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New Star Trek Title In The Works

Posted by Zonk on from the live-long-and-game dept.

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."

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  1. Carry on, by all means! by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

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  2. hopefully by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: 3, Informative
    they're going in a similar route that Dawn Of War went for Warhammer 40k, and adapting Star Fleet Battles as the basis for the game.

    Obviously things need to change from turn based to RTS, but I'd like to see it. Maybe a combination of SF Battles and Pirates! That would rock.

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  3. Belay that order! by Supurcell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Star Trek universe will not translate well into a large scale RTS game. One starship is a powerful, complicated, and impressive machine, but when massed together their splendor is trivialized. Starships take a long time to build, you couldn't just pump out 100 galaxy class ships in war time.

    I'd much rather see a game that focuses more on an individual ship and exploration, like Bridge Commander(only less linear) or Starfleet Command(only with less boring missions).