As long as activision has the rights to it, I'd never trust them to do it. We are better off putting our faith in modders and people who love the game to do it justice.
These old beta canon games were great. I really do think though that Star Trek has kind of been dead since the 2000s, I mean enterprise had potential but it was cut short, I feel like now these last couple of years with things like lower decks revitalizing the series and bringing a new audience and with how decent or good strange new worlds and Picard season three were I’m hoping we’ll see new shows and games (that aren’t just trek online, though that is a really good game)
@@sagesheahan6732 If you ever heard of a game called "sins of a solar empire". there is a mod out for it called " star trek armada 3". Its not exactly the game but its pretty darn close. Play as the federation with all the different ships and all the different races, from borg, romulan, klingon and federation. You can even build stations and all that.
The entrance of the Borg fleet is truly magnificent. The cube jumping in last was a brilliant cinematic move. The eyes are focused on the Borg vessels that just transwarped in, and then suddenly the giant cube, being humongous even though it's the farthest one. Perfection.
The physical 3D box art was so damn good, and the game still holds up all these years later. The Star Trek vs Star Wars total conversion mod by the Project 90 team is still my favorite space RTS experience.
Its Engine Overload ability was useful in principle though its range left much to be desired. A lot of the coolest special weapons were wasted on the ships that mounted them.
20 years on I find myself asking some serious moral questions about the use of the gemini effect special. Like, if it's duplicating the crew, then you send them off to be cannon fodder, how evil is that.... :) Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Very cool!
I have a working copy on my current PC now. Though it does crash a small percentage of the time and you cannot go over 1920 x 1080p resolution. Looks amazing!
I used to set up double and triple ring cannon/torpedo gauntlets around wormholes, any enemy ships exiting an armed wormhole were cut to ribbons before they exited the event horizon
I used to do the same too! One time I played the Fierce Competition map, and I completely covered the top half of the map in station defenses. My friend was playing as the Borg, and managed to scout out a tiny little bit of the map behind my defences. He then opened a trans warp conduit behind me and nuked my stations. Still need to get my revenge...
@@evlmatress when I played as Borg, I also parked three cubes near the wormhole exit in a triangular pattern, and slightly reduced the defensive battery density, and set the cubes to auto-assimilate, as ships exited the wormhole, their shields were battered down until the cubes could beam over assimilation parties, then I sent my newly assimilated ships back to the nearby repair facility to be fixed, they were then added to the defensive ring, I was able to shore up my fleet rapidly, and the assimilated ships were sent off to search for more resources and/or scout enemy territory, if they got destroyed in the process, no loss, they were disposable ships anyway, and allowed me to reserve Cubes/Diamonds for more important duties…
It's crazy to think that Star Trek Online revitalized the Assimilator and the Premonition! I wanna see the Akira's multi-hitting torpedo that does more damage the more enemies it hits in the game!
I remember first seeing that intro when I bought the game. I instantly knew it was going to be awesome. And I was not disappointed! I used to love playing this game!
Loved this game. I used to be able to convince my non-Trek buddies to play it at our LAN parties when we were burned out on Brood Wars late in the night.
Oh how I loved this game. By the way, the ST Armada III Mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is so awesome, I spent hundreds of hours, clear recommendation! The level of details for each ship and ability is unmatched
1:41 there's a Saber class there, makes me wonder if originally there were some plans of having the saber take the role of scout or interceptor instead of the venture or defiant, the latter of which could have been given a stronger role.
I would LOVE IT if I could rip this video somehow & copy it into my game! I still play this game 20yrs later! Thank you GoG for making it playable on modern PC's!
They really gave credit to Star Trek VIII in this game. It feels almost identical like in the movie - Battle of sector 001 3:35 ps.: For a game that is over 20 years old, it´s stil much fun to play.
Much of this was pulled from the original script for First Contact. The movie was supposed be largely dedicated to stopping an Armada of Borg ships using new and advanced weaponry. I'm glad they didn't, it's good for a game, but would take the teeth from the borg if the Feds could go toe to toe with them.
I still have my original game files from back in the day. They actually load up in a virtual machine and on Wine. I had the game fully loaded with mods. The amount of ships I was able to build as Federation was crazy. Some of those were insane, obscene caricatures of starships, boasting with weapons and shields, where one of them was basically enough to melt through enemy lines. The Starfleet version of AoE's Proton man.
couple of favourite tactics. 1 soverign class ship. as many nebula class as you can with gemini effect. keep the original safe and "send in the clones" to the enemy base. Worked even better in armada 2 with warp.
Probably the best Star Trek game ever made (other than Birth of the Federation + Klingon Academy). Thank you for preserving this upscaled version of the intro for future generations of Star Trek fans!
I loved Armada and Armada II.. I little while ago I loaded up Armada II and it hasn't aged well, sadly. Definitely due for a fresh version with modern controls.
This brings back memories. I first tried to play this on a Pentium 166, 24mb ram, and a 4mb video card. LoL as you can imagine, it didn't run very well.
I had to wipe off sooo many programs from my parents PC to play this game... totally worth it. Really wish thati could play it again and that there was an Armada 3.
GoodOldGames aka GoG patched it up to get it running on modern pc's. It runs great. Get the 1.3 fan made patch to give it wide-screen support & up to 4k resolution. Looks pretty good still!
I discovered the acronym "lol" when my dial up internet got upgraded to 26.4 kbps and I could actually get online to play ohers in this game. I remember when they were explaining that it means "laugh out loud" I legitimately thought they were laughing at me for not knowing what it meant. The early days :)
Loved the late 90s and early 2000 Star Trek games dominion wars armada one and two bridge commander and the voyager first person shooters encounter 1 and 2 great games
With what I know about Omega from Voyager I can see 2 possible uses for it. 1 strategy, create fake omega particle signals, then while engaged in combat with Fedation, reveal the fake signals to trigger Omega Direcive protocols (Essentially freezing up ALL controls on ALL Federation vessels) making them easy targets. 2nd strategy, detonate them to destroy subspace so the targets can't use warp.
Question is there a released actual version of the intro theme of this game. I saw a video of a version on RUclips but its clearly a self made version that comes close to it not enough.
I always liked Armada 1 more than its sequel, although Armada 1 lacks some stuff of Armada 2 (more ships and races, ability to trade, more resources etc.). However, watching this intro again, it makes me wonder would it be possible to improve gameplay graphics aswell??
Special weapon autonomy was the biggest improvement. And being able to build starbases without saving up 800 crew and could do it with just 150 and recrewing to make up the difference.
Because it wasn't written by intentionally woke Hollywood communist ideologues.back then they were in the closet and had to use clever story telling to subtly hide their messages. Who ever thought rikers short hair GF would lead us to story hours for children.
the first is the special weapon of the Akira-Class Chain reaction pulsar a torpedo gaining energy each hits. The secord is one of the specials of the Nebula-Class witch makes a duplicate of ship
This is what we actually wanted to see when they announced the Picard-series. The plot of that game was better than anything they did in the three seasons. Funnily enough, Lower Decks comes closer to this.
Back when ACtivision gave a crap about making quality games and gave a crap about Star Trek games. Bridge Commander was my favorite of all the ACtivision Star Trek games with Elite Force II right behind it.
I felt that the Story of the game was way better/more lore based, than anything that hit the screens after 2005. This is what my headcanon is based on. PIC was ok, but just a possibility of event for me.
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Back in the golden age of Star Trek. TNG/DS9/VOY era was the best. Game deserves a remaster.
As long as activision has the rights to it, I'd never trust them to do it. We are better off putting our faith in modders and people who love the game to do it justice.
Agreed, although for me DS9 and TNG were head and shoulders above the rest
Yeah, I liked this game very much.
These old beta canon games were great. I really do think though that Star Trek has kind of been dead since the 2000s, I mean enterprise had potential but it was cut short, I feel like now these last couple of years with things like lower decks revitalizing the series and bringing a new audience and with how decent or good strange new worlds and Picard season three were I’m hoping we’ll see new shows and games (that aren’t just trek online, though that is a really good game)
Just TNG
This game was amazing back in the day, I cant believe I forgot all about this intro.
I played the hell out of Armada 2, myself.
@@sagesheahan6732 If you ever heard of a game called "sins of a solar empire". there is a mod out for it called " star trek armada 3". Its not exactly the game but its pretty darn close. Play as the federation with all the different ships and all the different races, from borg, romulan, klingon and federation. You can even build stations and all that.
Star Trek borg was better i felt
This 4K upscale really sharpens things up. I remember back when this game came out. Takes me back 👊😎
The entrance of the Borg fleet is truly magnificent. The cube jumping in last was a brilliant cinematic move. The eyes are focused on the Borg vessels that just transwarped in, and then suddenly the giant cube, being humongous even though it's the farthest one.
Perfection.
The many, many hours i put in this game. Insane! It was so addictive....
The physical 3D box art was so damn good, and the game still holds up all these years later. The Star Trek vs Star Wars total conversion mod by the Project 90 team is still my favorite space RTS experience.
There is a Star Trek Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion. Would highly recommend it!
STvsSW was an amazing mod. Many many hrs on it
@@ellig63 It's the next best thing, that team pulled off a miracle of their own to get it feeling so good
Man, the Steamrunner-Class is some often overlooked, gorgeous looking ship
Only gorgeous ship is the D'deridex. All other ships look like a garbage scow next to one, or more like scrap metal after it meets one.
@@slewone4905 d'deridex class looks like a damn bird, unlike the intrepid which looks like a nuclear submarine had a baby with Jennifer Lopez
I agree. The Steamrunner is actually a really good design. ☺️
The D'Deridex definitely looked gorgeous in this game. And I was always deadly with the shield inversion beam 😈
Its Engine Overload ability was useful in principle though its range left much to be desired. A lot of the coolest special weapons were wasted on the ships that mounted them.
You know things are out of whack when the sound design for a game cinematic from the early 2000s is better than a modern "TV" show.
These were the days. Armada, starfleet command, elite force.
20 years on I find myself asking some serious moral questions about the use of the gemini effect special. Like, if it's duplicating the crew, then you send them off to be cannon fodder, how evil is that.... :)
Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Very cool!
This was the game of my childhood. Would live to play it Multiplayer again! Thanks for doing this!
I have a working copy on my current PC now. Though it does crash a small percentage of the time and you cannot go over 1920 x 1080p resolution. Looks amazing!
I too we should find a way to play
What I can not believe is how they got the original actors to voice this .
money
They got J. G. Hertzler to reprise his role as Martok too, shame he wasn't in the intro.
Amazing game! Mod scene back in the day was incredible. Empires & Federation was tons of fun, so was Star Trek vs Star Wars and the B5A2 mod.
I used to set up double and triple ring cannon/torpedo gauntlets around wormholes, any enemy ships exiting an armed wormhole were cut to ribbons before they exited the event horizon
I used to do the same too!
One time I played the Fierce Competition map, and I completely covered the top half of the map in station defenses. My friend was playing as the Borg, and managed to scout out a tiny little bit of the map behind my defences. He then opened a trans warp conduit behind me and nuked my stations. Still need to get my revenge...
@@evlmatress when I played as Borg, I also parked three cubes near the wormhole exit in a triangular pattern, and slightly reduced the defensive battery density, and set the cubes to auto-assimilate, as ships exited the wormhole, their shields were battered down until the cubes could beam over assimilation parties, then I sent my newly assimilated ships back to the nearby repair facility to be fixed, they were then added to the defensive ring, I was able to shore up my fleet rapidly, and the assimilated ships were sent off to search for more resources and/or scout enemy territory, if they got destroyed in the process, no loss, they were disposable ships anyway, and allowed me to reserve Cubes/Diamonds for more important duties…
@@MacTechG4 lol that's vicious!
I liked to use starbases to turn those areas into killzones 😁
taking full advantage of building multiples at once to get around the space limitations of completed turrets ;)
I remember playing this game when I was in high school. The game play and story was awesome! Not to mention the voice acting
It's crazy to think that Star Trek Online revitalized the Assimilator and the Premonition!
I wanna see the Akira's multi-hitting torpedo that does more damage the more enemies it hits in the game!
Watching this on a 4k 42" monitor and I respect the upscaling process you used.
I remember first seeing that intro when I bought the game. I instantly knew it was going to be awesome. And I was not disappointed! I used to love playing this game!
Loved this game. I used to be able to convince my non-Trek buddies to play it at our LAN parties when we were burned out on Brood Wars late in the night.
The 1990's and early 2000's Star Trek PC games were awesome! Well, apart from the bugs.
Oh how I loved this game. By the way, the ST Armada III Mod for Sins of a Solar Empire is so awesome, I spent hundreds of hours, clear recommendation! The level of details for each ship and ability is unmatched
I totally agree. After countless hours of Armada 1&2 (fleet ops) SoaSE with Armada 3 mod became my new love.
Absolutely agree
I agree but the borg is very much overpowered mostly.
It's a weird premise but I have to admit the idea of Picard facing off against Locutus is certainly intriguing
The idea of Klingons storming a Borg ship on foot is the coolest thing ever.
Its about the most Klingon thing possible.
In groups of 8 the SuQ'jagh class could take over enemy ships using the commando team ability. The ships had high crew complements to enable this.
Obviously the Borg can't adapt to the Bat'leth and Mek'leth, so it kinda makes sense?
@@Th0ughtf0rce As far as we know they can’t adapt.
1:41 there's a Saber class there, makes me wonder if originally there were some plans of having the saber take the role of scout or interceptor instead of the venture or defiant, the latter of which could have been given a stronger role.
I would LOVE IT if I could rip this video somehow & copy it into my game! I still play this game 20yrs later! Thank you GoG for making it playable on modern PC's!
This is kind of like when you remember something you enjoyed as a child and it looked so much prettier to you in memory than it actually looked.
Man I miss this game was such a great game
that camera swing from below the sovereign class °_°
Armada 1+2, Elite Force 1+2, Bridge Commander, SFC 3, even Legacy I'd still count in that era ... just the best time for Star Trek PC games ever.
Wow, it looks so much better, I waited to see it in this quality. Well done.
Man i miss this game i love the romulan draining shield
I still have this game!! Also Star Trek Voyager where you had a portable photon torpedo gun. Don't forget Star Trek Dominion War.
This game was sick! I miss playing it and wish there was another one like it.
Armada 2. And the sins of solar empire mod armada 3 are pretty great.
This sure brings back some sweet memories ❤
This intro still is better than star trek 9,10 and the new films and series! The armada games are legendary !
the mods for this game were crazy but completely forgot this intro! so good for when it came out
You know it's on when the Defiant shows up!
Even this game intro is better than most Trek out there now.
They really gave credit to Star Trek VIII in this game. It feels almost identical like in the movie - Battle of sector 001 3:35
ps.: For a game that is over 20 years old, it´s stil much fun to play.
Much of this was pulled from the original script for First Contact. The movie was supposed be largely dedicated to stopping an Armada of Borg ships using new and advanced weaponry. I'm glad they didn't, it's good for a game, but would take the teeth from the borg if the Feds could go toe to toe with them.
Wow, this is better than Star Trek: Picard!
Right!?
I hate Picard S1&2, but S3 has been a pleasant surprise. Head and shoulders above the first two seasons.
@@rabidspatula1013 Take away all the nostalgia, references and call-backs, is it still good?
@@lightspeedbearGood enough to be better than all of the rest of the crap that’s called Star Trek in these “woke” times.
And that's what happening in season 3. Turning. Picard body into locutus
I still have my original game files from back in the day. They actually load up in a virtual machine and on Wine. I had the game fully loaded with mods. The amount of ships I was able to build as Federation was crazy. Some of those were insane, obscene caricatures of starships, boasting with weapons and shields, where one of them was basically enough to melt through enemy lines. The Starfleet version of AoE's Proton man.
Star Trek Birth of the Federation and Aramda were my first online gaming experiences back in the days
Realy cool in 4K it looks so amazing. Is there anything same for Armada II. Because it is my favorit ST Game.
couple of favourite tactics. 1 soverign class ship. as many nebula class as you can with gemini effect. keep the original safe and "send in the clones" to the enemy base. Worked even better in armada 2 with warp.
Just as I remember it! Though now that I know English it's not all just gibberish
2:54 I never caught that station explosion also took out that Klingon ship above it until now! Multi kill!
Probably the best Star Trek game ever made (other than Birth of the Federation + Klingon Academy). Thank you for preserving this upscaled version of the intro for future generations of Star Trek fans!
I loved Armada and Armada II.. I little while ago I loaded up Armada II and it hasn't aged well, sadly. Definitely due for a fresh version with modern controls.
This brings back memories. I first tried to play this on a Pentium 166, 24mb ram, and a 4mb video card. LoL as you can imagine, it didn't run very well.
Ran better than on the P90, had to get it up to 180 to work properly! 😁
The 2nd game had an amazing mod community.
I love this game, still play it.
I had to wipe off sooo many programs from my parents PC to play this game... totally worth it. Really wish thati could play it again and that there was an Armada 3.
GoodOldGames aka GoG patched it up to get it running on modern pc's. It runs great.
Get the 1.3 fan made patch to give it wide-screen support & up to 4k resolution. Looks pretty good still!
I discovered the acronym "lol" when my dial up internet got upgraded to 26.4 kbps and I could actually get online to play ohers in this game. I remember when they were explaining that it means "laugh out loud" I legitimately thought they were laughing at me for not knowing what it meant.
The early days :)
I remember the emotion when I got this game back then!
Amazing!!! Better then almost all nu trek and that's just the intro to a video game!
The intro sequence could had tied-in with Star Trek: First Contact.
Loved the late 90s and early 2000 Star Trek games dominion wars armada one and two bridge commander and the voyager first person shooters encounter 1 and 2 great games
With what I know about Omega from Voyager I can see 2 possible uses for it. 1 strategy, create fake omega particle signals, then while engaged in combat with Fedation, reveal the fake signals to trigger Omega Direcive protocols (Essentially freezing up ALL controls on ALL Federation vessels) making them easy targets. 2nd strategy, detonate them to destroy subspace so the targets can't use warp.
The downside of strategy #2 is you can't use warp either...
I need this back in my life
Wow this brings back so many memories
Man I loved this game, played the hell out of it...still have no idea what the fuck it was about to this day
OMG That is amazing! My Childhood!
Question is there a released actual version of the intro theme of this game. I saw a video of a version on RUclips but its clearly a self made version that comes close to it not enough.
they gave picard one hell of a nose
Back then when Activision was a respected Developer and Publisher... back then when things where in fact better for gaming and gamers.
I'd love to have this game again.
"Mr. La Forge, reroute all auxillary power to engines"
"Mr. Data, set a course for the nearest repair facility."
I always liked Armada 1 more than its sequel, although Armada 1 lacks some stuff of Armada 2 (more ships and races, ability to trade, more resources etc.).
However, watching this intro again, it makes me wonder would it be possible to improve gameplay graphics aswell??
I was NEVER able to run Armada 2 without it being horribly buggy on a lot of computers old and new. Always ended up going back to Armada one.
@@carcosajester5830 I have the opposite problem, I couldn't get Armada 1 to even install on newer machines.
Special weapon autonomy was the biggest improvement. And being able to build starbases without saving up 800 crew and could do it with just 150 and recrewing to make up the difference.
@@Sovereign01gog sells it. They got it running great on modern pc's
How is it 5 minutes of a video was more exciting than 3 seasons of STP, all of Discovery, and 4 movies rolled into one?
Because it wasn't written by intentionally woke Hollywood communist ideologues.back then they were in the closet and had to use clever story telling to subtly hide their messages. Who ever thought rikers short hair GF would lead us to story hours for children.
1:50 That borg cube almost destroyed all the other ships instantaneously by crashing into them!!
I loved this game.
Pretty good intro for an early 2000s PC game.
This game was fun, especially with the cheat codes!!!!
2:42 What kind of weapon is it? Is awesome.
3:46 What device makes it duplicate a ship?
the first is the special weapon of the Akira-Class Chain reaction pulsar a torpedo gaining energy each hits. The secord is one of the specials of the Nebula-Class witch makes a duplicate of ship
@@tjarkehlers629 Thanks!
If I remember the second ability correctly, it was 'Gemini Effect'?
This is what we actually wanted to see when they announced the Picard-series. The plot of that game was better than anything they did in the three seasons. Funnily enough, Lower Decks comes closer to this.
I still mod this game once in a while...
The borg cube disappointed me. It was unable to battle with multiple ships at once. And no cutting laser existed :(
Armada 1-2 were so good, which we had gotten a 3rd
i would stay up to like 5am playing this and i had school lol
Klingons boarding party landing on a borg ship, now that's exciting
Now please the movie sequences of "Star Trek - A final unity" with AI 4K!
Try with other intros for ST games, would make hell of a upscaled collection
What version of the game was this? I did not have this intro on the Wii
I might install the game again and play it
Klingon Enter Commandos still get me ^^ awesome move
The soundtrack reminds me of Rogue Squadron of all things.
Back when ACtivision gave a crap about making quality games and gave a crap about Star Trek games. Bridge Commander was my favorite of all the ACtivision Star Trek games with Elite Force II right behind it.
Love it! Fun game too!
I miss this game. ,I'd devastate my opponent with 80 interceptors transwarping like a swarm of bees into their back ranks.
You have to cut it apart before doing frame interpolation and then edit it back together.
2:09 watch this be what we end up seeing in S3 Picard.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around that nebula class firing a weapon that duplicated the Enterprise.
Gemini effect, only lasts about 30 seconds.
"Assimilating Dominion Cloning Facility "
Picard De Bergerac
I felt that the Story of the game was way better/more lore based, than anything that hit the screens after 2005. This is what my headcanon is based on. PIC was ok, but just a possibility of event for me.
Such a great game.
I can not wait picked up a box copy for my win98 machine (wait till the rest of my games come in so I can start and finish the 2nd round of installs)
I can’t believe this isn’t out on Steam yet.
It's on GOG, though.
Patrick Stewart really phoning it in on this one lol