The SciFi MMO Star Trek Online offers content from all Star Trek series and movies. Only the new Star Trek Discovery is still missing. The successful Netflix series would indeed benefit the MMO.
The MMO Star Trek Online actually takes place in the timeline after the last movies and series of the original Star Trek timeline. So in the Star Trek universe, which is based on the series and films about Captain Kirk and Picard, rather than the alternative “Kelvin timeline” from the new movies by J.J. Abrams.
Thus, you will also find plenty of content from famous Star Trek movies and series in Star Trek Online, for example Star: Trek Voyager or even the Classic series. However, one franchise is still missing: Star Trek Discovery!
Will Star Trek Discovery work in STO?
Star Trek Discovery is the latest series in the Star Trek universe, is currently running successfully on Netflix and also takes place in the classic timeline. However, in the 2250s (and thus about 10 years before the Star Trek Classic series with Kirk and Spock), while the official STO takes place in 2410.
So if they would bring Discovery ships, such as the U.S.S. Shenzhou or the U.S.S. Discovery, into the game, it would have to work through a time travel plot like in the STO expansion “Agents of Yesterday”.
There is definitely interest in the community, after all, Star Trek Discovery has been well received by most fans so far. Therefore, content from Discovery would surely invigorate the online role-playing game. However, some players fear that the typical Discovery ships might come as premium content in expensive real-money loot boxes.
Furthermore, many fans criticize the uniform design of the Discovery outfits. Especially the gold applications do not suit every player’s taste. Therefore, some players can probably do without Discovery uniforms in STO.
New STO update “Emergence” remains in the 25th century
So far, there are no Discovery content planned in STO either. The recently released update “Emergence” for PC stays neatly in the 25th century, where you fight against the Tzenkethi along with the former Enterprise chief engineer Geordi La Forge (voiced by the original actor LeVar Burton). In addition, there are the following features:
- New fleet facilities
- New primary specializations
- New class of bridge officers
- The event “Colony Defense”
- A coop mission called “Red Alert: Tzenkethi”
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Emergence has already been released for PC, with the release for Xbox One and PS4 happening a few weeks later.
