Comments on: Countdown To Cryptic’s Star Trek Online Announcement Ends Tonight

By: Kuvagh

Kuvagh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:28:50 +0000

It now features Star Trek: The Original Typeface.

By: OM

OM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:23:27 +0000

“What is with the TOS era anyways it is way outdated not grand in scale by any measure. “

…Two reasons:

1) It’s really hard to beat the original, no matter how hard you argue as to how much better looking everything that came afterwards was.

2) Every single FPS that was Trek-related has been set in the TNG-era. TOS has *never* been done before. It *deserves* to be done.

…Now, be totally honest – how many of you would *NOT* want an MMORPG or even an FPS that allowed you to walk every square inch of deck, turbolift and Jeffries Tube of the original Enterprise? That’s what’s never been produced(*), outside of a Doom 2 total conversion that saw very limited distribution.

(*) The closest I personally have ever come to this was work I did on a CATIA-based Enterprise “walk-thru” almost 25 years ago on an IBM 4381. We got only Deck 5’s basic layout before the demo project was declared “proof of concept” and they cancelled the project before we could get the other decks even started. Bastards…

By: OM

OM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:17:17 +0000

…Yup. This is a TNG-era MMORPG. Notice the graphics on the forum header:

http://forums.startrekonline.com/

…And the fact that it’s the Enterprise-E on the main site header. This means two things:

1) They’re using the TNG era to avoid spoiling and/or having to deal with Abrams’ regurgitation.

2) Old Trekkers like me and some of the others around here won’t get to play TOS-era scenarios.

Ah well, there’s always digging up that old Unreal Tournament editor and doing a total TOS conversion for the original UT…

By: Name

Name — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:16:33 +0000

What is with the TOS era anyways it is way outdated not grand in scale by any measure. The two greatest and most developed eras of Star Trek are the original crew movie era, and TNG. Nothing else compares to it, certainly not TOS.

By: SciFiMetalGirl

SciFiMetalGirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:15:07 +0000

Looks like Anthony was right again! *waves to Anthony!* Hi Anthony! Hope you are enjoying your post Comic-Con euphoria! From what I’ve seen it looks like a great time was had by all!

By: The Angry Klingon

The Angry Klingon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:12:21 +0000

classic
get it together trekonline as this is more egg on the face

By: OM

OM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:11:36 +0000

…Again, it’s back up. Bottom of the main frame isn’t aligned properly, but it actually looks pretty nice. The great thing is that they didn’t go overboard and do some massive Flash site that takes 10 minutes to load. But now that I think about it, a Flash site wouldn’t have been that unwelcome, as there’d be lots of nice graphics to rip off :-)

…Screenshots look nice, although I must admit the tech designs don’t look TOS by any definition. Might be a sign that those of you wanting to play TOS-style might be SOL.

By: Son

Son — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:10:54 +0000

There’s another countdown on the STOnline website….13 days and counting!

By: SciFiMetalGirl

SciFiMetalGirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:10:29 +0000

#39 Oh thanks! Yes, that is much better!!! *goes back to the site to read*

By: III'M captain KIRK!!

III'M captain KIRK!! — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:09:45 +0000

wow. way to be picky, people.

“Someone tell’em their frames aren’t quite lined up…”