This game looks absolutely incredible and is probably going to be the next game I buy. It has the Defiant!!!

BOTF has the Defiant. And DS9: The Fallen might have.

To those of you checking the Daily messages here.... Is anyone talking about this game on another part of this site. Its a great game, some nits, but besides its technical flaws with the software itself. Its a great game.

WARNING SPOILER AHEAD

This is an excellent game. The problem I have is that if the Borg assimilated a Dominion cloning facility to clone Picard's DNA, couldn't they just clone their drones, too? (Come to think of it, why don't they? Surely someone that they have assimilated at some point has had knowledge of cloning.) Then they would be totally unstoppable.

How did Toral get back to the Alpha Quadrant? I'm willing to grant that he could be alive(the encyclopedia says he might be) but what did he do for all those years, stranded on that planet in the Gamma Quadrant? And how did he get back to Qo'nos, hitchhike? Related to this, the Sword is not located right on the other side of the wormhole as the game shows.

As an ambassador, is Worf still part of Starfleet? I thought that he would be in the diplomatic corps or something. Our diplomats are not part of the Army. Is it also traditional to give Ambassadors command of a ship? Especially when this particular ambassador "will probably never get a command"(according to Sisko)? Finally, in the opening movie, wouldn't Worf's firing on that Klingon ship been a violation of the Prime Directive? The Federation didn't do anything in the last Klingon civil war(openly, anyway) so why would Worf, as a represenative of the Federation, using a Federation ship, get involved in this one?

There are probably others- I haven't finished the game yet.

I havent finished it either. In fact, I just failed that mission you mentioned. My own fault, I was afraid that my cubes were attacking the facility so I told them to get the heck out. I didnt realized I had already assimilated it and the Jem'hydar destroyed it before I could get my forces back there. As for the nits, I will get to those when I finish the game. I am just enjoying the story right now. The game is a little buggy, but I dont care. It is fun.

Does yours quit to the desktop on you for no reason? Mine does and they told me that my installation was corrupted or something, whatever that means. Are there any other bugs that I should watch out for?

Aaron, in a word, Yes.

For NO reason I get booted. So I have gotten into the habit of saving my missions every few minutes. Funny though... only the third Fed Mission and all the romulan missions gave me trouble. All the Borg missions went without a hitch. I am on the very last mission right now. It was tough to get through the first part but I am a bit a ways through it now. It crashed on me about 30 minutes into the mission ( I guess I was doing too well....:) ). Fortunately I had saved a copy about two minutes before that so no big loss. I just want to see the end movie already. Anyway, wish me luck on mission 20.

Oh and with all the bugs/whatever... there is a message board at st-armada.com but its a little hard to follow. Some people havent got the game yet and others have completely finished. I dont want to post questions up there even if I put *spoiler* in the header.

There is supposed to be a patch within a week to solve some of the problems people are having. Its pretty crazy. People using the new Intel i820 chipsets cant play unless they boot into safe mode. Two of my other friends are experiencing the same 'boot to desktop' thing so dont feel left out.

Well I finished it. The ending was nice, thought I'm not sure why they had that piece in the movie with the Enterprise-D, it seemed like(well, it was) filler to me. I think they could have done without it. In the game, I thought I had to destroy the containment thing, but all I did was hit it with the Nebula's shield disruptor and that ended it. Too bad, I was ready to send a massive fleet against it.

I thought the whole thing was a rip-off of
the movie "Star Trek- First Contact"

Aside from that it is one of the best
strategy games out there right now.

Can anyone please advise me on how to get Worf's unusually slow and weak USS Avenger away from the three unusually fast and powerful Klingon ships that are chasing him in the third mission? I've played this one enough times to know that there must be something I'm not doing right, because I keep getting killed and it never takes very long! Any advice would be much appreciated!

Use The Nebulas! ^_^
Preferably The Cerulean Nebulas... Or The Green Ones... But Other Than That... Just Run Like Gre'thor!

And Mine Also Boots To The Desktop While I Was Playing "ALPHA AND OMEGA pt. I"

Aaron: I used my Transwarp gate and a Romulan Phoenix (my fave special weapon in the game, nootch) to finish off that containment field.

I think that the best has gotta be the Warbird's shield draining device. I love that thing.

I've hit a dead-end on the second Romulan level, the one where you have to get the Omega particle from the Ferengi before the Cardassians do using the tug.

The Romulan tug arrived at my base, but I intercepted the Cardassian tug and took it over, and used that to tow the particle back to my base. Once I got it there, I ordered that the Romulan tug be dismantled, and as soon as it was Sela said that it had been destroyed and that we needed a new one. When that arrived (and after my Ferengi 'allies' had taken potshots at it for some reason) I used its tractor beam on the particle, and nothing happens. Am I missing something obvious that needs to be done?

Just to be on the safe side, I've had my fleet roaming around checking that there aren't any Cardassians hiding in the corners of the map, and I've been using that thing that makes a hole in the space/time continuum to kill all the Ferengi...

Agh...I just redid the whole mission, used the Romulan tug to take Omega back to my base, and *still* nothing happens...