Star Trek - Armada

February 29, 2000(26 years ago)·Full Release

Activision

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Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy

Platforms:PC

Action Science fiction Single player Multiplayer Bird view / Isometric STORM EnginePEGIESRBUSK 12

Summary

Star Trek: Armada is a real-time strategy title released in 2000 by Activision. Its style and atmosphere are largely inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation, incorporating several key characters and starships from that series. Players can command forces from the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and the Borg. The game was well-received and praised as one of the standout Star Trek games of its time.

Storyline

The narrative draws from various elements of the Star Trek universe, weaving in storylines from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as the newly released movie Star Trek: Insurrection. After the Dominion War, the Federation begins the process of reconstruction. Suddenly, a Federation time vessel, the USS Premonition, emerges from the future under attack by the Borg. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, piloting the USS Enterprise-E, comes to its rescue. The Premonition's commander, Thaddeus Demming, alerts Picard to an impending Borg assault. Picard then fends off an initial Borg strike on a Federation installation. Meanwhile, Commander Worf helps defend the Ba'ku planet from the Son'a, after which he learns of the Enterprise's mission. On his journey back to Qo'nos through a treacherous region of space, he is set upon by his longtime adversary, Toral, who seeks to seize control of the Klingon Empire using a counterfeit Sword of Kahless. Toral attacks Chancellor Martok following another Borg incursion, sparking a new Klingon civil war. After a decisive battle on the Klingon homeworld, Toral is vanquished. He flees to the Neutral Zone, where he reveals he has been aided by the Romulan Star Empire. This leads to open conflict between the Klingons and the Romulans. At the same time, the Romulans stumble upon a stable Omega Particle, a nearly infinite energy source. Initially discovered by a Ferengi mining guild, the particle is about to be sold to the Cardassians, prompting the Tal Shiar to dispatch Admiral Sela to secure it. Sela captures the Omega Particle and, despite Borg interference, transports it to a fortified Romulan base. She then forms an alliance with the Borg, offering them the particle in exchange for help eliminating Toral's remaining forces, only to later betray and attack them once Toral is defeated. Determined to obtain the particle, the Borg assimilate a Dominion cloning facility to recreate Locutus, the name given to Jean-Luc Picard during his assimilation. With Locutus at the head of their fleet, the Borg seize the Omega Particle from the Romulans and assimilate Ambassador Spock, who was attempting to broker peace between the Klingons and Romulans. With Spock gone, the two empires go to war, allowing the Borg to advance into the Sol system. Locutus and his armada defeat the Federation fleet, kill Worf and Demming, and assimilate Earth. However, Picard and the Enterprise manage to escape through a temporal vortex created by the Premonition. Returning to the past, the Enterprise prevents Spock's assimilation. Picard and Spock manage to unite the Romulans and the Klingons, and together the three powers repel the invasion of Earth. The combined Klingon, Romulan, and Federation forces drive the Borg out of the Alpha Quadrant and seize a Transwarp Gate, which they take to Unimatrix One, the core of the Borg Collective. There, they discover the Omega Particle is powering the Borg war effort. The combined forces destroy the particle, but Locutus escapes into the past before he can be defeated. Back in time, Locutus, aboard a Borg Sphere, attempts to kill Picard on the USS Enterprise-D shortly after the Farpoint mission. However, the USS Premonition, unaffected by the timeline changes, pursues Locutus back in time and destroys his ship. When the battle-worn Premonition returns to the "present" and sees that everything has returned to normal, Demming sends the ship and crew back to a more hopeful future. The game concludes with a final log from Picard, reflecting on the Premonition's departure and the uncertain future of the Klingon-Romulan alliance, though Picard remarks that 'whether the peace will last or not, only time will tell'.