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Star Trek Online News - Leeta the Dabo Girl Joins Cast
Posted by Suzie Ford on Jul 30, 2010 | 36 comments in our forums
Star Trek Online devs have announced that Chase Masterson, the actress who portrayed Leeta the Dabo girl, has joined the voice cast for the game. Masterson joins Star Trek TV vets Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto in STO.
Named one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by Femme Fatales Magazine, Chase Masterson was first recognized for her breakout role as "Leeta" in the final five seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Known to millions of fans worldwide, TV Guide's online readers poll voted Chase the "Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television," Sci-Fi Universe Magazine honored her as one of the "Top 20 People to Watch in Hollywood," and in December 2009 AOL named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens" in television history. Recent feature film credits includeRobotech and the multi-award-winning sci-fi noir Yesterday Was a Lie. More info available at ChaseMasterson.com.
Follow Masterson's progress in STO on her Twitter feed (@ChaseMasterson).
I guess when you've tried an aged icon and his very boring replacement, desperation says it's time to try using sex to draw a crowd. Besides, Leeta married Rom!! That's just wrong on so many levels.
Well, just like Rom nabbing Leeta, Cryptic is trying to give nerds hope. Sadly, their game is without any.
She's a hologram, not the real thing.
It's not desperation. Dabo and Leeta is probably the #1 fan requested addition to the game. Cryptic went through a lot of effort to get her to do the voice overs for the Leeta hologram because so many players wanted it not because they were grasping at straws.
Don't fool yourself.. This is nothing more then attempting to draw more players in by using sex appeal. Sadly it shows that state that STO is in and that they are trying anything and everything to retain and bring more people into it.
in order to hear her voice you will need to buy it from the Cryptic Store
lol so true!
Um, hate to pour water on the snark-fest but I just played Dabo this morning and Leeta's dulcit tones provided the tutorial ... and I've NEVER bought anything from the friggin store
lol.
Well, from seeing it actually in-game, I can safely say a few of you guys are just flat-out wrong. First, it wasn't difficult to get Chase to do the voice overs; she was pretty eager to be a part of it. Second, there's no buying anything for it, it's in the game for everyone. Third, The 'hologram' has no more sex appeal in her physical appearance than the other NPCs. This was added because the fans wanted it and it made sense. Whether this was a desperate ploy or not is a matter of opinion, but the game is going strong and growing, despite any 'hater's' desire to insist otherwise. The numerous additions in Season 2, Leeta being only one of those, are showing a huge improvement in the game and are a sign of great things to come. I agree that the game has many flaws in gameplay quality, and has a lot of work yet to be done; what I completely disagree with is that the game is a failure and destined to die. someone doesn't like the game, feel free; but start dissing it and it's fans and be prepared for a lot of people wanting to shove a bat'leth up your nether regions. Star trek Fans are one of the two most ravenous and dangerous fandoms; Star Wars is, to my knowledge, the only equal in ferocity.
I am sure the few hundred lifers still playing would agree with you.....
Nice gimmick, Dabo probably should have probably been in the game in the beginning, along with all of the other non-combat content Cryptic did not give a crap about.
Maybe this game will be worth playing at some point, but it ain't worth a sub now.
Correction: few hundred lifers and few hundred thousand subscribers. I must respectfully but completely, disagree; I say it is very much worth the sub, especially with all the season 2 additions. To each their own, though, and hope you're enjoying whichever game you choose to play ^_^
Sure, so you get on a high horse because we express our dislike and view of this game while you come in here and try to denounce whatever others that have a negative view of the game say. Not gonna work bub.
The game was very incomplete and very very light on content at launch. Some gaps have been partially filled, but gaps they still remain. Chase was an awesome decesion, but that dosen't really add much to the game now does it? Sure it's cool to have an actor in the series do voice overs for the game, but the gameplay remains the same and is not really improved by her contributions.
Anyway, I like the addition of her likeness to the game, but all in all... its "meh" in the grand scheme of things as far as the game goes.
I suggest you go check the "Captian Log" or whatever it is called to check for your "few hundred thousand" subscribers. They don't exist.
The list had 170k names on it I think (might have been 120k) and that is EVERYONE who has ever played. I know 20+ people that were on that list and every last one has canceled.
"Few hundred thousand" subs? Cryptic (and you, I guess) could only wish.
I was in right after launch, my captain's name is not on the list. So much for that idea.
This kind of arguing is exactly why every Star Trek game ends up failing and every Star Wars game succeeds. There is no cohesiveness among Star Trek fans, The only thing I see wrong with the game, last I played it, was that the space combat was overly simplified for my tastes. And, seeing as how I have seen all 5 Star Trek series(not counting the rumored upcoming one based on the recent movie), I will say the game has been spot on for the Star Trek universe. Give it a rest people. If you don't like the game, quit bitchin about it and just don't play it. Let everyone make up their own mind.
ORLY?
SWG anyone?
And dont say SWTOR will be a great success until its released.
Hi, post some proof about your claims of "few hundred thousand subscribers". If you're going with the old "1 million cryptic accounts" -announcement, then you might want to check your facts on that one. If you have no proof, then your estimate is about as true as STO having 200 LTS and nothing else.
On the news itself, dunno if this is even worth a topic, it's quite uninteresting and abysmal in every single imaginable way.
LMAO!
Care to post where it says STO online has a few hundred thousand subs? they had over 100k a few months ago so say around 110-120k or they would have said 150k or 200k and people have been leaving in droves since that announcment, wont be supprised when this goes ftp sometime soon.
does this remind anyone else of an evony advertisement?
im not saying its a bad thing... and hey sex sells. cool that they actually got her to do the voice when she was leeta in the series (think she was leeta in ds9 wasnt she?) good move on cryptics part tbh.
I went back to STO a few weeks ago. It is still a shell of a game. Boring and repedative. Practically no way to advance my character. This new patch gave hardcore players a few days of a content and the casual players a week or two. At the end of the day the game is just damned boring. Lots of the fun "fluff" stuff is tucked away in the cash shop. I will pay a subscription or I will buy micro items from a store. I will not do both in the same game.
I was there the first month the game was live and I have been back to see how the game is now. Only a blind man would not see how far the population has fallen. Heck I tried to use the game strictly as an RP type setting and I can find more people in a SWG cantina than I can find in any STO station.
She looked so much better with the shorter dark hair. She's still pretty damned hot though.
I don't know how this is going to make the game any better..you would think they would devote their resources to other more pressing needs. Ah well..this game is a joke regardless.
Well thanks Cryptic for proving once again you are nothing but a pack of digital pimps whoring out the body of Star Trek for a quick buck, or in this case I guess a quick bar of gold-pressed latinum. When you guys can be arsed to hire some actually competent development staff to make the game more than a hollow shell, then I'll take an interest. Whose next on the hire list? The guy who played MORN!?
nah there going to hire the guy who played "Q" in the hopes he will magicaly make there game good.
Even Q had his limitations.
STO is doing fine and the idea of using this actress was brought up on the forums by a player, not STO. It caught on with others on the forums and they began a campaign to get her hired. One of the cool things about STO right now is how involved the devs are with the players and how much interaction and response from them there is on the forums. We don't find anything like that level of interaction on the WoW forums and upcoming MMO FFXIV apparently won't even provide a forum for their players to give feedback. Apparently they don't want to know what their players think. It's pretty interesting watching STO develop in response to what they're players are requesting.
STO is still a pile of shit. Pretty much a ghost town. Ya all 400 or so of the players requests is what the Dev's are listening to.
you say involvement, id call it researching what the remaining player base will pay more for in the c-store (funny how most of what people want goes int he c-store isnt it?)
Not true. Season 2 just patched in with a ton of content updates. Yes they have micro-transactions and some people don't like that but so do most other game including WoW. STO is still a great casual MMO with an active player base.
Its funny to see the haters say Cryptic is doing this as desperation.
Leeta being added was a result of fan REQUEST. There was a large demand on the official forums for her. When we heard they were adding a Dabo mini game, the first thing we asked for was at least a Leeta voice-over for the game, and that spun into a NPC of her being added to. All because of fan demand.
And yes, Season 2's update added a TON of shit. Level cap increased, new ships, tons of new PvE content, more PvP tweaking, new ways to level up (Diplomacy), etc
While the game was lack luster upon release, they are slowly polishing it up very nicely.
Honestly, i've been reading these forums for a very long time. I see posts like this again and again. You claim they're denouncing it, which they are not, they're simplying using their opinion, which is no higher then yours, or mine, or lower. Second of all, you say that, then go on to "dencouncing" what they were saying. I played a bit of the beta, and I remember my complaints I had about the game, the Season Two patch seems to address a few things, and I think I may give it a try once I get some money.
Honestly, I haven't seen the hologram in-game, but considering it hadn't boosted their Maturity rating anywhere, i'd say it's fairly safe to assume they're not boasting sex appeal. If it was truly a fan request, sure, it may do a good job of keeping people playing, but all the same, it is something the fan's want. It's not desperation, it's requested features.
So *you're* the one still playing! /jk
Id rarther have a good game than a bunch of devs chatting up the game on some forums.
Hahahahahahahaha!
When Lotro was relased I played almost daily after work for 4-5 months and was nowhere near the end of content even after getting level cap. So one can expect a lot of entertainment for 15 bucks :)