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In 1995, Viacom New Media publishes Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger on DOS. This action and adventure game is now abandonware and is set in a detective / mystery, sci-fi / futuristic, shooter, licensed title and tv series themes.

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AIXtreme 2023-11-15 0 point

Hi, anyone can help me how to install and play this game on Win 11? DOSBox tells me that it ain't a game that runs in DOSBox. Win tells me, that it cannot run the install.exe because it ain't the right system. I need help. Thanks in advance.

Drewby1701 2021-04-01 2 points

Downloaded this to have my first go at it. I missed it on its original release and forgot about it until now. Downloaded the files but sadly my system can't figure out what to do with them!

Harvey 2020-12-02 -1 point

Played this game when I was like 11/12 in 1998 loved it... great game.!

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Harbinger (game)

• 1 Description
• 2.1 Characters
• 2.2 Locations
• 2.3 Starships and vehicles
• 2.4 Races and cultures
• 2.5 States and organizations
• 2.6 Other references
• 3 Chronology
• 4.1.1 Reception
• 4.1.2 Cast and crew
• 4.3 External links

Description [ ]

References [ ], characters [ ], locations [ ], starships and vehicles [ ], races and cultures [ ], states and organizations [ ], other references [ ], chronology [ ], appendices [ ], background [ ].

• Harbinger takes place after Sisko's promotion to Captain in " The Adversary ". Odo mentions the events of " The House of Quark ".

Reception [ ]

• Harbinger won a CODiE Award in 1997 for "Best Use of Live Talent in Multimedia". [1]

Cast and crew [ ]

• Avery Brooks - Captain Benjamin Sisko
• Nana Visitor - Major Kira Nerys
• Rene Auberjonois - Odo
• Terry Farrell - Jadzia Dax
• Armin Shimerman - Quark
• Judi M. Durand - the computer
• Mark Keller - Bannik
• Nicole Donery as Desma Yarrow
• Mary West - Rasmus Selin
• Andrea Cirie - Jani Tharen
• Roger L. Jackson - the Scythian
• Paul Shikowitz - Ensign Carlton
• Christopher Grey - the Lykotians

External links [ ]

• Harbinger (game) article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger article at Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger at Trekcore.com
• 1 Starfleet Ships 2294 - The Future
• 2 Achilles class
• 3 USS Elkins

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger

• 2 Background information
• 3.1 Viacom New Media
• 3.2 Development Support Team, Chicago
• 3.3 Featuring the voices of
• 3.4 Voice actors
• 3.5 Special thanks
• 4 External links

Summary [ ]

In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Harbinger you play a young Tirrion envoy of the elite Federation Diplomatic Corps , in training to be an ambassador between your people and the Federation . Upon arriving at Deep Space 9 , you discover a murder has taken place, and your talents are needed to aid the crew in solving it. Mysterious aliens have also arrived on board, who may be friend or foe, and they have trouble speaking any language known to your people. You must struggle to solve the murder and find out how to communicate with the aliens, all to save the Gamma Quadrant from annihilation.

Background information [ ]

• Hilary J. Bader was the story consultant and contributed some of the game's plot.
• The stardate given by Envoy Bannik, combined with Sisko's rank of captain with his goatee and unshaven head, firmly places the game between " The Adversary " and " The Way of the Warrior ".
• This game is primarily an intellectual puzzle game, similar to Myst and other such games. The designers appear to have made a conscious effort to make the game feel like an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , complete with the opening credits mimicking those of the series, including the traveling comet with its tail of ice crystals.
• To explain why Deep Space 9 has so few people on board, a plasma storm is around the station forcing the station to run on with skeleton crew . There are technical reasons for so few characters as the game engine mainly due to the use of "pre-rendered" images.

Credits [ ]

• Mark Buchignani
• Sarah W. Stocker
• Hilary J. Bader
• David Bunnett
• Alyssa Finley
• Marla Cosgrove
• William A. Dwyer
• Marina Goldberg
• Olga Chudnovsky
• David Clemons
• Hugo Kobayashi
• Gigi Lorick
• Joshua J. Nelson
• Nels J. Potts
• Martin Servante
• Marta K. Swinney
• Christopher Gray
• T. Grellinger
• Peter A. Davis
• Tim C. Dean
• Scott Foust
• Jay A. Fitt
• Kristopher Johnson
• Michael Barber
• Uday Kadkade
• Al Roughton
• Andrew Boyd
• William Beckman
• Sean Carson
• Steven Scherer
• Paul Shikowitz
• Helene Knight
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• Cynthia Levine
• Hungarian Radio
• Susan & Friends
• Boomtown Keller & Cohen
• Mary Ann Zahorsky
• Arjan McNamara
• Maxwell Brace III
• Sanjay Patel

Viacom New Media [ ]

• Andrew Lipson
• Thomas Gibson
• Caroline Petrook
• Jackson Young
• Rolanda Bakared
• Teasha Kirchner
• Monique Doubet
• Amy McPoland
• Paula Doyle
• Suzie Domnick
• Kristine Ross
• Randi Kagan
• Juliet Dutton

Development Support Team, Chicago [ ]

• Scott Lawrence
• John Podiasek
• Baki 'The Curse' Allen
• Tim Shymkus
• Don 'The Thrill' Hill
• James 'T' Raff
• Francis Brooke
• Shawn 'Moondoggie' McFadden
• Mike 'Gus' Lee
• Butch 'Celebrity Tester' O'Malley
• Dave 'Pretty Boy' Casso
• Gus 'Gus' Peterson
• 'Mean' Jor McGee
• Andreja Djokovic
• Chase Ayers
• Sanjay Rana
• Dave Gohman
• Mike 'Monkey Boy' O'Connell
• Chuck 'Harley-Boy' Zenkus

Featuring the voices of [ ]

• Avery Brooks as " Captain Sisko "
• Rene Auberjonois as " Odo "
• Terry Farrell as " Lieutenant Dax "
• Armin Shimerman as " Quark "
• Nana Visitor as " Major Kira "
• Judi Durand as " The Computer "

Voice actors [ ]

• Mark Keller as "Envoy Bannik ( β )"
• Roger L. Jackson as "Scythian ( β )s" / "Karrig ( β )"
• Andrea Cirie as "Jani Tharen ( β )"
• Nicole Donery as "Ensign Desma Yarrow ( β )"
• Mary West as "Vedek Rasmus Selin ( β )"
• Paul Shikowitz as "Ensign Carlton"
• Christopher Grey as "The Lykotians"

Special thanks [ ]

• Stephen Gass
• Melinda Fishman
• Joe Helksen
• Harry Langineer
• Steve Borstead
• Glen Frazier
• John Jansen
• Pat Killingsworth
• Stephen L. Kozlowski
• Erica London Pace
• Tamara Rogers
• Mary Schaffer
• Masami Yamada and Stars

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger at Wikipedia
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger at TrekCore
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger at Gamefaqs
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• 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)

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• Viacom New Media
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Harbinger is a first-person perspective adventure game with action elements, which takes place on board Deep Space Nine. The player controls an alien envoy who unwittingly becomes involved in a murder plot, which leads to war with an evil alien race.

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• The first time you run it, the game wants to set up video and audio. I just went with the defaults, and it seemed to work fine.

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8 comments:

Even as a hardcore Trekkie whose favorite series in the franchise is DS9... I agree that Harbinger is on the mediocre side. I would probably appreciate it even less if that weren't true, but 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rights, and A Final Unity are all much better games. It's kindof a shame because, as you said, DS9 is fairly underrepresented and I wanted it to be on the same level as those games, just with DS9 instead. I did appreciate being able to explore the station and nerd out though, limited in scope as it might be - it's the same reason I got way more enjoyment out of Elite Force's Voyager exploration mode than it probably warranted haha Overall, Harbinger just feels like a cheap, pale imitation of its siblings. Oh well!

I agree. Hopefully The Fallen is better. I've got it running nicely but I've not played much of it yet.

Hello. Would you be also releasing DS9 The Fallen?

Thank you, I appreciate both Star Trek uploads very much!

You're welcome! There's more to come.

It wouldn´t load the 2nd CD. :( Don´t know why and have no Dos-Prompt, so that I can mount it. Do you have any solutuions?

There is information regarding disc swapping in DOSBox in the FAQ. Press Ctrl-F4 to swap discs when a CD change is prompted

Thanks! Worked perfect!

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger is a singleplayer first-person action and adventure game in the Star Trek series.

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A powerful plasma storm has rocked Deep Space Nine and a Federation diplomat has been murdered. An omen of the chaos to unfold in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger. You are a Tirrion envoy of the elite Federation Diplomatic Corps. Joining forces with the crew of Deep Space Nine, you battle deadly unmanned drones. Track down a murderer on the space station and match strategies with mysterious aliens. All in a struggle to save a Gamma Quadrant race from annihilation and prevent the Deep Space Nine Space Station from suffering the same fate! May the prophets walk with you. You're going to need all the help you can get! This Special Edition of the game is included in a Custom 'Communications Badge' Case

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Have You Played... Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Harbinger?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.

As a teenager I watched a lot of Star Trek, without ever really thinking myself a fan of it. TNG was more miss than hit, Voyager was mostly dreadful, and Deep Space Nine felt like the poor man's Babylon 5. It turns out that I can remember absolutely every bloody detail about the shows, while absolutely none of my concurrent chemistry A level, without ever noticing I cared. But what I did know at the time was that whenever a computer game replicated the Star Trek computer design on my PC, I nerded out. Harbinger did that, in its own way.

This was a first-person adventure with occasionally ill-advised action sequences. Very conveniently, DS9 has been mostly evacuated due to mumble plasma mumble, leaving a few recognisable faces from the show and a lot of empty rooms. You, a newbie character, team up with Mira to investigate the murder of an ambassador from a Beta Quadrant race with whom you'd recently been negotiating, and investigate some naughty drones that are causing all sorts of mischief.

It was 1995, so of course it had to be in ghastly pre-rendered graphics, but then Star Trek itself was haunted by the pastel-deadened textureless aesthetic that the era brought to gaming. Very realistic graphics, then. The casts of these shows must have had dreadful contracts, as they always seemed to show up to voice these games, as is the case here.

It was a strange old game, Myst-ish but without being complete shite, a ridiculous amount of voice work, and the first time this show had had a PC outing. I cannot imagine it's on sale anywhere other than eBay today.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Harbinger is an uninspiring attempt to bring the experience of the television hit series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine onto the computer screen. Its poor production and gameplay make playing this title at most a mediocre gaming experience. Unless you are a diehard Star Trek fanatic, this game may simply turn into a laughable Star Trek experience.

The story of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Harbinger has some saving grace. You play Bannik, a Tirrion envoy of the elite Federation Diplomatic Corps. You are in charge to escort the ambassador to the space station Deep Space Nine to carry out negotiation with a strange alien race known as the Scythians. However, when you reach the wormhole en route to the space station, your shuttle is attacked by a group of vicious unmanned drones. You are enveloped in a plasma storm that causes you to crash into Deep Space Nine's shuttle dock. You survive, and proceed to talk to Captain Sisko about your ordeal. Soon after onboard the space station, you find out that your ambassador has been mysteriously murdered. It is your duty now to investigate this murder and to make the murderer pay for what has been done. In the end, you must save an alien race from the Gamma Quadrant and the Deep Space Nine station from total annihilation.

The production merit of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Harbinger is very poor. One gets the feeling that the game is hastily made and packaged simply to make a quick buck from the diehard Star Trek fanatics. The only value to this game is perhaps the attention grabbing plastic game box. Even worse, the publisher has billed this game as the "ultimate cinematic adventure". This claim is simply laughable since I have yet to find anything that is cinematic about the game. The only highpoint of the game is the beautiful insert inside the disc case. The insert is a picture of Deep Space Nine with the wormhole surrounding it in the background. Installing the game is a simple process, but you need to explicitly select your soundcard for both music and speech playbacks. An abridged version of this game is subsequently released as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Harbinger Holosuite Missions that is packaged as part of the Star Trek Emissary Gift Set. It contains 3 different training missions from the Deep Space Nine Holosuite.

Gameplay in Harbinger is through a first person perspective. You walk about the space station looking for hotspots to click and characters to talk to. With each click of the mouse, you travel from a pre-rendered screen to another. Sounds pretty simple, huh? Not quite. During your trek you must complete some annoying and frustrating action sequences, such as defending the space station from a bunch of attacking drones by blasting them away. An option is available to set the difficulty level of the action or arcade sequences. The difficulty can be adjusted on the fly prior to each action sequence. An option is also included to perform an automatic save before an action sequence. Regardless, the game may be a lot more bearable if these sequences are not included in the first place.

On the other hand, an opportunity to interact with the cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is somewhat rewarding. It is an equally rewarding experience to hear the voices of the television cast. Almost all of the cast members are in this game, including Captain Benjamin Sisko, Major Kira Nerys, Odo, Quark, and the lovely Lieutenant Jadiza Dax (a Trill). Noticeably missing members include Dr. Julian Bashir, Chief O'Brian, Keiko (O'Brian's wife), and Garak the Cardassian. Despite their conspicuous absence, I still find it refreshing to see and interact with the remaining characters. Without them, this game may not even get any shelf space in a retail store! Some of the graphics are admittedly very pretty, especially the promenade.

This game suffers from a multitude of problems. Firstly, the action sequences are simply and totally unnecessary. They can be quite tough, especially if you have a fast system. Secondly, the animations of the computer generated characters are terrible. They all move as automatons in awkward and jerky fashions. When they speak, their heads do not move at all. Aside from a superficial resemblance to the faces of the cast, they behave only as uninspiring synthetic actors or actresses. Thirdly, the few video clips that exist in the game are all very grainy and distorted. Lastly, the voiceovers for the non cast characters are poor. The voice of Bannik should have been much better.

Only diehard Star Trek fans should consider purchasing this game. All other adventure gamers are advised to stay away from this title. Trust me, if you want a Star Trek experience, watch the television show instead.

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