Star Trek online?

[Tebonas]

f course. I'm just glad these two titles use(d) the rich worlds as described by authors.

But I wouldn't use DS9 as a frame of reference :) It and Voyager were results of corporatized group-think that resulted in Enterprise and the upcoming travesty that will be Kirk and Spock meeting in Starfleet Academy, simply because someone did some creative directing on Lost. Gods does Paramount just not get it.

And here I thought DS9 was the result of Paramount stealing the idea for Babylon 5.

/geekfight

Babylon 5 MMG. Hmm, dibs on the Narn Paladin.

[5150]

Like this guy...

Plucky comedy relief wasn't he?

I havent read the site recently (so I dont know if they've already cleared this up) but the whole thing either screams 'SWG repeat', 'Holodeck' or 'alternative universe' (ala the XBox game Shattered Universe where shuttles became fighters and Sulu was the bad guy (or was it Checkov<sp>?))

[El Gallo]

Basing a MMO on the original Star Trek would at least legitimate the use of traditional MMO female avatars.  If I learned one thing from that show, it's that in the 21st century, it will be all c-cups and up.

[WindupAtheist]

I wonder how high your skill in Kirk-Fu has to be for you to do the two-handed chop.

[Miguel]

You ready your Dammit-Jim-I'm-A-Cleric spell!
Kirk has aggroed!
Kirk flings a meaningless speech at your direction!
You suffer 145 mental anguish points of damage!
Your boredom has increased!
You now have a headache!

You prepare to sacrifice an unknown enlisted person!
The unknown enlisted person dies a horrible death so that you can live!

A beautiful blonde has aggroed!
Kirk is distracted by the beautiful blonde.
You gain 5 Channel Changing experience points.
Kirk kisses the beautiful blonde, who swoons.
Kirk appears stronger.

Scotty appears, and declares that the engines 'dinna take much more' Captian!
Your boredom has increased!

You would like to continue the attack, however you must first gain additional Starfleet Approval points.
You disregard orders.
You have lost 50 Starfleet prestige points!
Your uniform has become torn!

KliNG0n's-R-1337 has arrived in his Bird of Prey!
KliNG0n's-R-1337 fires a +1034908245 Proton-Torpedo-of-ELEETness.
You suffer 1,234,435,029 points of damage to your Neilson Approval Rating.
Kirk has died!
McCoy has died!
Scotty has died!
The blonde has died!
You have died!
Your ship explodes!
KliNG0n's-R-1337 makes a rude gesture at the debris.
KliNG0n's-R-1337 says, 'kekekekekekekekekke'
KliNG0n's-R-1337 warps from the sector.

You have died.  Please visit our Account and Billing services page to purchase another ship.
/quit

[HaemishM]

I disagree. There's a hell of a lot of more open endedness to Trek than there is to Star Wars.

No, there really isn't.

[tkinnun0]

I don't think a big space alien making sweet love to your starship really fits into the Star Wars universe.

[Trippy]

I don't think a big space alien making sweet love to your starship really fits into the Star Wars universe.

How about a big space alien swallowing your starship?

[El Gallo]

I disagree. There's a hell of a lot of more open endedness to Trek than there is to Star Wars.

No, there really isn't.

I dunno.  If it was mostly ground based, they could be pretty flexible.  I mean, they went to a different planet almost every week and (aside from h0t alien boobage) there wasn't much linking the places thematically.  They could've had different planets in SWG, but it seems to me that SW fans are more insistant on going to Tatooine or Naboo and having it just like the movie than ST fans would be in going to "the planet with the cave with the brunette with ginormous bozooms" or the "planet with the androids with ginormous bozooms" or the "planet with the green chick with ... well, you get the picture.

I guess the whole military thing limits flexibility in one sense, but also opens up the chance for the game to have a heavily scripted, quest-based experience that leads you around the gameworld by the nose.

If it's going to be more focused on ships then forget everything I said.

[HaemishM]

I guess the whole military thing limits flexibility in one sense, but also opens up the chance for the game to have a heavily scripted, quest-based experience that leads you around the gameworld by the nose.

It's more like the Prime Directive than anything else.

But really, neither universe is very open-ended when it comes to gameplay possibilities. Somethings just have to be, like Jedi being l33t-r33t powaful, and the Federation not turning planets into cinders.

Both suck thematically for games.

[stray]

I'll admit that the nature of the Federation doesn't encourage true open endedness (but that isn't much different than how a lot of "factions" in games are presented anyways). I'm just saying that it doesn't suffer from the linear, limited character focus of storylines like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. It may not be the most ideal theme for an mmo, but it certainly isn't as restrictive as those two are either.

[sarius]

I don't think a big space alien making sweet love to your starship really fits into the Star Wars universe.

How about a big space alien swallowing your starship?

Not Star Warsy enough.  Needs more iconic game play. 

[Venkman]

Star Wars: Big = Technology. Star Trek: more open ended. This is the IP with the biotech hybrids like the ST5 Probe and the Planet Eater (with an awesome followup in Peter David's Vendetta) as well as the sentient being like Gomtu (sp?) and those jellyfish from the ghey first episode of TNG. The closest analog in Star Wars would be Zenoma Sekot, but that's a whole planet. Otherwise it's mostly bio/nano-tech like Yuuzhan Vong, sorta of nature's answer to the Borg.

Aside from flexing the inner geek though, both IPs would be fine for both Game and World.