What's up with Star Trek Online?

MMORPG.com has a piece talking with Daron Stinnett, producer for the preproduction-phase MMOG Star Trek Online. They discuss the decision to only include the Federation in the game's launch, the gameplay both on starships and planetside, and the many ideas still being nailed down for the title. From the article: "The uniforms are a good example of an area where we've needed to evolve the look of Star Trek to support the game. Star Trek uniforms from the shows tend to be very subtle in their variation, which of course works when you're filming close enough to make the actors themselves the stars of the show. But for an MMO, It's well understood that giving players the ability to customize their look as their character evolves is an important part of any MMO as is the ability to recognize player rank and specialty from a distance. So we have created new uniforms that are still very recognizable as Star Trek, but with recognition and customization features that will work well in our game world."

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Re:Off topic: what is a good star-trek to get into

[Scrameustache]

Deep Space Nine has best characters, action, and arc storyline...in my INFINITELY humble opinion...the best of trek

It wasn't Trek. It had the name, the trademark, but it wasn't Star Trek. It was the first of the Rick Berman Space Shows, it disavowed the vision of a future where humanity outgrew it's current shortcommings and ventured forth to explore.
You might have liked it, but by that time, it wasn't Star Trek anymore.

/opinion of mine