Cryptic Studios have announced they're now working on Star Trek Online, the (always inevitable) MMO set in the famous Trekiverse. The press release contains barely any information other than the first trailer will be available on the 10th of August, but the about page on the newly launched official site has these details:

Adventure in the Final Frontier: Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations in an expanding vast universe. Make contact with alien races, discover resources and uncover mysteries that will change the future of the Star Trek universe.

You Are the Captain: Command your own starship as a Federation Captain or a Klingon Warrior. Outfit it with the systems that you need to make your mark in the galaxy. Customize your ship as you see fit. Recruit, train and mold your crew into an elite force for exploration and combat.

Surface, Shipboard and Deep Space Adventures: Command your vessel in thrilling space battles, or beam down to planets with your away team for face-to-face confrontations. Missions will take you and your friends into space, planetside and even inside starships!

It is apparently coming for both PC and consoles. A bunch of new screenshots are available as well.

Whatever happened to the firefly mmo?

Finally, an excuse to make Mr. Spock jokes online.

Your request is not logical.

Meh, don't tease me Cryptic. Bad enough Perpetual made a massive hash of things. At least Cryptic has the City of Heroes/Villains franchise to back their achievements in MMO development, so it'll be worth a look.

Warp speed!

Whatever happened to the firefly mmo?

It's quietly in development, but I'd be willing to bet money that it turns out to be s***.

Whatever happened to the firefly mmo?

Who cares? You can't really compare the two; Firefly is some seriously average television. While a solid Star Trek game probably couldn't put a dent in WoW numbers, it certainly has more of a chance than a lot of other brands out there, Firefly included.

firefly average? i thought trog was cool.

Firefly is some seriously average television.

Wow, I don't even know what to say to that.

Surely you jest trog?

I think im with trog on that one, firefly was like a D grade hunk of crap ... only reason i saw any of it cause my mate forced me to as he was so in love with it

Firefly is average. Generally its fans are newbies who have never seen a good sci-fi series.

If you want to see good sci-fi, can't improve much on the epic-ness and multi-seasonal story arcs and insane character depth and development in Babylon 5. Even though it's well over 10 years old, it still owns.

No, not even BSG comes close ..

Babylon 5 is awesome, I've seen heaps of Sci-Fi. Firefly and great, I also like Farscape and Lex tho.

red dwarf > all sci fi

Firefly is average. Generally its fans are newbies who have never seen a good sci-fi series.

I wouldn't really call Firefly 'sci-fi' :)

So how does beaming down to planets work? You level up depending on how many ensign security officers get killed by aliens?

I've just started watching B5 again actually, OMFG season 1 was corny!

red dwarf > all sci fi

except for those god awful series they did at the end, which were horribly unfunny, had americans in them and should never have been made

Firefly is some seriously average television.

Heh, wow.

I know, normally if a show ends after one or two series it means it was really good, but in this case... bleeeeuuhhhhh. So much potential squandered making it into a western in space.

I'm not a Trek fan and obviously don't care about MMOs but I'm definitely intrigued to see how this one pans out.

Hopefully they will learn the lessons of AoC and have plenty of quality mid to end game content.

I want a Andromeda MMO, now that would be awesome. Pay 30$ a month to hunt Kevin Sorbo...sold.

Kevin Sorbo = hercules mmo, haha.

Thanks god Cryptic is on the case. I am pretty confident these guys will make a good MMO. Will it please the trekkies? Probably not.

First problem ... solar panels on space stations?

All space stations in the ST universe are fusion powered.