Star Trek The Next Generation

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Every fan of the show has imagined sitting in the captain's chair, and Star Trek: The Next Generation on the NES hands you the chance, with a catch. You play a Starfleet cadet running a simulation of the USS Enterprise-D, taking Captain Picard's place and proving you can handle the bridge before anyone lets you near the real thing.

Each scenario opens with orders from Picard himself, and the missions cover the full range of a starship's working life, from transporting ambassadors to hunting down Ferengi pirates and, in one memorable assignment, facing a Borg cube. Running the ship means moving between the bridge stations: Navigation to plot your course, Tactical for combat, Operations, Engineering, the Transporter and Mission Control. Many of those jobs play out as small mini-games, such as rerouting power to the shields in the middle of a fight. Combat foes scale in difficulty, with the Talarians as the easiest opponents and renegade Klingons the toughest, and successful missions earn promotions from Ensign up to Captain, with a password for each rank so you can pick up where you left off.

Published by Absolute Entertainment in 1993, near the end of the NES era, it is a more thoughtful kind of licensed game than most of its peers. Critics at the time were divided, with some finding the ship controls hard to master in the heat of battle, and it rewards patience more than quick reflexes. That suits the source material, though. The Next Generation was always more about running a starship well than about blasting everything in sight.

It is a charming piece of early-'90s Trek history from the years when The Next Generation was still on the air, and few licensed NES games let you live out a franchise fantasy this directly: orders from Picard, a bridge full of stations to master and a captain's rank to earn.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1993
Publisher
Playtronic
Developer
Absolute Entertainment
Players
Single player
About the game

Star Trek: The Next Generation is divided into a series of missions. Players will start on the main screen of the bridge and from there can access Navigation, Tactical, Operations, Engineering, Transporter Systems and Mission Control. Mini-games are sometimes used to complete certain ship functions (such as rerouting power to the shields).

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