By Rob Bricken in
TV, Video Games
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 10:45AM
Well, you watch this new trailer for the Star Trek Online MMORPG and tell me. Seems like the only time you're not killing people directly is when you're on the bridge of your starship... when is when you're assumably killing people indirectly with proton photon torpedoes.
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Bill said:
uuuhhhhhh....that's PHOTON torpedoes.
yamieridani said:
I wish they'd show the player interaction in these trailers, but I guess that's hard to do. I'm hoping it will work like the star trek chatroom sims.
sal said:
this trailer shows in big grind fest...in Star Trek. I can see this keeping folks attention for awhile, but long term?
Greg said:
I totally see no video in Firefox.
bookfisher replied to Rob:
I do, maybe because I am damn dirty foreigner ? :-)
bookfisher replied to bookfisher:
And now 5 min. later, I dont. Embarrassing.
RoboKy said:
To be fair, they are killing Borg, Romulans and Klingons, which have been the big enemies at one point or another.
Then again...the Klingons? Unless this takes place during TOS or the Dominion War, I have a hard time swallowing the fact that the Federation is gonna let you indiscriminately shoot one of it's biggest allies.
Hmmm and they did sign that peace treaty with the Romulans in Nemesis...and the Borg were possibly mortally wounded in Unimatrix Zero Part 2.
Is this game supposed to make any sense?
Frito at Tinagra replied to RoboKy:
In one of the earlier videos they said that the Klingons have gone apeshit because of a war with some other race (I want to say Gorn) that was infiltrated by shape shifters. So they don't trust anyone and our out for blood. I know its just the war with the Dominion 2, but you gotta have the Klingons.
And the Borg always evolve. I'd also like to think that they'd have enough sense to develop protections against viruses, but considering how much Voyager nerfed them that may be asking too much.
I really want to play as the Tamarians. I just want to scream "Shaka when the walls fell motherfucka!" at my enemies. And there was a Guardian of Forever in that video which means possible time travel.
RoboKy replied to Frito at Tinagra:
Ok, so the Klingon thing makes sense. And I agree the borg are adaptable, but they friggen blew up their transwarp corridor, their window into the alpha quadrant. I would think it might take some time before they are a major threat again.
And I'm only interested in the Guardian if we're looking at a more Ellison-style story.
hikkeen replied to RoboKy:
I thought in first contact they sent a message so that the Borg would have time to just travel to the alpha quadrant. Negating the need for a transwarp corridor? I could be and probably am wrong been a while since I saw that movie.
EVula said:
I kinda lost interest once it started using sound effects from the Star Trek 25th Anniversary game.
Dacshiggy said:
I want to play as the Pakleds, because misplaced sympathy for space tards is the Federations greatest weakness.
telezombie said:
I thought about playing it once and starting an army/guild of red shirts. We would all just travel in the worst space ship possible and just beam down and all die on various planets.
Pete said:
Hey, did I see the Guardian of Forever?
oh look out, Harlan Ellison's gonna sue!
squidgod2000 said:
Looks like crap.
