![]() ![]() Star Trek Online plays like a classic Star Trek TV series.I’m both a classic Trek fan, and a long-term player and fan of Star Trek Online (STO), having subscribed to the game at launch and then having played it on and off over the next eight years as new content dropped. While the themes and stylings of classic Trek appear to have left our TV and theatre screens for good, there is one place you can still experience it – Star Trek Online, the Trek themed MMO video game developed by Cryptic Studios that launched in 2010. Even the darkest of the classic Trek series’, Deep Space Nine (which of course saw a quadrant-wide war being fought onscreen) tackled the idea of how something like a galactic war fit with the ideals of the Federation, and as a result became one of the most poignant, and well written classic Trek offerings. Rather than exploration, stories of compassion, and the development of intelligent characters, they’re seeing combat, stories of revenge and characters who are far too eager to resolve their problems with fists or a phaser. While many classic Trek fans do enjoy these newer shows and films, there are those that accuse both the Abrams-Verse Trek films and the Discovery TV Series of pursuing themes that are the antithesis of the vision Gene Roddenberry based Trek upon. Fans of The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager (what we’ll from here on refer to as “classic Trek”) are well and truly divided when it comes to these new Trek offerings. The chance of a series or film that is set in the post-TNG time period being produced is beginning to look very slim indeed. ![]() Abrams produced films are all set parallel to the Original Series, but in the entirely new Kelvin timeline. Enterprise and the currently airing Discovery are both set in the Prime timeline, before the events of TOS, while the J.J. “Things changed upon the release of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2001, which began a trend of producers and writers choosing to focus on a period of time before The Original Series (TOS). ![]()
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