Topic: Ten Forward - The Star Trek Topic

@LN78 maybe but at the moment it's just his wishful thinking nothing more

@LN78 true BUT with the news of CBS and Viacom merging they may also have decided to put a hold on all Trek films until that's done and a full road map of future content is done

after all CBS is the buyer so they will be the ones leading things in this situation and they might not want to do any more Kelvin stuff

@LN78 i'm pretty sure he said his movie would be Kelvin if he did one but as for mech revenue if i remember correctly that all belongs to Paramount although i guess now it's ViacomCBS but no Bad Robot didn't have any merch rights all they had was production rights and of course a share of the profits from the 3 films but now they have gone to WB that's all done with

@LN78 well for one the 25% thing was only a guide line but no that was set in place so Paramount could merchandise their films it had nothing to do with Bad Robot, they was just the production company for the films

as for secret hideout and Discovery why that was made under an alternate licence i believe it was so that Paramount couldn't then claim for anything that might have been used in the show as they still held certain rights to anything used in the first 10 movies

@LN78 Never actually settled. Its still in contention though.

@LN78 no they would fall under the original licence which CBS held as they originated in the TV shows but if they say wanted Data to wear the Uniform he wore in the TNG movies or show the Enterprise-E as it looked in those films then they would have had to pay Paramount to use them

but like you said it's a mute point now as they are remerging again

@LN78 well we can but wait and see and hope for the best

All I know is that the quote in the signature of @FullbringIchigo makes me think of this...

@RogerRoger HA! that was awesome

Crazy posting this here but I am now playing a part of music designer for a Sci fi game which is a bit like Star Trek. I am making the music for it and it will release in 2020. Here's the second track called Rover Mission.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2_Dt3s378

It's being built in Dreams and is extremely ambitious.

@themcnoisy Now this, this I like. Strong flavours of Mass Effect which is no bad thing, not in the slightest (and the title "Rover Mission" helps make the connection with the first game's MAKO). Sounds like it'll suit that kinda gameplay perfectly. Thanks for sharing!

@RogerRoger cheers bro. I've got a connection from playing dreams and he's making a star trek game. Its awesome so far and will be amazing once it's done.

@KALofKRYPTON Moving the discussion in here...

Have you never played Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force before, then? Or do you have it on PC, but can't play it so wanna grab the PS2 copy?

The PS2 version is competent but very limited. The framerate is a bear.

@RogerRoger I have. I had it on PS2. I have a pc 'copy' that used to run to a point, but as I said, the laptop is toast and it doesn't support game pads anyway.

I kept the majority of my 2nd lot of PS2 stuff, but the launch model I had and traded went with everything I had for it before the platinum one came out and I bought stuff again 🙄

@KALofKRYPTON Ah, gotcha. If you hadn't played it before, I would've implored you to track down a copy as soon as possible. It's a great slice of Star Trek and the PS2 version does the job.

I like how the show name-dropped a couple of the game's original characters around the time it was being developed, and how it takes place in a pretty big stardate gap between episodes, allowing for it to essentially fit with canon. A couple years ago, when I watched Voyager for the first time in a long time, I paused between "Live Fast and Prosper" (VGR) and "Muse" (VGR) to play the game over a couple evenings (similar to how I played 24: The Game between watching Day Two and Day Three).

@RogerRoger well lets be fair it was on the PS2 after all, i'm surprised they was able to even get it running on that system

still bummed that the second game never got a console release though, that would have been an amazing game to have on the PS3 or 360

@FullbringIchigo Wow wow wow sweet child o'mine, we'll have no blaspheming in here! #PS24life

@RogerRoger The name drop is something I've never noticed! For shame...

@KALofKRYPTON no blaspheming at all i LOVE the PS2 but lets be honest the PS2 was no where near as powerful as the P.C's of the time so it was still a great feat getting the game to run on it and for it to look almost as good as the P.C version

of course on the flip side there is the long load times BUT at the end of the day we got a really good port of a P.C game which didn't happen very often back then

PS2

P.C

@FullbringIchigo haha. All true.

But do you know what PC didn't get? Star Trek: Encounters! Possibly the least thematic Star Trek game ever made, but I do love it.

Ha! Look at the difference even in the HUD!

@KALofKRYPTON i really enjoyed Encounters and you know another one i enjoyed, Star Trek D.A.C, i even got every trophy and achievement on that game