To Boldy Go Where Many People Are Going Too!

Well, it seems once again I am shifting topics quite abruptly here. After my last post I recently began testing the upcoming game Star Trek Online, and I must admit, it is quite enjoyable!

You begin as your basic run of the mill officer you'd see pantomiming in the background of some scene in one of the shows and work your way swiftly into 'expendable crewman' once you're whisked away to another Starfleet vessel to help defend it against a rogue Borg invasion. Though thankfully these Borg did seem to forget their brains or... processors, or what have you, and slap at you with all the fury of angry kittens. After you defeat your feeble foes, and endure the endless droning tutorial of the Medical Hologram on board the other ship, you finally return to your own vessel! ...where everyone higher ranking then you is dead. And considering you are only an Ensign... that must be about every enlisted member of your crew. However, you're not just any ensign, you're that guy/gal who has a last name! And in Star Trek, that is all you need to survive and likely make some form of meaningful difference to the story lines taking place around you! 

After you finish the swift tutorial levels, you can choose to customize your ship, look over the officer you've chosen and enter into the exciting world around you! The gameplay is varied enough to keep it interesting, most of your time takes place in the space segments of the game, be it traveling from star system to star system or battling with Klingons, Romulans, Gorn and the like to even doing mundane things like scanning some malfunctioning satellites. The other parts of the game are the away team missions, which are much the same as the space segments in that you can either have a mission devoted to combat, or just scanning some new kinds of plant life. The missions can get a bit repetitive, but nothing too unusual for an MMO.


Well, that's enough babbling about the game for now, I'll likely babble on about it more once I have the full version available to me, but for now...

~Signing off

HAPPY NEW--wow... September? That's how long...

Well now... this... is a bit surprising. I swore I'd posted here at least once in the last three months, but, ah... it would seem I might have been mistaken. Yes...

Ah, so, what has a...what has changed in the last three months, well lets see:

• We ended our first decade of the new millennium, entering into 2010, two years from the Mayan year of destruction! Huzzah!
• Transformers is still a driving force, though the collection's growth has reduced to a trickle of it's former overwhelming flood, though with the news of future releases proves to change that soon enough...
• Following up on my last topic of discussion, Batman has taken a bit of a backseat for the moment, though his presence is still deeply felt in this household, if only by a few devout followers of the Cult of the Bat. Namely me.
• World of Warcraft has gained renewed interest in me, my lust for more power and riches knows no bounds!! ...save downtime, writing, watching Kitchen Nightmares or other Gordon Ramsey fare, work... ah... well... when I am actually playing the game, my lust for these things knows no bounds!

Well, that was a very basic recap of the more fandom based events of my life... and I suppose that should be a good place to stop for a recap of my end of year events, and hopefully... hopefully, I will get a chance to write here more then just quarterly. For now though...



~Signing off