OCTOBER 13, 2021 - In its 11-year history, the free-to-play MMORPG Star Trek Online has held a number of special events, such as First Contact Day and the annual Lohlunat Festivals on Risa, and even a Friday the 13th special episode (“Hearts and Minds”). This week they bring Halloween into the mix with “Fall of the Old Ones”, a brand-new event based on the TOS episode “Catspaw.” In an announcement on the official Star Trek Online website, the plot of the three-week event was summarized with a high-stakes invitation to players:

“Powerful extragalactic beings known as the Old Ones have traveled to the Milky Way galaxy to study the worlds and life forms there. Through the use of a powerful device known as a Transmuter, the OId Ones are able to perform amazing feats, including mind control, illusion, and teleportation. This tremendous power was detected by a group of Devidians, and the malevolent creatures moved to seize the Transmuter and imprison the Old Ones. Should the Devidians learn the secrets of the powerful device, every living being in the galaxy will be vulnerable to attack. It’s up to a squad of brave officers to travel to Castle Pyris and thwart the latest Devidian plot!”

This call to action sends players to the surface of Pyris VII to face the same evil confronted by Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in “Catspaw” (an episode written by Robert Bloch of Psycho fame). Those who earn daily progress for two weeks in the new Task Force Operation “Cat’s Tale” will be rewarded with a Grand Prize Transmuter Wand Universal Kit Module, and the Old One Vanity Pet.

Star Trek Online declares that the Halloween event will “be expanded in the years to come,” and now you can be one of the first to experience it on concurrently on PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4. Join the battle against an ancient evil by visiting startrekonline.com.