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No J.J. Abrams Version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the Star Trek Online MMORPG

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By GustavoLeao / 08:32, 22 November 2009 / Gaming

Maximum PC posted a new extensive interview with Star Trek Online MMORPG producer Craig Zinkievich and here are few excerpts.

Maximum PC: It looks like Star Trek Online is focusing more on action, as opposed to boring bits like interstellar diplomacy.


Craig Zinkievich:
The game is set in 2409, about 30 years after the events of the Star Trek: Nemesis movie. A lot of stuff has happened since then. The Borg have returned to the Alpha Quadrant, bent on assimilation. The Romulan Empire still exists, but they have to deal with the fact that they don't have a home world - so there's a power vacuum there. The most important aspect is that the Kitomer Accord - the treaty between the Klingon Empire and Federation - has broken down. In STO, you play either as a Captain in Starfleet, the military wing of the Federation, or the Klingon Defense Force.


We've really tried to make the content in Star Trek Online feel as though you're in one of the Star Trek shows or movies. You're never just in one place. You can be on a ship, get a distress call, beam down to a planet, then beam up to a satellite that's on fire, and finally back to your ship for a climactic space battle. You're constantly moving between ground and space to really get that cinematic feel.


The biggest challenge in creating STO is that it's two whole games-you have your ground combat and your space combat. But the game demands it; you have to go back and forth, and I think it'll be the strongest aspect of the game.

MPC: Does the game have the "hot rod" style Enterprise from the new Star Trek movie?


CZ:
[Laughs] No, we don't have the new J. J. Abrams "hot rod" ship in the game yet, but we do have access to that in terms of our license. We're focusing on filling out and rounding out what [the Federation of] 2409 looks like.


The full interview, in which he talks about space combat and away missions in the game, is here.



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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:51:41 on Nov 23, 2009

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No, we don't have the new J. J. Abrams "hot rod" ship in the game yet.

There is no monitor screen big enough to contain it, that's why........

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