One Bad Mama Jama

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
    But, she with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but she would be one
    Who wouldn’t say so till she’d tried.
So she buckled right in with the trace of a grin
    On her face. If she worried she hid it.
She tried that thing that couldn’t be done…

…and she couldn’t do it.

The version of the old Edger Albert Guest poem is from an old Dick Van Dyke show – and in this case came immediately to mind as I faced what is possible the biggest, baddest boss in all of the virtual universes anywhere.  If there was a trick to defeating this thing Jim Kirk sure didn’t share it with anyone.  This boss appears in Star Trek Online somewhere around mid tier 2 as part of fleet action.

It is the Crystalline Entity. 

The Crystalline Entity is a boss the size of a moon.  The first time I faced down this monster 20 of us in cruiser class star ships, armed with Quantum Torpedoes, and heavy phaser cannons couldn’t take it down.  The lowest we ever got it down was 28 percent and that is after working on it for a solid hour and 10 minutes.  Of all the boss in all the instances in all the universes, this one is the biggest, the baddest.  My friends…this is one bad mama jama.