Because old stuff is cool.
Project Blackbadge is a multiplayer testing initiative intended to give fans of Star Trek Online a taste of what the game used to be like in its early days (2015, to be precise). We call it "Blackbadge" because, like Section 31, we must take care to avoid being noticed by the powers that be.
(All screenshots were taken on Blackbadge Test Servers running modern Windows 10 and Windows 11 installs)