{"id":366,"date":"2010-07-23T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-07-23T08:33:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:33:01","slug":"star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Online bringing in old favorites and old unknowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/sci-fi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sci-fi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/culture\/\" rel=\"tag\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/patches\/\" rel=\"tag\">Patches<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/previews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Previews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/news-items\/\" rel=\"tag\">News items<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/star-trek-online\/\" rel=\"tag\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.massively.com\/media\/2010\/07\/sto-askcryptic-epl-710.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><em>Star Trek<\/em> <em>Online<\/em><\/a> team has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/01\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/\">gone through some shakeups recently<\/a>, not to mention a touch of controversy regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/02\/cryptic-studios-launches-a-sale-and-a-new-ship-for-holiday-weeke\/\">the most recent addition to the game&#8217;s microtransaction store<\/a>. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/node\/1888\">the newest Ask Cryptic<\/a> should buy them a little bit of good will, considering that they&#8217;ve announced the upgraded ships for Vice Admirals &#8212; specifically, a Galaxy-class that can separate, an Intrepid-class with ablative armor, and a Defiant<em>&#8211;<\/em>class with a cloaking device. It&#8217;s the sort of stuff that any fan of the series would be hard-pressed not to grin about.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the other questions are equally concerned with the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/Season-2\/\">Season 2<\/a>, which promises to bring in the Federation Diplomatic Corps as well as the ancient enemies of the klingons, the fek&#8217;ihri. The latter hasn&#8217;t been seen or mentioned prior, which suggests that there might be some very interesting story explanation for why the race has been absent if they share an old rivalry. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/node\/1888\">the full list of questions<\/a> for more bits and pieces on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/Star-Trek-Online\/\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s future, up to and including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> integration. (Optional integration, that is. No one&#8217;s about to start up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/09\/blizzard-backs-down-on-real-id\/\">the mess of the week<\/a> again.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/media\/feedlogo.gif\" alt=\"Massively\" style=\"float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/11\/star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns\/\">Star Trek Online bringing in old favorites and old unknowns<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\">Massively<\/a> on Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/node\/1888>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/11\/star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/forward\/19549433\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/11\/star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/11\/star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns\/\">Massively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sci-fi, Culture, Patches, Previews, News items, Star Trek Online The Star Trek Online team has gone through some shakeups recently, not to mention a touch of controversy regarding the most recent addition to the game&#8217;s microtransaction store. But the newest Ask Cryptic should buy them a little bit of good will, considering that they&#8217;ve announced the upgraded ships for Vice Admirals &#8212; specifically, a Galaxy-class that can separate, an Intrepid-class with ablative &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/star-trek-online-bringing-in-old-favorites-and-old-unknowns\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289],"tags":[338,339,249,247,248,340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}