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Published Jun 16, 2023

Star Trek: Infinite Releases New Trailer and Game Details

The grand strategy game, beginning decades before Star Trek: The Next Generation era, available on PC this Fall!

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In honor of Captain Jean-Luc Picard , Paradox Interactive, and Nimble Giant Entertainment, under license from Paramount Consumer Products, revealed a new trailer and details for Star Trek: Infinite , a grand strategy game coming this Fall.

Recently announced at Summer Games Fest 2023, Star Trek: Infinite takes players on a thrilling journey through space, placing them in the heart of the galactic struggles between the powers of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Star Trek: Infinite , with its emergent gameplay and complex choices, launches on PC this Fall.

Set your interstellar course and watch the announcement trailer:

Official Game Trailer | Star Trek: Infinite

Though this game draws inspiration from the iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation , this story isn’t just about one ship. Star Trek: Infinite puts players in command of one of four major powers in the galaxy — the United Federation of Planets, Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union, or Klingon Empire. Each major power possesses individualized traits, stories, quests, and more to make their play feel distinct. Players can send fleets to explore the Alpha and Beta quadrants, manage an economy, and navigate diplomatic endeavors.

Whether building the influence of their homeworlds or risking exploration into the unknown, Star Trek: Infinite gives players endless choices and the opportunity to shape the destiny of their favorite Star Trek powers. Fans will experience a game faithful to the lore of a timeless franchise, as they embark on an unforgettable journey through space, encounter new civilizations, and forge a path among the stars.

To learn more, please visit the website and stay tuned for further information and updates on the game’s official Twitter , Instagram , and the Paradox Interactive YouTube channel .

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'Star Trek: Infinite' lets gamers explore strange new worlds and wage epic space battles

Chart your course through the cosmos in this upcoming "Trek" PC gaming experience.

Trek fans have a new opportunity to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where no gamer has gone before. But will you join the United Federation of Planets or the Klingon Empire? 

As recently announced on Picard Day , June 16, 2023, Nimble Giant Entertainment ("Quantum League," "Master of Orion") and Paradox Interactive are releasing a new sci-fi strategy gaming experience for PC this fall titled "Star Trek: Infinite" that allows imaginative players to craft their own "Star Trek" journey as the commander of one of four major galactic factions in the "Star Trek" universe.

Choose your fate and destiny as you endeavor to build a space-based campaign involving diplomacy, espionage, stealth combat, all-out warfare or a calculating blend of all angles. The ability to truly carve an ambitious trail within the Alpha and Beta Quadrants give adventurous PC gamers much to look forward to in this project.

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Here's the official synopsis:

"'Star Trek: Infinite' is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own 'Star Trek' story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Choose from the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, Romulan Star Empire, or Cardassian Union and lead your chosen faction to victory and prosperity.

"Iconic characters such as Picard , Janeway, Sisko, Data, Gowron, Makbar, Garak are just a few that will be available to their respective factions as recruitable officers. A diverse range of ships is also available, from the Federation's Defiant-class, the menacing Cardassian Galor-class vessels, the sleek Romulan D'deridex, or even the formidable Klingon Negh'Var battleships as so many more are ready to command."

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The clever designers and developers at Nimble Giant have engineered "Star Trek: Infinite" to deliver an authentic and engaging "Star Trek" experience while giving gamers the opportunity to organically shape the direction of their playthrough depending on the choices made as their favorite faction's fearless leader. 

Besides the aforementioned legacy characters, different factions provide their own distinct set of characters to enlist like Gowron, Makbar, Garak and many others.

Join the waitlist at Paradox Interactive's official site for "Star Trek: Infinite's" arrival this fall.

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Star Trek: Infinite Trailer Teases A Showdown Between Galactic Empires

A full reveal will come on Picard Day, June 16.

By Cameron Koch on June 8, 2023 at 3:30PM PDT

Star Trek: Infinite , a new strategy game set in the iconic sci-fi franchise from developer Nimble Giant Entertainment and publisher Paradox Interactive, has been announced as part of Summer Game Fest .

Details are extremely light so far, but Paradox is labeling Star Trek: Infinite as a "grand strategy game." A brief teaser trailer shows a Federation fleet headed for a showdown with one of Star Trek's most well-known villains, the Borg, before zooming out to reveal a galaxy map divided into four quadrants.

As teased in the trailer, players will be able to choose between the United Federation of Planets, the Cardassian Union, the Klingon empire, or the Romulan empire. According to Paradox, each faction will have "individualized traits, stories, quests, and more to make their play feel distinct." Players will have to make difficult choices "as they navigate contact with other empires and worlds." Despite featuring heavily in the game's trailer, the Borg won't be playable, but instead look to be an obstacle players will have to overcome, regardless of their chosen faction. The game is set a few decades before the beloved Star Trek: The Next Generation television show.

Paradox Interactive teases that the game will bring the "captivating fantasy of the Star Trek universe into an experience never before had," according to the trailer's official YouTube description. Star Trek: Infinite will come to PC and Mac this Fall, according to an official press release.

Thankfully, fans won't have to wait long to learn more official details. A full reveal for Star Trek: Infinite will come on June 16, aka Picard Day.

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Though this game draws inspiration from the iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation, this story isn’t just about one ship.   Star Trek: Infinite puts players in command of one of four major powers in the galaxy: the United Federation of Planets, Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union, or Klingon Empire. Each major power possesses individualized traits, stories, quests, and more to make their play feel distinct. Players can send fleets to explore the Alpha and Beta quadrants, manage an economy, and navigate diplomatic endeavors.   “As fans of the Star Trek franchise, we are committed to creating a game that stays true to the spirit of The Next Generation, in both its ideals and lore,” said Martin Cao, CEO of Nimble Giant Entertainment. “Working within these bounds still allows for a wellspring of opportunities. Star Trek: Infinite rewards explorative play, gives players freedom to choose how they respond to the events that unfold in front of them, and provides a strong sense of identity as you lead your empire through the galaxy.”   Whether building the influence of their homeworlds or risking exploration into the unknown, Star Trek: Infinite gives players endless choices and the opportunity to shape the destiny of their favorite Star Trek powers. Fans will experience a game faithful to the lore of a timeless franchise, as they embark on an unforgettable journey through space, encounter new civilizations, and forge a path among the stars.

They’ve also released several screenshots from the upcoming strategy game:

Star Trek: Infinite will be available for Windows PC and MacOS users later this year.

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Star Trek Infinite Trailer Previews New Strategy Game, Reveal Date Set

During Summer Game Fest 2023 , a new Star Trek strategy game was unveiled in a brief teaser.

The new trailer for the game doesn’t reveal much other than a few iconic Star Trek images, which include an Odyssey-class Federation starship and the Borg cube. The game is billed as a 4X strategy title, which is a sub-genre of strategy game and often includes a slower-paced style compared to real-time strategy equivalents.

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In a brief post, developer Nimble Giant Entertainment said a full reveal for the game would come on June 16, 2023. The date is known as Picard Day due to its stardate being the equivalent of 47457.1 — mentioned in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Pegasus.”

We've heard some questions and concerns from interested Captains already, so while we're holding onto most of our cards until the full reveal on Picard Day (next Friday, June 16th), we can tell you that Star Trek: Infinite is not a mobile game! — Star Trek: Infinite (@TrekInfinite) June 8, 2023

The post Star Trek Infinite Trailer Previews New Strategy Game, Reveal Date Set appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More .

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Star Trek: Infinite , an upcoming strategy game set a few decades before Star Trek: The Next Generation , has been announced with an exciting teaser trailer at Summer Game Fest 2023. The full reveal for the game will take place, fittingly, on Picard Day, June 16, 2023, but already the teaser trailer has caused some hype. Star Trek: Infinite 's debut announcement comes less than one month after the interactive narrative game Star Trek: Resurgence was released.

Star Trek: Infinite will take place at an as-of-yet-unspecified date, confirmed to be a few decades before TNG on the Trek timeline, and Captain Picard himself is featured in the promotional artwork, suggesting that he may play a significant role.

The game will let players take control of one of the four biggest powers in the Star Trek galaxy and present difficult choices for players as they can contact other worlds. Playing as either the United Federation of Planets, Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union, or the Klingon Empire, prospective commanders will have to strategize and navigate their way through the game.

Star Trek: Infinite Promises A Return To The TNG Era

The trailer teases some familiar-sounding types of hostile interactions between a Federation ship and the Borg. Until more is revealed about the game, it is unclear if it will be played as more of a 4x game similar to Civilization types of strategy or have more of a hands-on approach for negotiations, flying, and even combat. As one of the largest sci-fi franchises, any game set in the environment of Star Trek will face some tough scrutiny from fans, but this trailer appears to show it is on a positive trajectory for successful entry into the Star Trek video games market .

Star Trek is a franchise that demands quality from developers. Paradox Interactive has been behind many big names in the video game market, such as Stellaris , Cities: Skylines , Crusader Kings , Age of Wonders , and more, whereas Nimble Giant Entertainment has had success with titles such as Masters of Orion and Quantum League . The trailer for Star Trek: Infinite certainly is setting a high bar, which is necessary if they hope to live up to the hopes of Star Trek fans worldwide. In a press release the CEO of Paradox Interactive, Fredrik Wester, addressed these ideals they are holding themselves to.

Fredrik Wester: "We know how much this franchise means to fans all over the world, and we are working closely with Nimble Giant and Paramount Consumer Products to create a faithful and fulfilling game that lives up to their expectations."

Star Trek has a rich history with immense amounts of lore spread across generations of content. Not many details have been revealed yet on the new Star Trek: Infinite game, but from the bits shown in the trailer, it appears to be an impressive game. If developers can truly live up to the expectations that fans of the series have, and which the trailer presents, then Star Trek: Infinite could prove to be an amazing piece of entertainment.

Star Trek: Infinite will release on PC and Mac sometime in Fall 2023.

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Denise Crosby Returns As Captain Sela From Another Universe For ‘Star Trek Online: Unparalleled’

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Star Trek Online is getting ready to launch a brand new season which will see the return of one of the stars of Star Trek: The Next Generation .

Unparalleled arrives in 2 weeks

Today Arc Games and Cryptic Studios announced Trek Online: Unparalleled , the 32nd season of their long-running free-to-play Star Trek MMORPG. This new adventure features Star Trek: The Next Generation star Denise Crosby, playing Captain Sela, Captain of the Enterprise from a parallel universe. This is a return to Star Trek: Online for Crosby who voiced her TNG characters Tasha Yar and Sela for the game back in 2013.

Star Trek Online: Unparalleled also includes a new event, a gender/race change feature, along with updates to the Infinity Lockbox. Unparalleled will launch on May 28, 2024 for PC and will launch on PlayStation and Xbox consoles on June 19, 2024.

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Defend the Iconians against a new Borg threat

Season 32 continues Aetherian and Mirror Borg story content. Here is the official synopsis for the story:

In Star Trek Online: Unparalleled, the Borg threat to the multiverse continues as the player’s Captain discovers a last stand between a new, peaceful alternate universe Iconians and a new type of Borg, infused with a mysterious nanite technology. The player’s Captain must work with allies across the universe including Enterprise Captain Sela from this new parallel universe and Aetherian ally Captain Grendat-Bex to defend the Iconians against this new Borg threat and their queen.

New features

Unparalleled also includes the following new features…

New Episode – Situation Under Control The Aetherians will send you on a mission with one of their own into a new universe, and you must join forces to stem the tide of a new Borg foe!

Brand New Task Force Operation – Borg Battle Royale

• A new 5 Captain Ground TFO.
• After the Season event ends, an infinite round version will be available.

Season 32 Event – Delete Alt Control For this new event, players can play selected content to earn the following rewards:

• Dimensional Hypermass Torpedo Launcher
• Type 14 Shuttle Support Squadron
• 500 Lobi Crystals
• 1 Phoenix Epic Prize Token
• 30,000 Dilithium Ore

Infinity Lockbox Update T6 Aetherian Revelation will be added to the Infinity Lockbox .

Captain Alteration Token Want to change your character but keep your hard earned rewards? Now you can, with the Captain Alteration Token. This new token will allow you to change your Captain’s species and/or gender, within your chosen faction.

Star Trek Online  is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online game available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. To download and play Star Trek Online today for free, visit  www.playstartrekonline.com .

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Key art is incorrect. Phaser would not fire from the area illustrated. When the top lens is exposed the phaser is in “kill” mode and would fire from there. Only when lens in down does it fire from the area shown.

And this matters because…

but it’s a fake gun…..

I’m not sure what’s worse, that you took the time to muse about a pointless alternate universe phaser, or that I’m banging out this rather pointless reply.

Everything about this screams badly written fan fiction.

it’s an MMORPG – that’s pretty much a sub-category of badly written fan fiction

the guys on Mission Log used to say “when Star Trek is out of ideas they turn to Shakespeare” – nowadays it’s the multiverse

Everything even remotely resembling science fiction and fantasy these days is the multiverse. It’s Shatners last chance to put on the gold tunic and be an action hero one last time, so there’s that…..

I may be only one who thought Sela was a terrible character, created just to appease an actress who unwisely decided to leave the show early and decided to come back when the show became successful. There was more potential with that character but we didn’t see enough of the character to fully realize her full motives or character traits.

TNG was always successful, though. It was not like Denise Crosby left because the show had bombed. She left because she was unhappy with the fact that they did not give her character anything to do. The writers of Season 3 brought Tasha back for Yesterday’s Enterprise to give her the heroic send off she was denied in Season 1- and from there she and the producers came up with Sela.

Yes and it’s unfortunate the producers were not wise enough to see the potential in her character. She was a little over the top sometimes but that’s the writing and all the characters were still being defined in season 1. She remains one of my favourite characters in all her incarnations and would have been even more so had she stayed in the show.

In the first couple of seasons, everyone was over the top…..

Absolutely.

The New Star Trek Movie Is A Prequel – But Will It Rewrite The Franchise Timeline?

It was announced today in the Hollywood Reporter that Simon Kinberg is taking over the development of the new "Star Trek" feature film, currently working its way through pre-production at Paramount. This new film will be the fourth to be connected to the Kelvin timeline of "Star Trek," a timeline which started with the events of J.J. Abrams' 2009 "Star Trek" film. As of this writing, Toby Haynes ("Andor") is slated to direct, while Seth Grahame-Smith ("Dark Shadows," "The LEGO Batman Movie") has signed on to write. Kinberg is a notable Hollywood player who wrote "X-Men: The Last Stand," "X-Men: Days of Future Past," "X-Men: Apocalypse," and "Dark Phoenix" (among many others) and who produced "The New Mutants," "Deadpool," "Logan," "X-Men: First Class," "Cinderella," "The Martian," and "Elysium" (among many others). He is a franchise guy through-and-through, and Paramount likely wanted a new producer with high-profile experience.

It has been reported that the new "Star Trek" movie will, to quote the Hollywood Reporter, "be set decades before the events of the 2009 movie that was directed J.J. Abrams , likely around modern times." They added that it "is said to involve the creation of the Starfleet and humankind's first contact with alien life." 

These declarations will have some Trekkies' minds at yellow alert. As we all know, the Kelvin universe was an alternate timeline created by the time-travel shenanigans of a vengeful Romulan named Nero (Eric Bana). The timeline diverged when Nero appeared through a time portal in front of the U.S.S. Kelvin ... right when James T. Kirk was being born. Trekkies will happily leap in and point out that Kirk was born in 2233 ... but that First Contact — as dramatized in "Star Trek: First Contact" — took place in 2063. 

Is Trek history being entirely re-written?

The timeline of Star Trek

To offer a brief timeline of events in the "Star Trek" universe, humanity was facing down some harrowing times in the late 20th century, and the world broke out into a series of devastating wars. First, there were the Eugenics Wars, in which tyrannical genetically selected supermen became global dictators. Audiences know about the Eugenics Wars through Khan (Ricardo Montalban), one of said dictators. Then there was the Second Civil War, talked about in a time-travel episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," which exacerbated poverty and misery on Earth, followed finally by World War III, which lasted from 2026 to 2053. World War III left humanity scattered and hopeless. 

This was all before humanity had discovered faster-than-light travel, and trekking through the stars hadn't yet begun. 

The statement that the new Trek movie will take place "likely around modern times" would need to place it prior to the above conflicts. It's worth noting that the second season of "Star Trek: Picard" was also a time travel story that took Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his friends back in time to 2024, prior to the Eugenics Wars. So it seems that part of Trek lore might have been covered already. We will have to see if "Star Trek 4" will take place before or after "Picard." 

But that timeline couldn't incorporate First Contact. 

It wouldn't be until 2063 that Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) would invent faster-than-light travel. The maiden voyage of his ship, the Phoenix, would attract a Vulcan vessel coincidentally passing by Earth. The Vulcans would land and initiate First Contact, ushering a new phase of peace on Earth. It was with First Contact that Trek's optimistic future would begin.

Will Kinberg's new film time-shift First Contact backward?

Is First Contact being time-shifted?

Continuing with Trek's timeline, First Contact allowed humanity to realize the errors of their warlike ways, and begin rebuilding after World War III, now with the Vulcans' help. This period would take the better part of a century, and humanity wouldn't be able to launch their own ship — the Enterprise — until the year 2151. The first adventures of the first Enterprise were dramatized in "Star Trek: Enterprise." 

Kinberg's film could conceivably take place during the century after First Contact, but before the launch of the first Enterprise, although that timeframe would preclude star trekking; according to "Enterprise," the Vulcans were insistent that humans remain on Earth for 100 years , technologically and philosophically preparing themselves for encountering new life and new civilizations. "Enterprise" would indeed fall in line with "the creation of Starfleet," as stated in the Hollywood Reporter. Starfleet was formed before the launch of the Enterprise, sometime in the 2130s.

It's the "decades before" part that might have some Trekkies looking at the statement a little sideways. Since the Kelvin timeline didn't begin until 2233, the formation of Starfleet would be a full century before the 2009 film, not decades. And First Contact would be almost two centuries before the 2009 film. 

Paramount, as of this writing, has not released any additional details about the upcoming film's plot, so we can only speculate as to when it might take place. Will it be a flashback or a time travel plot? But here's a daring thought: Kinberg's new film may openly rewrite Trek continuity and time-shift First Contact to earlier in humanity's timeline.

Gene Roddenberry's penance era

When looking back at the 1960s, when Gene Roddenberry first created "Star Trek," the world was a tumultuous place. Roddenberry looked out the window and saw war, violence, intolerance, and bigotry. He invented "Star Trek" as a reaction to all that, envisioning a future when war was over (because we wanted it), money had been eliminated, and bigotry was dead. But to achieve this utopia, humanity needed to hit a "low point" first. As such, the timeline of Trek required Earth to nearly destroy itself before it could have a moment of clarity. 

If Kinberg aims to time-shift First Contact and the formation of Starfleet to the modern era, it would become a fascinating speculation indeed. If "Star Trek" began without the Roddenberrian moment of clarity, would utopia still be achieved? What if we had starships and access to Vulcans today in 2024? Would the utopia of "Star Trek" be kickstarted 200 years early, or would we humans, still presumably warlike, merely struggle through the Eugenics Wars/Second Civil War/World War III up in space instead of on the ground? 

And if Kinberg's goal is to shift "Star Trek" history so dramatically, it would mean that he is deliberately erasing the Kelvin timeline. Remember that before the Kelvin timeline split, "Star Trek" was identical in both timelines. "Star Trek: Enterprise" still played itself out as we saw in the 2001 to 2005 TV series, and references to "Enterprise" were made liberally throughout 2016's "Star Trek Beyond," the second sequel to "Star Trek" (2009). 

If Kinberg does set the action of his new film in the modern day, "Enterprise" would be retconned entirely ... as would all of "Star Trek." 

That's even more daring than the parallel timeline from Abrams' film.

Time will tell.