Star Trek Online - Now Free-to-Play
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:25 am
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Cryptic Studios has confirmed that Captain Kirk will not appear in its forthcoming MMO title, Star Trek Online.
When asked by MTV Multiplayer if we could expect to see Kirk in Star Trek Online, the game's executive producer, Craig Zinkievich, responded:
"You probably will not. I think you’ll see events and settings, and relatives of the known characters. But we’re in the future where the majority of the known characters have passed on."
Zinkievich also explained more about the game's story, revealing that it will be set 30 years after the last film, Star Trek: Nemesis.
"We picked that for a couple of reasons. We think deep-down that people want to play in that universe," he said.
"People want to be a part of that universe, but they don’t want to replay stories they already know. They may be a part of it, but they want to change the story and they want to participate in the story, it’s not just, "Okay, I’m going to go play that episode.""
"Setting it in the future allowed us to provide that new and yet familiar experience to people. And at the same time, at the end of “Nemesis” everyone was kind of happy, peace was there but peace never stays long in any place. Even in the Star Trek universe. The Khitomer Accords has broken down, the Klingons are at the Federation’s throat, and they’re on the verge of all-out war. The universe is a much more dangerous place with a lot more conflict 30 years in the future."
An official release date for the title is yet to be confirmed, although a 2010 launch is expected.
mic wrote:Won't whoever has the Enterprise always win?
mic wrote:Won't whoever has the Enterprise always win?
Peter Crisp wrote:mic wrote:Won't whoever has the Enterprise always win?
Plenty of ships in Star Trek are more powerful than the Enterprise which is why so many of them blew up/ crash landed or were just shot to pieces in the films.
Gandalf wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:mic wrote:Won't whoever has the Enterprise always win?
Plenty of ships in Star Trek are more powerful than the Enterprise which is why so many of them blew up/ crash landed or were just shot to pieces in the films.
Isn't the USS Excelsior a more powerful ship than Enterprise?
Gandalf wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:mic wrote:Won't whoever has the Enterprise always win?
Plenty of ships in Star Trek are more powerful than the Enterprise which is why so many of them blew up/ crash landed or were just shot to pieces in the films.
Isn't the USS Excelsior a more powerful ship than Enterprise?
Peter Crisp wrote:Gandalf wrote:Peter Crisp wrote:mic wrote:Won't whoever has the Enterprise always win?
Plenty of ships in Star Trek are more powerful than the Enterprise which is why so many of them blew up/ crash landed or were just shot to pieces in the films.
Isn't the USS Excelsior a more powerful ship than Enterprise?
I'd also pick the Defiant in a one on one dogfight as it was built as a war ship rather than a ship of exploration. Sure the Enterprise was powerful but it was certainly not armed to the teeth so as not to scare the crap out of people in first contact situations.
Gandalf wrote:That was the other one I couldn't think of. Warf was Captain, wasn't he, in First Contact?
Gandalf wrote:That was the other one I couldn't think of. Warf was Captain, wasn't he, in First Contact?
Mogster wrote:Gandalf wrote:That was the other one I couldn't think of. Warf was Captain, wasn't he, in First Contact?
Worf commanded the ship in First Contact, but Sisko was its captain.
Gandalf wrote:Mogster wrote:Gandalf wrote:That was the other one I couldn't think of. Warf was Captain, wasn't he, in First Contact?
Worf commanded the ship in First Contact, but Sisko was its captain.
Wait. Whoa! Confusion.....wasn't Sisko the captain of Deep Space Nine??
But I suppose it doesn't help that I never really got into DS9 so I'm probably way off!!!
Gandalf wrote:Mogster wrote:Gandalf wrote:That was the other one I couldn't think of. Warf was Captain, wasn't he, in First Contact?
Worf commanded the ship in First Contact, but Sisko was its captain.
Wait. Whoa! Confusion.....wasn't Sisko the captain of Deep Space Nine??
But I suppose it doesn't help that I never really got into DS9 so I'm probably way off!!!