Star Trek Online

This page refers to the ongoing game released in 2010. For the series the game is a part of, see the Star Trek Online series article. For the unreleased version of the game developed by Perpetual Entertainment, see unpublished games.

Star Trek Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) video game released for PC developed by Cryptic Studios. The game is set in 2409, nearly thirty years after the film Star Trek Nemesis.

The game was initially developed by "Perpetual Entertainment" from 2003 until January 2008, after which Cryptic Studios took control of the project.^[1]

Overview[]

The game is set in 2409, three decades after Star Trek Nemesis. Players will become either a Federation Starfleet Officer (Either in the Age of Discovery, TOS era or the late 24th century), Klingon Defence Force commander, Romulan Republic captain, or Jem'Hadar First in command of their own starship which they can use to explore the galaxy. Game play will take two forms, that of ship based maneuvers in space, and as part of away teams to starships, planets and facilities.

Setting and story[]

See also: Star Trek Online (series)

Due to the Hobus supernova and the destruction of Romulus, the quadrant has become destabilized. The Klingon Empire took advantage of the Romulans' weakness, attempting an invasion. The Federation protested this aggression, leading to weakened relations and finally a breakdown of the Khitomer Accords.

A war finally began with the Klingons, whose empire has now expanded to include the Gorn Hegemony, as well as many other states. Meanwhile, there are other forces causing chaos behind the scenes. Species 8472 has returned, and is quietly manipulating the various races of the alpha quadrant. The Borg have begun a new series of incursions as well.

Missions[]

Federation episodes in Star Trek Online
Tutorial (DSC)	Graduation Day • Routine Maneuvers • Trial by Fire • The Shadow Knows • Children of War • Reporting In
Tutorial (TOS)	I Sing of Arms • Search and Rescue • Bull by the Horns • Dislodging Klingons • The Taurean Affair • Earthward Bound
Tutorial	Graduation Day • Training Cruise • Field Promotions • Communication Breakdown • Assimilation of the Innocent
Agents of Yesterday	Explore Earth Spacedock • In the Shadow of Cestus • Painful Omens • Return to Babel • Tangled Webs • The Battle of Caleb IV
(Tour of Duty)	(Prelude to a Crisis) • (Khitomer Crisis) • (The Price of Liberty) • (Assimilation) • (Gather Equipment) • (Line in the Sand) • Welcome to Earth Spacedock • (Skills Trainer) • (New Orders?)
Klingon War	Welcome to Earth Spacedock • Diplomatic Orders • Stranded In Space • Researcher Rescue • Secret Orders • The Doomsday Device • The Galaxy at Large • (Hide and Seek) • (Stop the Signal) • (The Kuvah'Magh) • (War is Good for Business) • (Treasure Trading Station) • (Task Force Hippocrates) • (The Ultimate Klingon) • (City on the Edge of Never) • (Past Imperfect)
Romulan Mystery	Heading Out • Empress Sela • Desperate Measures • Shadow Play • Taris • (Under the Cover of Night) • (Minefield) • (Divide et Impera) • (Saturday's Child) • (Preemptive Strike) • (Hunting the Hunters) • (Project Nightingale) • (By Any Means) • (Ground Zero) • (Ghost Ship) • (Friend of My Enemy) • (Trapped) • (S'harien's Swords)
Diplomacy	Ancestral Sin • Standoff • Temple Offerings • The Breen Connection • Trade Deal • (Diplomatic Investigations) • (Family Ties) • (First Contact) • (Hostile Takeover) • (Quarantine) • (Relief Effort) • (Shady Supplies) • (Taste of Home)
Patrols	Aido System Patrol • Aihai System Patrol • Alth'ndor System Patrol • Andoss System Patrol • Aokii System Patrol • Aria System Patrol • Bavar System Patrol • Beytan System Patrol • Bhea System Patrol • B'lii System Patrol • Breshar System Patrol • Caralun System Patrol • Celes System Patrol • Cernan System Patrol • Cero System Patrol • Ceron System Patrol • Chapel System Patrol • Chulan System Patrol • Corwin System Patrol • Crown System Patrol • Culver System Patrol • Dace System Patrol • Daise System Patrol • Danteri System Patrol • Dera System Patrol • Donia System Patrol • Dubhe System Patrol • Eirhess System Patrol • Elvren System Patrol • Elwing System Patrol • Enocha System Patrol • Eriksson System Patrol • Europani System Patrol • Fitzan System Patrol • Fvillhaih System Patrol • Hana System Patrol • Hfihar System Patrol • Honod System Patrol • Icari System Patrol • Kalesta System Patrol • Kalferi System Patrol • Kei System Patrol • Khaiell System Patrol • Khellian System Patrol • Kinjun System Patrol • Koolhaas System Patrol • K'shan System Patrol • Lahra System Patrol • Lateri System Patrol • Lilitu System Patrol • Lilsis System Patrol • Lirss System Patrol • Liuen System Patrol • Llaiir System Patrol • Lonco System Patrol • Maiewski System Patrol • Malon System Patrol • Mandel System Patrol • Maro System Patrol • Mec System Patrol • Mirish System Patrol • M'rade System Patrol • Mryax System Patrol • Muso System Patrol • Obrom System Patrol • Omar System Patrol • Oradhe System Patrol • Pellme System Patrol • Phi System Patrol • Pico System Distress Call • Pico System Patrol • Ponor System Patrol • Ra'kholh System Patrol • Reimers System Patrol • Reytan System Patrol • Rhi System Patrol • Ruben System Patrol • Sardah System Patrol • Sarita System Patrol • Seedea System Patrol • Shahr System Patrol • Sienae System Patrol • Tazi System Patrol • Tephrei System Patrol • Terrh System Patrol • T'iokol System Patrol • T'liss System Patrol • Toron System Patrol • Una System Patrol • Vesper System Patrol • Vestalan System Patrol • Veyga System Patrol • Vhoran System Patrol • Vor System Patrol • Watran System Patrol • Xleen System Patrol • Zenik System Patrol • (Kern System Patrol) • (Servin System Patrol) • (Veela System Patrol)
Missions in parentheses are no longer available as of the current version of Star Trek Online.

Klingon Empire episodes in Star Trek Online
Tutorial	End of Watch • Red Alert! • Intruder Alert! • Challenge for Command! • Your New Command • Journey to Qo'noS • (First City)
Empire	Duties of Command • The Hunt is On • Space Chase • Manhunt • Friend or Foe
Warzone	Bringing Down the House • The House Always Wins • (Test of Mettle) • (Second Star to the Right, Straight on 'til Morning) • (Keep Your Enemies Closer)
Vigilance	Mars, the Bringer of War • Alpha • (A House Pursued) • (House on Fire)
Fek'Ihri Return	Blood of the Empire • Destiny • Afterlife • (The Gates of Gre'thor)
Tour the First City	To Protect and Serve • Glad Handing the Great Hall • Buying Friends • Working the Crowd • Off the Beaten Path • Friends in High Places
Path of the Warrior	Pi Canis Sortie Alpha • Pi Canis Sortie Bravo
Missions in parentheses are no longer available as of the current version of Star Trek Online.

Romulan Republic episodes in Star Trek Online
Tutorial	A Day on the Farm • A Day in the Sun • Virinat, Invaded • Flight from Virinat
From the Ashes	Explore the Flotilla • The Helix • Crossroads at Crateris • Gasko Blues • The Search for New Romulus • Turning Point • Neutral No More
Allies	The Price of Neutrality • Memory Lane • Bigger Picture • Smash and Grab • Tradecraft
In Shadows	An Inside Job • Enemy Action • Sleepers • Cloak and Dagger • Revelation • Mind Game
Wasteland	Secrets of Nimbus • The Lost City of Paradise • Blind Men Tell All Tales • The Undying • A Fistful of Gorn • Installation 18
Vengeance	Voice of the Voiceless • Abducted • Small Packages • Last Stand • The Best Defense • Turnabout • Devil's Choice
Freedom	Toward Freedom • The Vault • Mine Enemy • Frozen • Coliseum • Cutting the Cord • Darkness Before the Dawn

Cross-faction episodes in Star Trek Online
Spectres	Spectres • Skirmish • Spin the Wheel • What Lies Beneath • Everything Old is New • Night of the Comet
Wasteland	Secrets of Nimbus • The Lost City of Paradise • Blind Men Tell All Tales • The Undying • A Fistful of Gorn • Installation 18
Lost Dominion	Lost Dominion • Second Wave • Of Bajor • Operation Gamma • Facility 4028 • Boldly They Rode
Cold War	Cold War • Cold Call • Out in the Cold • Cold Comfort • Cold Case • Cold Storage
Romulan Mystery	The Vault • Mine Enemy • Frozen • Coliseum • Cutting the Cord • Darkness Before the Dawn
Cardassian Struggle	Lost and Found • Spoils of War • Jabberwocky • The Factory • The New Link • (Venture into Deep Space) • (Badlands) • (Suspect) • (War Games) • (Shutdown) • (Rapier) • (Forging Bonds) • (The Long Night) • (The Tribble with Klingons) • (Tear of the Prophets) • (Crack in the Mirror) • (Seeds of Dissent) • (The Other Side) • (Cage of Fire)
Borg Advance	Task Force Operations • Report on Borg Activities • Where Angels Fear to Tread • A Gathering Darkness • Assimilation • Fluid Dynamics • (Collateral Damage) • (Asset Recovery) • (State of Q) • (The Return) • (A Light in the Dark)
New Romulus	New Romulus Aid • Staging Area • Hidden Camera • Warehouse • Mountain Base • Secret Shuttle Codes • Overgrown Caves • Web Access • Latest Findings • The Power Source • Secrets of the Ancients
Solanae Dyson Sphere	Sphere of Influence • Circles within Circles • Supply Woes • The Contested Zone • The Omega Standoff • Tower Control • A Step Between Stars • Fluidic Destruction • Surface Tension
Delta Quadrant	Escalation • Mindscape • Reunion • Friends in Unlikely Places • Revelations • Enemies in All the Usual Places • All That Glitters • Know Your Enemies • The Kobali Front • Capture the Flag • The Dragon's Deceit • Alliances • Better with Friends • Revolution • Taking Care of Enemies • Takedown • What's Left Behind • Dust to Dust • (With Friends Like These...)
Kobali Crisis Act I	The Cavalry • The Son • The Temple of My People • Data Recovery
Kobali Crisis Act II	Looming Shadows • Hidden Assault • A New Warfare
Kobali Crisis Act III	Breaking the Wall • With Our Last Breath • Our Chance for Peace
Iconian War	Uneasy Allies • Blood of Ancients • Delta Flight • House Pegh • Time in a Bottle • Broken Circle • Butterfly • Midnight
Yesterday's War	Temporal Ambassador • The Once and Future Agent • The Core of the Matter • Vorgon Conclusions • Terminal Expanse • Survivor
Future Proof	Sunrise • Stormbound • Time and Tide • The Temporal Front • Temporal Reckoning • Ragnarok
New Frontiers	Echoes of Light • Of Signs and Portents • Mirrors and Smoke • Brushfire • Beyond the Nexus • Melting Pot • Scylla and Charybdis • The Renegade's Regret
Gamma Quadrant	Storm Clouds Gather • Armistice • The Search • Doomed to Repeat • Quark's Lucky Seven • Tenebris Torquent • Home
Age of Discovery	The Plausibility of the Possible • Impossibility of Reason • Secrets • Downfall
J'Ula's Discovery	Para Pacem • Illusion of Communication • Beneath the Skin • Sentinels • Rescue and Search • Within The Briars • The Ninth Rule • Ruins of Doom • The Measure of Morality (Part 1) • The Measure of Morality (Part 2)
Klingon Civil War	The Centre Cannot Hold • The Khitomer Discord • Partisans • Knowledge is Power • Leap of Faith • Warriors of the Empire • A Day Long Remembered
Terran Gambit	Firewall • Red Shift • Blue Shift • The Calling • Eye of the Storm • The Fujiwhara Effect
Kings & Queens	Wish Upon A Star • Taken By Surprise • Scorpion's Abyss • Situation Under Control
Task Force Operations	Starbase Fleet Defense • Fleet Alert • Fleet Transport Defense • Starbase Incursion • Romulan Imperial Minefield • Crystalline Catastrophe • Colony Invasion • Arena of Sompek • Kobayashi Maru • Infected: The Conduit • Infected: Manus • Cure Applied • Cure Found • Khitomer Vortex • Khitomer in Stasis • Into the Hive • Hive Onslaught • Transdimensional Tactics • Self Destructive Tendencies • Azure Nebula Rescue • Vault: Ensnared • Vault Shuttle Event • Atmosphere Assault • Defend Rh'Ihho Station • Storming the Spire • Breach • Undine Assault • Undine Infiltration • Viscous Cycle • Borg Disconnected • Bug Hunt • Battle of Korfez • Brotherhood of the Sword • Gateway to Gre'thor • Herald Sphere • Forged in Fire • Counterpoint • Days of Doom • Battle of Procyon V • Miner Instabilities • Gravity Kills • Tzenkethi Front • Dranuur Beach Assault • Dranuur Gauntlet • Binary Circuit • Core Assault • Twin Tribulations • Swarm • Battle at the Binary Stars • Best Served Cold • Defense of Starbase One • Mycelial Realm • Operation Riposte • Pahvo Dissension • Peril Over Pahvo • Remain Klingon • To Hell with Honor
Patrols	Blockade Runner • Wanted • Tempting Targets • Aftermath • Unity • Gone Dark • Preying Upon the Weak • Satellite Defense • Showdown • Rescue and Search • Ruins of Doom • Sentinels • The Ninth Rule • Within The Briars • To Die with Honor • Clash Above Ceron • Strike at Seedea • Trouble Over Terrh • Redemption Over Qu'Vat • Jailbreak at Rura Penthe • Jupiter Station Showdown • Khonshu Khaibit • One Night in Bozeman • Skeleton Crew • Witches Brew • (Borg Battlefield Patrol) • (Ocampan Freighter Patrol) • (Sakari System Patrol) • (Trakia System Patrol) • (Shivolia System Patrol) • (Orendal System Patrol) • (Parein System Patrol) • (Nanipia System Patrol) • (Kendren System Patrol) • (Legira System Patrol) • (Rivos System Patrol) • (Hodos System Patrol) • (Ram Izad System Patrol) • (Xiokel System Patrol) • (Wyanti System Patrol) • (Pansarka System Patrol) • (Tekara System Patrol) • (Gerren System Patrol)
Missions in parentheses are no longer available as of the current version of Star Trek Online.

Exploration missions in Star Trek Online

"Chart the B'Tran Cluster" • "Explore the Afehirr Nebula" • "Explore the Arucanis Arm" • "Explore the B'Tran Cluster" • "Explore the Betreka Nebula" • "Explore the Delta Volanis Cluster" • "Explore the Eridan Belt" • "Explore the Hromi Cluster" • "Explore the Khazan Cluster" • "Explore the Rolor Nebula" • "Explore the Servin System" • "Explore the Xleen System" • "Explore the Zenas Expanse"

Diplomatic missions in Star Trek Online
"Ancestral Sin" • "Family Ties" • "Hostile Takeover" • "Quarentine" • "Shady Supplies" • "Standoff" • "Taste of Home" • "Trade Deal"

Fleet missions in Star Trek Online
"Children of Khan" • "Crystalline Catastrophe" • "The Cure" • "The Infected" • "Into the Hive" • "Khitomer Accord" • "Starbase 24" • "Shady Supplies" • "Undine Terradome"

Patrol missions in Star Trek Online

"Patrol the Vulcan Sector" • "Patrol the Orion Sector" • "Patrol the Ring" • "Patrol the Kassae Sector" • "Patrol the Celes Sector" • "Patrol the Argelius Sector" • "Patrol the Hromi Sector" • "Patrol the Mempa Sector" • "Patrol the Teneebia Sector" • "Patrol the Sierra Sector" • "Patrol the Vendor Sector" • "Patrol the Hyralan Sector" • "Patrol the Onias Sector" • "Patrol the Mylasa Sector" • "Patrol the Z-6 Sector" • "Patrol the Bolarus Sector" • "Patrol the Cardassia Sector" • "Patrol the Bajor Sector" • "Patrol the Kalandra Sector" • "Patrol the Algira Sector" • "Patrol the Almatha Sector" • "Patrol the Dorvan Sector" • "Patrol the Orias Sector" • "Patrol the Vanden Sector" • "Patrol the Arawath Sector" • "Patrol the Kora Sector"

Websites[]

As part of the build-up to the game Cryptic Studios's Star Trek Online website has two sections detailing in-universe information as background to the game. The Path to 2409 provides year by year chronological updates running from 2379 up to the start of the game in 2409. Ships of the Line gives history and specifications on starships featured in the game. A third section, Factions, was put up after the game launched; this section provides intelligence information on the various organizations and groups involved in the game's events. All three websites went defunct after Cryptic was purchased by its current publisher Perfect World, though the historical information in The Path to 2409 is also available in-game on the accolades screen.

References[]

See Star Trek Online references.

Appendices[]

Related media[]

Background[]

Development[]

Initially, Perpetual Entertainment developed the game from 2004 until its bankruptcy in January 2008. The license to develop the game and art assets were transferred to Cryptic Studios; however, the code remained with Perpetual Entertainment and its Perpetual Game Engine.

Cryptic Studios officially announced the development of Star Trek Online on July 28, 2008, as a countdown timer on Cryptic's web site reached zero and the new official site was launched. A letter was sent out from Jack Emmert, the game's online producer, detailing some aspects of Cryptic's approach.

Cryptic originally announced a Windows version of STO. During the Las Vegas conference in August 2008, Cryptic announced that there would be neither Linux nor Mac versions for the original launch, though they did not rule out the possibility of later port releases. Console versions were announced several months before the release, with no specific console platform specified, but Cryptic has since announced that all console versions of their games are on indefinite hold due to difficulties "on the business side of things,"

Star Trek Online was released in North America on February 2, 2010, in Europe on February 5, 2010, and in Australia on February 11, 2010. Customers who ordered the game in advance were able to gain access to the game on January 29, 2010 (before the official release date), via a bonus 'head-start' which was included with pre-order packages.

Las Vegas Star Trek Convention 2008[]

On August 10, 2008, the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention was held at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas. Leonard Nimoy and Cryptic Studios Chief Creative Officer Jack Emmert together revealed the first gameplay trailer, featuring various Federation and Klingon starships in combat with each other and Borg vessels, as well as footage of a Klingon squad boarding a Federation ship's bridge. The release date was not publicly revealed except that it would be less than three years.

Beta test[]

Star Trek Online's closed beta test officially began when it was announced on October 22, 2009. Cryptic Studios offered guaranteed beta access to users who bought 6-month and lifetime subscriptions to Champions Online. However, the offer did not explicitly state how early in the beta process the access would be granted. Some pre-order packages included access to the 'open beta' running from January 12–26, 2010.

Continuity[]

Star Trek Online is set in an alternate timeline from the ongoing book series by Pocket Books, which is made explicit in STO's tie-in novel The Needs of the Many. The biggest point of divergence is the Borg Invasion of 2381: in STO the Borg never launched a full scale invasion of the Alpha Quadrant, instead harboring and rebuilding their forces after the loss of their transwarp gates before beginning seemingly random raids in 2409. The Typhon Pact was also never created, and the Romulan Civil War of the early 2380s ended slightly differently.

That said, STO frequently uses worldbuilding and setting details from licensed fiction, including Pocket's "novelverse", and some events, such as Ezri Dax commanding the USS Aventine, are mentioned in-game in tooltips or dialogue. The game also incorporates the entirety of the Star Trek: Countdown comic book series into its backstory, and the first expansion, Legacy of Romulus, frequently borrows details on Romulan culture from the Rihannsu series by Diane Duane.