The Admiral’s Log: My Journey Through ‘Star Trek Online’ – Part X

Written by John Edward Betancourt 

Preparing for the Future

​I remember that when I first started out playing Star Trek Online, that it seemed as though I would never run out of missions to enjoy. The list of missions simply went on and on and I heartily enjoyed them at every waking opportunity, but a funny thing happened after a year and a half of attaining every single rank the game has to offer, and flying every vessel that I so desired, the mission well was about to run out. Yes, that’s right, I was only down to a handful of episodes left on my checklist and well, that put me in quite the interesting position. 
 
Because a good couple of hours on the weekend would see that checklist reach completion and well, that would mean that for the time being, I had quite literally done it all when it came to the story portion of this game. Part of me was beaming with pride that I had played through every single season the game has to offer, and the other part of me, felt nothing but confusion. After all, I had worked hard to get to this point and once I finished this particular run, I would be craving more. Granted I knew new missions were coming down the line, but in the here and the now, what was an Admiral to do?
 
Well, the answer to that question was surprisingly simple. Because this kind of down time, meant that I had a grand opportunity to prepare for the future. After all, at some point, a new season was going to arrive and if new weapons or awesome toys were available for the Galactica to make use of when that happened, now seemed like a good time to be ready to anything new the game was going to send my way. Which meant I was in need of energy credits and dilithium in order to get the job done, and I used a new feature that the game was offering, alongside an old standby of my own to start building up my digital wealth for both of those aforementioned items.
 
Which meant every couple of days, I’d hop on and take part in an Endeavor Mission, a system that offered up a specific and well-rewarded task for players to accomplish, and I worked out a pretty solid patrol route that would take my ship and crew to the edge of known space before we headed back to Earth Spacedock to maximize my earnings and of course, I made sure to take part in any new mission as soon as they were available and well, this little plan of mine, worked like a charm. My bank account was swelling with energy credits and I had plenty of dilithium to do whatever I pleased with and it’s a good thing these preparations took place.
 
Because the missions in question that were popping up were building to something big, the return of the ancient Hur’q. And an epic battle with those monsters above the planet Bajor led to quite the cliffhanger to say the least. Because Deep Space Nine was badly damaged in the battle, and Odo and the Dominion showed up to save the day and shortly after that, it was announced that a new DS9 themed season was on its way, along with some wonderful upgrade surprises, and this time, I was ready to get the ship up to speed so that we could do our part in stopping the Hur’q threat, and that’s where we will pick up, next time. Until then. 

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