Famous Star Trek faces won't appear in Star Trek Online

by Griffin McElroy on Feb 14th 2009 10:40AM

Make no Bones about it, folks -- memorable faces from the Star Trek universe won't be making an appearance in Cryptic's upcoming final frontier MMO, Star Trek Online. In a recent interview with MTV Multiplayer, STO executive producer Craig Zinkievich explained that the game takes place "in the future where the majority of the known characters have passed on." Except for the ones that are robots, or holograms, or ghosts. Or all three!

Don't think that Cryptic's issued themselves a license to kill canon -- Zinkievich (a shoe-in for Joystiq's Surname of the Year award) claims that the STO dev team has been in talks with folks who've been involved in the franchise to make sure they don't cut any corners, or crush any anticipation-filled Trekkie hearts. We've submitted our own terrifyingly erotic fan fiction to their think tank -- hopefully, it'll make it into the final product.

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Tags: cryptic-studios, mmo, PC, star-trek, star-trek-online, zinkievich

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Not that big news. The game takes place what, 40 years after DS9? Most of the characters would be seniors by then.

KHAAAAAAA--*cough**cough*

Kirk has already been dead for a long time. We are talking picard and sisko now.

What are you talking about, this is Shatner man, he is immortal!

The only man that could make gay marriage look very manly.

The only man able to tame the falcon of truth!

Hey, don't leave out Janeway.

Didn't Janeway self-destruct? Like, more than once?

given they are following the books somewhat, Janeway is dead as is a few other characters after a massive borg attack that made the Dominion War look like a dodgeball game.

Janeway should have been left out. In fact, Voyager never should have been made. Every time there's a rerun, Gene Roddenberry generates high torque.

"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not an Avatar!"

hey you could make the dr. from voyager a character, since he's a hologram and all.

oh and happy valentine's day joystiq

But that implies voyager actually happened, instead of just being a hideous nightmare that I've long since repressed. next you'll be telling me spock has a brother!

HALF brother.

What? You didn't like Voyager? Hmm... i loved that series the most out of all the star trek series.

Voyager was second only to TNG.

But then again, i'm the sacrilegious quasi-trekkie who puts them in the order of TNG-Voyager-DS9-Original-Enterprise

But yeah, the Dr. could live forever, but i don't think they'll go in for that sort of loophole

Dr. who?

Bits of Voyager were done well, I really liked a lot of the characters.. but eventually the writting got very lazy, resorting to time travel and Borg episodes in an attempt to draw in the ratings, to the point were the Borg became a complete joke, and the show was more or less renamed "Star Trek: Seven of Nine".

You know why Voyager sucks, right? It's because Gene is dead, and his wife took over. It happened halfway through TNG, and when it did, the show became less science fiction and more like a romance novel in space.

Mythic is not making Star Trek Online. Its Cryptic studios. Thats an error with the article. Thanks.

Oh yeah, you say that, but they managed to shoehorn nearly every character from TOS into TNG and it's movies. Bones was still alive for the first episode, Scotty got himself stuck in a warp relay thingamajig, Kirk got stuck in a sort of paradise-like rift with Picard and Malcolm MacDowell, and Spock turned up constantly as an ambassador.
Just because everyone from the franchise should be dead doesn't mean that they all will be.

NERD STATEMENT ALERT!

"Don't think that Cryptic's issued themselves a license to kill canon"

Oh you mean like How Start Trek: Legacy destroyed canon by making the Borg be created by some lonesome Vulcan?

What about Q and Gainon? I'm sure Whoopi is would be happy to do some voice work.

Are you kidding? The entirety of Star Trek is a game that Q plays when he's bored.

Well I'm only recently a trekie so I haven't watched all of TNG, so I have no Idea what is all of Q. Up to season 5 now.

that's no proplem for me. as long as Picard and his infamous facepalm is in the game.

hey that's my avatar! well atleast half the time when it decides to work. right now you're probably going to see graham wellington

I feel so left out not knowing a single thing anyone here is talking about :[

So did I, so I didn't bother commenting.

Oh wait...

joining the party.

OMG !!! OMG !!! OMG !!! I'll just DIE if they don't put wesley crusher in this game!!! mmmmm... cabin boy goodness

Wesley went off to become an immortal Nth dimensional space hippie with Traveller. Now, he could still be alive in the STO universe, but I prefer to think that about 10 minutes of Wesley's crap, Traveller dropped him off on some moon somewhere to die a horrible death.

And yes, I did see Wesley in Nemesis. But Nemesis got a lot of things wrong. Like space dune buggies. So Nemesis doesn't count.

as long as this gent is in the game ... i'm happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGEBYWwMCtg

I remember that guy! As soon as I thought "Hey, some new guy is in Data's seat", that happens.

I'd hate to have to write for Star Trek. Having to deal with some 40 years of canon seems like it would be very confining, particularly when you have an especially rabid fan base that's willing to call you out on any tiny inconsistency, no matter how insignificant.

Nah, it's not that bad-Trekkies are like console gamers, you can shit on them all you like and they still line up to give you their money while they whine about it. Trek has never been good about continuity or originality, they won't start here.

It's very easy to write loopholes into the series, i think. Spacial anomalies make for an excellent Deus Ex Machina

Clearly you haven't been following the new movie then. There's a large group of people that are seemingly upset over the fact they aren't using the old cardboard sets from the original series.

It's not really that confining, there are 4 main species, a couple of governments, and infinite space. It's much harder to write about the real world than it would be to write about Star Trek, I would imagine.

The problem is that Rick Berman and Ira Behr were retarded and thought it would be cool to write Star Trek episodes about Dinosaurs and Marie Curie because they never really wanted to work on a sci-fi tv show in the first place.

So who could be in it?

Q,
Spock,
Data,
The ghost of Kirk
doc hologram

anyone else?

What happened to Lor? I forget.

B-4?

No Data though he got blown into little bits.

I only came here to post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE

Someone told me that in one of the Star Trek books, Kirk ends of living at the end of Generations.

I guess they're just going by what happened in the films?

William Shatner actually wrote that book, too.

I have never read it (sci-fi novels based on film and television series are just fan fics that cost 7$), but I recall from the back of the book that the plot involved Kirk's grave being desecrated by a passing Romulan or Vulcan ship because he wasn't really dead. Picard apparently being a really terrible doctor and never bothering to check his pulse before burying him at the end of Generations.

Yeah, cos they NEVER travel in time in the Star Trek mythos...

Or introduce techy deus-ex-machina to allow whatever corssovers they feel like.

Sounds like a good move to me - one of the reasons why KOTOR was so awesome was because the producers allowed themselves to create a whole new world within the framework of the Star Wars universe.

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