Well, that was one of the biggest surprises of the last Big Geoff’s Summer Game Fest. The long-running grand strategy stalwarts are teaming up with the team behind the popular Star Trek: Infinite teaser to bring a new Star Trek grand strategy game to PC this autumn. The timing is perfect considering there’s fierce competition in the strategy space, but we’ll have to wait a little longer to see just what it’s all about.
Developed by Nimble Giant Entertainment, the studio behind the latest Master of Orion 4X, Star Trek: Infinite is revealed in the teaser to be a strategy game set in the decades before the TNG era. You’ll be taking control of the United Federation of Planets, Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union, and Klingon Empire as they clash – presumably as allies.
Each boasts their own individualized traits, stories, quests, and more, so this certainly sounds like a more fleshed-out offering than the popular mod Star Trek: New Horizons for Stellaris. The teaser also shows a Federation fleet bumping into a Borg Cube, so time travel and alternative realities may well be involved.
Interestingly, the teaser ends with a Federation ship firing upon the Collective – despite the fact that the Federation did not properly square off against the cyborgs until after its first televised encounters with the Klingons and Romulans in Star Trek: The Next Generation. We’re hoping that it’s an alternative reality or some sort of time paradox, but we’ll have to wait and see.
As is typical of Paradox and Nimble Giant announcements, there’s not a lot of information to go on just yet. We’re presuming that this’ll be a slighter game than Stellaris, but with all four factions at the very least, we’ll hopefully see a lot more fleshing out of the Federation and its adversaries than in many other Star Trek games before it.
Star Trek: Infinite is revealed in full on “Picard Day,” otherwise known as June 16, and we’ll be bringing you all the news as it comes in. If you love Star Trek, strategy, and the idea of these two coming together, you might just be one of the many Big G supporters contributing to the Patreon that funds my Star Trek content – so check it out!