Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force is a first-person shoot-em-up, developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It is considered to be one of the best Star Trek games of its time.
As part of a special unit aboard the USS Voyager, the Hazard Team, you are assigned to protect the ship from hostile encounters. You play as either Ensign Alexander Munro or Alexandra Munro.
The Levels
There are various levels in the game, each level made up of various sections or sub-levels. Also, between levels is interaction with the crew of Voyager, and mission briefings from Lieutenant Commander Tuvok.
The basic levels are as follows. Please bear in mind this is effectively a spoiler for the game.
- Alex Munro has to rescue his Hazard Team crewmates when on a mission on a Borg Cube testing Seven of Nine's I-MOD (see below). The mission ends in failure, and it is revealed that the scenario was merely a Holodeck simulation by Tuvok.
- While speaking to Tuvok, the USS Voyager comes under attack by an unknown ship. Upon destruction of this ship, Voyager is transported to a graveyard of alien ships. The ship quickly comes under attack from a group of Scavengers, who steal valuable cargo. Desperate for information on the graveyard and with a dampening field in the area slowly draining power, Captain Janeway orders the Hazard Team beamed to a supposedly abandoned ship. However, the team is attacked and the vessel's shields raised. Trying to cut primary power, the "Captain" of the vessel appears to Munro and begs them not to do so, as his crew in hibernation would die. A peace treaty and exchange of information is granted.
- B'Elanna Torres discovers Isodesium, a rare isotope, could be used to counter the effects of the power drain long enough to effect repairs and warp out. The only problem is the only isodesium is on the Scavenger's base - a station made up of the remains of a Mirror Universe's Constitution-class starship, a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, a Hirogen hunting vessel and a Malon freighter. Infiltrating the base, you find the isodesium, rescue your teammates and prepare to set up pattern enhansers to beam out - Borg beam in, steal Lieutenant Foster and the Isodesium, and beam out.
- On a mission to rescue the Isodesium, Munro leads a mission onto a Borg Cube, also in the graveyard. There is a chance for the player to rescue Foster. The Borg offer to surrender the Isodesium if they defeat Species 8472, who were attacking the Cube when they were transported to the graveyard. The Hazard Team succeed, yet the Borg double-cross them. However, the Hazard Team escape, with the Isodesium.
- Back on Voyager, a vessel approaches Voyager from the Forge, the structure at the centre of the graveyard emitting the dampening field. With Voyager's weapons still offline, Tuvok suggests using a nearby abandoned Gunship, essentially a huge cannon with a barrel 700 metres long, to destroy the invaders. After stopping some Klingon scavengers from taking over the Gunship, the Hazard Team protect Tuvok from automated defence drones and repair the ship to fire a charge at the invading vessel.
- The blast disables the vessel, not destroys it. After defeating the invaders on Voyager, the Hazard Team use the vessel as a Trojan Horse to infiltrate the Forge and shut down the field. It soon becomes a mission to destroy the Forge itself when the Vorsoth, the creature controlling the Forge, reveals its plan to overrun the galaxy - using the DNA of the crews trapped in the graveyard to create a massive army of 'perfect warriors'. Munro disobeys direct orders to eliminate the Vorsoth personally.
- With the Vorsoth and the Forge defeated, Voyager and the other vessels escape.
Weapons
- Phaser
- Phaser Compression Rifle - the standard type-3 phaser rifle
- I-MOD - A device invented by Seven of Nine which fires a randomly modulated burst each time, the Borg cannot adapt to this.
- Scavenger Rifle
- Etherian Shotgun Weapon
- Grenade Launcher
- Tetryon Gun
- Photon Burst - Fires a miniature photon torpedo.
- Arc Welder
Other Information
All the Star Trek: Voyager characters featured in the game were voiced by their corresponding actors, with the exception of Jeri Ryan. However, the later expansion pack resolved this problem.