Perhaps more concerning than the game’s fan-fiction leanings is its penchant for violence, though. It also mines the canon for even the most obscure material to populate its stories, proffering answers to questions that none but the most hardcore nerds would bother to ask, like what really happened to the McGuffin Captain Picard destroyed during his beach holiday, who the weird subspace aliens that kidnapped Riker and Worf in their sleep are, the fate of the hyper-evolved dinosaurs that the crew of Voyager met in a thinly-veiled parable about the creationist debate, and how all of that ties in to Enterprise’s weird “Temporal Cold War.”
The game bends over backward to incorporate key points and callbacks from decades of Star Trek canon, both established and unofficial, and there’s nary a moment that doesn’t have some kind of canny reference to an old episode tucked in somewhere. Romulan players begin in more typical RPG environs, living out a bucolic existence as colonists and eventually joining up with the game-original Romulan Republic, a bald-faced “these are the good ones” spinoff of the otherwise sinister Romulan Star Empire. Klingon players, meanwhile, rise to their position in the traditional Klingon fashion, murdering their commanding officer in a duel of honor.
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Each of the three available factions also gets a smaller selection of unique missions covering the first few legs of the leveling process.įor example, Federation players start out as a fresh Starfleet cadet, awarded command of their first starship (a chunky Miranda-class vessel plucked wholesale from The Wrath of Khan) thanks to a series of unfortunate circumstances - and a clever reenactment of a scene from The Undiscovered Country. What was a relative drip feed for players in the early years is now a lengthy progression consisting of dozens of bespoke, story-driven “episodes” arranged into multiple intertwining plotlines. If nothing else, it’d be hard to fault Star Trek Online for lack of content. Released: Febru(PC), Septem(PS4/Xbox One)
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The game I’ve given so much time to has just recently debuted on PS4 and Xbox One, and I’ve had the chance to give it yet more time, though now in pretty much the same situation as any new player, and to take stock of how this old bird flies through fresh eyes. I doubt any opinion I have on it could ever be considered truly unbiased, after all this.īut that was all on PC, though. I own a “lifetime” subscription to it, and have spent more time with Star Trek Online than any other single title. By Steam’s count I’ve logged nearly three thousand hours in the Cryptic-developed free-to-play MMO, and that’s not even counting the many hours I spent with the game before it actually debuted on Steam.
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In the interests of full disclosure, I’ll tell you right now: I’m really into Star Trek Online, and have been for the six-plus years of its life so far.
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