Star Trek: New Worlds is a video-game from Interplay set in the Star Trek universe. While based on canon concepts, the game introduces many original stories and situations that have not been referenced on filmed Star Trek.
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The game starts after the events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, in the Neutral Zone. A Romulan Starship, the Melak, has been conducting tests with 'Project Shiva', possibly to unleash devastating torpedoes, capable of wasting ships and objects with one blow. The USS Explorer has been reassigned to go to the Neutral Zone to intercept the Romulans, however, the Klingons have the same idea. Claiming the sector as theirs, the Klingons have sent a D7 Battlecruiser to the Melak to intercept them, but the Melak ignores the Klingons and fired the torpedo at the test subject. With a great explosion, the test object has been obliterated, the D7 has been dashed off-course, while the Melak's shields work furiously to protect the vessel. The radiation and blast-curve coëfficient are reported nominal, indicating the test to be a success... until the sensors detect a deep gravity well. The Melak is caught in this well, and is completely obliterated, along with the crew. When the USS Explorer enters the Neutral Zone, it reports to Starfleet that lots of unknown star systems and planets have appeared from out of nowhere! This is the point where the game begins. The player has three playable races: The Federation (who wants to protect these new worlds and study them), the Klingons (currently running short on the supply of Dilithium, since they're at an economic war with the Federation and the Klingon moon Praxis is on the verge of exhaustion, so they see these new systems, referred as 'Tabula Rasa', as a gift straight from the hands of Kahless), and the Romulans (who claim these new worlds as theirs because the Shiva project was tested in their part of the Neutral Zone). Every race has 14 missions, 8 of them they encounter each other on the same planet, 10 missions are the same, but each race has an own goal. The player's duty is to build up, expand and defend their colonies, gathering minerals to build their base and forces, encountering new races such as the strange, naive Taubat, the ancient Hubrin, who prove to be essential for the three major powers as the game envelops, and the extremely powerful warrior race, called the Metar.
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USS Explorer (NCC-1966)
Federation starship, refit Constitution class.
USS Ranger (NCC-1975)
Federation starship, Miranda class.
- The Ranger later appeared in Star Trek: Shattered Universe.