When I saw the Star Trek: Infinite Space trailer a couple of weeks ago, it was hard to determine exactly what this game was about. If you haven’t seen it yet, it was a CG trailer featuring a number of starships fighting each other. Nice trailer, but a little sparse as to exactly what this game is; last week at GDC, I had a chance to find out.
Infinite Space will be a free-to-play browser-based Star Trek game mixed with exploration, combat, and role-playing elements. The specific Trek timeline for the game takes place between seasons three through six of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during the Dominion War. Those familiar with the television series will know that this was a key point in the series with epic space battles raging across the galaxy on a weekly basis — Infinite Space is designed to be the backdrop for the battles we never got to see on television. To lend credibility to the story and the source material, Michael and Denise Okuda (authors of the Star Trek Encyclopedia) advised on the game along with Star Trek: The Next Generation screenwriter, Lee Sheldon to help with story aspects of the game.
