The ball has been rolling for a couple of weeks now on a series of previously unreleased screenshots and images from Perpetual Entertainments Star Trek Online that serve to give us an in depth look at exactly what Perpetual Entertainment had planned for STO.

Throughout the development process, Perpetual Entertainment never seemed to getting around to launching a dedicated Star Trek Online Website or Forum - meaning that the games developers had to resort to using fan forums such as STOnet. This had both good and bad implications - sure, we all wanted to chat with the devs, but the environment in which it occurred should have been official - and this, the new developer feels was a major flaw.

They announced changes in the game, without any official place to discuss and explain these changes. This is a mistake that the new developer will not be making, and they will also look at some of the decisions made by Perpetual that upset people, and try not to make the same choices.

Pretty much everything about the new STO is being written again - nothing that Perpetual set in stone is solid anymore.

The new developers have taken a look at single player games such as Klingon Academy, Elite Force and Starfleet Command and of course have realized that Star Trek Online must incorporate all of these game aspects and more - and while pre-production has been underway for a good amount of time now it should be noted that YOUR opinions still matter.

We are being watched every day, here at Hailing Frequency and on other Trek Forums - so the posts and discussions that we have now may very shape the game that we get.

I have digressed. This time around we have three images all from the space based aspects of Star Trek Online. They show off some pretty amazing scenery - and hey - Is that an NX Class we can see?

Until next time folks - Keep it Hailing Frequency