Classic Races Will Make First Appearance In Star Trek Online

Star Trek fans will be delighted to hear that the developers of the upcoming MMO, Star Trek Online, have been given the right to design races mentioned in the series, but never seen on the big screen.

In a developer Q&A on the Cryptic site, poster Awen reveals that CBS, the maker of the Star Trek series, allowed the STO game designers to define what these races look like and introduce them into the game, along with the known races from the Star Trek universe.

It also emerges that the character creation process in the game will allow players to use parts from all pre-existing races to make their own race. This also means players can chose exactly when their character looks like as well as picking the racial attributes and skills. However, although there will be other types of beings in the game that can be assigned as bridge officers such as holograms or androids, non-organic life, players will only be able to choose a bipedal humanoid as their own character.