Cryptic Studios job listing reveals Star Trek Online

Let's predict how many people are going to be Jean-Luc Picard.

Well... here's hoping something gets done.

Looking at Cryptic wikipedia page this look like old news. :\

I wonder how a Star Trek MMO will work, are we going to be like Kirk and Picard, or are we going to be faceless redshirts?

I thought Star Trek Online was already announced?

Thought this was old news. When Perpetual laid off their people, Cryptic took over the problem and interviewed most of Perpetual's programmers and hired some of them. Since the Perpetual people had just lost their jobs, they didn't seem to show much allegiance to the idea that the buyer was supposed to be kept secret.

You guys are jerks, I glanced at the picture and got excited about a Shadow of the Colossus sequel. ;_;

Expect a significant announcement at Comic Con this Monday.

As someone who points out all the many items in Wall-E that remotely relate to anything Star Trek-y, there seems this game will be a non-starter. Star Trek games are either about a) story and ethics/values/decisions, or b) combat. If the game focuses on story, etc., those are things so far incompatible with any successful MMO. If they focus on combat, it isn't really Star Trek, it's Wing Commander. The only way to make these remotely feasible is to have a quest or two taken from each of the episodes, have them all laid out in the universe Mass Effect-style, and let players work through them as PvE. Each ship would need to be crewed by a few different personnel, unless you want to do solo missions in a shuttlecraft. ...and how are they going to have the many time-travel problems or other "reset button" episodes?

Why do companies you never ever hear of develop MMOs? I mean seriously, what's this company's resume??

As long as it's focused on the good star trek (TNG/DS9)

and avoids the bad Star Trek (TOS, the first half of Enterprise, Voyager)

DS9 all the way. Anyways screw being picard or kirk I want to be a borg.