This was one of the most faithful Star Trek games produced. I know a lot of people prefer more combat in their games, but I thought this game had a sufficient amount. The plot was interesting, the puzzles were at least semi-realistic and didn't seem too contrived, and each character had their own advantages and responses. Love it! This one's my favorite!
Thank you, this is truly one of the best games based on an existing setting ever made. Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Star Trek: Judgement Rites are also great, and unbelievably faithful to the source material. They are al like lost episodes.
I remember having 25th Anniversary on my first (home-built) computer as a kid, and it was a blast, playing with the joystick etc. I used the predecessors of the internet, Prodigy & CompUServe & AmericaOnline! to get the walk-through etc. but when I got A Final Unity (years later, on a better computer...) -- I COULD NOT FREAKING FIGURE IT OUT. It's hilarious to me now, to watch it, how complicated it was. How the hell was a 15-16 year old supposed to understand that stuff ? Nowadays, kids can program hacking computers before they can play wiffleball lol.
Technically A Final Unity could be considered almost a series arc or Series 6.5/7.5 as 47111.1 puts it almost literally between Descent and Liasons....but my gut says between Timescape and Liasons would have been a better fit given the narrative. Either way this is a game sorely overdue a remaster, hell even a faithful update and a third person adventure style update as some of the scenery would be absolutely ball clenching beautiful in full 3d (Morassia/Allanor/Horst 3 to name my 3 favourite artistically designed planets)
I had the issue of we had a custom computer built but the place cut corners and didn’t install all the drivers so for like 10 years we never knew why we couldnt run the game, because you couldn’t run it inside windows
I actually was a teenager with a pretty damn good computer back then, but I couldn't figure this fuckin game out for the life of me lol... I never actually accomplished anything, just messed around with stuff 😆
Little funny info about the Mertens Orbital Station: When you walk into engineering to meet Dr Griems for the first time, he has a sarcastic remark for whoever character is being controlled at the time. For example, if you walk in and Worf is set, he’ll say “In barges all of Starfleet…including a Klingon! Wonderful, try not to break anything while you’re here!”
Well, the actor who played Riker has a bad back. Even during the times of shooting the series. Reason why he seemed to be standing a lot and never sat in a chair normally, the Riker Maneuver as the fandom dubbed it. Sitting for him was really really bad on him. Even in Picard series. Riker, even in his older age, you can see how hunched over he is. Barely able to walk in some scenes. Hey when running it was more of a jog.
How this story never got to be part of the TV series is beyond me. I loved it. A very harsh and deep analysis of Picard near the end. It had me interested from start to finish!
I genuinely forgot the scale of this game until the LCARS/Tactical/Galaxy Map and then I was like whoa.. this was massive for its time. Many fond memories even though I didn’t finish it as a child
@@Silenced23 don’t be mean. I had this when it was originally released and for the time it was very well produced. Buggy as fuck but acting and direction for the VO was spot on.
@Anthony Bailey then it wasn't very professional was it, if it had problems? Lol also the streamer isn't that good and didn't know hie to fix cutscenes.
The game seems pretty awesome as a Trek fan, but I do love the implication that the bridge is just deathly silent with everyone standing around awkwardly when they're warping inbetween star systems.
Totally agree, after Star Trek Nemesis/Enterprise everything was disappointing, the spirit is totally not there.. So in fact just after 2005 the Star Trek I loved is dead, and it makes me so sad. Edit: Well, if maybe ST Strange new worlds that gives me a little hope, it is surely the least bad in the new ST since 2009.
Discovery is the best comedy Star Trek that was never made to be a comedy LOL I have fallen on the floor laughing many times watching it and everytime I watch Picard I keep saying like why does he even eat why does he even sleep he's just a synthetic not even the real Picard and what they did did Riker in season 3 with his character my God assembling that watches TNG DS9 Voyager every night for like years I got to sleep on it it's kind of hard to watch TNG now
My brother was big into adventure games and both he and my oldest sister were Star Trek fans. I was too young to really appreciate this game. Years later, I have a lot to appreciate.
That Spectrum Holobyte logo at the beginning.......ohh the sound of childhood!! I was 11 years old when I played STTNG - AFU. Awesome memories. If I could get it working now somehow, I swear I'd play it again haha!
@@cellio9 I managed to get it running using DosBOX. Did a full play through and enjoyed every minute of it haha. For old times sake I flew into the Neutral Zone and Romulan space picking fights. The funny thing is though, whenever I go up against multiple Warbirds and get the upper hand (it is difficult but possible if you manually control the Enterprise yourself instead of letting Worf do it) the game always seems to freeze and crash. Every damn time. So I can never walk away successfully after destroying three Warbirds, I'll nail perhaps two, be wearing down the third and be close to victory and the game crashes. Every time. Very odd haha!
@@bobpage6597 that sounds frustrating, I loved playing battles in this game when I was young too, it sounds like we’re close to the same age. Did you ever play much birth of the federation?
I love this game so much! I got it as a gift back in 1997, around the time I started using the internet on a regular basis. Looking up how to get through certain parts of it was really cool. I was able to manage for a while but I truly got stuck on Allanor and the hints and walkthrough I found was a godsend! Also, the Chodak are my favorite non-canon race in all of Trek, the Brassica from Judgment Rites being a close second. And in the PC game based on Generations (which I've never played) the Chodak return and assist Soran in his plans to re-enter the Nexus. None of that is canon, of course. But it's still a cool idea!
Ashame they didn't put anyone at helm. It looks off with Picard and Riker to his left. This game was a lot of fun, haven't played it since the 90's. Way better than the console title.
I listened to the entire gameplay as though it was an extended episode while I worked, this really was made by people who respected the core material! No attempt to hijack the story or characters for a writer's personal message, just fun action and content!
Can I just say: The middle section of this game is such an on-point tribute to cheesy Seventies sci-fi, I feel like growing a mullet. All this "Gynarch" and "Plegu" and "Pluvoids" and what-not. Almost puts me in the mood to whip out the ol' nerd glasses and try to impress girls with my Dr. Who knowledge.
This was one of the best TNG Episodes. I love playing it even to this day just for watching it. By the way i feel like it would have been even better if the Chodak were called Iconians or T'kon Empire from the last outpost. Inventing a total new ancient race that was never heard of and never heard from ever since was a bit lazy in my understanding. But still, this is outstanding piece of art.
You know, it's funny, I think Spectrum Holobyte was trying to create their own version of the TNG universe in which the Chodak, ancient rulers of the galaxy, were back and making waves. They're actually a major part of the plot of the previous game, Start Trek Future's Past (SNES and Sega), which a story similar to this game's: an ancient superweapon was sent forward in time, and now Picard has to deal with it. What's really nuts is that the Chodak make an appearance in the following game, Start Trek Generations. Of course, in that game, they are completely out of place and totally shoe-horned in. But for me, being a 12 year old Star Trek nut who sunk a million hours into A Final Unity back in '95, it was like an easter egg seeing the Chodak show up in another game a few years later! I wonder how many other people picked up on the recurring Chodak thread throughout the Spectrum Holobyte/Microprose games...
According to this game, the Chodak Empire spanned the Milky Way galaxy some 900,000 years ago. That was before either the T'Kon or the Iconians had begun their empires. But like I mentioned before, the Chodak are not canon, the other two are!
This game will always hold a special place in my heart!! I remember when a friend's father just purchased a $2,000.00 IBM computer running windows 95 (which back then, was like $8,000.00). And all I had was an old Apple II. I would go over to my friends house to play on their awesome computer. And one day their father purchased this game, and we all sat around him watching him play it. Finally after a week, I got to play it by myself. Was a huge Star Trek fan, and this was amazing to my teenage eyes!! I later was able to afford my own windows 98 pc and purchased the special edition. I still have the box and game to this day! Every couple years I play this game (or try to play this game) when I can. I'd give anything to play an updated version of this game some day!!
Thank you SO much for putting this out here! I just used your longplay to find the Chodak logo so I could have it commissioned at a fan-convention! ...Granted, it was a My Little Pony convention, but the vendor was selling coasters from other fandoms---and now I'm getting a chodak coaster!! :3
I remember back in the late 90s video game companies were obsessed with animation like this in their games. Lots of PC games came out with animation like this.
1:47:00 I got stuck here and couldn't progress for like years, then came back to it, solved it and completed the game. Weird how getting stuck in a game before you had the internet just meant that you were pretty much done, lol.
I was a total sadist when playing this game, I'd get stuck at a point, go "fuck it" and just plot a route to Romulan space and let the ship get blown the fuck up over and over lol, oh I am so downloading this!
Wow. I still remember the sttng coding to boot this game up in Ms dos. I could never get past the jungle planet. Granted I was 9. Thank you for uploading this I always wondered how it ended
I started playing this game in 1996. I'm grateful I finally get to see how it ended. At the time I was only 9 and had no idea what Star Trek was or how any of it worked, I never got past the first planet lol then dad upgraded the PC and it wouldn't play anymore. I've been waiting so long to see those damn closing credits lol. Thanks :)
Interesting how the Federation was going to allow Morassia to join the Federation despite the fact that they treated men as 2nd class citizens. The Federation would never allow one of its member worlds to have that kind of inequality among its population. I can guarantee you that if the situation was reversed and that Morassia was Patriarchal and women were 2nd class citizens (and you heard snarky comments like, "I'm not used to seeing a woman in command."), it's a pretty good bet their membership request would be denied until both genders were consirered equal.
Found this disc in my box of old games but not sure how to get it working. Or have the patience to get it working in a dos emulator:) was awesome when I played it 20 years ago.
I second the recommendation of DOSBOX. Worked great! You have to “mount” the drive it is installed on (DOSBOX command), mount the CD drive. Make sure when you mount you add the Cd Rom command -t cd rom. The new CD drives are so fast that the game thinks they are too slow when you install it. Test sound and video in setup before you play, otherwise you won’t hear sound at first. Learned these along the way and it ran like a charm after. Good luck!
Anyone else fall asleep watching this? Interesting game but all that time with the player muddling their way in the preserve like a drunken toddler was less enjoyable than being constipated
I used to love going rogue with the Enterprise...ignoring Starfleet's orders, relaying distress calls to them while I took the crew exploring, starbase-hopping, charting the unexplored sectors, etc. Admiral Williams was probably pretty po'd about it lol.
Pretty sure there is a way to activate the holotable in the right side engineering room in the first mission. Can't remember if it works on its own or if you need to repair it but I've never found a TH-cam video where a player shows it... the table shows the whole station if I recall correctly.
I still have this game including the large box with the communicator, I vaguely remember playing at years ago. Unfortunately I don't have a computer that will run older games like this. Or the software like dosbox.
42:27 When I played Fallout 4, I could have sworn Nathan Filmore was the same voice actor as Dr. Griems. I was waiting for him to say "Jetisin it? nnnNNNNOOOOO!!" Alas, Bruce Thomas and Sean Owens are two totally different people. fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Nathan_Filmore
OMG! I remember playing this game! I couldn’t get very far because I was too young. I’d love to be able to play this game again. I wonder if it’s possible without an old computer.
TONS of voice acting in this game. They should remake it with a modern game engine with much more advanced graphics, since they already have all the voices.
How on earth did I miss this, as a huge fan of TNG back then? I did play 25th anniversary back then and really liked it! A poor choice was to use photo imagery, they look clunky and out of place, but otherwise it looks pretty neat.
This was my first true 'modern' pc game, I got it for my birthday... Sure it was super limited in what you could do and I mostly remember flying off in to the natural zone to fight random warbirds then having to balance out my repair power to fix the ship but it was good fun.
The only complaints I have about the game was you could explore as much as you want but there's no reward for it. No secret missions, no easter eggs, there's really no reason to fly anywhere that's not directly related to a mission.
@@ReflectionOfPerfection yeah but it was what 1995 or 96, I think it was pretty good for its time. Today that would be super annoying not having a more open world, and a huge knock on the game. Honestly the first space game I can remember playing like that was Mass Effect.
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This was one of the most faithful Star Trek games produced. I know a lot of people prefer more combat in their games, but I thought this game had a sufficient amount. The plot was interesting, the puzzles were at least semi-realistic and didn't seem too contrived, and each character had their own advantages and responses. Love it! This one's my favorite!
Agreed, for me it's the game that probably feels closest to a proper TNG episode
2:29:49 That song soothed me to my core when I played this as a kid. It soothes me to this day! Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
- We are being hailed!
- Fire.
- We are being hailed!
- Fire.
- The Romulan Warbird has been destroyed.
Thank you, this is truly one of the best games based on an existing setting ever made. Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Star Trek: Judgement Rites are also great, and unbelievably faithful to the source material. They are al like lost episodes.
Totally agree. All brilliant games. Great shame Secret of Vulcan Fury was never completed.
I remember having 25th Anniversary on my first (home-built) computer as a kid, and it was a blast, playing with the joystick etc. I used the predecessors of the internet, Prodigy & CompUServe & AmericaOnline! to get the walk-through etc. but when I got A Final Unity (years later, on a better computer...) -- I COULD NOT FREAKING FIGURE IT OUT. It's hilarious to me now, to watch it, how complicated it was. How the hell was a 15-16 year old supposed to understand that stuff ? Nowadays, kids can program hacking computers before they can play wiffleball lol.
25th aniversary and JR is what should be the fourrth and fifth seasons of TOS. TAS is good but they didn’t explain Chekhov’s absence .
Technically A Final Unity could be considered almost a series arc or Series 6.5/7.5 as 47111.1 puts it almost literally between Descent and Liasons....but my gut says between Timescape and Liasons would have been a better fit given the narrative.
Either way this is a game sorely overdue a remaster, hell even a faithful update and a third person adventure style update as some of the scenery would be absolutely ball clenching beautiful in full 3d (Morassia/Allanor/Horst 3 to name my 3 favourite artistically designed planets)
@@Ser_Arthur_Dayne eh i disagree. kids these days wouldnt even be able to launch the game in DOS
I had this game back in 96 on a slow computer. glad i was finally able to see actual game play and know the story
me too needed a dx chip, i only had a 486 sx, the combat was so slow i couldnt play it. those were the days!
I was in the exact same position, in '96.
I had the issue of we had a custom computer built but the place cut corners and didn’t install all the drivers so for like 10 years we never knew why we couldnt run the game, because you couldn’t run it inside windows
I actually was a teenager with a pretty damn good computer back then, but I couldn't figure this fuckin game out for the life of me lol... I never actually accomplished anything, just messed around with stuff 😆
Little funny info about the Mertens Orbital Station:
When you walk into engineering to meet Dr Griems for the first time, he has a sarcastic remark for whoever character is being controlled at the time.
For example, if you walk in and Worf is set, he’ll say “In barges all of Starfleet…including a Klingon! Wonderful, try not to break anything while you’re here!”
Wow those voice-overs are awesome.
Funny you mention that since the TNG crew voiced the characters they played on the show.
looks like the way Riker shifts back and forth on the bridge he needs to..... take a seat
Well, the actor who played Riker has a bad back. Even during the times of shooting the series. Reason why he seemed to be standing a lot and never sat in a chair normally, the Riker Maneuver as the fandom dubbed it. Sitting for him was really really bad on him. Even in Picard series. Riker, even in his older age, you can see how hunched over he is. Barely able to walk in some scenes. Hey when running it was more of a jog.
Yep number one needs to take a number two 😆
This game was ahead of its time
How this story never got to be part of the TV series is beyond me. I loved it. A very harsh and deep analysis of Picard near the end. It had me interested from start to finish!
2:23:00 I always enjoyed including Picard for this away mission; he had some interesting archeological insights.
I genuinely forgot the scale of this game until the LCARS/Tactical/Galaxy Map and then I was like whoa.. this was massive for its time. Many fond memories even though I didn’t finish it as a child
This was the most professional game every made wow
most professional? You must've not played many PC games.
@@Silenced23 don’t be mean. I had this when it was originally released and for the time it was very well produced. Buggy as fuck but acting and direction for the VO was spot on.
@Anthony Bailey then it wasn't very professional was it, if it had problems? Lol also the streamer isn't that good and didn't know hie to fix cutscenes.
The game seems pretty awesome as a Trek fan, but I do love the implication that the bridge is just deathly silent with everyone standing around awkwardly when they're warping inbetween star systems.
Lol. Awkward small talk in deep space.
"Mister Worf, how are things?"
"... fine, sir."
"... good."
"Mr Riker, how's uh... how's the trombone practise going?"
"Very well, sir."
"Good."
[more silence]
Praying for Q to appear and break the monotony
Truly, one of the best games created in my lifetime. It feels exactly like an episode of The Next Generation.
This was the first pc game i ever bought before i even owned a pc.
Such good memories.
Riker / Troi: I’m sorry Captain I don’t have any suggestions now.
Picard: (looks at camera) My senior staff, everyone.
😆
😂😂😂😂
Data: I suggest we contact Starfleet
I should like to consider the situation a bit further.
The audio quality is surprisingly good for a mid-90s computer game
They were using CD's by this point... cd quality audio is usually sufficient
That was one of the reasons I switched from Amiga to PC in 1995.
Always loved the Chodak atmospheric sound effects.
I loved this game as a little kid. 💫
I played this on pc too
There's better quality storytelling and acting in the first two minutes of this game than in any Star Trek made from 2009 to present day!
That is certainly the truth! All of the new Star Trek of the last 12 years, whether movies or TV have been a vast disappointment.
You absolutely read my mind.
agree.
Totally agree, after Star Trek Nemesis/Enterprise everything was disappointing, the spirit is totally not there..
So in fact just after 2005 the Star Trek I loved is dead, and it makes me so sad.
Edit:
Well, if maybe ST Strange new worlds that gives me a little hope, it is surely the least bad in the new ST since 2009.
Discovery is the best comedy Star Trek that was never made to be a comedy LOL I have fallen on the floor laughing many times watching it and everytime I watch Picard I keep saying like why does he even eat why does he even sleep he's just a synthetic not even the real Picard and what they did did Riker in season 3 with his character my God assembling that watches TNG DS9 Voyager every night for like years I got to sleep on it it's kind of hard to watch TNG now
My brother was big into adventure games and both he and my oldest sister were Star Trek fans. I was too young to really appreciate this game. Years later, I have a lot to appreciate.
Great game, loved playing this. Very very immersive back then, totally makes you feel like you're in an episode.
Playing it right now. Still one of the best!
dosbox? i want to play too!
That Spectrum Holobyte logo at the beginning.......ohh the sound of childhood!! I was 11 years old when I played STTNG - AFU. Awesome memories. If I could get it working now somehow, I swear I'd play it again haha!
How old are you now, Bob?
@@mikehunt8501 I turn 35 in a few weeks, so 34 for a few days more :)
I still have a Mac from 2003 running System 9. I used it to play the game a few months ago and it was paradise!
@@cellio9 I managed to get it running using DosBOX. Did a full play through and enjoyed every minute of it haha. For old times sake I flew into the Neutral Zone and Romulan space picking fights. The funny thing is though, whenever I go up against multiple Warbirds and get the upper hand (it is difficult but possible if you manually control the Enterprise yourself instead of letting Worf do it) the game always seems to freeze and crash. Every damn time. So I can never walk away successfully after destroying three Warbirds, I'll nail perhaps two, be wearing down the third and be close to victory and the game crashes. Every time. Very odd haha!
@@bobpage6597 that sounds frustrating, I loved playing battles in this game when I was young too, it sounds like we’re close to the same age. Did you ever play much birth of the federation?
Who else came here for a large amount of Ensign Carlstrom and Ensign Butler content?
03:24:36
Worf: We are being hailed.
Picard: Fire.
😄
That’s a lovely shot of the Enterprise in the intro
This game is between Descent Part 2 and Liaisons on the TV Series
I love this game so much! I got it as a gift back in 1997, around the time I started using the internet on a regular basis. Looking up how to get through certain parts of it was really cool. I was able to manage for a while but I truly got stuck on Allanor and the hints and walkthrough I found was a godsend! Also, the Chodak are my favorite non-canon race in all of Trek, the Brassica from Judgment Rites being a close second. And in the PC game based on Generations (which I've never played) the Chodak return and assist Soran in his plans to re-enter the Nexus. None of that is canon, of course. But it's still a cool idea!
Ashame they didn't put anyone at helm. It looks off with Picard and Riker to his left. This game was a lot of fun, haven't played it since the 90's. Way better than the console title.
Has anyone ever managed to find out who Tybok is? He's listed in the manual as a character and has a voice actor but I've never encountered him!
Yep, I could never find him either!
Oh man I totally forgot I owned this. Went missing with the rest of my PC games. Thanks for the upload.
Loved this game when I was a kid. Still have it somewhere
I listened to the entire gameplay as though it was an extended episode while I worked, this really was made by people who respected the core material! No attempt to hijack the story or characters for a writer's personal message, just fun action and content!
Can I just say: The middle section of this game is such an on-point tribute to cheesy Seventies sci-fi, I feel like growing a mullet. All this "Gynarch" and "Plegu" and "Pluvoids" and what-not. Almost puts me in the mood to whip out the ol' nerd glasses and try to impress girls with my Dr. Who knowledge.
Don't get mad, but holding down shift will make all walking speed up by at least 3x.
Oh. Now you tell us! 😂
@@eddieolshefski6467 Don't feel bad, it took me over a month of playing this to figure that out. Kicked myself so hard I got a cramp.
@@johngerity Damn. Wish I knew when I was younger. 😆🤣 But thank God I have the patience of a saint.
Damn it 10 year old me could have really used that 😪
Played through most of the game in 97 before I found that out! Stupid Animal planet and walking slow! 😂
3:37:49 Good view of the sky they can see less than 10% of the sky from down that hole.
Can’t believe they got nearly the entire cast to voice this game, amazing!
This game fully understood the assignment that was TNG.
I used to play this a lot. Which is not to say I got very far into it. Look forward to seeing how the bit I always got stuck on is resolved
This was one of the best TNG Episodes. I love playing it even to this day just for watching it. By the way i feel like it would have been even better if the Chodak were called Iconians or T'kon Empire from the last outpost. Inventing a total new ancient race that was never heard of and never heard from ever since was a bit lazy in my understanding. But still, this is outstanding piece of art.
You know, it's funny, I think Spectrum Holobyte was trying to create their own version of the TNG universe in which the Chodak, ancient rulers of the galaxy, were back and making waves. They're actually a major part of the plot of the previous game, Start Trek Future's Past (SNES and Sega), which a story similar to this game's: an ancient superweapon was sent forward in time, and now Picard has to deal with it.
What's really nuts is that the Chodak make an appearance in the following game, Start Trek Generations. Of course, in that game, they are completely out of place and totally shoe-horned in. But for me, being a 12 year old Star Trek nut who sunk a million hours into A Final Unity back in '95, it was like an easter egg seeing the Chodak show up in another game a few years later! I wonder how many other people picked up on the recurring Chodak thread throughout the Spectrum Holobyte/Microprose games...
According to this game, the Chodak Empire spanned the Milky Way galaxy some 900,000 years ago. That was before either the T'Kon or the Iconians had begun their empires. But like I mentioned before, the Chodak are not canon, the other two are!
This game will always hold a special place in my heart!!
I remember when a friend's father just purchased a $2,000.00 IBM computer running windows 95 (which back then, was like $8,000.00). And all I had was an old Apple II.
I would go over to my friends house to play on their awesome computer. And one day their father purchased this game, and we all sat around him watching him play it. Finally after a week, I got to play it by myself. Was a huge Star Trek fan, and this was amazing to my teenage eyes!!
I later was able to afford my own windows 98 pc and purchased the special edition. I still have the box and game to this day! Every couple years I play this game (or try to play this game) when I can. I'd give anything to play an updated version of this game some day!!
Thank you SO much for putting this out here! I just used your longplay to find the Chodak logo so I could have it commissioned at a fan-convention!
...Granted, it was a My Little Pony convention, but the vendor was selling coasters from other fandoms---and now I'm getting a chodak coaster!! :3
I remember back in the late 90s video game companies were obsessed with animation like this in their games. Lots of PC games came out with animation like this.
1:47:00 I got stuck here and couldn't progress for like years, then came back to it, solved it and completed the game. Weird how getting stuck in a game before you had the internet just meant that you were pretty much done, lol.
Lol that's pretty much how it went. I got stuck in the Chodak level with the transporter and got through it with blind luck.
They should have had a choice to beam down data since hes strong enough to lift the debree
Lord this makes you appreciate script writers the dialogue is so ponderous. I had this game never got very far
42:30 This guy always sounded to me like some random dude from the original Scooby Doo series! XD
We will now play the Traveling song (means get the fuck out)
followed by the Song "Watch Your Step" - (or else...)
3:09:45 - You're supposed to stay and fight not run away.
I was a total sadist when playing this game, I'd get stuck at a point, go "fuck it" and just plot a route to Romulan space and let the ship get blown the fuck up over and over lol, oh I am so downloading this!
Wow. I still remember the sttng coding to boot this game up in Ms dos. I could never get past the jungle planet. Granted I was 9. Thank you for uploading this I always wondered how it ended
This is unbelievably high quality.
I started playing this game in 1996. I'm grateful I finally get to see how it ended. At the time I was only 9 and had no idea what Star Trek was or how any of it worked, I never got past the first planet lol then dad upgraded the PC and it wouldn't play anymore. I've been waiting so long to see those damn closing credits lol. Thanks :)
I loved this game thanks for the upload, they don't make games like this these days.
Interesting how the Federation was going to allow Morassia to join the Federation despite the fact that they treated men as 2nd class citizens. The Federation would never allow one of its member worlds to have that kind of inequality among its population. I can guarantee you that if the situation was reversed and that Morassia was Patriarchal and women were 2nd class citizens (and you heard snarky comments like, "I'm not used to seeing a woman in command."), it's a pretty good bet their membership request would be denied until both genders were consirered equal.
Found this disc in my box of old games but not sure how to get it working. Or have the patience to get it working in a dos emulator:) was awesome when I played it 20 years ago.
There are websites and youtube videos that can help you play the game through dosbox.
I second the recommendation of DOSBOX.
Worked great! You have to “mount” the drive it is installed on (DOSBOX command), mount the CD drive. Make sure when you mount you add the Cd Rom command -t cd rom. The new CD drives are so fast that the game thinks they are too slow when you install it.
Test sound and video in setup before you play, otherwise you won’t hear sound at first. Learned these along the way and it ran like a charm after.
Good luck!
They had all the right voices and it even felt like playing a TNG episode. This was peak nerd
Wish there'd been more "episodes" (ie games) made using this engine and game style during this period.
Anyone else fall asleep watching this? Interesting game but all that time with the player muddling their way in the preserve like a drunken toddler was less enjoyable than being constipated
I used to love going rogue with the Enterprise...ignoring Starfleet's orders, relaying distress calls to them while I took the crew exploring, starbase-hopping, charting the unexplored sectors, etc. Admiral Williams was probably pretty po'd about it lol.
This game was bundled with my pc - I loved it but had no clue what I was doing.
More faithful to Star Trek: TNG than a show named Picard lol
Do you still feel that way after it's third and final season?
@@DreFromMaine8472 oh I enjoyed the third season a lot. I don't think the overall show was good but the third season was.
I have only watched the third season, but they seem to have reduced Star Trek to impotent Borg and Memberries.
So tired of hearing the whining about that, have you kicked the dead horse enough yet? Jesus christ
@@jdspencer60 I will say over a year ago when I posted this it was more relevant than it is today.
i like that troi is wearing her starfleet uniform instead of the "counselor " v neck onesie
This came out after the show ended, by the final season she was in full uniform
Lol I played this game on my dad's pentium 75.... Great days 😎
Break neck speed!!! I used my brothers 486 DX50 LoL
Pretty sure there is a way to activate the holotable in the right side engineering room in the first mission.
Can't remember if it works on its own or if you need to repair it but I've never found a TH-cam video where a player shows it... the table shows the whole station if I recall correctly.
Yep, you use a certain tool on it and it shows you the station schematics.
I still have this game including the large box with the communicator, I vaguely remember playing at years ago. Unfortunately I don't have a computer that will run older games like this. Or the software like dosbox.
Great. Copyright issues muted the audio. =(
Only the main theme, rest of the game is fine.
I wouldn't call a Borg invasion fleet bent on (effective) genocide a "petty political dispute".
To a god?
@@TheOmega1989Q would have laughed at Picard for that one
Good thing it wasn't real, it was presented by the Guardians of the Unity Device as the final test!
How can I play this on a modern PC? PLEASE! Someone tell me! I loved this game growing up!
Dosbox is the only way if you don't wanna get crazy.
@@AndreaPannocchia GOG?
42:27 When I played Fallout 4, I could have sworn Nathan Filmore was the same voice actor as Dr. Griems. I was waiting for him to say "Jetisin it? nnnNNNNOOOOO!!" Alas, Bruce Thomas and Sean Owens are two totally different people.
fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Nathan_Filmore
Lol imagine Worf trying to fight off Mirelurks with a phaser or his bare hands
I wasn't able to play this game for the longest time because my computer was too fast. And I had a newer version of Windows. And then I found dosbox
Amazing how the cutscene renderings of the crew are worse than the in-game graphics.
Man this was the best game the puzzels were great.
Remembered directed by the show but no audio by intro? Never played it only star trek borg
Why are you so interested in this fifth scroll ?
Can't believe YT cut the opening theme.
the fluctuations in the fartblast are changing captain ptohtphpt
I loved this game so much! I wanna play it again.
OMG! I remember playing this game! I couldn’t get very far because I was too young. I’d love to be able to play this game again. I wonder if it’s possible without an old computer.
TONS of voice acting in this game. They should remake it with a modern game engine with much more advanced graphics, since they already have all the voices.
Nostalgia OVERLOAD! I played this for hours and hours as a kid.
dame you feel like your watching an episode
sounds amazing! i want to try it!
My first Star Trek & PC game. Unfortunately it doesn't run on a modern PC. The plot & story are great.
dosbox or gog that wrap it in Dosbox
I had this game. It took so long to get the charcters to walk from one side to another. Real long.
How on earth did I miss this, as a huge fan of TNG back then? I did play 25th anniversary back then and really liked it! A poor choice was to use photo imagery, they look clunky and out of place, but otherwise it looks pretty neat.
Is this purchasable anywhere? Or perhaps on the high seas?
TH-cam brought me here 1 year later! Great game
Those old game give me so much "Dune" vibes!
*_Darude - Sandworm_*
This was my first true 'modern' pc game, I got it for my birthday... Sure it was super limited in what you could do and I mostly remember flying off in to the natural zone to fight random warbirds then having to balance out my repair power to fix the ship but it was good fun.
The only complaints I have about the game was you could explore as much as you want but there's no reward for it. No secret missions, no easter eggs, there's really no reason to fly anywhere that's not directly related to a mission.
@@ReflectionOfPerfection yeah but it was what 1995 or 96, I think it was pretty good for its time. Today that would be super annoying not having a more open world, and a huge knock on the game. Honestly the first space game I can remember playing like that was Mass Effect.
Oh man so many memories coming back watching this gameplay.
So the big finale is that the Borg destroy everything? Because it wouldn't be nice to use the Unity device on them?..
6:10 darkforces graphics and midi
this game has escaped my sensors for decades. all those years, squandered. wasted.
If only you had known I had the deluxe version since 1996....oh well...Counselor Lexi is present! Squawk squawk!
Star Trek fans ; this would be considered a "lost episode". Just like "Echoes from the past" of TNG.
I always thought of this as "Season 8" of Next Generation.
According to the stardate given by Picard, it takes place in the early seventh season.
Does anyone know how to GET this game? It looks awesome, though I am unsure how to get a legitimate download link.
How can download this game and get it to work on my PC?