Star Trek: Encounters
Star Trek: Encounters is a Star Trek video game released in  for the PlayStation 2 console. It is similar to the game Star Trek: Legacy for the Xbox 360 and PC in that it spans the eras of all five Star Trek series. It is the first in a new line of games to be released by Bethesda Softworks who recently bought the rights to make games based on the Star Trek franchise. William Shatner narrates the opening briefing to each mission but not in character.

Gameplay 
The game is like an arcade style shoot-'em-up wherein you move a ship on a single plane (vertical camera) and use a variety of weapons to destroy enemy ships. Unlike classic shoot-'em-ups, you are allowed to go in any direction. Being a Star Trek game, you can target enemies and subsystems, redirect power to your own subsystems, and send away teams. In essence, Encounters is the closest you can get with the unique Star Trek battles combined with a classic shoot-'em-up (like Gradius).

Missions 
Each single player mission follows events in terms of chronological order of events (beginning with the Enterprise (NX-01)). Each mission completed unlocks the next one, as well as new ships and locations for the multi-player option. Some missions are based on events from each series including The Xindi weapon threat, the injured alien lifeform that the Enterprise-D heals in The Next Generation, the Dominion attack on Deep Space 9, and the attack of the Borg Unicomplex from Voyager. An additional "series" has been placed called Star Trek Sovereign, which is mainly adventures of the Enterprise-E and its crew. The final level of the game has an anomaly in the time space continuum form next to the Earth's moon from which various vessels from different time periods emerge, including a Xindi fleet, the Enterprise NX-01, a Dominion fleet, and the USS Defiant.

Mission list

Incursion
 Xindi Superweapon
 The Expanse

Savior
 Cat And Mouse
 A Specter's Shadow
 Dead in the Water
 Battle at Genesis

Shadows and Dust
 Into the Wormhole
 See No Evil
 Behemoth

Into The Badlands
 Fire At Will

The Chase
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 The Luddite Prophecy
 My Enemy's Enemy
 The One Who is Many

Star Trek: Sovereign 
 The Orion Syndicate
 Against All Odds

Starships featured 
The following starship classes appear in the game. Some classes are playable only in head-to-head mode, others appear only in episode mode.

 Starfleet
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  -  (refit)
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  (non-playable)
 Deep Space 9 (playable in one mission only)

 Xindi
 Xindi fighter
 Xindi cruiser
 Xindi reptilian (nicknamed Xindi Transport)
 Xindi weapon

 Klingon Empire
 Bird-of-Prey class
 
 

 Romulan Star Empire
 
 "Defender"
 

 Cardassian Union
 Cardassian fighter
 
 Cardassian freighter

 Jem'Hadar
 Jem'Hadar battleship
 Jem'Hadar cruiser
 Jem'Hadar fighter

 Vulcan
  (non-playable)

 Ferengi Alliance
  (non-playable) 

 Kazon-Nistrim
 Kazon carrier (non-playable)
 Kazon raider

 Borg
 Borg sphere
 Borg tactical cube
 Borg Queen's ship

Characters available to collect as cards 
 
 James T. Kirk
 Spock
 Leonard McCoy
 Hikaru Sulu
 Montgomery Scott

 
 Jean-Luc Picard
 Data
 Geordi La Forge
 Beverly Crusher
 Worf

 
 Benjamin Sisko
 Jadzia Dax
 Miles O'Brien
 Worf
 Julian Bashir

 
 Kathryn Janeway
 Tuvok
 B'Elanna Torres
 Seven of Nine
 The Doctor

 
 Jonathan Archer
 T'Pol
 Charles Tucker III
 Phlox
 Malcolm Reed

Cover gallery

External links 
 
 
 
 
Encounters