First, one must of course - as with most MMORPGs - create your character. Here are several settings available, ranging from sex to the uniform type to customize your character to your own preferences. Of course, here are the known races in the Star Trek universe, such as Vulcan and Bajor.
Once that's done it're off - you have to intervene immediately in a crisis with the Borg ship first on a ship and immediately afterwards with a small own. If these tutorial missions will be completed flown to Sol system, where other missions can be launched in the sector. The tutorial includes both space battles and special missions (which you can also go as captain). Initially, the own equipment, of course, relatively simple, no special skills are also available.
The missions themselves are usually similar to a television episode of the series: First you get the information, what to do, then it looks on that system. Once there, usually wait for some enemy ships is to be destroyed (some have friendly ships to be protected). Once done, you'll beam to the planet, where there are usually another quest giver, which is another task at hand (or necessary details to the existing one. If one does the job goes, it back into space.
Many missions are structured according to this scheme, which is a little sad. Classic first-contact "episodes, in which it comes to building a peaceful contact with an unknown race, are hardly represented. This is explained partly by the fact that Star Trek Online takes place after the destruction of Romulus and Remus by the supernova, which has led to the parallel timeline of the last Star Trek movie. Species 8472 also threatened the quadrant (in the game "Undine" is named). The Klingons are also war-set (in addition to a Federation character may be even the Klingons play, here is the content clearly PvP-heavy).
After initial problems, the technical implementation is now quite solid. The spaceships are visually appealing, the frame rates are moving consistently in the green zone (Geforce GTX 260 / 216, Core i7 3.33 GHz, 6 GB of RAM, Windows 7 x64). In the ground missions missing some level of detail in the textures, just the fact-finding missions in new sectors with which brands can be collected to upgrade weapons, had a little more love can endure.
The sound is also monotonous over time, even if the weapon sounds, such as the photon torpedoes, which perfectly match the cinematic realization. Nice bonus: Once you step into an unknown sector is one of the political situation and the enemies there, short of Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) is explained.
The German translation is also not complete, so it lends itself to play the game in English - here are all text fits.
Perhaps not as addictive as World of Warcraft,
sto credits,still nice, every now and again to play a short mission. A group for raids you are usually in the endgame content instructed before you can fend for themselves or be confident that automatically join the working groups. From Star Trek license, but you would have to make sure everything is missing just more peaceful missions. Known sites and borrows from the series but are available (mirror universe, Romulus destroyed Deep Space 9, etc.). As a fan, you feel already at home in this game.
