Star Trek Online Review

Sounds like the game’s got a lot going for it. Just needs to be polished a little more. Loved The Ships: You could put any avatar in a Star Trek uniform and suddenly they’re a Starfleet officer. The real characters in Star Trek Online are the ships. Star Trek Online’s starships are gorgeous creatures, lovingly […]

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Epic FAILs in Star Trek

Take that Star Trek. Holodecks In fact brilliantly designed (except for the fact that it’s a little too easy to override the safety protocols, and, you know, die), but none of the movies ever addresses what anyone who’s ever thought seriously about holodecks knows: Given that it’s hard enough to get some MMORPG players today […]

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Star Trek’s tech “meaningless”

So says Ron Moore (creator of the redux Battlestar Galactica). Moore then went on to describe how a typical script might read before the science consultants did their thing: La Forge: “Captain, the tech is overteching.” Picard: “Well, route the auxiliary tech to the tech, Mr. La Forge.” La Forge: “No, Captain. Captain, I’ve tried […]

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