Star Trek Film Q&A with STO’s Craig Zinkievich

Boldly
going where few have gone before, the latest installment of the
hugely popular style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek
film series as brought a new surge of interest in what is easily one of
the most recognized sci-fi IPs on the planet. The recent talk of all
things Trek-related inspired by the film’s release naturally
got us thinking about Cryptic Studios’ upcoming href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/117"
target="_blank"> style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek Online.
In a brief Q&A, Ten Ton Hammer discusses the latest Star Trek
film with STO’s executive producer Craig Zinkievich, touching
on some of the possible links we might see between the two with the
MMO's launch:

style="font-weight: bold;">Ten
Ton Hammer: While the overall tone of the film could have remained
fairly dark, instead there was plenty of comic relief to break some of
the building tension. Will we be seeing more of this lighthearted,
humorous side of the style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek
universe in STO?



Craig:
It’s a fine line to tread.



When I met Leonard Nimoy last summer for the announcement of STO, I
asked him what was the one thing that we should address in the game
that we’re probably were not thinking about yet. What is the
one, essential thing about Trek that isn’t obvious?



His answer was humor. Blew me away – it was right there all
along. All the best shows have the crew bantering back and forth, and
all of the best movies humanize (Forgive me Spock) the characters
by putting them in humorous situations.

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