Star Trek Online – Day 3

By alex

Captains Log, Stardate 63552.0.

My first full day at Lieutenant Commander yesterday was filled with intrigue and danger as we were ordered on a few secret missions into regions of space filled with Klingon’s!

First was a mission that sent me into the Briar Patch – made famous by Captain Picard in Insurrection. This was a particularly dangerous mission – Stay away from the clouds of Metreon Gas. Or use them to your advantage! Luring the Klingon’s towards you while staying at least 4km’s away from the clouds but making sure they get close then firing on them! BOOOOM!!

This was all a long line of missions where I had to save Mirral Paris, the daughter of Tom Paris and B’lenna Tores, the Kuva’magh, the Klingon that held the key to restoring the Klingon’s of the TOS era back to their former ridge-headed glory. Eventually that lead me to the Guardian of Forever.

The guardian explained that Mirral had been taken back in time to 2270 and that I had to go back in time to restore the time-line as history had changed – the Klingon ambassador who had gone back in time had used the star ship and technology to destroy the then smaller and weaker Federation.

When we were transported back in time by the Guardian the crew and I found that the Enterprise was being attacked by the ambassador and 2 K7 class Klingon vessels – quickly we saw them off and the Ambassador fled the area – Commander Spoke hailed us and we were quick to respond that we were there to help – but didn’t want to give away too much to him.

I’m now Leuitenant Command 3rd grade (out of 10) – Well on my way to Commander which I should hopefully make by the end of the week!

The servers went down for an hour and a bit last night again, as things started to get busy – I’m hoping that Cryptic sort this out as tomorrow there’s the potential for even more people to get into the game.

They introduced a queuing system similar to Aeon when it was busy – but no-where near as bad.

If you do ever decide to play the game, dont go on the forums when the servers are offline – the amount of bitter twisted selfish people on there moaning about how they should be online and not anyone else, or griping about how they should get their money back or they’ll sue Cryptic! I mean seriously – its not even that bad. I think they might be good to make a European server to help spread the load then at least they might not have to deal with too many people sitting on 1 shard. But I guess you cant start second guessing how many people will be playing your game till things settle down.

Personally I hope this game keeps going for a while – I’m really enjoying it so far! A little too much actually! If thats possible. Who am I kidding – of course it is!

I’m really glad i decided to go with the escort class as my starting ship – I’ll be trying to make a video later on of a typical space battle and uploading it to Youtube. Not sure how Fraps works in the game yet so fingers crossed!

On a side note, bumping into the Enterprise like that and hearing Spock talking to me was simply epic. Towards the end of that mission the Enterprise turns up to help out again again and for the smallest second I felt like I was there… Cryptic have managed to capture things of the shows that I didn’t think possible in a game.