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Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force

Trivia

In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/2001) Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force was named as "Best Action Game in 2000" and received a special award as "Best Star Trek Game in 2000".

If you fire on a fellow officer, you'll quickly find yourself being targeted by numerous other personnel. If you actually survive the attack for 30 seconds, you are shown to be in the brig, being lectured by a cast member. The cast members actually follow a list, so if you quicksave before you kill a shipmate, you can hear all the crew members lecture you about your criminal actions.

Contributed by Santa (847) on Aug 06, 2006.

Whether you play as a man or a woman, you end up being flirted with by a female character. This is almost certainly an oversight by the programmers, and is ironic as the Star Trek lineage has usually shied away from having overtly homosexual characters. The series' original creator Gene Roddenberry was reportedly in favor of the idea, note that the various Star Trek series have often been ahead of their time in having a multiracial cast. Other members of the staff (especially Executive Producer Rick Berman) had ruled against diverse orientations.

In the Gamasutra Postmortem for Elite Force, the developers note the challenges behind tweaking the PC-controlled Elite Force members' AI. Initially, the Elite Force was too good, killing most of the enemies and leaving little for the player to do. Then they made the team less effective, but this resulted in the enemies killing them off unless the player protected them. The solution was to have the Elite Force be less effective, but have the enemies target the player more than the rest of the team.

Contributed by Terrence Bosky (5237) on May 10, 2004.

Often described as the game that broke the Star Trek curse of bad games based on the license.

PC Gamer gave it a 93%.

Contributed by Santa (847) on Apr 18, 2004.

Because of Paramount licensing requirements, The game was developed so none of the TV characters would be killed. Raven opted to create the Elite Force in compliance of the requirement.

Contributed by Santa (847) on Apr 18, 2004.

The alternate federation you encounter mid-game is taken from the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of the original Star Trek series, in which captain Kirk got trapped in an alternate universe where the federation is actually an evil dictatorial conglomerate.

As told by project lead Brian Pelletier, originally if you left Foster to be assimilated by the Borg, he would appear in the end to help you fight the Forge Boss (in fact, the Borg were supposed to help you anyway) however this final team-up was scrapped from the game at the last moment because of time constraints and AI problems, so Foster had to go.

Some members of the Elite Force are named after employees of Raven. For example, Rick Biessman is named after Eric Biessman, who did Holomatch Level Design for the game. Other examples include Odell, Foster and Munro.

Devon Raymond, the woman who does the voice for Alexandria Munroe, also appears in the Voyager TV series finale as a cadet.

Hopelessly diehard piece of trivia. While most of the hazard team characters were invented specifically for the game, Chell the paranoid bolian is actually a minor character from the Voyager TV show who appears in the episodes "Repression" and "Learning Curve". He's also played by the same guy who does his voice in the game.

The game actually installs TWO icons to your desktop: one for the single-player campaign, and a separate icon for the multi-player Holomatch.

When the game was first released, Jeri Ryan wasn't available to do the voice-overs, and a sound-alike was used. All other TV cast members contributed their own voice to their cyber-counterparts. Jeri's voice was added in the latest official V1.2 patch.

You can play as either male (Alexander) or female (Alexandria) in the single-player game. The in-game characters simply refer to you as "Alex", or Ensign Munro.

During the "R & R" mission, after visiting the mess hall, you can visit your quarters. Inside, you'll find a PADD with "Vulcan Love Slave 3: P'orn Farr" as the content... No, you can't really read it.

A patch has been released which replaces the actress who played Seven Of Nine in the game with Jeri Ryan, the real actress from the TV series.

The box of the collector's edition looks like a Borg cube (at least the german version).

A Collector's Edition of the game was available, including a Collector's Pin, a comic book telling the game's story and an extra CD containing music and art from the game.