New Star Trek Title In The Works

Now that there are no new shows planned for the immediate future, you're going to need something besides Wrath of Khan and SpikeTV reruns to satisfy your Trek fix. Luckily, Gamespot reports that there is a Star Trek real-time strategy game in the works. From the article: "Late this past Friday, Lang returned to the STGU board to confirm a new Star Trek game was indeed the works--although he avoided details. He dodged the subject of the game's title but appeared to confirm the release date mentioned in the forums. 'Like I said before, traditional ST single player/multi player games have returned--and before STO ships,' Lang said, referring to Star Trek Online's tentative early 2007 launch window."

Comments

Carry on, by all means!

[TopShelf]

If done right, this could be a real winner. Star Trek has been a tantalizing setting for computer games since the days of keying in BASIC code from a book or magazine. I'm just hoping they offer a selection of time periods - gimme Kirk's old rust bucket leading the charge against a squadron of old War Birds any day.

Assuming of course that later time periods include the pr0n-enabled holodeck sessions...

Re:Carry on, by all means!

[baldass_newbie]

Yeah, but it seems the ST games/whatever have always kind of fallen short.

Nevertheless, I have always stated that Star Trek and pr0n are the backbone of the internet, whether it's the quest to perfect the utility of machines in a Roddenberry-esque Platonic quest, or the search for hot chicks with green skin.

Having said that, I am interested to see if this game doesn't suck.

Re:Carry on, by all means!

[British]

There's surely a buttload of content to work off of. All the races from all the tv shows & movies, and the books.

Just think of the fun playing as The Dominion, laying destruction to everything in your path.

Better than New Worlds?

[Chelloveck]

Hopefully it'll turn out better than the rather lackluster Star Trek: New Worlds RTS did.

Now, if they decide to make it space-based and use something like the Homeworld engine, they might actually have something!

Turn based games.

[Eightyford]

Is it just me or are realtime strategy games becoming too complicated to run in realtime? Command and Conquer was about as complex as I could handle without wanting to slow the game down to a crawl to be able to micro-manage everything. I wouldn't mind a few games based off of the CIV 4 engine, myself. Of course, turn based games always seem to have some AI and balancing issues.

Re:Trek fix??

[Anonymous Coward]

You do realize without Star Trek, both your new and oh so new series you listed would not exist.

All of the creators of those shows have said as much when asked about what influenced them in making those series. The creators were trekkie fans, who were provoked by the Trek World's social commentary and varied arguments on the human condition and how they developed with exposure to new worlds and new life forms, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced due to these exposures.(Which brought about such things as the Prime Directive).
That Roddenberry and Co. injected these philosophical aspects in the Trek World is what made it such a legacy.
And the big names in sci fi today, from Manny Coto to Joss Whedon would tell you as much.
So don't go dismissing Trek as overrated compared to the new shows, considering these new shows were in essence spawned from minds which were inspired by Roddenberry's creation.