‘Star Trek: The Video Game’: Creating The Story [Video]


Star Trek: The Video Game‘s story creation has been revealed in a video.

Remember the latest video where William Shatner fought the Gorn (the big lizard)? Yeah, that was a clever throwback to the classic scene from the original Star Trek TV series. It was also a promotion for the newest Star Trek video game due on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC April 23 in the US and April 26 in Europe.

A new video has been released explaining how the story was created for Star Trek: The Video Game, which features Captain Kirk and Spock in a battle to fend off a Gorn invasion. The in-game models are based on the newest Star Trek actors, so William Shatner’s ad for this game is probably the last you’ll see of him.

The video begins with some cutscenes from Star Trek: The Video Game. Captain Kirk gets a Vulcan woman’s attention, Spock throws a Gorn off a pier, and a few scenes with space vessels ensue.

Brian Miller, senior vice president of Paramount Pictures, says:

“We wanted to tell an original story. We wanted to take players on an adventure they hadn’t seen before. One of the most important things we did was bring on a great writer. We brought in Marianne Krawczyk, who wrote the God of War trilogy. This untold story of Kirk and Spock is canon to the new [Star Trek] universe. It takes place after the 2009 film and before Into Darkness. The Enterprise intercepts a distress signal from these Vulcans who are stranded on a space station.”

We see a cutscene of the Vulcan woman Tamara meeting Spock on the space station.

Brian Miller continues, “Tamara’s a really beautiful, smart Vulcan scientist. There’s a great history between Spock and Tamara.”

A cutscene shows Tamara telling someone, “We’ve been searching for a planet to rebuild our race. New Vulcan seemed perfect…”

The rest of the video is above.

What do you think of how they created the story for Star Trek: The Video Game?

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