City on the Edge of Never - Review
February 24, 2010 - 9:28am
I found the following on the official STO forums by a player named Captain_Caligula:
Well, I've enjoyed all the quests and game activities so far....
But huge Kudos have to go out to the devs and producers of this game for the "City on the Edge of Never" episode.
This may be the best and most enjoyable quest or storyline I've played in any game ever.
For a hardcore trekker, it was like coming home.
Wow.
I played through this mission last night and I have to thoroughly agree. The writers somehow managed to tie in episodes of TOS, Voyager, and Enterprise while sending your ship back in time and maintaining the cannon continuity! Actually they cleared up a question or two regarding the continuity. You can also find references to some of these events throughout other episodes and series, without being directly tied in.
It's also one of the few missions past the tutorial that has some voiceover. Leonard Nimoy reprises his Spock role, and The Guardian of Forever has really lame voice acting with very retro/cheesy echo effects. Normally that last bit would spoil an otherwise decent mission, but in this case they emulated perfectly the tone and caliber of the voice work done on the TOS episode when Kirk first met the Guardian of Forever!
So all in all, it was a blast to play and felt very classic Star Trek while still keeping the flavour of the game and the later material. My only criticism is that D-7 Battlecruisers should never be more powerful than the more current Birds of Prey or K'tinga class, yet somehow managed to destroy me twice!!!! .... but that may just be me.
