I didn't really know what to expect when I saw the teaser for 5/5, but now that the announcement has been made I'm kinda bummed. I know a lot of people are getting excited over it, but I'm just not feeling it... I didn't even think the 5/5 announcement was going to be anything more than a special anniversary episode, featuring VOs from some of the remaining TOS cast members. Instead, it turns out to be the expansion announcement.
Personally, I was really hoping for a Cardassian-themed expansion, with a Cardassian mini-faction and maybe some interesting stuff to do in the Alpha Quadrant besides Defera and the Terran Battlezone. Maybe even some exploration of the Gamma Quadrant, the most unexplored quadrant of the Star Trek Milky Way. I mean, I would've been pumped as all getup if the announcement was for anything other than an expansion, but because this TOS-themed one is being released in the place of what many in the STO community expected to be a Cardassian-themed expansion its a bit of a letdown (and a mild dream-crusher...).
I'm not really a huge fan of TOS *gasp*! I feel like it's blasphemy saying that you don't care for O.G. Star Trek, but I could just never get into it much. DS9 and Voyager are my beloved Trek works, and since we've already had a Voyager-based expansion (Delta Rising), I had figured a DS9-based one (Cardassians, Dominion, Gamma Quadrant, etc.) would be not too far behind.
I'm fully aware that this is the 50th anniversary of TOS and the Star Trek franchise as a whole, but making an expansion that only focuses on TOS, especially when this game is supposed to be taking place 150+ years after TOS chronologically, is very odd to me. It almost seems as if all the time travel stuff we've been getting lately was implemented solely for this expansion to make sense in the STO universe.
Let's not even mention the fact that, as of right now, this expansion caters 100% to Feds only. There is nothing in this expansion as of now for the KDF and Roms, which is really disheartening. My main may be a Starfleet Tactical Officer, but I have an equal amount of characters from each of the three factions. I hope something is done about this soon, otherwise that'll be another reason to be bummed about this expansion.
In summary, I'd like to see the devs focus on new stuff of their own design/creation. The Deferi were a good first start, but there hasn't been much like that since, if anything. I want to see STO move forward in the Star Trek universe, exploring places and showing us things that truly haven't been seen before. I don't want to keep seeing old story plots rehashed and add-ons that don't even take place within the timeframe that STO is set in. The only thing I'm cool with regarding this stuff is the Temporal Cold War, since Enterprise didn't show much of it. Focus on that, instead of using it as a convenient segway into something that only caters to a particular group within the STO community, and a certain portion of the Star Trek fanbase.
Personally, I was really hoping for a Cardassian-themed expansion, with a Cardassian mini-faction and maybe some interesting stuff to do in the Alpha Quadrant besides Defera and the Terran Battlezone. Maybe even some exploration of the Gamma Quadrant, the most unexplored quadrant of the Star Trek Milky Way. I mean, I would've been pumped as all getup if the announcement was for anything other than an expansion, but because this TOS-themed one is being released in the place of what many in the STO community expected to be a Cardassian-themed expansion its a bit of a letdown (and a mild dream-crusher...).
I'm not really a huge fan of TOS *gasp*! I feel like it's blasphemy saying that you don't care for O.G. Star Trek, but I could just never get into it much. DS9 and Voyager are my beloved Trek works, and since we've already had a Voyager-based expansion (Delta Rising), I had figured a DS9-based one (Cardassians, Dominion, Gamma Quadrant, etc.) would be not too far behind.
I'm fully aware that this is the 50th anniversary of TOS and the Star Trek franchise as a whole, but making an expansion that only focuses on TOS, especially when this game is supposed to be taking place 150+ years after TOS chronologically, is very odd to me. It almost seems as if all the time travel stuff we've been getting lately was implemented solely for this expansion to make sense in the STO universe.
Let's not even mention the fact that, as of right now, this expansion caters 100% to Feds only. There is nothing in this expansion as of now for the KDF and Roms, which is really disheartening. My main may be a Starfleet Tactical Officer, but I have an equal amount of characters from each of the three factions. I hope something is done about this soon, otherwise that'll be another reason to be bummed about this expansion.
In summary, I'd like to see the devs focus on new stuff of their own design/creation. The Deferi were a good first start, but there hasn't been much like that since, if anything. I want to see STO move forward in the Star Trek universe, exploring places and showing us things that truly haven't been seen before. I don't want to keep seeing old story plots rehashed and add-ons that don't even take place within the timeframe that STO is set in. The only thing I'm cool with regarding this stuff is the Temporal Cold War, since Enterprise didn't show much of it. Focus on that, instead of using it as a convenient segway into something that only caters to a particular group within the STO community, and a certain portion of the Star Trek fanbase.