Star Trek Next Generation Echoes From the Past

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Item Description

Sitting in Captain Picard's chair is the whole fantasy of Echoes from the Past, and Spectrum HoloByte, the studio best known for its Falcon flight simulators, built the game around it. The Enterprise-D is drawn into Federation space after a missing Romulan research team, and the investigation spirals into a race against the Romulans for an ancient device of terrifying power, all tied to a mystery the crew knows only as the Trinity Test.

The game splits its time between the ship and the surface. From the bridge you scan strange worlds and alien vessels with the sensors, set course, and handle the red alerts that come thick and fast. When Romulan warbirds appear in the Neutral Zone, combat runs through the tactical station, where you divide power between shields, weapons and engines before trading phaser fire and photon torpedoes, and sometimes Picard's diplomacy can talk the ship out of a fight altogether. At other points you assemble a four-person away team from the show's crew, Data and Worf among them, and beam down to explore planets or board derelict ships for repairs.

It is a deliberate, thinky game rather than an arcade shooter, and reviewers at the time found its objectives vague and its learning curve steep; it rewards the player who is willing to explore, take notes and think like a starship captain. That approach is also what makes it feel like Star Trek. You are investigating, negotiating and helping alien civilizations as often as you are firing torpedoes, and the familiar faces and starship sounds keep it grounded in the series.

Its Super Nintendo counterpart, Future's Past, is a different game with its own story, so this adventure belongs to the Genesis. For Trek fans tracking down the franchise's licensed games, it is an unusual and ambitious cartridge that tried to fit a full episode's worth of command decisions onto 16-bit hardware.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1994
Publisher
Sega
Developer
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
Genre
Shooter
Players
Single player
About the game

The U.S.S. Enterprise races an evil Romulan force for control of the ultimate law and order device. The future of the Federation... and the universe... rests in your hands! Command the Starship Enterprise! Probe hundreds of strange new worlds and alien vessels with the ship's sensors. Space battle rages when you encounter Romulans in the Neutral Zone and disable their ships with well-placed phaser and photon torpedo attacks. Join forces with Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to solve the mysterious "Trinity Test." Solve it and the Federation is safe. Fail... and the universe will never be the same.

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