Players are able to play as a starship, controlling the ship's engineering, tactical, and science systems by keyboard/mouse or using an on-screen console. In Star Trek Online, each player acts as the captain of their own ship. In later expansions the Vaadwaur, the Iconians, the Na'Kuhl, the Krenim, the Terran Empire, the Voth, Species 8472 (called 'The Undine' in the game), the Tzenkethi and the Hur'q are also introduced as adversaries. The Borg Collective has re-emerged as a major threat. Abrams' Star Trek film), while the Dominion rebuilds its forces. The Romulan Star Empire continues to deal with the fallout of the loss of their homeworld twenty-two years earlier (as shown in J. The alliance between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire has collapsed, and they are again at war. Star Trek Online is set thirty years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. 3.3 Expansion pack: Agents of Yesterday.