"Star Trek Online's Journey to Discovery Squanders...." Topic

…. Some of Its Great Potential

"This week, for the first time in its history, Star Trek Online got the chance to launch content related to a concurrent Trek TV series with Age of Discovery, a mini-update that brings gamers into the time of Discovery. This first slice does a grand job of capturing Discovery's look and it's tone—but it also slips up in similar ways as the show did.

Age of Discovery sends players back to the 2250s, casting them as Starfleet Academy graduates who—despite the fact that the Battle of the Binary Stars just led to all-out war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire—are more concerned with who passed their linguistics exam or if they got a cushy senior position in their starship training cruises than they are the thought of heading to the stars as soldiers on the frontline. Soon enough, your character and their fellow graduates (joined by Cadet Tilly herself, voiced by Discovery's own Mary Wiseman in a delightful turn) find themselves confronting that harsh reality when their own training cruise is interrupted by attacking Klingons—specifically J'Ula, the sister of Discovery's onetime baddie T'Kuvma—forcing your Cadet into the uneasy position of wartime command…."
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