You’d end up with a character creator that only let you edit your avatars nose.

I loved the silithid and the undead invasions during the AQ and naxx openings in wow, why can’t an mmo bring these in to make your gameplay that little bit uncertain.

This is so very, very true.

In terms of the war-ness of the trailer, keep in mind companies are often forced to show the combat, because that’s what sells most games. Also, it’s easier to make 5, 10 second clips of combat than of dialogue. Imagine just a fast-forward of alien talks, reply, alien talks, reply, GESTURES AROUND, reply…

I hope I’m wrong in the final analysis, but that’s my impression based on the way Emmert glossed past the pointed questions about diplomacy, and the way the trailer seemed tilted toward warfare rather then diplomacy/exploration.

My hope is that should you choose, you could play almost entirely from the point of a negotiator with very little actual warfare. However, that would require scripting events and AI pretty uniquely for each interaction like with bioware-esque charm/intimidate options in all chat dialogues that can be employed based on player skill lvl.

Haha, those who strive for peace must be prepared for wwwwwurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

In fact, point to point transport is grossly underutilized in the series. Seems like a Federation Special Forces squad would have some kind of man-portable transporter array that could… well hopefully the devs are as much of a Star Trek nerd as I am.

^Yeah Q could be the admins. That’d be awesome.

And as Fil said, the beaming around could be oh so satisfying. Mmmmm, squad action.

I think as long as the devs include the machinations of the Q continuum, this game will win. Actually, the Q provide a great method for the GMs to alter the state of the game, without breaking canon.

Just have John de Lancie do voiceovers for the patch notes in that terribly dismissive voice of his.

/fanboy