I play through the first set of missions in STO’s latest expansion installment: Agents of Yesterday!

NOTE: This is a ‘first impressions’ review; I only played for roughly 45 mins before writing my response. My views are based off of the beginning portion of this expansion only!

Graphics: 9/10

Audio/Voice: 10/10

Visuals/Feel: 10/10

Gameplay: 5/10

Storyline: 4/10

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek Star Trek Online, Cryptic, has developed an Agent of Yesterday expansion to accompany their current popular free-to-play mmo.

In this new expansion you get to up take arms in the 23rd century as a temporal agent, whose mission is to discover secrets of the past to help save the future. You are filling the role of the first officer on board a Federation Cruiser that is currently on a search and rescue mission. A Federation science vessel went missing a few days earlier and you were dispatched by Starfleet Command to their last known location to investigate the missing crew and ship.

After taking a shuttle down to a nearby planet, you discover hostile local indigenous population and some Klingons who lay an ambush and try to kill your away team. After defeating the Klingon ground troops, you take your transport back up to the ship and engage multiple Klingon D5 Battle Cruisers in space. You even get to save a transport ship which just happens to magically be passing through 🙂

Suddenly you encounter the Starship Enterprise and assist in their assault against a Klingon D9 battle cruiser, led by Command Kor of the Klingon Empire.

After you quickly dispatch this Klingon battle cruiser you and the Enterprise warp back to Earth Space Dock. There, you drink and swap stories with the iconic TOS crew (to include actual sound clips from actors…except scotty for some reason).

Following that, as is typical in Star Trek online fashion, you are immediately promoted to Captain and given your first ship. From there you are given your first mission: to go and explore some deep space!

Overall the expansion works fairly well; you definitely feel like you’re playing at TOS-style game…putting all the sounds, set designs, and aesthetic feels of the original series in there. They even did a really good job and ensuring that when you kill someone on the planet their body actually fades into blue much like it did in the show.

Some notable issues with the game, and the entire expansion, carry over from the normal Star Trek Online experience. This includes glitches, audio tracks missing and a poorly written story-line. There’s also some noticeable glitches with the ground units and warping in/out of space…but again this is expected.

From a long time fans perspective- I would say that this works well enough and is a welcome break from the normal Star Trek Online experience. If you interested in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Star Trek you should download this game, because it is free to play, and experience it for yourself.