There's a demo version available on Steam. Going to take a run at it.
Played for about 40 min. It's a "yes" for me. Take all this with a grain of salt since it's a free pre-release Demo and a game without a launch date AFAIK.
It's a cross between a Telltale choose your own adventure text game, and a 2D base builder (think Fallout Shelter).
I watched Voyager back in the day. I'd say there are 5-10 episodes that were TNG or DS9 quality, but also a lot of slog. The demo opens as the show does with the ship going to the badlands and then poof, Caretaker, Ocampa, etc.
(So basically they decided the demo should be the absolute garbage content that the show eventually grew out of)
The ship is wrecked, you have to recruit hero characters, repair rooms, balance power, deuterium, etc. You scan and travel to other planets for resources. Lots of text box clicking. Characters level up as you do missions. The missions have a variety of choices, and you're rolling dice against different outcomes. It's crude, but effective.
Neelix remains annoying. I couldn't find a way to immediately kill him.
It's a demo, so I'm forgiving of the lack of Star Trek sound effects, and the character portraits are rough. Why the dialogue doesn't match the scenes from the show, I don't really know. Tom Paris is on the bridge as a convicted criminal and is a sassy "I'm the best pilot in the fleet" to Harry Kim. Feels like an obvious miss from the developer. Perhaps will be addressed over development.
All in all, happy to report it feels like a Trek adventure! I didn't finish the demo in 40 mins, so probably has a good hour of gameplay. Seems like it'll have enough complexity to keep it interesting, and it's very faithful to the (bad) opening episodes. I liked Fallout Shelter and Telltale games, and it seems a well executed version so I'll be picking it up on launch.
Last edited by SutterBrother; 10-17-2025 at 06:51 PM.
Can't find it now but read a review that said it showed promised, but very handrail, which is not surprising for a demo. Hopefully it lets you make bad decisions that affects the crew until they run out of resources and they have to eat Kim to survive.
A blurb from a piece Variety did on Ellison's first three months at Paramount.
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(....) The hope is to have a fresh “Star Trek” movie, though the studio has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot. (....)
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A blurb from a piece Variety did on Ellison's first three months at Paramount.
At this point would anybody be surprised to see Paramount move on?
What would we want to see instead?
Another reboot of the OG crew? Another TNG movie? DS9? A whole new crew?
Picard kind of closed the curtain on the TNG stuff.
I don't know if a movie format is enough time to get to know a new crew. I think it would need to be a bit of a hybrid. A few old characters/actors and some new crew members.
I'd like to see it set in the TNG timeline. Maybe between TNG and Picard. Just so we can get that aesthetic.
Another reboot of the OG crew? Another TNG movie? DS9? A whole new crew?
Picard kind of closed the curtain on the TNG stuff.
I don't know if a movie format is enough time to get to know a new crew. I think it would need to be a bit of a hybrid. A few old characters/actors and some new crew members.
I'd like to see it set in the TNG timeline. Maybe between TNG and Picard. Just so we can get that aesthetic.
Who knows? Hopefully they dont pull another 'Section 31' because that 'movie' sucked hot ass.
Maybe a new crew on a new ship in between TOS and TNG eras? And maybe...oh, I dont know, tell a cool story?
Or...hell, hire on Todd Stashwick and show a story about Captain Shaw and his crew pre-Wolf359 and TNG?
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I have no idea where they take Star Trek. They've already built multiple rich timelines, any one of which they could expand. But outside the established fan bases, I don’t know how much room there is for real growth.
The Pine-era trilogy was fine, but I have almost zero emotional attachment to it--and I suspect I’m not alone.
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I have no idea where they take Star Trek. They've already built multiple rich timelines, any one of which they could expand. But outside the established fan bases, I don’t know how much room there is for real growth.
The Pine-era trilogy was fine, but I have almost zero emotional attachment to it--and I suspect I’m not alone.
You certainly are not. They are perfectly cromulent films overall, but they just lack that 'feel.'
When I do Star Trek film re-watches the Kelvin Trilogy isn't even in the conversation.
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