Star Trek On-line’s Newest Ship Bundle Is a Nostalgic Throwback

As a part of Star Trek Online‘s ongoing fifteenth anniversary celebration, the sport is including a brand new bundle of ship skins impressed by the period of the unique Star Trek movies. However truthfully? The trailer may be as enjoyable as getting the ships themselves.

Immediately, to coincide with the console launch of STO‘s newest season, Unveiled, Arc Video games and DECA Video games introduced a brand new ship bundle that’s launching on PC as a part of the sport’s ongoing celebrations of its fifteenth anniversary. The bundle collects 4 new ships—”Tier 6″ variations of the Pioneer II Pilot Heavy Frigate, impressed by a vessel from STO‘s original-series-themed “Brokers of Yesterday” growth; the Ark Royal Intel Provider, based mostly on the ship of the identical title that appeared within the 2000 online game Starfleet Command II; the Kerala Temporal Battlecruiser, impressed by the Shepard-class from Star Trek: Discovery; and the Shangri-La Command Warship, impressed by the Invoice Krause design used for the Neo-Constitution-class in Star Trek: Picard‘s last season—in addition to entry to the Theseus Miracle Employee Destroyer, a ship from IDW’s Star Trek comedian sequence beforehand solely accessible as a random reward in lockboxes. Every ship contains entry to skins impressed by the visible aesthetic of the unique series-era Star Trek movies, from The Movement Image to The Undiscovered Nation, in addition to skins impressed by the 25th-century setting of Star Trek On-line.

However as enjoyable as all of the the ships truly are, STO‘s trailer for the bundle itself may be much more pleasant. A virtually five-minute quick movie highlighting every of the vessels in motion in these aforementioned late twenty third Century aesthetics, it’s much less of a online game trailer and extra of a brief movie evoking the fashion and aesthetic of these beloved basic Trek movies, pitting the ships in opposition to Romulan warbirds and Orion raiders, and even a cheeky nod in direction of the basic “no-win state of affairs” of the Kobayashi Maru take a look at.

Seems the take a look at might need been a bit of simpler if you happen to simply present up with a complete job drive of Starfleet ships to blow issues up, however at the very least they give the impression of being retro-cool whereas doing it! It’s a really cute approach to showcase a loving tribute to that period of Star Trek filmmaking.

The basic movie bundle, which features a host of bonus consumables in addition to ground-based gear impressed by the safety armor and phasers utilized in The Movement Image, launches in the present day for Star Trek On-line on PC at a reduced price of 13,125 Zen, the sport’s premium foreign money (the equal of roughly $130), earlier than the worth raises to 17,500 (roughly $175) Zen from April 1. The 4 brand-new ships may even accessible to buy individually at a price of two,400 ($24) and later 3,000 ($30) Zen.

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