Star Trek

The reruns continue over on the official Star Trek Online website of the Featured Episodes, allowing you to watch for the opportunity to earn limited-time rewards, including dual cannons for your fighter. Check it out.

We're happy to present special Feature Episodes! Feature Episodes are grouped into Series and are tied closely together to comprise one story arc. They're available to players of both factions starting at level 6 and at no extra cost. Be sure to tune in to continue the story!

Each series is comprised of several episodes in a story chain. You must complete the first episode before you can move on to the next. To begin a series, travel to the sector listed in the Contact section of each episode, and you’ll be prompted to talk to the Contact in the lower-right portion of your UI. This Contact will offer you any episodes you are currently eligible to play.

In addition to the standard mission rewards you’ll receive at the end of each episode, there is a special reward available for completing a series during its initial release schedule

Read more at the official Star Trek Online website.

Star Trek Online producer Daniel Stahl has posted the latest "Ask Cryptic" and it's a massive and wandering list of questions/answers. The discussion meanders from the Qo'noS neighborhood system to revamping the Borg to improvements in the Foundry item placement system.

Q: TOSLover While I absolutely love the Foundry and am very amazed at all we can do with it, might there be an easier way that we could place our items, objects, ships, etc.? Maybe like an actual 3-D representation similar to how "The Sims" does it? I guess the question I'm asking is a change to Foundry object placement somewhere on the horizon?

A: Your suggestion is right on the money and I wish the team had the time to implement this immediately. Unfortunately it is going to take us quite a bit of time to get there. The first step might come later this year when we start to talk about a revamp to ship interiors and player starbases that would allow you to place objects as props.

Read more on the Star Trek Online site.

Cryptic Studios and the Star Trek Online team have announced the winners of the "Design the Next Enterprise" contest. The lucky first place winner is Adam Ihle with second, third and fourth place winners and runners up all revealed on the official Star Trek Online contest page.

Thanks to Rohn for the tip!

Cryptic Studios has announced that The Foundry has officially left beta. The Foundry allows players to create their own custom missions and share them with other players. Devs have also announced "Spotlight Missions" where they will feature content created by players using the tools contained in The Foundry.

"The Foundry is a type of tool all of us here, as Star Trek fans, have been eagerly anticipating for a very long time," said Daniel Stahl, Executive Producer, Star Trek Online. "The universe of Star Trek Online is constantly growing and improving, but now we are empowering users so that they may finally create their own Star Trek stories, missions and memorable characters inside our persistent game world. This is something truly special and we couldn't be more excited to see what creative fans come up with."

The Foundry is a proprietary addition to Cryptic’s internal game engine, which powers Star Trek Online, Champions Online and the recently-announced Neverwinter.

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Star Trek Online players looking for a bright shiny new ride may want to head to the STO Store to take a look at the iconic 24th Century Advanced Research Vessel. This ship has been retrofitted for a new century with seating for five, six weapons slots and lots more.

It also features Subsystem Targeting and a Tachyon Detection Grid that will increase Starship Sensors as well as Stealth Detection. When the grid is active, it also increases the Starship Sensors and Stealth Detection of all nearby allies. Those allies, in turn, can extend those benefits for allies near them, thereby extending the overall size of the grid. The Tachyon Detection Grid is not modified by Stats or Auxiliary Power.

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