I'm pretty sure it's because the Horta will probably be consumable and we'll see standard combat pets taking up bridge officer slots.

So one day my Tactical will call upon the wrath of MAHO...Military Assault Horta Operations.

that sounds an awfull lot like Targ breeding.... shouldn't that have been exclusive to KDF because they can't realy use tribbles?
Or will the targ breeding be 10 times that what the Horta breeding is? then it would be kinda fair again.

*Double-take*

Horta breeding minigame?!?!

I thought that Horta only bred once per 1000 years or somesuch... but I do find the prospect of blobs of lava doing the "Horizontal Bop" to be "Fascinating" </Spock Impression>

Is the running behind schedule due to other things being worked on that are coming in the future? If so, since the dailies are tied to series 3, how does something that hasnt happened yet take priority over something that current?

I'm sure those will be fun, but please tell me we'll have the "normal" patrol type dailies too.

ooh crafting crafting and crafting! Love it. Take your time and get em done right. A few days or so won't kill any of us. I really hope the crafting dailies are not too grindy and worth the wait. I love crafting quests, when they're done well.

Frankly, I'd support dailies being released on "off" Saturdays. I think some of the old dailies got overlooked because they came out during a series and saving these for the weeks following a featured series would help build up the expectation of something new every week, even if only a rerun or a batch of Foundry spotlights one week.

Horta crafting? Really? How about getting rid of the mines?

I think the addition of dailies at the end of each series is awesome and adds a little bit of persistence to the that area as opposed to being these one hit wonder amusement park rides. The Deferi sector dailies are pretty neat and there's been some variety to them added in to make sure they don't get stale too quickly. But I'm left with a feeling that there wasn't necessarily an ultimate happy ending to the problems in the Deferi sector since there are actions I can take in that sector to assist.

This is really only the first step though in what should be making the universe a living entity. Perhaps you guys already have plans for revisiting the Deferi Sector in another series of episodes, but I'd like to know what's next for the Deferi Sector. Same with our Reman-Romulan conflict at some point in the future.