Browser-Based Deep Space Nine MMO Coming In 2011

A publisher based in Germany has announced Star Trek: Infinite Space, a browser MMO based on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The game will be free-to-play, and it's planned for sometime in 2011. "Gameforge also contracted Michael Okuda, who served as scenic art supervisor for every live-action Star Trek series except for the original program, as a consultant. His wife Denise Okuda, who was a video supervisor and scenic artist for several of the sci-fi series' films and shows, will serve as a consultant, too."

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't phase me bro!

mod parent up

[frovingslosh]

Will you have the fastest ship in the delta quadrant, be trying to go straight home as quickly as you can, and yet still keep running into the same enemies each time you make a stop?

Re:OH lord

[thorshammer42]

They're making a Star Trek: Enterprise game?

What will they grind?

[vlm]

Rather than tell stories like a real RPG, MMORPGs keep people playing by grinding. In the DS9 universe, what could they grind?

A situation with replicators in every cafeteria is going to make grinding pretty difficult.

Quest - "Go to the replicator and fetch me ten cups of racktageno."

Re:For once, I expect this to be a good StarTrek G

[Mastadex]

DSN == Deep Space NEIN!!!!

Easy

[arcite]

You start as DS9 Janitor, cleaning the bulkheads... then work your way up to waiter in Quarks bar. Eventually you earn enough experience to start crafting, such as becoming a seamstress in that cardassian tailor sweatshop. You can then work your way up in the tailoring guild to earn enough to purchase a bachelor suite on the officers deck (no more slumming around in the lower quarter with the pirates and refugees! [p]From there you will be able to purchase credits to use the replicators and make furniture for your new babe-magnet of an apartment (complete with million dollar view of the wormhole!)... the women will be all over you. Of course, all the female card dealers from Quarks will actually be basement dwelling 30 something white guys (buyer beware!)[p] Other promising careers will include, security attendant, cook, cargo bay inventory officer assistant, and of course, plumber - all jobs include full Federation pension and partial dental. As you can see, life on virtual DS9 will be nothing like real life, not at all!

Re:What will they grind?

[Superchip]

Well, the 100 gross of self-sealing stem bolts was interesting. I had to trade a couple thousand wrappages of yamok sauce for those. The epic quest is to obtain a 1951 Willie Mays rookie card. In order to get that you're gonna need to grind out the neodymium power cell, and the hardest part is the five liters of anaerobic metabolites suspended in a hydrosaline solution. That part requires you to steal a damned teddy bear.

Re:Browser based, which browsers?

[Vectormatic]

heh, completely missed that, i'll forget about it right away

i already HATE having to set up ubisoft/ea accounts and that shit, but creating a facebook account is where i draw the line

Re:What will they grind?

[Abstrackt]

Judging by how often the replicators and holodeck fail in the series, I imagine the quests will be to fetch items to make them work again.

For all the mechanical trouble they had on the Enterprise you'd think they were driving a Yugo on the autobahn.

Re:Is it just me...

[jonathancarter]

No way! It was TNG > VOY > TOS > DS9 > Whatever else you can find > A mash-up of Hannah Montanna, Justin Bieber and the Olson Twins > Enterprise