Cryptic have now got good form in giving us some great missions over the last few years, first from the featured series, and now these more focused episodes. There’s a heck of a lot to like about the Featured Episode. They’ll help break things up, as long as the main focus of the other episodes is moving the story along. That said, I hope there’s still a place for the occasional stand alone mission, like Temporal Ambassador. For the first time in a long time, it feels like the main story with the Iconians is actually progressing, rather than stalling. A single featured episode every few months, which specifically moves the main storyline along. The game came under a lot of flack when they failed to live up to the promise of the Feature Episode series in the past however, in fairness, producing 5 episode storylines like that were an obvious drain on the team, and I think what we’ve got now is probably better. Building on the story setup in the previous Featured Episodes, the Undine (Species 8472 from Voyager) are the key focus following the rediscovery of the Jenolan Dyson Sphere as a gateway straight to the Alpha Quadrant.Ī lot of the action plays out in the latest Featured Episode.
