History Trivia / StarTrekOnline

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: Per canon, 24th century and later Romulan ships are powered by micro-black holes rather than fusion or matter/antimatter reactors. Since at least ''Legacy of Romulus'', when they're destroyed, they collapse into their drive singularity, which then explodes in a PlanarShockwave that causes damage to nearby ships equivalent to a warp core breach. The PlanarShockwave is as unrealistic as it usually is, but a black hole of that little mass would decompose by Hawking radiation almost instantly and release the energy equivalent of what mass it had in (for all intents and purposes) a single burst, much like a matter/antimatter explosion. Given E=mc^2, that's ''a bloody lot of energy''.

** Chase Masterson is back as [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Leeta]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDBITGf9MHQ ...sort of.]] (Leeta licensed her holographic image to Quark for his dabo tables.)

** [[https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-online-remembers-rene-auberjonois Players spontaneously mounted their own in-game candlelight vigil in Odo's security office on Deep Space 9]] after Odo's actor Creator/ReneAuberjunois passed away.

* CanonMarchesOn: Although CBS Television Studios did ask to borrow Cryptic's notes before producing ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', the final product contradicts large chunks of the game, and although the series's prequel comic shows Picard commanding an ''Odyssey''-class starship, it's set two decades earlier than the ship debuted in-game. That didn't stop Cryptic from putting out a promo bundle with the ''Picard''-era Starfleet uniform, the Inquiry-class ship, or a holo-simulation of the Attack on Mars. [[note]]Given a later mission allows travel to the Kelvin Timeline, it can be inferred that due to the increased awareness/ability of temporal manipulation in the 25th century, the game's timeline can be inferred as being able to observe events in closely-connected timelines, and even replicate their tech/ship designs/etc with a little effort.[[/note]]

* CanonMarchesOn: Although CBS Television Studios did ask to borrow Cryptic's notes before producing ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', the final product contradicts large chunks of the game, and although the series's prequel comic shows Picard commanding an ''Odyssey''-class starship, it's set two decades earlier than the ship debuted in-game. That didn't stop Cryptic from putting out a promo bundle with the ''Picard''-era Starfleet uniform, though.

** "Rainbow boats" or some variation thereof for a {{Noob}} mistake of not making your weapon types match up[[labelnote:*]]Tactical consoles that boost a particular energy type provide greater increases than ones that boost a weapon type; and making your weapon types match up makes it more likely you'll be able to score a proc (think StandardStatusEffects [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]) when attacking.[[/labelnote]], 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."[[note]]Season Eight's Fleet Spire Tactical Consoles have made doing this more viable, but it's still looked down upon by most players for being a newbie mistake.[[/note]] Wit the addition of several subtypes of weapon, it's possible, and even somewhat desirable, to have a "rainbow boat" that uses a single energy type. Phasers, in particular, come in truly dazzling array of colors and effects.

* ActorAllusion: Ambassador S'taass is voiced by Creator/CharlieAdler, who has history of both [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats being a badass]] and [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute being a]] [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades reptile]]. Hell, the devs once indicated he was voiced by "Cobra Commander"!

* {{Jossed}}: The backstory of the game is a blend of the ''Literature/StarTrekNovelverse'' and ''ComicBook/StarTrekCountdown'' (with bits of ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' thrown in to flavor the Romulans). Although CBS Television Studios did ask to borrow Cryptic's notes before producing ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', the final product contradicts large chunks of the game, and although the series's prequel comic shows Picard commanding an ''Odyssey''-class starship, it's set two decades earlier than the ship debuted in-game. That didn't stop Cryptic from putting out a promo bundle with the ''Picard''-era Starfleet uniform, though.

* {{Jossed}}: The backstory of the game is a blend of the ''Franchise/StarTrekNovelverse'' and ''ComicBook/StarTrekCountdown'' (with bits of ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' thrown in to flavor the Romulans). Although CBS Television Studios did ask to borrow Cryptic's notes before producing ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', the final product contradicts large chunks of the game, and although the series's prequel comic shows Picard commanding an ''Odyssey''-class starship, it's set two decades earlier than the ship debuted in-game. That didn't stop Cryptic from putting out a promo bundle with the ''Picard''-era Starfleet uniform, though.

** "Konnie", the nickname for the Kelvin Timeline Constitution.

** "Rainbow boats" or some variation thereof for a {{Noob}} mistake of not making your weapon types match up[[labelnote:*]]Tactical consoles that boost a particular energy type provide greater increases than ones that boost a weapon type; and making your weapon types match up makes it more likely you'll be able to score a proc (think StandardStatusEffects [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]) when attacking.[[/labelnote]], 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."[[note]]Season Eight's Fleet Spire Tactical Consoles have made doing this more viable, but it's still looked down upon by most players for being a newbie mistake.[[/note]]

** For awhile, Cryptic used to have contests involving ships and their designs/names. However, the "Choose the Next ''Enterprise''" contest went massively pear-shaped: There were multiple accusations of plagiarism, and of discrimination by Cryptic since non-US residents were barred from the contest (several entered anyway, including a couple who ended up as front-runners in the polls). And then [[ExecutiveMeddling CBS vetoed the fan-picked winner in favor of a design that wasn't even in the Top 20]], the ''Odyssey''-class. The resulting InternetBackdraft pretty much guaranteed that player-submission contests like that would never happen again. (The 2015 Federation carrier contest involved Cryptic-created designs.)

** Creator/VicMicnogna, who plays Captain Kirk in the ''WebVideo/StarTrekContinues'' fan series, plays Captain Isaac Garrett in the TOS Starfleet origin story.

* PromotedFanboy: Kyona's second voice actor Adrienne Grady is the community manager for ''Priority One Podcast'', a fan-run podcast.

** Jeri Ryan and the Cryptic devs both tried to get Seven of Nine to wear something that wasn't some sort of catsuit for her reappearance. Didn't stick.

* AccidentallyAccurate: Per canon, 24th century and later Romulan ships are powered by micro-black holes rather than fusion or matter/antimatter reactors. Since at least ''Legacy of Romulus'', when they're destroyed, they collapse into their drive singularity, which then explodes in a PlanarShockwave that causes damage to nearby ships equivalent to a warp core breach. The PlanarShockwave is as unrealistic as it usually is, but a black hole of that little mass would decompose by Hawking radiation almost instantly and release the energy equivalent of what mass it had in (for all intents and purposes) a single burst, much like a matter/antimatter explosion. Given E=mc^2, that's ''a bloody lot of energy''.

** 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, since they appeared in the ''Countdown'' comic series), 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 three 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, 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]] and the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' Warbird[[note]]In about the same manner as the Connie refit -- the Romulan player actually ''starts'' with one, but this is Cryptic's explanation for why there is only a Tier 1 version of it.[[/note]] Apparently some kind of agreement or change happened with the lawyers before ''Agents of Yesterday'', however, as it included both a visit to the 'Kelvin Timeline' as well as usable ships from the films and related materials -- including a Tier 6 ''Constitution''. And then Cryptic went one up with the introduction of the R&D-only prize of the T6 Light Cruiser/Warbird set, which gives players the mythical endgame Prime Universe ''Constitution''!

** [[https://stoheidy.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/mirror-event-defend-the-waffle/ Waffle Station]] for Vauthil Station, which you defend from the Terran Empire in the revamped Mirror Invasion event.

* 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, since they appeared in the ''Countdown'' comic series), 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 three 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, 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]] and the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' Warbird[[note]]In about the same manner as the Connie refit -- the Romulan player actually ''starts'' with one, but this is Cryptic's explanation for why there is only a Tier 1 version of it.[[/note]] Apparently some kind of agreement or change happened with the lawyers before ''Agents of Yesterday'', however, as it included both a visit to the 'Kelvin Timeline' as well as usable ships from the films and related materials -- including a Tier 6 ''Constitution''. And then Cryptic went one up with the introduction of the R&D-only prize of the T6 Light Cruiser/Warbird set, which gives players the mythical endgame Prime Universe ''Constitution''!

** The "Blog War", mocking Cryptic's [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot seeming inability to make the Iconian invasion more immersive]] and instead telling much of the story through [[AllThereInTheManual a series of blog entries]]. Supposedly the Iconians are kicking everyone's asses, but in-game they really only have one actual battlefield victory,[[note]]"Blood of the Ancients", the only Iconian victory the [=PCs=] weren't railroaded into handing them on a silver platter for no good reason.[[/note]] and outside the featured episodes and a couple [=STFs=] there is zero evidence the war is even going on.

* AccidentallyAccurate: In ''Legacy of Romulus'' Romulan warbirds' death animation consists of them collapsing into the black hole they use to power the warp core in place of a matter/antimatter reactor. The black hole then explodes. Sounds like MadeOfExplodium and is really just a justification for the ship's death to damage surrounding ships, but [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2698034/Black-holes-EXPLODE-die-Galactic-phenomenon-burst-apart-white-holes-end-life.html research suggests]] that real-life black holes really do behave like this.
** Less AccidentallyAccurate and more ShowingTheirWork, in all fairness.