The End: Star Trek Online Beta
I took pictures!
Posted: 01/26/2010 11:28 PM
Patrick Mendonca
I am finally free.
The Star Trek Online Beta ended at 9:00 PM EST and I have been living clean ever since. And by living clean I mean that I have been sitting around thinking about Star Trek Online.
4 Hours Ago
I had rushed home after dinner to claim the 400 skill points I needed to rank up and gain access to new and more awesome ships. I rushed past my dog and hammered in my password into the already open and waiting login screen.
"Can't Login"
Time stopped and my jaw hit my desk. Retry and disappointment. Retry and disappointment. Twitter about disappointment. Retry and MAGIC.
I was in and ready to go. 5 Klingon listening posts and a trade dispute later and I had the points I needed for my promotion.
Transwarp back to the Sol System...
3 Hours Ago
Betas never go peacefully into the night.
The starting zone was over run with Borg. This made things difficult to say the least.
I finally made it to the Admiral's office after a handful of deaths and was given my last hour promotion. Eight deaths and a short walk later, I had collected my new ship from the ship yard.
Wanting to avoid more Borg murder I teleported to my new ship. Or so I thought.
Turns out you have to talk to an NPC on the main deck (aka kill town) to change your ship. So the teleported myself into a mountain of pain. 5 deaths later and I had switched ships.
I then remembered that I wanted to customize it. That NPC was about 5 feet or 4 deaths away from where I was standing. I ran, I died and I was victorious!

What do with 24 minutes and my beautiful ship?
Well, I spent about 6 minutes flying around and getting blown up by over leveled Borg.
It was at that moment I decided that one ship wasn't enough for me. Ranking up gave me a free ship and enough cash to blow the on a second one.
Wash, rinse and repeat.
A billion deaths later and I picked up this little beauty.

10 minutes left! I had only 10 minutes before all of the beta data was going to be wiped.
Needless to say, I spent that time getting blown up by Borg and then trying to fly to what was left of Romulus.
Why Romulus? Because Giantbomb already went to DS9.
Now
I never made it to Romulus and I will never see my ships again. I am also not going to buy this game until I buy and beat Mass Effect 2.
I can only hope that people are still playing this game in a March.
Too bad, things really started to pick up once I hit level 9. If only there had been more time...
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