To be honest, I am actually liking alot of what I read above.  I can see that Cryptic is trying to incorporate alot of familiar Star Trek aspects and unlike some others here, I am encouraged. Things could be alot worse.

I am especially interested to hear more about their Episodic Style mission delivery system as I must admit, it has me very curious.

I am also glad to hear that familiar places such as P'jem are being included - True, the monestary itself was destroyed back in the days of Archer, but we never did get a sense of the scale of the destruction and I think that it is conceivable that the monestary would have been re-built in some form in the space of 300 years.

Species 8472 is another welcome addition from my point of view, I have always been fascinated by this race, so any further story development on that road is welcomed.

Regarding Space Combat, once again, the references to a slow, tactical battle system more than please me.

I have never been a "HARDCORE" gamer and as such, I have always taken games at their face value without really looking to much under the surface and to be honest, I am liking what Cryptic is doing and where they are going,