Reflections (STO)

For other uses, see Reflections.

Admiral Leeta's gambit in 2411.

Reflections was the 24th "season" update to STO video game: Star Trek Online, released for PC on 14 September 2021. Reflections follows a previous season update, House United from 25 May 2021 and starts a new storyline based around Admiral Leeta from the mirror universe and the machinations of the mysterious Emperor of the Terran Empire.

Missions

• "Terran Gambit" story arc
  • STO mission: "Firewall"
• Task Force Operations:
  • "Operation: Wolf"
  • "Cat's Tale"

New playable ships

Kirk-class starship.

• Parliament-class miracle worker surveyor cruiser
• Gagarin-class mirror warship
• Appalachia-class blockade runner escort
• Kirk-class heavy temporal battlecruiser
• Equinox-class pilot scout ship
• da Vinci-class miracle worker escort
• Saturn-class intel science spearhead
• Eisenberg-class star cruiser

Season 24 dev blogs

• Star Trek Online: Reflections
  • published by Mike Fatum on 14 September 2021
  • officially announces the launch of Season 24 and links to the launch trailer posted on the Star Trek Online YouTube account.
  • also shows the lineup of available DSC and Odyssey Imperial Starfleet uniforms.
  • announces ground (hand-held) weapons acquired from Imperial Starfleet and available to players: sonic phaser high density beam rifle, sonic phaser stun pistol, agony rifle, and duel ambush turrets.
• Remastering 25th Century Starships
  • published by Mike Fatum on 14 September 2021
  • introduces the visually reworked ships of Imperial Starfleet and Federation Starfleet, which will eventually be available to players.
• PC Patch Notes for 9/16/21
  • published by Mike Fatum on 15 September 2021, containing patch notes on general changes and known issues.
• Patch Notes for 9/23/21
  • published by Fatum on 23 September 2021 and contains patch notes for the console and PC versions of the game. It also announces the previously purchase-only ship skins for some classes now become freely available to related classes. These are: Edison-class warship, Reliant-class advanced light cruiser, Shran-class light pilot escort, and Andromeda-class exploration cruiser.
• Ships of the Line: Steamrunner Bundle!
• The Fall of the Old Ones
  • published by Fatum on 5 October 2021 and introduces STO's first Halloween event, based around the Old Ones and Devidians in Castle Pyris on Pyris VII. The content of the upcoming Task Force Operation (TFO) is a sequel to the TOS episode: "Catspaw".
• The Kirk Class Takes Command
  • published by Mike Fatum on 8 October 2021, provides details on the Kirk-class Temporal Heavy Battlecruiser (T6) previously announced in the latest Ten Forward Weekly livestream. The Kirk is equipped with field-replicated buster pods and has the "Risk Is Our Business" starship trait.
• Updates to the Nova Family of Ships
  • published by Fatum on 12 October 2021 and written by Lead Ship and UI Artist Thomas Marrone, introducing Tobias Richter's visual update to the Nova-class and Rhode Island-class science vessels USS Rhode Island and USS Nova (NCC-73515)/USS Nova (NCC-73515-B).
• The Agile Classics Ship Bundle!
  • published by Fatum on 29 October 2021, and provides details on the tier 6-rated Equinox-class pilot scout ship and Da Vinci-class miracle worker escort, 25th century versions of the 24th century Nova- and Saber-class starships.

Other releases

• On the "Ten Forward Weekly" livestream on Twitch.tv on 23 September, the developers first presented the previously teased tier 6 upgrade to the Steamrunner-class escort, and name it the Appalachia-class. The Appalachia is equipped with a tricobalt tear launcher console, a weapon that launches tricobalt warheads. During the stream, Mike Fatum explained this feature is an homage to the Steamrunner-class used as artillery platforms in Star Trek: Armada.

• On the "Ten Forward Weekly" livestream on Twitch.tv on 6 October, Community Manager Mike Fatum and Systems Designer Scott Compton discussed, and played through, the new Task Force Operation set in Castle Pyris. This TFO is the first iteration of an annual Halloween event, analog to the First Contact Day event in April. This mission introduces new species/entities to the game: the extragalactic Old Ones on Pyris VII, witches and skeleton combatants.
• Star Trek Online names the 31st-32nd century Constitution class the Kirk-class Heavy Temporal Battlecruiser, to differentiate it from other iterations of the Constitution class from the 23rd century, while the official CBS name remains Constitution-class for this ship type.

Appendices

Season 24 images

Season banner.

Loading screen.

Imperial Starfleet personnel in 2411.

"Terran Gambit" arc banner.

ISS Pegasus.

NCC-92190.

ISS Bozeman.

NCC-90500.

ISS Cabot.

NCC-91480.

ISS Trailblazer.

NCC-97667.

Appalachia-class schematic.

USS Appalachia (NCC-93550).

USS Appalachia.

USS Appalachia.

USS Appalachia.

Star Trek: Lower Decks-based content.

Appalachia-class blockade runner escort.

Appalachia visits Earth.

Yenvep in Castle Pyris.

Officer with a transmuter wand.

Kirk-class.

USS Armstrong (NCC-317856).

Kirk-class in 2411.

The USS Rhode Island in 2411.

Rhode Island-class.

Rhode Island in 2410.

USS Nova and USS Nova-B.

Nova-class.

USS Nova (NCC-73515-B).

Equinox-class pilot scout ship.

Da Vinci-class miracle worker escort.

External link

• Season 24: Reflections article at The Star Trek Online Wiki.