Nothing in this game really has anything to do with the Star Trek universe, other than the inclusion of the three rival governments (Federation, Klingons, and Romulans), and I can’t help but feel that this was the wrong gaming direction to take the franchise. The only charm came from the game being a Star Trek title and even for a die-hard Trekker like me, that only lasted a few moments. There was no excitement in it for me as the tasks were tedious and not very obvious, and I found I couldn’t remember what a particular unit did not five minutes after I got done using it.

I didn’t enjoy this game, let me just say that up front. You must protect your colony not only from your particular empire’s two enemies, but the indigenous people of this planetary system as well. Your role is to explore and colonize these strange new worlds - as the Federation, the Klingons, or the Romulans - utilizing the planets' natural resources to build up, expand, and defend your outposts. The Warbird attempts to escape the vicious clutching maw of the gravity well, but fails and burns up in the planet's atmosphere - not before a final, perhaps futile, distress signal is sent. A crewman reports that out of nowhere, an entire planetary system has appeared from a huge sub-space rip created by the exploding test probe and that they are trapped in the atmosphere of one of the planets. A surge of gravity hits the ship hard, sending the crew flying.

Without warning, the Warbird begins to lurch. The Romulans seem to consider the experiment a success. The probe explodes with a shockwave of energy, disabling and possibly destroying the Klingon vessel. In typical Romulan fashion, they ignore the Klingons and fire a mysterious bolt of energy at the probe, narrowly missing the Klingon ship in the process. Before the crew can begin, a Klingon cruiser de-cloaks and demands that the Romulans cease and desist. In a remote sector of the Neutral Zone, a Romulan Warbird prepares to carry out a shadowy experiment involving a nearby test probe.

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