STO - Preview @ CVG

Preview of STO giving an overview of the crew and exploration system.

Assuming you go with the Star Trekkers themselves, your orders come from Starfleet Central Command, in the form of Tours of Duty: sequential missions that take you to worlds explored or unexplored. Emmert claims his development team have created "A system of infinite exploration. We will be creating new planets, solar systems, civilisations that you as players might be the first to ever see."

Once you arrive at a planet, you get to choose which crew members you want to have beam down with you, and then you're planetside. The surface environments look lovely, and combat here is fast-paced and cover-based.

Emmert gives a few tantalising examples of the game's "dynamic content": the Borg might invade a sector, and you're tasked with taking it back. "Or who knows, the Tholians could get a bit uppity." Exciting!