Star Trek: Online releases first in-game screenshot

**ArchDuke**

On the STO Devlog released on December 4th, the devs talked more about how players will interact with NPC's and other environmental objects, and posted the first in-game screenshot.

Full Article Here.

**Mave**

I'm not a Trekkie but Sweet Thomas Anderson that's hawt.

**imax**

WEWT!!! looks AWSOME!!! I BETTER get into beta damit!!!!

**odj**

Looks like Eve online in the Star Trek universe. SMILEY

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odj wrote:

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Hah I thought the same thing. This game does look very nice!

Too many good mmo's these days to choose from.

**Neoteny**

That is one very pretty screenshot. Now if they'd tell you the specs of the computer it was taken on.

However, there are two things I notice that I take issue with:

1. The ship looks way too much like the Enterprise... And I bet that's how most of them are going to end up looking for one reason or another. (I don't know much at all about Star Trek so if that's some sort of standard fleet ship or something, I wouldn't know)

2. The alien guy in the mission box looks very cartoony. To the point where it doesn't seem to fit in with the very real-looking screenshot and universe.

...And this strikes me as looking a lot like Star Wars Galaxies plus Jump To Lightspeed with some special angling and graphics tuned way up. The real test of the game's space engine is how much fun it is travelling those 50,000 lightyears from planet to planet with nothing to do but push the throttle to the max and sit back.

**RetroX**

*CENSORED*....thats so hawt...i want it now SMILEY

...even the cartoony character looks ok as he isnt a real render model(Like in mxo wit tyndall on the mission contacts? SMILEY

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**imax**

odj wrote:

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The Anticipation for STO is what made me pick up EVE online. I wanted a space game to hold me over until its release. lol

**ArchDuke** · 12/10/2007 09:42:19

Neoteny wrote:

1. The ship looks way too much like the Enterprise... And I bet that's how most of them are going to end up looking for one reason or another. (I don't know much at all about Star Trek so if that's some sort of standard fleet ship or something, I wouldn't know)

Yeah, it is something of a tradition to have the "saucer-front, Engines-back" design that we've had since the original series. Here's a link that shows all the Enterprise's.

But, it's probably not going to end up like that. While all starships in the Star Trek universe use variations on that design, there is wiggle-room. The USS Defiant from DS9 and the Norway and Steamrunner-class starships.

And here's another concept drawing they did for STO, the Sacagawea-class. I'm guessing it'll be a shuttle or scout-class ship.

**MxO-PhanthomZtryker**

It looks like Eve mixed with WoW!!!

IT IS THE DEMONS!!!

**GoDGiVeR** · 12/10/2007 10:09:02

LOL @ the title of that picture:

STODoomsdayMachine_lg.jpg

Also, that picture owns:

**Illyria22**

Very, very cool!

Lyr

**imax**

The way I understand it, everyone will have thier own small scout class ship of some sort that they can use at any time. Then later you can "join a starship ship" similar to joining a faction or a crew in MxO. How the assignment of starships works, I dunno.

As for the style of the ships, yea they all have the same basic layout almost, like Arch said. But the smaller ships have alot of variation.

Here is a link to what kinda ships exist in the ST universe. Theres TONS, but it also includes other races as well.

**Illyria22**

Do we know what the playable races will be yet?

Lyr

**ArchDuke**

Illyria22 wrote:

Do we know what the playable races will be yet?

Lyr

From Wikipedia's Star Trek Online Page:

"The final list of playable races has not yet been announced; current candidates include Human, Vulcan, Klingon, Bajoran, Bolian, Cardassian, Ferengi, Tellarite and Andorian."