Genesis

For the longest time, I have looked at this particular title and wondered; is it any good? The last Star Trek games I played with any real vigor, way back when, was Elite Force and Bridge Commander. Although I dabbled with Starfleet Command series and a few attempts at the seldom discussed, hardly remembered Deep Space Nine; The Fallen and a few other titles from this genre, suffice it to say, I have spent some time in the virtual, final frontier.

First things first, I collected on two promotions to get things started http://na.alienwarearena.com/giveaways/star-trek-online-peregrine-attack-fighter-key-giveaway and http://na.alienwarearena.com/giveaways/star-trek-online-new-dawn-idic-tribble-key-giveaway I thought they might come in handy, now or later. 

While I could go into the great details of how I got things going, I won't, because I didn't spent a whole lot of time on this opening phase of things. I downloaded the client (around 12ish gigabytes) and installed. Next, I selected the Federation, picked first Vulcan male I came across, quickly threw on a First Contact uniform (I always liked that look, since the selection was somewhat limited) and named both him and the ship. Easy pesy.

To be perfectly honest, I found the tutorial to be, frustrating. I didn't want to spend all that time (perhaps an hour, maybe less) to work my way up to the action, I just wanted to jump straight into it. Still, I begrudgingly plodded through it, then relaxed, starting to soak up what was being presented.

The tutorial was fairly straight forward. Graduation Day was the first of many episodes in a series. Freshly graduated from Starfeet Academy, I run around talking to people, some I even went to class with. Training Cruise introduces the ground combat part of the game. Klingons board the training ship and kidnap the Captain and kill him. Field Promotions puts my character in command of the ship and begins the ship combat phase of the game. Communications Breakdown has me, as the new Captain, fly off to some system, try and help a fellow Federation ship and be attacked by the Borg. The final tutorial episode....

....brings all of the elements and lessons learned into a single scenario. Ship combat, ground combat and menu interaction. Needless to say, I made it through that experience, confirming this could be a new game for me to divide my attention with.

So, I snagged one more promotion that I could find through Google https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?pages/giveaway/&id=star-trek and will continue here, next time, with some of those very lessons I learned from the tutorial and how I came to know some of the Star Trek universe.