Away missions will feature cooperative first person shooter content. It’s a good thing, too. Fortunately, phasers kill everything in a hit, well, almost everything. Combat in Star Trek Online couldn’t follow the standard formula of whacking away at a boar six times with a claymore without someone noticing the inconsistencies with the lore.

In addition to dramatic phaser battles, away missions will require problem solving. Many away missions will require the solution to a mystery, or the completion of a puzzle.