Set phasers to OH CRAP DINOSAURS
I must confess:Star Trek: Voyagerwas my “gateway”Star Trek. So no matter how bad you tell me it was – or how bad I realize it was, the adventures of Captain Janeway and the crew of the Federation starshipVoyagerwill always have a special place in my heart. That’s why the “Season 8” content update forStar Trek Onlinehas me hyped, as it involves a funVoyagercallback.
According to theSTO blog, for Season 8 developer Cryptic are planning to get players involved with the Voth, an obscure Delta Quadrant race fromVoyager‘s 3rd-season episode “Distant Origins”. While the episode itself was little more than an allegory for religiously-motivated “debates” over evolution and creationism, the “lore” takeaway was that the Voth were descended from Earth’s dinosaurs, which, naturally, will lead them toHARNESS THE POWERin-game via T-Rex’s with “Antiproton Beams and Transphasic Chroniton Mortars” on their heads. Lovely.
Players less enamored withVoyageror ancient sauroids might be placated by the setting of Season 8, which takes place on the inside of a Dyson Sphere, a massive sci-fi structure enclosing an entire star. The sphere will serve asStar Trek Online‘s first “Space Adventure Zone”, and the hub for most of Season 8’s content.
