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'Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury is a video game for PCs. The story for Secret of Vulcan Fury is based on the Romulan/Vulcan split that occurred thousands of years ago. During the war that split the two peoples, the Vulcans used a space station called "Fury" to destroy the Romulan fleets. The station drew its power from the twin planets and a Vulcan would have to mind meld with the station to use the weapon. The surviving Romulans fled to settle several planets and later establish the Romulan Star Empire.

It emerges that in the game the Romulans are try to establish peace with the Vulcans. Vulcan and the USS Enterprise is sent to provide security. The peace conference, however, is a ruse for the Romulans to try and find the Fury space station and use it on the Vulcan people.

The story for SoVF was to be divided into 6 chapters or episodes (it was initially going to be 8, but that was cut down as the project progressed), with each one focusing on a different male main character from TOS (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty).

This game which was due for release in 1999 had James Doohan doing the voice of Scotty.

The story had 3 main known arcs (the existence of others is possible but unknown at this time). The first arc dealt with internal strife on Vulcan and we can assume that this was the Spock and McCoy campaign. In McCoy's episode McCoy had to investigate the death of a Romulan ambassador that was participating in the peace talks. The Romulans are actually behind the murder and blame it on a Tellarite in hopes of starting a new war. Kirk and co. are held in Vulcan custody under suspicion of murder.

The following two chapters uncovered the dark secrets of the Vulcan/Romulan wars of eons past, which are more Scotty and Sulu based; Scotty specifically has to deal with a sabotage event on the Enterprise. The last arc involves a Romulan attack or war on the Federation when the Federation comes to the aide of Vulcan. (Kirk/Chekov story arc)

The game itself used the new "voxel" technology, and prided itself on fantastic attention to detail. Developers actually bragged about getting DeForest Kelly's forehead bump in 3D, or the the accurate reproduction of Leonard Nimoy's "5 o'clock shadow" on his shaved eyebrows. It's a true pity this never saw the light of day.

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