The game comes out today. Has anyone had a chance to check it out yet? I played the demo and wrote my review below.

I played the demo on steam deck and I mostly enjoyed it. It more or less plays out a tutorial mission while the events of the pilot play out.

Game play (in the demo) had 4 distinct parts: space combat, away missions, navigating and flying around space, and ship "stuff".

I disliked the space combat the most. It was an odd mix of turnbased and real-time actions. I never knew where the enemy ship was, and I had trouble balancing the repairs i needed to survive.

Away missions are essentially choose your own adventure text games with some cool art depicting the scenes based on who you select for your mission and what they do.

Navigating and flying around space was fun, but I can see it getting very boring very quickly. Fly from wherever you are to the next system. fly around the planets picking up resources, investigating signals, talking to civilizations. I think if they find a creative way to mix this part up, it can be tons of fun.

Ship "stuff" is very derivative of games like fallout shelter. You have a sideview of the entire ship. you can repurpose rooms for different things, assign personnel to various places like medical or engineering. You can even install new weaponry or equipment to use in space combat or for flying around.

I'll be picking up this game eventually, I am curious what anyone else thinks about it, too.

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#10: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 17 "The Squire of Gothos"

Written by Paul Schneider, directed by Don McDougall.

Stardates 2124.5 through 2126.3 (March 2267)

"I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose." - Commander Spock

In an area of space devoid of star systems, the Enterprise finds a lone planet that shouldn't be there. On that planet is an Earth-like castle, and within in they find a humanoid who calls himself Trelane (William Campbell). Trelane has been watching Earth for a very long time so he is excited to finally meet Earthlings in-person... and he doesn't want them to ever leave.

Originally released: 12 January 1967

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#9: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 14 "Balance of Terror"

Written by Paul Schneider, directed by Vincent McEveety.

Stardates 1709.2 through 1709.6 (December 2266)

"You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could've called you 'friend.'" - Romulan Commander

Earth outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone are suddenly going silent. The Enterprise is rushing to rendezvous with Earth Outpost 4 when it, too, stops transmitting. They manage to send one final message, that they were attacked by an unknown vessel, just before it is completely destroyed. This unknown vessel is strongly believed to be Romulan in origin. It not only possesses a deadly new type of weapon, but can make itself invisible. Captain Kirk must find a way to engage and stop this rampaging ship without jeopardizing the Enterprise and its crew or starting an interstellar war.

Originally released: 15 December 1966

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"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" Associate Producer Kirk Thatcher tells Hollywood Lost and Found's Steve Lee the story behind I HATE YOU, the song in the film playing during Kirk's cameo as the punk on the bus.

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#8: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 4 "The Naked Time"

Written by John D. F. Black, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardates 1702.0 through 1705.0 (December 2266)

"I've spent a whole lifetime learning to hide my feelings." - Commander Spock

The Enterprise is sent to monitor an Earth-like planet that is at the end of its life and is in the process of tearing itself apart. While doing so, the crew is also investigating the mysterious deaths of the personnel aboard a science outpost on the planet surface. One member of the away team is exposed to an unknown substance and one by one the crew of the Enterprise begins to behave dangerously erratic.

Originally released: 29 September 1966

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#7: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 5 "The Enemy Within"

Written by Richard Matheson, directed by Leo Penn.

Stardates 1672.1 through 1673.1 (December 2266)

"We all have our darker side. We need it. It's half of what we are." - Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy

While on a survey mission, the Enterprise's transporters malfunction and split Captain Kirk into two different people - a "good" Kirk and an "evil" Kirk. With a doppelganger on the loose, and the good Kirk losing the will to command the ship, the rest of the away team remains stranded on a planet where the temperature is rapidly dropping.

Originally released: 6 October 1966

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Why has there not been a ‘Star Trek’ series or series of movie that involves people with super intelligence & skills like that, but the challenges go along with it? Half joking, but ‘Big Bang Theory’s* character Shelton would work & be funny. Shelton fanboy did not pay me to say that or have something on me to force me to say that. Heck the other ‘Big Bang Theory’s character characters would also work & be funny. But a lot more serious, there are some challenges that give people traits that makes them the perfect crew members.

*- Funnies comedy of all time, The GOAT!

I was born into & will die with Learning Challenges (in- language processing & short & long term memories), have earned degree in SLD, many certifications, including VE & ESE, from the most respected higher educational school in Fl., whatever that is worth, & facilitated learning in Elementary schools’-high schools’-adult education school’s ESE & Etc. classrooms. So I understand that challenges can be extremely hard identify-prove & everywhere, I think everyone has a challenge, to some degree.

Yet I cannot understand the challenges that genetic engineered friends of Dr. Bashir character Lauren (played by Hillary Shepard) & Patrick (played by Michael Keenan).
The only thing that comes close to challenges I see in- Lauren having is higher attraction drive to men, than the average person &
Patrick having is he is easily manipulated-to easy to go along with others, especially by Jack.

Lauren thing seems like UPN censored away the writers from going to a real challenge & forced them to her being just higher attraction drive to men, than the average person, which is not a challenge.
&
Patrick thing is not even close to being a challenge at all, maybe, lack confidence or whatever, but not a challenge, while Lauren is also not a challenge, I can understand that if the writers were not censored away from her being sex addiction, then that would been a challenge.

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#6: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 2 "Charlie X"

Written by Gene Roddenberry & D. C. Fontana, directed by Lawrence Dobkin.

Stardates 1533.6 through 1535.8 (November 2266)

"There are a million things in this universe you can have, and there are a million things you can't have." - Captain James Kirk

The Enterprise meets with the USS Antares to take aboard a passenger for transfer to Colony Alpha V - a young man named Charlie Evans (Robert Walker). Charlie survived a crash when he was three and had been living alone on a barren planet with only the ship's computer to talk to. As Charlie mingles with the crew, he starts becoming angered when people tell him no or ignore him. These are not normal issues with integration into society after spending his whole life alone, rather something deeper and darker within Charlie that threatens anyone that upsets him.

Originally released: 15 September 1966

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#5: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 1 "The Man Trap"

Written by George Clayton Johnson, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardates 1513.1 through 1513.8 (November 2266)

• The given Stardate has this episode occurring entirely within the timeframe of The Corbomite Maneuver, making it too early.

"But it's a mystery. And I don't like mysteries." - Captain James Kirk

The Enterprise is sent to do a routine medical checkup on an archeology couple; Robert and Nancy Crater. Doctor McCoy (Deforest Kelly) is slightly apprehensive because Nancy is an old flame of his. When they meet, not only does she remember him but she appears exactly as he remembered her. But Captain James Kirk and Crewman Darnell (Michael Zaslow) see a somewhat different woman. This confusion turns into terror when, one by one, Darnell and others are found dead. Someone or something is killing Enterprise crewmembers and Kirk suspects the Craters are not telling him everything.

Originally released: 6 September 1966

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#4: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 10 "The Corbomite Maneuver"

Written by Jerry Sohl, directed by Joseph Sargent.

Stardates 1512.2 through 1514.1 (November 2266)

"There is no such thing as the unknown, only things that are temporarily hidden." - Captain James Kirk

While mapping an uncharted star system, the Enterprise is confronted by an object of unknown origin and construction. When it blocks the ship from moving forward then attempts to overtake it while retreating, Captain Kirk reluctantly orders its destruction. Free from the obstruction, Kirk decides to push forward into unknown space. Moments later, they encounter and are seized by an impossibly large and technologically superior vessel captained by a Balok of the First Federation (voiced by Ted Cassidy & Walter Edmiston, played by Clint Howard). Balok announces that the Enterprise has violated their space and behaved aggressively, therefore the ship and everyone onboard must be destroyed.

Originally released: 10 November 1966

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#3: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 6 "Mudd's Women"

Written by Gene Roddenberry & Stephen Kandel, directed by Harvey Hart.

Stardates 1329.8 through 1330.1 (October 2266)

"You either believe in yourself... or you don't." - Captain James Kirk

While chasing down an unknown vessel that refuses to identify itself, the Enterprise suffers critical damage and is left on emergency power protecting the ship from being destroyed by meteors. While the ship is eventually destroyed, the Enterprise is able to save the people onboard; a boisterous man named Tom Walsh (Roger C. Carmel) and three very beautiful women. Captain Kirk finds out that Walsh's real name is Harcourt Fenton Mudd - a man with an extensive criminal record and charges Mudd with endangering his ship. But the condition the Enterprise has been left in forces them to rush to a nearby planet for replacement parts as Mudd & his women devise a scheme to seize control of the ship.

Originally released: 13 October 1966

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Scotty with that cool beard, oh hells to the yeah!

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#2: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 3 (pilot 2) "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Written by Samuel A. Peeples, directed by James Goldstone.

Stardates 1312.4 through 1313.8 (October 2266)

"Command and compassion is a fool's mixture." - Gary Mitchell

The USS Enterprise is exploring the galactic edge when it finds a log buoy from the SS Valiant. When Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy) examines the contents, he learns that the ship had passed through the galactic barrier. When she returned, chaos erupted onboard and the Captain ultimately ordered the ship destroyed. Captain James Kirk (William Shatner) believes that the answer to what happened lies on the other side of the galactic barrier and orders the Enterprise through. After suffering significant damage and crew injuries, a member of the bridge crew starts to experience a transformation that threatens everyone.

Originally released: 22 September 1966

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#1: Star Trek: The Original Series pilot 1 "The Cage"

Written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Robert Butler.

Stardate unknown (Sometime in 2254)

"It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves." - Number One

As Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) muses to the ship's doctor about how tired he is of the responsibilities of captaining a starship, the USS Enterprise receives a distress call from from the SS Columbia on a distant world known as Talos IV. The message confirms the ship crashed and that there are survivors, so the Enterprise alters course to mount a rescue. But once they arrive, and meet a curious young survivor among the crew, Pike is suddenly taken hostage and the Enterprise is held in orbit by strange beings with enormous telepathic power.

Originally released: February 1965 (originally released to the public: 14 October 1986)

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Has anyone ever tried make the game into real life?

While I hate Capitalism, seems to be all about Capitalism & hate Gambling, I think it would be a great new product to hit the games market.

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