UPDATED – STLV STO PANEL 2015: We’re Explorers Again, new video, and a few details.

  • Thanks again to @TrekRadio for providing the simulcast via Periscope.

    Note sure if this It was recorded (may be a limited viewing window!)- but lets start with the new Official Announcement Trailer for Season XI: New Dawn.

    Here’s what we were able to gleen:

    The panel started with the Executive Producer @Salami_Inferno, Lead Artist @SWall_Art, and Star Trek Onlines Lead Designer @CaptainGeko. The panel was moderated by a coordinator from CBS @hollyamos22.

    Look @hollyamos22 hosting her first @StarTrek panel with @ChaseMasterson! #BigDealLittleHuman #STLV pic.twitter.com/GY9vsk71WL

    — Bobak Ferdowsi (@tweetsoutloud) August 8, 2015

    The team shared their favorite series and episodes:

    Can’t say I disagree, except for TOS – ‘Balance of Terror‘ stands as my favorite.

    Next Episode: Butterfly

    The introduction was geared to introducing new players to the game – I’ll skip that part, and you can watch the video online here. They were later joined by Denise Crosby, Aaron Eisenberg, and Chase Masterson.

    Star Trek Online Season XI: New Dawn

    • Brand new story arc that will take the player through 2016 and beyond
    • A story about rebuilding
    • Will feature an origin story for an existing adversary
    • That adversary has not appeared yet in Star Trek Online
    • It will deal with how the Federation and the Klingons deal with the temporal technology.
    • The season has two story lines – recovering and the fallout of the Iconian War, and the return to being explorers again.
    • A couple of new STF queues around DS9, both inside and out.
    • A new space battlezone will take place in the badlands, and the enemy of this side story will be the mirror universe (possible Tholians as well, base on the video) UPDATE: there have been consequences of the Iconian conflict in the Mirror Universe(s)
    • Mirror Leeta is an Admiral
    • Upcoming episodes will feature Nog, Tom Paris, Harry Kim and Seven of Nine
    • Sela returns for the finale, and the arc of her character is satisfying ;)
    • Admiralty system allows you to use ships in your inventory to go on special ‘tours of duty’ on campaigns.
    • Three campaigns, one for each faction will be available at the start. More will follow
    • Each campaigns has multiple stages, and are repeatable for ‘large scale rewards’.

    More to come as we learn the details.