>This one's been in the works for a while, and it looks like it's
>launching next month. Seems to be a pretty full featured Trek
>experience, complete with ship and ground combat, awesome looking
>uniforms and ships and, of course, /dance.

Unfortunately, its lead designer is Jack "Statesman" Emmert, former lead dev on City of Heroes, who spent the first three or so years of that game's life resolutely striving to make it less fun in various ways having to do with adherence to his Design Vision. The crew over at Paragon Studios are still, in many ways, working to clean up the mess. (And then he went off to do the same to Champions Online, swearing to "get it right" this time, and now the team charged with maintaining CO are dancing the same dance.) As such, I have fairly low confidence in STO. I thought when it was announced, "Hello, that's a strange concept for an MMO. It'll take a very deft touch on the developers' part to make that work," and then, well. Based on prior experience, I sincerely doubt that Jack Emmert is the man to pull that off.

But, hey, I've been wrong before. Maybe it'll be awesome. I'll take quite a bit of convincing, that's all I'm saying.

--G.
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