Space battles look as good as ST:Legacy and great fun for ST fans of all generations.

Star Trek online is an MMO just like World of Warcraft. You adopt the persona of a character in this world and through it construct a history of your own making and completely under your control. That's the attraction of an MMO. If the developer provides enough of an immersive environment, a player can easily get lost in a world with far fewer limits than the mundane grayness of our reality.

I'm not much for the whole fantasy, dragon slaying, renaissance fair genre. I've always been a fan of Star Trek and thus I am both enthused and critical of any gaming title that claims lineage to the franchise.

---2019 Update--- - I stopped playing this game awhile ago mostly because the game became much too grindy and repetitive. I did put some money into this game because I got a lot out of it but it seems that things have changed. They always do when loot boxes get involved whether it's F2p or Triple-A.

One of the primary reasons I stopped playing was the combat models and controls were absolutely terrible. I don't mind immersion and a little more challenge is OK to help that out but I got really tired of losing the same phaser fight over and over again because the combat system glitched out. Just walking around a planet or turning to look at something was completely unnatural. That and the constant server outages just made a bad experience worse.

So yeah, while I initially loved most of this game the things I didn't like just got worse over time. It just didn't pay off for the time I was spending in it. That's sad too because it had a lot of potential but now it seems to be more focused on the potential to make money.

I can't recommend it anymore. Not for someone that doesn't want to treat a game as a lifestyle at least and that's what this one does. Of course there's always the option of throwing money at it which is the real objective here.

Space battles look as good as ST:Legacy and great fun for ST fans of all generations. Star Trek online is an MMO just like World of Warcraft. You adopt the persona of a character in this world and through it construct a history of your own making and completely under your control. That's the attraction of an MMO. If the developer provides enough of an immersive environment, a player can easily get lost in a world with far fewer limits than the mundane grayness of our reality. I'm not much for the whole fantasy, dragon slaying, renaissance fair genre. I've always been a fan of Star Trek and thus I am both enthused and critical of any gaming title that claims lineage to the franchise. ---2019 Update--- - I stopped playing this game awhile ago mostly because the game became much too grindy and repetitive. I did put some money into this game because I got a lot out of it but it seems that things have changed. They always do when loot boxes get involved whether it's F2p or Triple-A. One of the primary reasons I stopped playing was the combat models and controls were absolutely terrible. I don't mind immersion and a little more challenge is OK to help that out but I got really tired of losing the same phaser fight over and over again because the combat system glitched out. Just walking around a planet or turning to look at something was completely unnatural. That and the constant server outages just made a bad experience worse. So yeah, while I initially loved most of this game the things I didn't like just got worse over time. It just didn't pay off for the time I was spending in it. That's sad too because it had a lot of potential but now it seems to be more focused on the potential to make money. I can't recommend it anymore. Not for someone that doesn't want to treat a game as a lifestyle at least and that's what this one does. Of course there's always the option of throwing money at it which is the real objective here.