By Jim Rossignol on February 9th, 2009 at 8:55 am.
As you might expect from the Star Trek MMO, there’s going to be loads of scope to create blue-in-the-face Federation lackeys, and continue Star Treks fine tradition of sticking things to the foreheads of humanoids. It looks pretty nifty in action, even if we saw this years ago in Eve Online. Trailer after the jump.
09/02/2009 at 09:18 Bobsy says:
I think it’s great how they’re showing us this and yet we’ve still not seen the character creator in Champions. Just fantastic, in fact!
09/02/2009 at 09:27 Pod says:
I put my headphones on at 00:23 and thought they had accidently put the star wars theme tune on…
09/02/2009 at 09:39 Dinger says:
Wake me when you can recreate this scene> in game (synchro problem optional).
09/02/2009 at 09:39 Gap Gen says:
How long until the first character with a penis stuck to their forehead?
09/02/2009 at 10:01 rob says:
One face, one hundred different foreheads.
09/02/2009 at 10:49 BC says:
Are they going to release this beforehand for a fiver?
09/02/2009 at 11:02 Xercies says:
I wonder if it will be able to create Species 8472
09/02/2009 at 11:40 Lh'owon says:
@Pod: Haha yea, that music is trying so hard to be the Star Wars music without actually being the Star Wars music.
09/02/2009 at 12:36 weegosan says:
Oh, Captain Janeway. Lace: The Final Brassiere.
09/02/2009 at 12:58 Bhazor says:
So I can create any alien as long as the same look could be carried off by a guy in make up?
That music is just too funny though.
09/02/2009 at 13:08 BooleanBob says:
“continue Star Treks fine tradition of sticking things to the foreheads of humanoids”
I’ve hardly ever watched Star Trek, but this made me laugh. Star Trek always struck me as a little too dour, too sterilised in comparison to sexier sci-fi like Star Wars and even Red Dwarf as a kid. Now I’m a fully-grown nerd I’m struggling to think what I’d rather do than have my Picard-a-like complete repetitive ‘diplomacy’ fetch-quests and calculate the DPS on my photon torpedo array.
09/02/2009 at 14:23 Koopa says:
Needs more tentacles.
09/02/2009 at 14:35 John Williams says:
Any of you guys know where I can send this lawsuit?
09/02/2009 at 14:44 Dain says:
Can I be Hynerian?
09/02/2009 at 15:14 Cooper42 says:
Puts spore to shame, clearly.
Also, we need a vaginal forehead asap.
09/02/2009 at 15:27 Tei says:
Well. Star Trek aliens are nothing to be proud off. Are just cosmetical changes on the face of actors. This is good because is cheap (for production) and because the actors can.. well.. .acting. A real alien face can’t really send emotive messages like frustration or angryness.
This, and the ability to fly faster than light and teleport, are just plot mechanism, and make absolutelly no sense. A game based on Star Trek can use then, and maybe even add expresions to these faces… If the dev’s really want to make something special (read: not).
I suppose as others MMO’s that some lore names will be forbidden. Because I totally see vulcanian Galadriel and varius brothers of Legolas walking there… even If there are fighter, I bet there will be a few Legalaleses vulcanians. And Grok, Gorog, Grocks and other orck’s names for the
Klingons.
Now, Imagine a Klingon raid.. . “FOR THE HORDEEEEE!!”.
09/02/2009 at 15:31 Tei says:
prettier > us > uglier
elf > human > orcs
vulkan > humans > klingon
09/02/2009 at 15:51 Pags says:
@Dinger: /martadance?
09/02/2009 at 16:20 pushlittlekart says:
Tei: Don’t associate Vulcans with a buncha treehugging panzies like the elves…
09/02/2009 at 16:51 Eamo says:
It seems the main criticism you guys are making about this is that the aliens look too much like the aliens in the TV series and not like some other more-alien aliens which do not exist in the series.
If you don’t like Star Trek that is fine, but this does seem to do a very good job of recreating the look and feel of the aliens you encounter in the Star Trek universe.
Of course since most people are probably going to be running around in Federation uniforms the face / color of your avatar may well be most of the extent of customization you can achieve. Maybe if you start out in the horrible HMS Pinnafore in space costumes from the initial series and eventually upgrade to the cool black uniforms with grey shoulders of the newer movies that will be the armor progression. Getting out of those bellbottom trousers would surely be powerful motivation to grind new gear.
09/02/2009 at 19:18 MrMelons says:
If vulcans are the elves and Klingons are the orcs…would that make the ferengi the goblins? Are there going to be neutral ferengi space stations and planets that send you on money making schemes that are geared towards thwarting another competitor?
09/02/2009 at 19:19 h4plo says:
As long as I can be a Kardassian I couldn’t care less what the rest of you xeno scum will look like.
09/02/2009 at 19:23 Frito says:
Can I be the half black-half white people from TOS?
I finally want to put an end to the half white-half black people.
09/02/2009 at 20:07 Josh says:
What if I wanted to create a non-humanoid species like the Tholians? I didn’t see tools to do that!. Either allow for the full gamut or don’t allow custom species at all.
09/02/2009 at 20:19 Peace of Eight says:
I wanna be a Medusan.
If you get that, you’re a geek.
If you don’t get that, you’re still a geek for reading this thread.
09/02/2009 at 20:19 EyeMessiah says:
Wake me when you can recreate *this* scene.
09/02/2009 at 22:02 Rufus T. Firefly says:
Medusans would be easy–just render a little box with the MacGuffin light inside.
Hortas, now that would be fun.
09/02/2009 at 22:20 Don Wood says:
@Eamo
“Maybe if you start out in the horrible HMS Pinnafore in space costumes from the initial series and eventually upgrade to the cool black uniforms with grey shoulders of the newer movies that will be the armor progression. Getting out of those bellbottom trousers would surely be powerful motivation to grind new gear.”
Those words, sir, could get you a swift grab-the-top-of-a-doorway two-legged kick to the chest followed by a karate chop to the neck!
Why, if this man-girdle wasn’t so tight I’d….
10/02/2009 at 06:53 Anthony Damiani says:
“Getting out of those bellbottom trousers would surely be powerful motivation to grind new gear.”
Yes, but…. miniskirts?
10/02/2009 at 20:26 Tei says:
I love this video, and the idea of creating your own race is awesome.
11/02/2009 at 02:40 Rath says:
I have absolutely no confidence in this game. Once upon a time, I was looking forward to it, but everything I’ve seen of it recently makes me shudder. I do not want to inhabit a universe full of tricked out Sovereign Class ships named the “USS Serious Business”.
11/02/2009 at 15:43 paddytehpyro says:
Im still not sold on the create a race thing. I like the back stories of each race and how they got where they are now. Chucking some completely random race in just kinda messes with it. As the only thing this seems to have going for it is the Star Trek name then losing all the history seems a bad idea to me
12/02/2009 at 13:20 Adam says:
“Getting out of those bellbottom trousers would surely be powerful motivation to grind new gear.”
LMAO
09/02/2010 at 15:10 Foggen says:
Yes. Klingons are orcs, Vulcans are elves, Romulans are Drow, Ferengi are goblins, and Borg are the undead.