Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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On the topic of PC Trek game woes, if anyone wanted to play either Star Trek 25th Anniversary or Judgement Rites but the old format scared you off, both are rather cheap on Steam and I can confirm that they function just fine on a modern operating system. They're also the two special editions that feature full voice acting by the original cast, including Deforest Kelley as Dr. McCoy. He wasn't long for this world at the time so its stunning just to hear him in the game at all.

Hardcore Star Trek nerds call those two games "The Lost Season" since they both feature the original actors and overall the plots are actually pretty good. There's a glitch on the final level of 25th Anniverary though, you'll need to look up a walkthrough to avoid it. Fair warning.
 
L50LasPak said:
I forgot to mention, according to Norman Spinrad the Doomsday Machine was a wnidsock dipped in cement. He was pisssed because he wanted something better. I dunno, you can't argue with results.
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I was reading on some Trekkie forum that it wasn't, though. Look at it. You'd need layers of softer materials to get that look. Having to cover up the rough concrete texture would be a waste of time. Plus, who the fuck wants to lug around a concrete windsock?

Concrete Windsock sounds like a tribute band to Led Zeppelin.
 
I played Star Trek Trexels II for a bit and it really made me want an XCOM with a Trek skin. A full conversion mod for XCOM 2 would be rad but will never happen.
 
Sweet and Savoury said:
Elite Force is short but I found it fun.
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It really was, sadly I played it the first around before they got Jeri to voice Seven so you have this terrible girl doing Seven's voice when they got everybody else from the show so that was a real shame. I only found out later there was an official patch to patch in Jeri's voice.
 
White Devil said:
I played Star Trek Trexels II for a bit and it really made me want an XCOM with a Trek skin. A full conversion mod for XCOM 2 would be rad but will never happen.
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I've been waiting for the massive nerds over at the OpenXCom forum to do a Star Trek total conversion, or at least add the OG hand phasers to XPiratez. Seems like there's not a lot of interest in it though.
 
L50LasPak said:
I've been waiting for the massive nerds over at the OpenXCom forum to do a Star Trek total conversion, or at least add the OG hand phasers to XPiratez. Seems like there's not a lot of interest in it though.
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Which is weird because you'd think a total conversion Trek-Com mod would be insanely popular.
 
It would have a few issues like not being able to go to other planets. Either that or you're have to completely rape the Geoscape interface so it looks like a 3D star map. Which would admittedly look fucking awesome but I can barely wrap my mind around how they did the original.

Still, I'm thinking maybe it can be called Away Team or something, and the plots could be a lot of things. Fighting off an alien infestation, doing science missions that are maybe a little boring for the player but net you Ufopedia entires to read and give your score a big bonus, having to hunt down some rare creature and capture it alive for study (this is already part of the original XCom formula), terror missions could be the Klingons or Romulans fucking with your operation, each race of the Federation could get various stat bonuses or deficits depending on who they are (Vulcans might have to be nerfed).

All of that only covers TOS too. Someone who's a bigger TNG nerd could probably come up with even more ideas.
 
...or a Prison Architect game where you play as Gul Darhe'el in charge of building the best leisure centre for the bajorans.
 
Finally watch the Enterprise pilot. All the characters were cardboard, except T'Pol, who was annoying and the doctor who was a really weak Neelix mixed with a weak Voyager's doctor.

..Does it get any better?
 
ditto said:
Does it get any better?
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The first season has a few good episodes but it gets better.
 
Miller said:
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The first season has a few good episodes but it gets better.
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I tried getting into ENT, but somehow it just rubs me the wrong way. There are many neat aspects, like the crew hunkering down in one of the warp gondolas during a space anomaly... that made the show really atmospheric, like the crew is genuinely exploring a wild and unexplored space that they have little understanding of yet.
But the show starts out with a "temporal cold war", which is an amazing concept in theory, but a bit too lofty for ENT in my eyes.
ENT shouldn't have tried to deal with something this far out, it should be about humanity meeting various classic alien species from TOS for the first time. Damn, a show that slowly builds up to a war with the Klingons would have been pretty neat.
 
Lol, Enterprise isn't the best but it's kind of underrated.

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One of hte issues I've found that stops the older games from playing is related to quicktime and sadly even a virtual machine wont help if its one of those issues.
 
So I started season three of DS9. Goddamn those are two great season opening episodes. I can't wait to get to the Dominion War. I was a bit disappointed by the S2 mirror universe episode though. It felt like they wanted to do a mirrorverse episode but had absolutely no idea how to go about it.

And I just want to say, throughout three seasons, goddamn Major Kira's ass doesn't quit. It's just amazing and I kind of wish Nana Visitor did porn in the 90s now.
 
ditto said:
Finally watch the Enterprise pilot. All the characters were cardboard, except T'Pol, who was annoying and the doctor who was a really weak Neelix mixed with a weak Voyager's doctor.

..Does it get any better?
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Season 1 doesn't find its footing until about half way in, season 2 is genuinely a step up and overall good, Season 3 is fucking great, Season 4 is going into interesting areas but is capped at the knee due to being cancelled.
White Devil said:
So I started season three of DS9. Goddamn those are two great season opening episodes. I can't wait to get to the Dominion War. I was a bit disappointed by the S2 mirror universe episode though. It felt like they wanted to do a mirrorverse episode but had absolutely no idea how to go about it.

And I just want to say, throughout three seasons, goddamn Major Kira's ass doesn't quit. It's just amazing and I kind of wish Nana Visitor did porn in the 90s now.
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I feel safe telling you to skip mirrorverse DS9 episodes. They really are aimless.
RomanesEuntDomus said:
I tried getting into ENT, but somehow it just rubs me the wrong way. There are many neat aspects, like the crew hunkering down in one of the warp gondolas during a space anomaly... that made the show really atmospheric, like the crew is genuinely exploring a wild and unexplored space that they have little understanding of yet.
But the show starts out with a "temporal cold war", which is an amazing concept in theory, but a bit too lofty for ENT in my eyes.
ENT shouldn't have tried to deal with something this far out, it should be about humanity meeting various classic alien species from TOS for the first time. Damn, a show that slowly builds up to a war with the Klingons would have been pretty neat.
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They were building to the Romulan earth war before it got shitcanned, pretty much all of season 4 is what you want actually.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
But the show starts out with a "temporal cold war", which is an amazing concept in theory, but a bit too lofty for ENT in my eyes.
ENT shouldn't have tried to deal with something this far out, it should be about humanity meeting various classic alien species from TOS for the first time. Damn, a show that slowly builds up to a war with the Klingons would have been pretty neat.
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They had a war with the Romulans they should have been focusing more on building up to instead of the temporal cold war. I never understood why they didn't have the evil future people be a faction of Romulans from centuries in the future upset about joining the Federation if they had to go the time travel route.

Now that I think about it, there could have been some future-Vulcans allied with the future-Romulans who thought that humans were "unworthy" to take the leading role in the Federation or something. It would have been a nice thematic consistency.
 
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