History Trivia / StarTrekOnline

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Cryptic is allowed to use anything from the TV shows and prime timeline films because CBS owns the licenses to them. However, the [[Film/StarTrek JJverse]] is off-limits (they were allowed to use the story details up until the ''Jellyfish'' and ''Narada'' left the prime timeline), and anything from the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' has to be negotiated for. Cryptic also had to negotiate to use the Guardian of Forever at the end of the "Klingon War" storyline, since the rights to that episode belong to a different copyright holder. CBS has also put at least two ships off-limits to be used or given major upgrades, the confirmed ones being the ''Enterprise''-J from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'''s Temporal Cold War episodes and the Constitution-refit from the films.[[note]]While there ''is'' a Constitution-refit ship in the game, it's only Tier 2 and CBS refuses to allow them to make a Tier-5/Fleet variant.[[/note]]

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** ZacharyQuinto, AKA [[Film/StarTrek Neo-Spock]], now provides the voice for the EMH Mark ''VI'', and will provide some narration for the tutorials.
** Leonard Nimoy as the general narrator. He'll be [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mr. Freakin' Spock]], too. (The very first thing he says is to explain why that makes no damn sense, since the major changes he exposits happened after he left the main timeline.)
** Chase Masterson is back as [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Leeta]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDBITGf9MHQ ...sort of.]]
** Denise Crosby returned as Natasha Yar for the 3rd Anniversary mission featuring the ''Enterprise''-C, "Temporal Ambassador". She also reprises her role as Sela for her appearances in the Romulan storyline and Romulan-centred Featured Episode series, ''and'' is the voice congratulating a Romulan character on being promoted.
** Michael Dorn is back as Worf for the Featured Episode "Sphere of Influence" and he will go back and voice his scenes in the early Klingon missions.
** Tim Russ is back as Tuvok not only for the upcoming Feature Episode for the Fourth Anniversary, but also will reprise the role for Season 9.

** "Rainbow boats" or some variation thereof for a noob mistake of not making your weapon types match up, because of the resulting beams being in all colors of the rainbow. As one guy on the forums remarked on one of these who used cannons, "every time he fired it looked like a pack of Skittles exploded."

** "T'Its", or some variation thereof, for the nameless Vulcan lady with plentiful cleavage that graces a lot of the promo art.

** The new Obilesk carrier has also been dubbed the "Obisek" carrier, noting how close it was to the well-known Reman character of the Romulan storyline.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Cryptic is allowed to use anything from the TV shows and prime timeline films because CBS owns the licenses to them. However, the [[Film/StarTrek JJverse]] is off-limits (they were allowed to use the story details up until the ''Jellyfish'' and ''Narada'' left the prime timeline), and anything from the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' has to be negotiated for. Cryptic also had to negotiate to use the Guardian of Forever at the end of the "Klingon War" storyline, since the rights to that episode belong to a different copyright holder.

** When the game ''does'' feature VO for established characters, the devs go out of their way to get the old actors back to help. Denise Crosby and Chase Masterson are good examples, and in season 8 Michael Dorn voiced Worf [[AndTheFandomRejoiced to much acclaim from the fanbase]].

** When the game ''does'' feature VO for established characters, the devs go out of their way to get the old actors back to help. Denise Crosby and Chase Masterson are good examples.

** Michael Dorn is back as Worf for the Featured Episode "Sphere of Influence". No clue yet if he'll do his roles for the early Klingon missions.

** Among others, KDF players are Klinks or Klanks, spiral wave disruptors are pissbeams, the Caitian Atrox Carrier is the catbus, and the Jem'hadar Attack Ship is the bugship.

** The Jem'Hadar Attack Ship, made available as a rare drop from four different C-Store doff packs, is often called the "Jem bug", given its shape.

** Denise Crosby is returning as Natasha Yar for the 3rd Aniversary mission featuring the Enterprise-C. She also reprises her role as Sela for her appearances in the Romulan storyline and Romulan-centred Featured Episode series, ''and'' is the voice congratulating a Romulan character on being promoted.

* FanNickname: "Boff" / "[=BOff=]" / "BOFF" for "Bridge Officer" (AKA your BridgeBunnies). Likewise, some variation of "Doff" for "Duty Officers", the RedshirtArmy who run your [[LowerDeckEpisode Lower Decks]].

** Denise Crosby is returning as Natasha Yar for the 3rd Aniversary mission featuring the Enterprise-C. She'll also be reprising Sela in other missions apparently.

* OlderThanTheyThink: the Doff mechanic of randomly-combined names, job specialty and personality traits is reminiscent of the first ''Star Trek CollectibleCardGame'' released by Decipher in the mid-90s. ([[http://www.decipher-games.com/startrek/CardImages/1E/PremiereEdition/full/ST1E01EN215.jpg Sample card.]])

** Largely averted, mostly because the game is largely un-voiced, but since JamesDoohan had passed away well before production of the game started, a replacement voice had to be brought in for [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQa8yerXRs The Guardian of Forever]]]], and his accent slips through quite often.

** Denise Crosby is returning as Sela for a "secret project," presumably the 3rd Aniversary mission

** Leonard Nimoy as the general narrator. He'll be [[StarTrek Mr. Freakin' Spock]], too. (The very first thing he says is to explain why that makes no damn sense, since the major changes he exposits happened after he left the main timeline.)
** Chase Masterson is back as [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Leeta]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDBITGf9MHQ ...sort of.]]