This was the first game I ever found an easter egg in. I have not seen it mentioned anywhere but, IIRC, in the mission where you are supposed to flee from 4 Cardassian ships, if you instead fight them all and destroy them, you will get a message congratulating you, as well as a bunch of Quantum torpedoes. It is a hard fight though!
I fondly remember playing Bridge Commander as a child on an old Windows Vista laptop, I'd downloaded a big collection of pirated Star Trek games from god-knows-where, with Birth of the Federation, Armada, Armada 2, Elite Force, Elite Force 2, and Bridge Commander. As an adult, I still go back to enjoy (legitimate copies of) these games even now.
This game was one of the very few Star Trek games where you're seeing the ships behave just like the shows and movies. In Star Trek Online, the gameplay changed over time to the point that they start flying like X-Wings instead of a Star Trek ship. Even Klingon Academy the ships behaved more like fighters. Starfleet Command series, especially the first two games, were very serious tactical games but there was no 3d movement. I do remember getting frustrated at the Romulan attack segment that you mentioned. Fun times.
yess, I was waiting for you to get here. I was in (though not a modder myself) during the height of the modding scene. If you want to see what that looked like, find the Kobayashi Maru mod pack, that came out in IMO the height of high quality addons. High quality addons kept coming out after, but I feel nothing has peaked since then. Just seems to be mostly model ports these days. A lot of the actors in the game have also played characters in the shows. Brex's actor played an unrelated Bolian in DS9, your XO is Seska from Voyager, and also played a Romulan in DS9. Rom's actor from DS9 plays a handful of characters.
Still my fave Star Trek game! Even with Commander Larsen nagging you all the time. A remaster/remake would be so good, with modern graphics and gameplay improvements. The space combat in Star Trek Online is heavily inspired by Bridge Commander.
Several of the actors had been on Star Trek before with the Commander being Seska on Voyager. Also Start Trek Bridge Crew non-vr is very much the same game and obviously intended for VR. It gave a friend of mine and I the same VR nausea that VR games give me. ST Online has some really good ship combat as you mentioned with the added benefit of customization. But yeah this is one of the games that I'm surprised never had any imitators and is beloved. There are only a few Star Trek games besides this that stick in my memory: Unity I had forgotten about until I saw videos on recently Birth of the Federation I get the itch to go back to every few years but never do Star Trek Borg and Start Trek Klingon were essentially episodes of Star Trek in full live action (Including Q!) that I adored until they stopped being supported in modern Windows.
3:34 That character (Felix, was it?) looks so much like Dwayne Johnson/The Rock. And he even did his sideburns exactly like that around 2001. Also, Admiral Liu reminds me of Michelle Yeoh.
"Using stylized graphics instead of photorealism was a good choice" "But also how come the characters don't look better than the digitized photo from Final Unity?"
Did you know if you disable the Romulan Warbird using a shuttle you can fly through the middle of it….. the voice of someone who spent way too long with the game to find that out.
This was the first game I ever found an easter egg in. I have not seen it mentioned anywhere but, IIRC, in the mission where you are supposed to flee from 4 Cardassian ships, if you instead fight them all and destroy them, you will get a message congratulating you, as well as a bunch of Quantum torpedoes. It is a hard fight though!
I know that fight well! I always warped away. It certainly would be tough, but I would have loved some Quantum torpedoes!
I would recommend playing this game with the Bridge Commander Legacy Mod. It updates the graphics without changing the combat mechanics.
I fondly remember playing Bridge Commander as a child on an old Windows Vista laptop, I'd downloaded a big collection of pirated Star Trek games from god-knows-where, with Birth of the Federation, Armada, Armada 2, Elite Force, Elite Force 2, and Bridge Commander. As an adult, I still go back to enjoy (legitimate copies of) these games even now.
This game was one of the very few Star Trek games where you're seeing the ships behave just like the shows and movies. In Star Trek Online, the gameplay changed over time to the point that they start flying like X-Wings instead of a Star Trek ship. Even Klingon Academy the ships behaved more like fighters. Starfleet Command series, especially the first two games, were very serious tactical games but there was no 3d movement.
I do remember getting frustrated at the Romulan attack segment that you mentioned. Fun times.
yess, I was waiting for you to get here.
I was in (though not a modder myself) during the height of the modding scene. If you want to see what that looked like, find the Kobayashi Maru mod pack, that came out in IMO the height of high quality addons. High quality addons kept coming out after, but I feel nothing has peaked since then. Just seems to be mostly model ports these days.
A lot of the actors in the game have also played characters in the shows. Brex's actor played an unrelated Bolian in DS9, your XO is Seska from Voyager, and also played a Romulan in DS9. Rom's actor from DS9 plays a handful of characters.
Still my fave Star Trek game! Even with Commander Larsen nagging you all the time. A remaster/remake would be so good, with modern graphics and gameplay improvements. The space combat in Star Trek Online is heavily inspired by Bridge Commander.
Several of the actors had been on Star Trek before with the Commander being Seska on Voyager. Also Start Trek Bridge Crew non-vr is very much the same game and obviously intended for VR. It gave a friend of mine and I the same VR nausea that VR games give me. ST Online has some really good ship combat as you mentioned with the added benefit of customization. But yeah this is one of the games that I'm surprised never had any imitators and is beloved.
There are only a few Star Trek games besides this that stick in my memory:
Unity I had forgotten about until I saw videos on recently
Birth of the Federation I get the itch to go back to every few years but never do
Star Trek Borg and Start Trek Klingon were essentially episodes of Star Trek in full live action (Including Q!) that I adored until they stopped being supported in modern Windows.
3:34
That character (Felix, was it?) looks so much like Dwayne Johnson/The Rock. And he even did his sideburns exactly like that around 2001.
Also, Admiral Liu reminds me of Michelle Yeoh.
"Using stylized graphics instead of photorealism was a good choice"
"But also how come the characters don't look better than the digitized photo from Final Unity?"
Have you done videos of the FPS games, Klingon Honour Guard and the two Elite Force games?
Did you know if you disable the Romulan Warbird using a shuttle you can fly through the middle of it….. the voice of someone who spent way too long with the game to find that out.
Wow, that’s dedication 😀
Star trek legacy too.. not that I would recommend that
Oh I’ve never actually played it… for some reason I thought it was an RTS :/
Might have to check it out…
it's fun with mods on PC, but yeah outside of the gimmick of having all the captains back, it's pretty boring by default.