The addition of the Romulus race is almost upon the Star Trek Online community as Perfect World begins pre-patching through the MMO's launcher. The next expansion officially releases May 21st.

It lets you create Romulan characters in all-new story-driven missions. This also adds Warbird Class starships to captain. There are also new improved traits and an improved UI.

Cryptic Studios has announced that the next major expansion for their licensed MMO Star Trek Online will be Legacy of Romulus, which will finally add the Romulans as a playable faction. The faction will get the mighty Warbird class ships, while Denise Crosby will be reprising her role as Sela, who is now the Empress of Romulus.

Star Trek Online executive producer Dan Stahl revealed that Season 8 for the licensed MMO will be coming around May 2013, while the game will also celebrate its three year anniversary with a new episode. Season 9 will appear in the second half of 2013.