Star Trek Online News

Many games in recent times have made use of the polarizing lock box and Star Trek Online is no exception. In fact, the title even allowed players to obtain retired lock boxes from various missions and as drops. However, the implementation was less than ideal and so Cryptic Studios is overhauling it, leaving only one lock box with "a single, [...]

Star Trek Online celebrates the summer with Risa’s annual Lohlunat Festival. This year, players joining in on the festivities will have a whole list of new rewards to look forward to, not the least of which is the new Tier 6 Vorgon Xyfius Heavy Escort ship which can be acquired in exchange for 2016 Lohlunat Prize Vouchers. Aside from the [...]

Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment announced today that Star Trek Online's latest expansion, Agents of Yesterday, will be launching on July 6th. The expansion will introduce characters from The Original Series, as well as allow players to own and fly "the infamous Enterprise, Constitution-class ship." Walter Koenig, Chase Masterson, and Matt Winston will be reprising their roles for the [...]

When it was announced that Star Trek Online would be headed to consoles later this year, it was announced that the game's graphics had been upgraded for the console release. A recent blog post explains the graphics improvements in some detail. When choosing improvements to make, the team had to ensure that each would "make the game look as good [...]

Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced today that Star Trek Online will be following in Neverwinter's footsteps with a console release on PS4 and Xbox One this fall. The console release will contain all existing content, including "two expansions and 11 seasons’ worth of updates." The game's visuals have also been improved and the user experience has been revised [...]

Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced today that Star Trek Online's third expansion, Agents of Yesterday, will be launching this summer. The expansion will take players to The Original Series' timeline for a new adventure just in time for the series' 50th anniversary. There they will encounter two familiar characters and five new ships, including the Daedalus class Science [...]

Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced today that Star Trek Online will be receiving a mid-season update, Season 11.5, on April 12th. The update will introduce a new episode called Temporal Front that pits players against Na'Kuhl Temporal Agents that are trying to destroy the Federation. In the episode, players will go back in time to "prevent the Na’Kuhl [...]

Star Trek Online has seen a cancellation at one studio and a change in publisher at another, but despite that, it has managed to stay online for six years. Cryptic's digital version of the Final Frontier is celebrating this achievement with the return of the Anniversary Event. From January 28th to February 24th, various in-game events are going to be [...]

This weekend, Perfect World is offering twice the normal amount of Technology Points obtained by "[applying] Tech Upgrades to your gear" in Star Trek Online. As they put it, "this in turn reduces the amount of Dilithium that must be spent to reach each Upgrade threshold, allowing Captains additional chances to attain both Mark and Rarity increases on their favored [...]