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Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer
Two days ago, an AP interview with Cryptic Studios' Jack Emmert provided new details about Star Trek: Online, which was lost in developmental limbo for quite some time. Today, Cryptic released a game-play trailer and a forty-minute webcast discussing the game.
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Star Trek Online Forever?
Nuclear engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
Details from TFA:
How many red shirts do you get per ship?
is that you never make an entire planet feel ashamed right after first contact for not adhering to your superior future moral code. I mean that's basically the point of Star Trek.
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From what they haven't said about avoiding current MMO problems I picture it like this:
... 49 levels later ... ... now just keep doing that again and again for increasingly diminishing rewards .... ... ...
NPC: Bring me 17 Tribble Scrotums.
Player: Ok, here you go.
NPC: Kill the renegade Klingon warlord.
Player: Done.
NPC: Invade the Borg ship and destroy it's power source.
Player: Mission accomplished!
NPC: uhh
Player: but didn't I already
NPC: SILENCE! Invade the Borg ship and
... also, I can kill you with my brain.
The quote at the bottom of Slashdot's page right now is especially appropriate:
You will be dead within a year.
Instead of the standard HP or hit points, health will be gauged by RS, red shirts.
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Emmert said "Star Trek Online" would definitely be available for Windows PC and perhaps Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
Translation: your choice of Microsoft, Microsoft or rootkit-installing Sony.
I'll pass on all 3 options, thanks.
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You have docked with Starbase 23. Would you like to resupply? YES
Starbase 23 has the following supplies:
Please indicate the items and quantity needed...
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How many red shirts do you get per ship?
More importantly, are there any cute borg girls that want to look at the captain's log?
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I don't care who's captining the ship I want to re-route power from main engineering so fire a stream of einstinean particle from the buzzard collectors, or remodulate the ships power to be 180 deg out of phase (aka, sour the milk).
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
Yes, but it's only a TV show. :)
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You start the game with default clothing, basic black slacks and a red shirt. Then you spend half the game trying to earn a different color shirt. Just like all the others, except more desperately.
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