatever he is now)?

Edit: I don't know how seriously you're considering redoing the pictures, but I know that it doesn't take a great amount of time, but here are my suggestions for the images (some of them are known characters, but are possible as Captains, like Riker, Tuvok, Data, etc).

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Robert_DeSoto - Captain Robert DeSoto

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/William_T._Riker - Captain William Riker (first image)

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Erika_Benteen - Captain Erika Benteen

Yeah, doubt you'll actually use them, but I have time on my hands

Data died in nemesis if anyone actually remembers. He sacrificed himself so picard could live.

Edit: Although he did transfer the capacity for growth to B-4.

Yeah, according to the canon that was established Data's memories and programming superceded B-4, and he's basically back to life

I suppose that was a way of dealing with making Nemesis feeling like a true closer of a series and having dramatic impact, making damn sure everyone knew Spiner wasn't reprising his role.  But they can basically still develop the character in non film/tv media

unicomplex????

woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES

I remember the first vanilla version that was released, when the early prototype borg cube hidden in the Pirate base..

I was playing a small solo game against the AI at the time and the skybox was set to that eerie darker red one, and my scout jumped into a pirate base... and there was a cube looking back at it... OMG!!! 

Now I have a fairly nice flatscreen TV that also accepts a moniter jack, plus some decient speakers... not the best, but definitly enough to compliment a good game like this nicely...

And let me tell you... I saw that monster Cube dwarfing my little scout, all black and green against that dark red backdrop... It looked so real I got chills.... literally got goosebumps...  And then my scout got wasted.

Needless to say I'm drooling now... I can't wait to see a Unicomplex with some cubes around it... preferably with the exact same background!!!!!! 

Granted, I'm only helping out with Beta Testing and some ability coding right now, but I can assure you that JTaylorPCS and the rest of the Mod Team are hard at work, and you'll be glad they're not pushing it out early when you play it.

They're working on all the small bugs that would together be infuriating if they weren't fixed, things like:

1. Making sure the tech trees actually let you upgrade all your race's weapons (vice accidentally leaving some ships' weapons non-upgradable),

2. Revising some grav well problems that had ships getting tied up and not jumping (endlessly infuriating when it happens),

3. Fixing freak input problems (wait, why does the Dom Enslaver do 2000 DPS?  Isn't that more than a borg cube???) to make the game play well.

I think Eomega is still hard at work on the last few models judging by his posts, so there are a few things left to go in, but it's getting close. 

Also, those of you who play solo like just_jim will be excited to hear that the AI in the new build plays outstandingly well (I may have mentioned that already), so single player is actually a lot of fun.  If you plop down for your first game and set the AI enemies to "unfair," don't expect to win unless your name is STARTREKKER.

You aren't alone Qaeylen

Playing the OS version right?  That's just something to hold us over if we must have Trek in Sins before the new version comes out, I believe released as is.  Doubt they're going to be making any changes to it

As a solo player, I'm very excited to see how the new AI handles!

So, not this weekend then. Well, there's a whole 'nother week in January, and I've moved you guys onto Valve time so I don't really expect anything for about half-a-month anyway. I mean, it's not like you're getting paid for all this work- so really, we should all just sit around and think about how thankful we are that people with these modding skills are putting in their spare time towards a project that will send ripples of awesome throughout the internet the moment it gets uploaded.