Since they felt the franchise needed a reboot, my guess is that it will tie in to the new movie and use the existing universe to expand the game. But although that might lure some new/younger gamers to Star Trek, I bet that will alienated the probable zillions of existing Trekkies.

Back to Star Trek, it’s hard for anyone to get excited about it right now thanks to it having zero popular interest. The whole franchise was gradually run into the ground with a succession of supremely boring serieseses. But bear in mind that the JJ Abrams Star Trek prequel will be out probably around the same time as this, so who knows, we might be more receptive by then. On the subject of JJ Abrams + Star Trek… I guess it’ll be two hours of not getting to see any Klingons, before we see some Klingons, at the end maybe.

Where you can search a database of players, send instant messages to arrange a team. meet up at some part of the ship.

then beam down to a planet or other ship/space base & do some instanced mission.

same formula as CoH/V except instead of doing a mission in a warehouse, office building or cave you do it on a ship or planet.

This is such a cowardly development. Of course they could try something different, something more like what a Trek MMO ought to be, but instead we’ll get the cookie cutter game design with 100,000 Captain K1rkspH4zor.

I totally agree with you since pretty much every sci-fi alien is essentially based on 1 human culture and have one mannerism as you point out. Hell, they name their race after their home planet yet humans have multitudes of names for themselves.
They only ever have 1 language and never any different dialects and colloqualisms.

I want a truly diverse alien species.. but then I guess that requires many orders of magnitude more creativity and exhausts content pretty quickly in a busy universe!