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I usually love the Path to 2409 posts on the Star Trek Online site, but this weeks edition, 2387, was just a repeat of what I’ve already read in the Star Trek Countdown comics, and just let’s us know that they are considering the comics and the upcoming movie part of the canon of the game.

Lots of people, including me, aren’t entirely impressed, but I will reserve judgement until they do the next update and go to the next year beyond this current “movie launching” story.

Some fans have been freaking out over the loss of the Romulan Empire, but I love when the Star Trek Universe is shaken to its core. Will the Romulans not be playable as their own faction? Who knows. It could make for a really interesting game experience, or if nothing else, as great material for both the Federation and Klingon stories in the game.

I am also looking to see what kind of technology we can expect in Star Trek Online. They’ve given us sneak peaks of ships, but without video to show off their “abilities”, we have to wait and speculate. I do like Geordi La Forge’s Jellyfish concept, though it doesn’t look like a Federation ship, hearing that he’s involved in some new “treknology” should be interesting.

One last detail worth mentioning is the return of the Orions as an interstellar race.

Starfleet Intelligence recommends that the Federation keep a close eye on activities of the Orion Syndicate. A multi-year crackdown on criminal activity in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants has been successful in curbing the threat of the Syndicate for Federation citizens, but on Stardate 64163.8 Hassan the Undying assassinates top Syndicate boss Raimus on Farius Prime.

Raimus’s death opens the door for Hassan’s employer, Melani D’ian, to take over Raimus’s Syndicate operations. Starfleet Intelligence estimates that Melani D’ian now controls as much as 30 percent of the Syndicate’s operations, and that other Syndicate bosses may seek to topple her before she seeks to expand her powerbase even more. Analysts note that Melani D’ian is the first Orion to rise to a top spot in Syndicate leadership in more than 20 years, and speculate that this could mark the return of the Orions as an interstellar power.

Anyways… I guess I have to wait until the next update for my real Star Trek Online excitement. If you haven’t read the Star Trek Countdown comics, the 2387 update will pretty much get you up to speed.