Scrapping the bottom of the barrel already?

I didn't know, that this game had a PC (Windows) version. Interesting.

Just train yourself to spot when your beloved IPs become infiltrated and perverted by "suits", and accept that there's precise moments when the IP lore ends and there's nothing made afterward.

I've accepted that Star Wars died in 2012 at the Disney acquisition. They even told you as much when they "decanonized" all of the expanded universe and replaced it with slop.

Marvel comics died at the awful amazing Spider-Man #700 plot and Marvel Now! Imprint.

DC comics died at New 52.

World of Warcraft and Blizzard ended at the Activision acquisition and they lied outright on the forums saying Activision wouldn't affect their game design.

Star Trek ended sometime in the gap between Enterprise and the JJ Abrams movies.

Etc. etc

I mean sure. True. But George Lucas being a meddling revisionist time traveler or the existence of the prequels doesn't help either.

Malunky.

It didn't before, it does now. That's kinda the whole point.

It never did.

....in a sad way Im glad Firefly ended with the film.

So it turns out this roughly 25 year old game won't run on my roughly 10 year old computer because of whatever they did to "remaster" it. Sigh, this is why I hate remasters. I also found out that this remaster is based on the Dreamcast port of the game, not the original Playstation version which is what most people played and have nostalgia for. The differences in versions aren't huge, but they are enough to matter.

Refund requested. What a huge disappointment this turned out to be. I might just go find me an emulator and rom of the real original game.

You can't play the original version on PC, unless its emulation because this was never released on PC. Besides that the game should just as fun playing on Duck stations.

Honestly, I feel like Star Trek died at First Contact - going forward. Everything after that doesn't exist in my mind. The Borg never had a queen. They could have easily incorporated the story from the 2nd episode with Hue, where the Borg created a queen to bring order out of chaos, but no. Picard saying "ah yes... I remember you..." in First Contact, and I almost walked out of the theater then and there.

The Borg were a frightening menace in TNG, but after First Contact just became dumb cannon fodder with a narcissistic queen. I hate what Paramount has done to Trek.

I take it you're not much a fan of what Voyager did to the Borg either; by downgrading them from the top dog to making them a major part of the plot and even allying with the crew against a bigger (conveniently unseen) threat.

I think your memory is failing you, the threat was very much seen. They kind of ruined Species 8472 in later episode, but Scorpion was, in my opinion, a brilliant two-parter, possibly the best Trek had after Best of Both Worlds.

But yes, Voyager pretty much ruined the Borg later on, and the Queen had a big part in it. I'm torn on First Contact, because I think that on it's own it's a great movie, one of Trek's very best, but I agree that the Borg Queen retcon was a bad idea. It just kinda works for the movie, and then falls apart when overused on Voyager.

That's why I liked the Regeneration episode of Enterprise. I think it's a real underrated gem, because it returns Borg to their former faceless, technologicaly overwhelming menace role, and wraps up the whole story contact with the Borg into a neat Terminator style closed loop. But then I'm one of the few people who always liked Enterprise.

Hell, I liked Nemesis and even the Chris Pine movies (not on the same level I like classic Trek, but I enjoy them for what they are). It wasn't until Discovery that I gave up in disgust.

To each their own. I personally never liked Enterprise, and only liked the first couple seasons of Voyager. Enterprise rewrote canon which I was not happy about. DS9 and TNG have always been my favorite series, with TOS close behind. I thought Nemesis was alright, but it was good to see the Romulans and Federation allying once again, though for a common purpose, like in DS9 to fight the Jem'Hadar.

Just my thoughts.

Labelled by GamesMaster Magazine at the time as "Jedi Poor Battles". Will still buy it though, ha ha!

I agree. I really dislike First Contact.

I would never argue Ent was anywhere near as good as those three, but I still like it. I don't think Ent rewrote canon in any major ways that would bother me, and I was always impressed at how well they managed the balancing act of making a show that was both futuristic from now, but also a prequel to a show from 40 years prior. I just really liked that era it created of early, a bit NASA-looking Starfleet, much less powerful and prepared, essentially the underdog in every situation. As much as I love TNG and absolutely think it's a vastly superior show, Enterprise NX-01 was an interesting counterpoint to the luxury of the Enterprise D era.

Voyager is probably the most uneven show of the "old, good Treks". The first three season are just sort of ok, seasons 4 and 5 are in my opinion great, up there with TNG and DS9, and then in season 6 and especialy 7 it declines to probably the weakest that era of Trek has to offer. Overall I still llike it though, there was something just likeable about the crew that always makes me enjoy re-watching the whole thing.

But that's just me, like you said - to each their own.