Captain’s Holiday – Next Generation, Season 3 In Star Trek Online, the crew of the player’s ship finds the Defiant with all crew still alive as they once more encounter the Tholians. The episode introduces the xenophobic and crystal spider-like Tholians. Once more, it appears a bout of madness has caused all aboard to turn on each other, but this time it isn’t due to single-celled frisbees. They find the ship adrift, with all hands on board deceased. In ‘The Tholian Web’ the crew of the Enterprise are sent to search for their sister-ship, the USS Defiant. In the first episode of ‘Agents of Yesterday’ which features real time travel shenanigans, the player is taken onto the Enterprise itself. Th Enterprise is tasked with transporting a group of Federation diplomats to the Babel Conference, a meeting to determine whether to admit the Coridan system into the Federation. It was still in the age of rubber creatures which, shockingly, audiences didn’t find that scary. In Star Trek Online, the player’s ship is called to investigate Deep Space K-13, where a bout of mass insanity has also taken hold.īy far not the best of episodes. When they reach the planet, they find saucer-like single-celled organisms have attacked. The Deneva Colony has seemed to be taken over by a bout of mass insanity. There are only two episodes in all of Trek that feature an exclamation point in the title, and ‘Operation: Annihilate!’ is one of them. The character known as Daniels is introduced, a time traveling agent from the far-distant future, who informs Archer of the most convoluted storyline in all of Trek, the Temporal Cold War. As it turns out, luck has nothing to do with it. A bolt of energy hits the ship, but disaster is stopped by a lucky junction having been disconnected. Captain Archer is really excited to get to do what Starfleet wanted the Enterprise to do: Explore. We take a step backwards in time, but forward in the line of show production to Enterprise. In Star Trek Online, the Federation returns once more to study the planet’s bounty. The lizard-like Gorn first appeared during this episode which had a beat-up Kirk hunting the surface of a mineral-rich planet for ways to defeat the rubber-suited menace. Arena – TOS, Season 1Īrena is one of the most famous of all the original series episodes, so having an original series themed expansion and not including a reference to the episode would’ve been sacrilege. Soon after arrival a yellow-clad crewman (they weren’t always wearing red) takes a spear to the back thrown by a giant caveman-like creature. This rocky, inhospitable planet was crash-landed on by Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and four other unlucky individuals. The Galileo Seven – TOS, Season 1Ī new character, created in the new 23rd century Federation faction, will find themselves soon after on the surface of Taurus II. Obviously, Spoilers Ahead, but I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. Here is a list of the top Star Trek episodes to watch to get the most out of STO’s latest expansion, presented in the best order as they refer in-game. With Star Trek Online’s latest release of ‘Agents of Yesterday’, the game’s storyline takes many cues and paths from the episodes, and many cues from the original series. Not all episodes were winners, but when Star Trek got it right, they really got it right. The way the episodes would flow, where in the course of 45 minutes the exploration of the deep grey area between good and evil, between right and wrong, was so thorough that it created such a lasting impression on me that I will forever be a ‘Trekkie’. I’ve also been a fan of Star Trek since my father and I use to watch Next Generation together in the early 90’s. I’ll even forsake a lot of the other qualities just for a better story. If a game doesn’t have a decent or even passable story attached to it, you most likely won’t find me playing it. Fun game mechanics are nice, yes, and the exploration, puzzles, progression, and graphics are also a plus, but for me the story is where it’s at. The main reason that I still really enjoy playing video games *at all* is the stories. One of the big reasons I’ve been playing Star Trek Online for years has been for it’s excellent stories. Star Trek Online’s Agents of Yesterday recently released and has been a callback to Star Trek’s origins on the year of Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary. Check it out and all the other awesome stuff posted on the site, like this review of I Am Setsuna (a game that does look pretty dang good). Note: This post first appeared on Sub-Cultured.
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