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Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-an-mmo-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.

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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  1. For the lazy.. by kunwon1 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Details from TFA:
    • You start the game as captain of a small Klingon or Starfleet vessel
    • You can create new races
    • Big galaxy, lot's of space, away missions on planets
    • Timeline is a few generations after Nemesis
    • PVP space battles
    • No release date yet
    • More details will be unveiled on Sunday at a Trek convo in Vegas
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    1. Re:For the lazy.. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Details from TFA:

      • Big galaxy, lot's of space, away missions on planets

      How many red shirts do you get per ship?

  2. Marketing Pitch by Stickerboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, you, too can be the Anonymous Redshirt, for only $14.99 a month!

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  3. The only problem in Star Trek games by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:The only problem in Star Trek games by MindlessAutomata · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hmmm... Star Trek takes place in a future where mankind has embraced socialism and lives in a utopia....

      Being contacted by smug socialists shaming you because you're not one? Yes, that's certainly new, certainly unheard of.

    2. Re:The only problem in Star Trek games by AstrumPreliator · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah yes, the original Star Trek. Where Captain Kirk would either
      A) Beat up the antagonist
      B) Have sex with the antagonist
      or C) Do both A and B

      It really went downhill after the original!

  4. This isn't going to go well ... by Mike610544 · · Score: 5, Funny

    From what they haven't said about avoiding current MMO problems I picture it like this:

    NPC: Bring me 17 Tribble Scrotums.
    Player: Ok, here you go.
    NPC: Kill the renegade Klingon warlord.
    Player: Done.
    ... 49 levels later ...
    NPC: Invade the Borg ship and destroy it's power source.
    Player: Mission accomplished!
    NPC: uhh ... now just keep doing that again and again for increasingly diminishing rewards ....
    Player: but didn't I already ...
    NPC: SILENCE! Invade the Borg ship and ...

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