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Cryptic Studios, the folks behind City of Heroes and City of Villains, announced today that they have licensed rights to develop Star Trek Online, the long anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) game based on Gene Roddenberry's popular sci-fi television series.
As part of the announcement, Jack Emmert, chief creative officer of Cryptic Studios, wrote an open letter to the Star Trek community in which he states, “Star Trek was never about a single character, ship or even planet; Star Trek was always about an entire universe. And MMORPGs are uniquely suited to create such a thing and allow players to explore every inch.”
Little was revealed about the game in the announcement. Cryptic said that it will be developed for both PC and current generation consoles, and that players will be able to command their own ships as well as beam down to various planets with away teams. Enthusiastic fans will have to wait until the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas on August 10th for more details and game footage.
However, the newly launched official Star Trek Online web site does feature a picture of the Enterprise NCC 1701-E, which any self respecting nerd will tell you is the ship registry for the Enterprise captained by Jean-Luc Picard in the movies Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. Hence, we can assume that the game will likely be set around the year 2380.
Wow. Even I'm amazed at my geekiness. Respect points go to any reader who can translate 2380 into a stardate (or explain just what a stardate is).
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Luke Powell from Vancouver, Canada writes: Stardates were chosen at random for the shows, with the 1st number corresponding to the century ("4" for the 24th century), the second actually corresponding to the season of the show (e.g. every season 3 TNG episode was Stardate 43xxx.x). In theory, 1 stardate (or whaever you'd call them) is an Earth day.
And I wouldn't worry about your geekiness. Everyone else who reads this blog is equally as guilty, as you can see.- Posted 28/07/08 at 5:24 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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H M from Canada writes: :DDDDDD
I used to love "Birth of The Federation", not because it was such a great game, but it let you at least kind of interact with all the different races that had popped up during the different series.
I suppose I should go see if it'll be available on Mac....probably not.....- Posted 29/07/08 at 1:13 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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