Star Trek Online and Trek Lit

[Rat Boy]

For those of you who caught the web cast of the talk on STO at the convention in Vegas, you would have heard Cryptic Chief Creative Officer Jack Emmert mention that he and his staff were reading the post-Nemesis novels to provide background for the game set in 2409. I hope they can keep up with Mack the Knife's Destiny trilogy. Any authors/editors around here involved or been contacted about it?

 

[Caretaker]

And they specifically mentioned the IKS Gorkon books and SCE material. Maybe they can get KRAD to help develop a few missions involving those ships and crews.

 

[JD]

Cool. I didn't get a chance to watch the webcast yet, because I've been watching the Olympics all day.

 

[Rat Boy]

It's an interesting sign of the times when you can watch coverage of a Trek convention live over the Internet but not the Olympics.

 

[KRAD]

And they specifically mentioned the IKS Gorkon books and SCE material. Maybe they can get KRAD to help develop a few missions involving those ships and crews.

Seriously?

Cool!

FWIW, nobody's contacted me.... *shrug* It's pretty nifty, though.

 

[Rat Boy]

And they specifically mentioned the IKS Gorkon books and SCE material. Maybe they can get KRAD to help develop a few missions involving those ships and crews.

Seriously?

Cool!

FWIW, nobody's contacted me.... *shrug* It's pretty nifty, though.

Them and the Excalibur, of course by the early 25th Century, they could be up to the Excalibur-C.

 

[Idoliside]

For those that are interested in a trailer, it looks pretty sweet.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38184.html?type=flv

 

[JoeZhang]

The uniforms look like a mixture of the TNG uniforms and the DS9 PJs. Also I'm guessing that for dramatically purposes - the Klingon empire and the federation are either at war or involved in a cold turning hot war.

This design ring any bells?

http://www.startrekonline.com/gallery/screenshots/?img=12768

you can download a hi-res version of the trailer here:

http://www.startrekonline.com/videos

 

[Ayelbourne]

This design ring any bells?

http://www.startrekonline.com/gallery/screenshots/?img=12768

Looks like some sort of sensor array to me. Either that or subspace antennae.

It looks like the Developers are trying go the same way that Blizzard went with World of Warcraft. There, books, comics and the game sort of supplement each other storywise. Like when they put elements that Christie Golden came up with in Rise of the Horde into the Burning Crusade Expansion.

Still...I'm not sure about picking up the game once its released. I love the Federation and I love the Klingons. I really don't want them to end their Alliance just so some Players can do PvP.

 

[Technobuilder]

And they specifically mentioned the IKS Gorkon books and SCE material. Maybe they can get KRAD to help develop a few missions involving those ships and crews.

Seriously?

Cool!

FWIW, nobody's contacted me.... *shrug* It's pretty nifty, though.

Not sure if this was up already, but because it wasn't specifically mentioned. Here's a link to the entire Presentation at the Experience.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38185.html

Not to toot your own horn or anything KRAD, but I hope someone might shoot Cryptic an Email and put you guys in contact to if anything let them know you're at least open to the possibilities, if in fact you are.

I'm not saying do it for free, cause that's just crazy talk, but I'd love for a collaboration like this to take place if it's doable at all.

Course, I guess the downside to a collaberation like this would be the point of divergence in the respective game storylines & Novel continuity.

 

[LightningStorm]

Wow, this actually does sound pretty decent. And the use of the novels for 'inspiration' is excellent. I too hope they keep up with Destiny in the making of this too, especially if Destiny does make fairly large changes to the state of the ST universe.

Just wait, somebody will ask if they have to read the novels to play this game.

 

[Rat Boy]

Wow, this actually does sound pretty decent. And the use of the novels for 'inspiration' is excellent. I too hope they keep up with Destiny in the making of this too, especially if Destiny does make fairly large changes to the state of the ST universe.

Just wait, somebody will ask if they have to read the novels to play this game.

Not necessarily. As Jack Emmert said, the STO website will give a year by year account of what's transpired between Nemesis and the launch of the game. Chances are they'll touch on Titan, Articles of the Federation, the TNG "re-launch," and everything revolving around the Destiny trilogy.

 

[JoeZhang]

Wow, this actually does sound pretty decent. And the use of the novels for 'inspiration' is excellent. I too hope they keep up with Destiny in the making of this too, especially if Destiny does make fairly large changes to the state of the ST universe.

Just wait, somebody will ask if they have to read the novels to play this game.

Not necessarily. As Jack Emmert said, the STO website will give a year by year account of what's transpired between Nemesis and the launch of the game. Chances are they'll touch on Titan, Articles of the Federation, the TNG "re-launch," and everything revolving around the Destiny trilogy.

Don't get too carried away with that - I would expect if they think that twist X makes a better set-up for a game than twist Y, then we will see twist X regardless of what the books say.

 

[ronny]

Don't get too carried away with that - I would expect if they think that twist X makes a better set-up for a game than twist Y, then we will see twist X regardless of what the books say.

I totally agree with that. I'm not expecting lock step continuity between the two, and don't really care all that much. Really, for a game it's all about how fun it is. I don't know how close the Star Wars game followed the canon but it just wans't a fun game to play. That's a major part that needs to be focused on.

As someone who spends way too much time playing World of Warcraft, just ask my fiance , I've been looking forward to this for awhile but I'm really in a "I'll believe it when I see it in the stores" mode. Another company had the license for two or three years before going bankrupt and they had hired people like Mike Okuda and nothing came of that so I'm just not going to invest a lot of hope into this coming out.

 

[Rat Boy]

It doesn't really have to, though. By the time STO's storyline starts, the events of the current novels will be close to thirty years in the past.

 

[Man of Steel]

At one point, Mike Okuda and I think Doug Drexler were on staff for languages and designs respectivly however now that it's with another developer (with a good track record by the way) I think a nw staff will be brought it. I'm not sure how much work they had done originally either.

Either way, anything that will be done or has been done goes through the same circle that the books go through therefore it is unlikely that they would consult any of the editors or writers for the game itself. The closest they might get to the books is by reading the encylopedia and/or the chronology and by watching episodes, browsing Trek related sites or bringing in former writers or producers.

And Ratboy, I think if you go to Nbcolympics.com I believe they have some live streams for certain sports but I'm not 100% sure on that..

Ronny,

Bethseda also has the Star Trek License.... An RPG Trek game anyone? Or Lego Star Trek? (Worked for Star Wars)

 

[JD]

LEGO Star Trek would be awsome. I really like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones LEGO games, and I would love to see what they'd do for a Trek game.

 

[ronny]

Ronny,

Bethseda also has the Star Trek License.... An RPG Trek game anyone? Or Lego Star Trek? (Worked for Star Wars)

I've never actually played a Star Trek game. I was just out of it for years and by the time I got back into ST the games were winding down and I wasn't reading a lot of rave reviews.

Any of the games worth picking up used on Amazon?

 

[JD]

I'm a huge fan of both of the Elite Foce games myself. The first one is Voyager, and the second one takes the same group of main characters and moves them onto a post Nemisis Enterprise-E. The first game has the most of the Voyager main cast (Jeri Ryan doesn't do Seven) and the second has Patrick Stewart, Tim Russ, and Dwight Schultz, along with a bunch of recurring Trek guest stars like Martha Hacket, JG Hertzler, and Jeffrey Combs all playing new characters.

 

[Man of Steel]

I'm a huge fan of both of the Elite Foce games myself. The first one is Voyager, and the second one takes the same group of main characters and moves them onto a post Nemisis Enterprise-E. The first game has the most of the Voyager main cast (Jeri Ryan doesn't do Seven) and the second has Patrick Stewart, Tim Russ, and Dwight Schultz, along with a bunch of recurring Trek guest stars like Martha Hacket, JG Hertzler, and Jeffrey Combs all playing new characters.

Though, the 2nd one's better and longer.

There's also Star Trek: Klingon and Star Trek: Borg (features Q) and both of these were turned into novels..

Bridge Commander was good

The list goes on but search Star Trek games on Amazon and see for yourself.

The most recent ones were Legacy for the 360 and PS3 and Tactical Assault for PSP and DS. Legacy was good the other was not.

Incidentally, there was a sorta Trek online game a few years ago that also had Q but the name of it escapes me.