Star Trek Online cinematic war trailer shows off combat footage

by James Egan Oct 26th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, Trailers, Video, New titles, Star Trek Online

The next major MMO from Cryptic Studios is Star Trek Online, which may bridge the gap in sci-fi MMOs between ship-based combat and avatar interaction on planetary surfaces. Cryptic has been releasing new screenshots and talking quite a bit about character progression lately, but sometimes it's better to show than to tell. That's what they're doing with the latest game trailer showing off footage of conflicts in space and planetary environments your away teams will explore.

The Star Trek Online cinematic war trailer at GameVideos gives some background on the STO setting along with the requisite phaser fire, Borg cubes, and bridges boarded. We've got the latest Star Trek Online footage embedded for you, so stick with us after the cut.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

YourMother said on 4:08PM 10-26-2009

Woo! Come on beta email!

maika said on 4:07PM 10-26-2009

I'm pretty sure I saw that a week ago :\ but maybe not

Hurray Star Trek!
*prays he's selected for beta soon*

Kdolo said on 4:15PM 10-26-2009

haven't we seen this footage before?

Jalann said on 4:17PM 10-26-2009

Indeed, this is the first trailer ever released for the game.

LaughingTarget said on 4:17PM 10-26-2009

This is over a year old.

spamero said on 4:19PM 10-26-2009

oh god that was terribad... seriously we all gonna be flying enterprises clones or what?

This + the video I show on some dev blog makes me think it's gonna be another IPO we all love and like turned into awful mmo.

I hope I am wrong tho.

Ingrod said on 4:57PM 10-26-2009

This video is old, I unknow what dev blog video you see, but in the official pague I can see that the game will have more ship classes.

misterorff said on 4:20PM 10-26-2009

Also, didn't SWG "bridge the gap in sci-fi MMOs between ship-based combat and avatar interaction on planetary surfaces." I love you guys, but even the bad MMOs did SOME things right.

sadamgreen said on 4:55PM 10-26-2009

Too bad this isn't a new trailer at all. Oh, well. :(

Shining Cloud said on 5:40PM 10-26-2009

LMFAO welcome to last year.

d.hutch said on 5:48PM 10-26-2009

Tyranor said on 7:40PM 10-26-2009

You really need to stop taking old news and claiming it's new..

EvilAnakin said on 8:29PM 10-26-2009

yay for STO, but yeh that trailer is like... a few years old now

Lepton said on 9:44PM 10-26-2009

http://www.startrekonline.com/trailer

Posted 8/8/2008

That's internet journalism for you

UltimateQ said on 10:44PM 10-26-2009

It happens, stop busting their balls over it.

mpdivo said on 4:19PM 11-12-2009

The Federation of Planets mission was not to explore strange new worlds!

Is the UN's mission to explore strange new countries?

This one crappy trailer is enough to make me not want to play the game.

x(wai)x said on 11:22AM 10-27-2009

They were quoting the intro to the original Star Trek and TNG. It's called a "homage," yes?

mpdivo said on 11:27AM 10-27-2009

The orginal was based on the Enterprise. That was the mission of the ship that was specifically designed to seek out new worlds and new civilizations.