More importantly, can I be the captain of a garbage scow? When Klingons insult my ship I can be indifferent about it.

Guild_Navigator

@aeonite: LOL I was talking about the new Battlestar Galactica, if you excuse me I'm going to store my Aquafina in a vault. :D

CrashOverride777

@Grandreaper999: Theirs a really old one on PC thats sorta like the point and click adventures, like sam & max, full throttle, indiana jones.. etc.
Its ultra fun
the only drawback is about the 12th stage, where a loss results in loss of your fourteenth and fifteenth spinal disc's (IRL), which is why the game was pulled from shelves prematurely

Bone Structure

@CrashOverride777: Why didn't they make Ice Pirates Online instead too?

aeonite

I have a question.
Why didn't they make a Battlestar Galactica Online instead?

CrashOverride777

@Guild_Navigator:

Dimensional shift. Next!

Or at least that's how I imagine they'll treat problems like these.

liquidnumb

"Every series and movie is considered canon" I don't exactly understand how they do this since the original series, next gen and movies contradict each other. I mean, Are they somehow going to make Zefram Cochrane both an earth man and an Alpha Centaurian? *snort*

Guild_Navigator

Elite force was fun, not the best game ever but i enjoyed it.

Chaoticevl

@wanion: Oh, wait, I have one: Will it feature evil bearded Spock? Otherwise, I'll pass.
Although if he goes crazy and smacks Kirk like a bitch, then I might be interested. This will probably be a TNG era game though won't it?

Star Trek games always seem to be a weird proposition, since the series is typical not about action as it is about exploration of space...and the human condition. Usually it's the crew finding some special effects blob that they can't kill with normal weapons and makes people fall out of their seats until they realize all the monster really wants...is love. Or something lame like that.

Plus most of the games seem to focus on Klingons & Romulons, I say bring on the space monsters.

wanion

"Do You Have Questions About Star Trek Online?"
No.

wanion

I've poked around the Star Trek games library over the years and never seen a good star trek game, ever. Can anyone tell me if there were any I missed? (if that sounded kinda insincere, sorry, it was an honest question/statement)

Grandreaper999

I can just see the guild chat now:

"Beam me up spotty!"

/end stereotypical view on trekkies being spotty nerds

EmeraldCockroach

no.. no i do not

xxBetaMaxxx

In an effort to better educate the Kotaku community on the universe related to this game, I've collected some points of interests. Please approach these links with a heart of humbleness and an open mind.

Points of reference:

[The difference between a "Trekkie" and a "Trekker"]: '..."walking with us"'

Passion:

+ Watch video

[Star Trek Eortic Fan-Fic]: [Snippet]
f I was going to be stranded on a desert island and could only bring one fanfic story with me, this would be it. Flowering is a beautifully written and emotionally powerful tale of sixteen year old Elim Garak's sexual awakening in a boarding school for intelligent Cardassians who excessively question the wisdom of the state. Ms. Wotton's creation is not only an insightful examination of a cruel society in its death throes, but a sizzling piece of erotica set at an all male boarding school (my personal kryptonite). Run, don't walk, and I promise you will never think of Preloc's The Never-Ending Sacrifice the same way again. (Elizabeth Helena, Feb 19, 2003)
[/Snippet]

...please enjoy.

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

@xxBetaMaxxx:

Unconvincing, repeated claim from post like this that you "doesn't care" is failing to conceal the fact that you actually care too much. If you don't care, then just stay the f*** away from the article and show how much you don't care in a serene silence instead of coming out like a complete douche.

STO is one of the few games I'm really really looking forward to. There's quite a few designer's choices so to speak which will determine the path this MMO will take, and a few of them has been answered here. Thanks for this article!

darbonne

@FranUnFine: "The second game that is not ST 25th Anniversary"... does this mean I've got a clichéd opinion? Aw. :(

Chadders

@Grandreaper999: Star Trek 25th Anniversary is still the best Star Trek game ever in my eyes. It was released early 90s (1966+25=1991?) and was on one hand a starship combat simulator, and on the other, a point & click adventure starring the usual members of the away team on the planets & ships they beamed to.

(And you could kill the redshirt in nearly every mission!)

I wish they'd make something similar now. Especially for Wii - I want wii remote controls for phaser & tricorder already!

I fear Star Trek Online is going to go the way of all the recent games... over-emphasising combat (MMO grind for Trek? Ugh.) and having none of the moral spirit of the original Trek in it.

Chadders

@Grandreaper999: Well, there was Birth of the Federation, a rather decent Master of Orion clone that I liked. Was really funny on LAN parties.

The second game that is not ST 25th Anniversary is Starfleet Command, which is a clone of a board game IIRC.

I never played Bridge Commander, so I can't comment on that, but people seem to like it.

FranUnFine

I still think before you can earn the right to have your own ship, you should be required to level up by faithfully dying as a red shirt security guard a few times in some other captain's pointless boarding/landing party.

Kuromimi

Yes, but can you play as Tribble?

Kenofthedead

@Chadders: I think I prefered Star Trek The Next Generation: A Final Unity (I Think that's what it's called) another point and click game. I'm not too certain why though...

AdmiralJonB

@wanion: I agree man, bearded spock with "The Agonizer" was the shit!

Besides, I wouldn't want to play as some "goody two shoes" in a World that is predetermined to be "all about peace".

Screw that noise! I want carnage, chaos, plunder and destruction! And I don't want it in some Rick Berman nonsense that has been plaguing that franchise since.... oh, forever lately.

Maybe some Wrath of Khan vindictive, blood-thirsting would do; BUT I WANT BEARDED SPOCK IN THIS GAME TOO, DAMMIT!!!

Final thought on this from me:

Kirk: KHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!

Soldier_CLE

@AdmiralJonB: The starship combat in that was atrocious. Maybe I didn't 'get' it or my PC couldn't handle it, but all it ever seemed to do was put the Enterprise wobbling centre screen and occasionally flash up a Romulan warbird to destroy you.

Bridge Commander was pretty good. No point-and-click adventure though.

Armada II was fun for the RTS elements as well. Although again, all combat. But that was ok, because for 2/3 of the game you were playing as Klingons and then Borg.

Chadders

Go game! I hope star trek online really picks up. I was following this game since the days the launched the site with only concept art. If NCSoft publishes i hope it wont suck as bad as city of heroes.

mash25

I doubt I'll play this. I'm a fan of star trek, but you'll have to pay for it every month no doubt. I refuse to pay for any game more than once.

MizuhoChan

played original EQ (forgot to include the name of the mmo,lol).

Sugaray

As long as the game is true to Trek and is made to appeal to Trek fans and casual gamers moreso than your typical mmo powergamer, then i'll be there.I'd much rather see a Trek mmo than was fun to play and not merely another scifi/fantasy mmo timesink.I played the original 7 years and was part of the original beta, and have since stopped played mmo's altogether because they are basicly all the same with only the wrapping being different(time+items="leetness" formula).I've been there,done that and learned that it gets old VERY fast.Hopefully Cryptic keeps STO as far away from that formula as they possibly can.

Sugaray

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kreedle

My question, how they gonna stop it turning into this?

kreedle

I will be the toon in the RED shirt.

rainofwalrus

Ooh! Please tell me this is based on Enterprise!

dae_giovanni

I have a question: how much will this game cost? MMO's always scare me away with their pricing. I hate monthly fees, but I can tolerate one that's really low in the $5 to $8 range. Some of the fees for MMO's out there right now are absolutely outrageous.

@CrashOverride777: "Why didn't they make a Battlestar Galactica Online instead?"

Because that show was terrible decades ago and it's still terrible today. =P

BigDragon

@Grandreaper999: I don't think anyone mentioned Elite Force.

Basically a reskin of the Quake III engine with Star Trek: Voyager. Short, but fun, and you could wander the halls of the ship to some extent. It was also pretty visually impressive at the time, although it felt more Quake than Star Trek here and there. Didn't play the second one - can't remember if it got good or shoddy reviews.

And, like every one said, the point and click game from the early 90's was pretty awesome.

But true, unlike Star Wars, the Trek Universe hasn't been as fortunate with its games. That is to say, there's been no KOTOR or Jedi Knight/Dark Forces in all its time.

sir_carrot

I just want to know why the Enterprise is attacking the Death Star.

rzr

This interests me a bit, though I haven't played a good Star Trek game since Armada II (though I played the HELL out of that one.)

From what I've seen so far, the game needs more Bat'lath.

Aerokii

heh, gecko kept his name from city or heroes, beautiful.

rianfrost

@Grandreaper999: Star Trek : Invasion on PSOne

Top Notch!

shaunomacx

@Guild_Navigator:

Well Alpha Centaurians have never been stated in canon as aliens. So why couldn't he have been a Terran, and also happened to live on Alpha Centauri (assuming there is a habitable planet out there)? It's a bit of a retcon, but nothing directly contradictory. There are plenty of more egregious ones anyways. But they remain nitpicky.

houser

@sir_carrot: I really liked the weapon balance in Elite Forces multilayer. I don't think I've ever found a rocket launcher that was quite as fun as the micro torpedo launcher.

Elite force 2 was ok. Story was not as fun, and weapons not nearly as memorable. But you could explore a lot more of the ship (the Enterprise E this time) and Star Fleet Academy in San Fransisco. but you're still mostly battling big bug looking things.

There's some really eye rolling moments, like when you figure out that this woman (think of 7 0f 9 times 2) wearing an impossible bikini is really a scientist...

DoctorSaliva

This game feels about as "trekkish" as Babylon 5 did.

goddessakasha

Also, the mod community is pretty good for Bridge Commander.

Byronotron

I don't know about you folk, but, I like to play Star Trek: Legacy while listening to the audiobooks. I just listen to the mp3s on the xbox. it's like there's an actual story to the game!

Byronotron

Since "Every series and movie is considered canon" my question would be "What does God need with a starship?"

Even Roddenberry thought Star Trek V was "apocryphal at best," so why elevate it back to canon status here?

skrolnik

So that means you can have your team camp in Yosemite? Awesome!

boopadoo