[Flicky]

The Sphere Builders http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Sphere_Builder

So season 11, build up to the start of the Temporal Cold War maybe?

Ooh, you know what that might mean if it's true?

We might be able to get a glimpse at the Enterprise-J.

[Metrikon]

The Na'kuhl would be a fantastic race to go up against.

[KraziyK]

The Enterprise—J is an interesting design. I don't know how I feel about that design.

[Dark]

The Enterprise-J, a new Fleet Holding?

[Sysil]

I'm disapointed that S11 is about Exploration, but there's no actual Exploration system coming.

I'm guessing we are going to 'explore' during the first FE, discover something important and then exploration will never be mentioned again in the FEs because were going to be busy dealing with what we discovered. Outside the FEs Exploration won't exist, just like the Iconian war did not exist outside of the story missions.

I'm disappointed that nothing really changes, except probably additions to things we already have too much of (rep, holdings, ships, etc.), except for the Armada system. That is the only things described (up to date) that I have any interest in. I'm hoping it won't be a DOFFing clone, as I dislike the DOFF system.

[Lokisan]

I'm really looking forward to the new admirality system. At least some use for the huge amount of ships taking on only dust.

[Bond]

I don't want storylines that involve any of the old crews. I don't want to be tying up loose ends. With a new century, it's supposed to bring new problems, new challenges. Not cleaning up Voyager's mess because they couldn't be bothered to return to the delta quadrant, or come back with a fleet of ships on their own and handle their own business.

Delta Rising should have been IT for the Voyager fanbase, it's a bit disheartening that Voyager and DS9 continue on into the Iconian War storyline. Voyager gets so much special treatment in STO it may as well be retitled Voyager Online instead.

[Phoenix]

i believe ds9 should be more important that voy as its still guardian of the worm hole, THAT being said, i think the next lot of baddies are sphere builders

[laibcoms]

If it's the Temporal (Cold) War, not surprising there, especially with the hint with "time-travel is out of the bottle". It's 241x, 25th century. It's the century that time-travel started to spread.

Also. Since time is both linear and not, what we are going to experience in this case will be two-fold. First, what were the wars that "were" fought in this century related to the T(C)W? Second, what were this century's involvement in the "past"?

Yes, T(C)W already "ended" if we view it from a non-linear perspective. But, time incursions 'are' still time incursions. Since all mortals are tied to the linear flow of time, we will, no matter what we do, experience the 25th century "front-line" of the Temporal (Cold) War before we see its end. No doubt too, we are going to see highly confidential materials re-opened just to have an advantage. Since time is also not linear, the 25th century can re-influence it and change the future (to an extent - because CBS is strict) but fewer changes in the past (again because CBS strictly enforces that no licensed materials can change canon).

It is also interesting to know that the Mirror Universe also fought their Iconian War. From what was said in the interview, at least reading between the line, it doesn't look like they used time-travel to defeat the Iconians. Knowing how brutal and war-freaks the races in the Mirror Universe are, it is highly possible they met the Iconians head on and won. Feeling high and mighty, they are now focusing those to the other universes. Since "our" universe is the closest quantum universe to the Mirror Universe, we will be the most attacked.

So:
1. Exploration
2. Temporal (Cold) War
3. Mirror Universe invasion

Hmm… Now that they're pretty much outside of the canon, I can see that they're finally using their literary freedom more. The 25th century is the best place to do this because if we go the 26th, 27th, 28th, onwards, it's canon all over again. Which, even the litverse authors stated, no licensed material can go against the canon, that's the mandate of CBS.

If STO pulls restoring Romulus… then they've proven that they are above all other licensed materials, and is closer to "canon" status, which itself proves that CBS is approving their grand arcs (which would mean, STO is truly canon).

In any case, I think time-travel was also intentionally "released" from the developers perspective. It will allow them to create content that will appeal to the trekkers fanbase, who mostly are the 80s generation and earlier. Imagine being able to visit those episodes yourself. It's similar to what WoW did. Yet at the same time, we can't change anything in the past (again, no one can go against CBS canon) -- not like in WoW.

Very interesting indeed. I just hope they implement phasing on the exploration level though. It's the only way to make the episodes "spill" outside of missions.

[laibcoms]

And, as I was saying: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/sta...A-counterpoint

Dang... everything is connected. That was one great idea, whoever came up with that twist.

[Dai]

The new Admiralty system looks interesting.

[Bond]

Lack of original ideas from the writers. Instead of trying to do something wholly original it seems like it's now going to be the Temporal Cold War for Voyager and DS9 now.

Seriously, Cryptic should just retitle it to Voyager Online, and if the game is considered canon? Then I'll be rooting for the reboots even more, this stuff is dreck. It's time for Star Trek to venture to Andromeda, not relive past DS9/Voyager "glories".

Delta Rising is a chore to get through, I don't have much hope for The Iconian War, but it's great to know it's the same 'ol, same 'ol with A New Dawn. All DS9...all Voyager....all the time.