Comments on: New Star Trek Video Game Trailer Is A Total Shoot-Em Up

By: Fran C Spence

Fran C Spence — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Great game better than Star Trek DS9

By: Fran C Spence

Fran C Spence — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:45:00 +0000

yes they had to make Sisko in to one of Avery’s old characters, Hawk from Spencer for higher to be cool

By: Brian Williams

Brian Williams — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Didn’t see that one. That may have come on after I stopped watching.

By: Chris Paris

Chris Paris — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:30:00 +0000

DS9 only got good when Sisko grew a beard. Before that, his acting was wooden, as if Al Gore was cast in the role. He clearly wasn’t comfortable until that beard. Weird.

By: Chris Paris

Chris Paris — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:29:00 +0000

Which was a shame. Voyager had an incredible premise and tremendous opportunity. Put a split-crew on a marooned ship in an unknown quadrant. The crew was at each other’s throats, and had to fight each other as well as the unknown external enemy. Then, by episode 2, they resolved all their internal struggles, all the edgy characters became bland crewmen, and the enemies looked like Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons and acted for comedic effect rather than menace. The later introduction of a pandering, fanservice, catsuited barely-Borg sexpot didn’t help give it any cred. But then that’s what we came to expect from Berman/Braga at that point. Those drugs had definitely kicked in.

So much potential squandered.

By: Samuel Jones

Samuel Jones — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:21:00 +0000

I hope Shatner and Nimoy models become available as DLC. I want to run around as 2012-era Shatner, hanging from ledges and punching dudes in the face.

By: Ilikegemenc

Ilikegemenc — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:22:00 +0000

massive meh

By: Baby Fart McGeeziaks

Baby Fart McGeeziaks — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:21:00 +0000

I assume this takes place between the two films?

By: JT

JT — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Isn’t Star Trek: Online already doing that though?

By: JT

JT — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:37:00 +0000

Isn’t Star Trek: Online already doing that though?

By: JT

JT — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:37:00 +0000

Isn’t Star Trek: Online already doing that though?

By: JT

JT — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:36:00 +0000

I would say that DS9 was exploring humanity, rather than physical space. It was about more than action and danger, the show’s best episodes rarely revolved around that. It had that sometimes, but it had ideas, either way. It definitely departed from the original Trek, but it still had substance so I’m fine with it. And they stuck to Roddenberry’s main ideology, to the idea that humanity had solved its internal problems and was out in the galaxy.

Have you seen the episode “The Visitor”? To me that embodies everything that was great about DS9.

By: JT

JT — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:36:00 +0000

Have you seen the episode “The Visitor”? To me that embodies everything that was great about DS9.

By: Manxman1831

Manxman1831 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:00 +0000

Going to be controversial, but to me DS9 was nothing more than a repeat of Babylon 5 stories, right down to the Defiant/White Star. THIS game looks like it has brought Trek into the realm of the 1st person shooter/RPG, in a way that the Elder Scrolls franchise has brought swords and sorcery into the same genre. I look forward to further trailers and previews.

By: Brian Williams

Brian Williams — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:37:00 +0000

To me, DS9 seemed pretty contrary to the what made Trek special in the first place. They spent the entire time on the station, and whenever they did get a ship, it was used purely to blow stuff up. I’m not one that has an overly rosy vision of what Trek was about, I realize there was supposed to be action and danger, but DS9 was all about alien cold wars, then hot wars, then cold wars again, punctuated with forays into religion and politics. Not enough exploring for my tastes.

I didn’t like Voyager mostly because the characters all seemed to be made out of card board.

By: Teknoman4

Teknoman4 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:28:00 +0000

mass effect anyone !!!!!!

By: JT

JT — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:22:00 +0000

I wouldn’t say that. DS9 at least had IDEAS. It really tried to explore complex and interesting things. It did skew away from the rosy vision of the future, but it did still have a really interesting vision. Voyager is where Trek really stopped being about anything at all.

By: Brian Williams

Brian Williams — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:13:00 +0000

I think the all of the higher minded Trek ideals died about the time DS9 came out. Game looks great though, especially for a downloadable title.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:12:00 +0000

Looks like someone is forgetting a game called Elite Force. Star Trek shooters aren’t anything new. Get off your high horse. This could turn out to be a fun game.