Even earlier than Star Trek came back in an enormous manner within the streaming period, Star Trek On-line had been a haven for seeing outdated favorites from the TV shows proceed their journeys boldly going. That’s not modified even since streaming has grow to be a strategy to convey these characters again—and STO remains to be typically beating TV to the pip to convey again a couple of heroes.
At present developer Cryptic Studios confirmed that the upcoming thirty first season of the free-to-play MMORPG, titled “Each Worlds,” will see Nicole de Boer reprise her position as Ezri Dax for the primary time for the reason that conclusion of Deep Space Nine. Launched within the remaining season of the collection as a alternative for Terry Farrell’s Jadzia Dax—who was controversially killed off within the season six finale “Tears of the Prophets”—Ezri was a Starfleet counselor who turned the shock new host for the Dax symbiont, the sluglike being that Trills be part of with to grow to be hosts to all of the symbiont’s reminiscences and experiences of prior lives, after Jadzia’s loss of life.
Within the time for the reason that events of Deep Space Nine—simply as she did within the now non-canonical Star Trek novel collection—in STO Ezri has risen to the rank of Captain, and can assist gamers alongside Voyager’s Garrett Wang as Captain Harry Kim as they battle the specter of the Borg of the Mirror Universe earlier than the Collective can infiltrate different realities and timelines. In addition to the brand new story content material, the replace will let gamers staff up for a brand new Job Power Operation that sees them return to one of many deadliest battles in pre-Dominion Struggle Federation historical past, the Battle of Wolf 359 as proven in “The Better of Each Worlds”, to grasp their anti-Borg techniques prepared for the battle within the current.
Hopefully we’ll get to see much more of what Ezri is like in Star Trek Online’s contemporary, 25th-century timeline than we ever have been afforded within the final season of Deep House 9, the place right here introduction as a completely new character typically needed to compete with attempting to wrap up character arcs for the remainder of the crew because the present got here to an finish. We obtained a lot in matches and begins within the outdated Trek novels, but it surely’d be good to see somebody let Ezri enter the identical type of highlight that Jadzia had earlier than her. And who is aware of, perhaps we will see Ezri make returns elsewhere sooner or later?
Star Trek On-line: Each Worlds will launch for PC gamers on January 23, earlier than arriving on Ps and Xbox consoles March 12.
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