Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates
Star Trek: Starfleet Command – Orion Pirates is a computer game, the expansion to Star Trek: Starfleet Command II - Empires at War. It is a strategy based game involving thought and tactical maneuvers. The play takes command of one of the eight star empires from the original game, or one of the newly created Orion Pirates. During game play, the players controls various ships and their systems while going into combat against enemy vessels.  It had originally been intended to be released as an expansion pack for Empires at War, but the decision was made to release it as a standalone product.  As such, it was one of Interplay's last Star Trek games.

Story
The story of Orion Pirates mainly revolves around the eight cartels for which the game is named. The 8 existing empires do not have a new story line, just a generic campaign in which they fight each other and the 8 cartels. The cartels however, do have a story campaign which delves into relations between the cartels, as well as touching on a few events from Empires at War.

Credits

Taldren
Lead Designer: Joshua Morris
Original Design: Erik Bethke
Lead Programmer: Marc Hertough
Art Directors: Bradley W. Schenck, David T. Potter
Game Systems Architect: Zachary Drummond
Graphics Programming: Seam Dumas
Senior Designer: Joshua Morris
AI Programming: Michael Todorovic, Zachary Drummond
Audio Programming: Michael Todorovic, Sean Dumas, Scott Bruno
Programmers: Scott Burno, Paul Schreiber, Alex Sherman, Ken Yeast, Erik Bethke
Scripting Engine: Zachary Drummond, Daniel Suleski
Artists: Bradley W. Schenck, David T. Potter, Ed Lacabanne, Nate Simpson, Jaime Marx
Guest X-Ship Artists: Richard "pneumonic81" Knox Jr., Don "Cleeve" Woligroski
Mission Programmers: David Ferrell, Daniel Suleski
Quality Assurance: Mark Pfeiffer
Design: Scott Bruno
Manual Author: David Ferrell
Editor Game & Manual: Beth Drummond
Taldren WWW: Bradley W. Schenck
Audio Production: Sean Dumas
Voiceover Supervision: Joshua Morris, David Ferrell
Line Producer: Mark Pfeiffer
Producer: Joshua Morris
Executive Producer: Erik Bethke

Interplay/14° East
Executive Producer: Rob Nesler
Senior Producer: Steve Baldoni
Associate Producer, UK: Scott Burfitt
Marketing Manager: Allen Rausch
Associate Marketing Manager: Krista Robinson
PR Manager: Heather Greer
Promotions Manager: Gina Cabrera
Creative Services Manager: Kathy Helgason
Traffic Manager: Brian Harkins
Packaging Design: Michael Quintos
Manual Design & Layout: Schlieker Design
Website Designer: Sandi McCleary

Interplay Audio
Sound Supervision by: Adam Levenson, Stephen Miller
Sound Design by: Adam Levenson, Tim Walston, Paul Menichini, Charles Deenen
Sound Effects Assistant: JP Walton
Music composed and conducted by: Inon Zur
Additional music by: David Leon
Music preparation by: Paul Taylor
Music performed by: Seattle Symphony Ochestra recorded at Studio X Seattle, Washington
Music mixed by: Dori Amarilio
Music Editing by: Howard Drossin (Yo Eleven Productions), Ron Valdez
Voice Talent: Maurice LaMarche, Jennifer Hale, Jim Meskimen, Corey Burton, Heidi Shannon, John Mariano, Jonathan Cook, Frank Welker, Tara Strong
Voice Casting & Direction: Chris Borders
Recorded at: Screenmusic Studios
VO Editing Supervisor: Stephen Miller
VO Editing by: Scott Purvis, Jeremy Simpson, JP Walton
Mastering by: Frank Szick
Sound Librarian: Scott Purvis
Audio Director: Charles Deenen
Audio Operations Manager: Gloria Soto
Mixed at Interplay Entertainment in Dolby Surround

Interplay Video
Senior Video Manager: Dan Williams
Senior Multimedia Producer: Dave Cravens
Multimedia Producer: Chris Folino

Interplay Quality Assurance
Director of QA: Michael Motoda
Operations Manager: Monica Vallejo
Project Supervisors: Damien Evans, Edward Hyland
Senior Tester: Dany Martinez
Testers: Michael Los, Justin Hamilton, John Boomershine, Tom Philips, Matt Golembiewski, Damien Foletto, Albert Perez, Vince Carino, Chris Fisher
IS Technicians: Bill Delk, Tom Quast
Compatibility Supervisor: Derek Gibbs
Compatibility: Josh Walters, Jack Parker, Dave Parkyn, Tony Piccoli
Special Thanks: Brian Fargo, Brian Christian, Eric Whelpley, Ron Austin, Steven Pierce and the entire Customer Support team

Mondo Media
Director: Mark Giambruno
Producer: Nancy Fitzgerald
Production Coordinators: Dana Belben, Matt Pomeroy
Technical Director/Artist: Eric Chadwick
Artists: Cody Chancellor, Johnny Haarup, Johannes Huber, Kelly Kleider, Kelley Lamsens, Jeanne Litooy, Mat Smiley

Paramount Pictures
Director, Product Development – Interactive & Technology: Harry Lang
Supervisor, Product Development – Interactive & Technology: Daniel Felts

ADB, Inc.
Star Fleet Battles Game Design: Stephen V. Cole, PE
Star Fleet Battles Executive Developer: Steven P. Petrick
Lyran Creator: Jim Curtis
Hydran Creator: Andrew Robinson
ISC Creator: Josh Spencer

Special Thanks to:
The Inner Circle: Dennis "SFCShadow" Greene (Liaison), Brad "bbarr97" Barr, Dutch "Khoros" Blomenkamp, James E. "Jim" Bruce, James "Remus" Carter, James *TalonClaw" Carter, Nicholas "Korvus" Cioran, E.L. "S'faret" Crisler, Anthony "BK" Daly, Jake "Kirk Jr" Deschaine, Dave "SFCSpoonman" Feiker, Richard K. Glover, Salvatore "0Scotty0" Grasso, Shaun R. Hendricks, Karl "Dark Elf" Hiesterman, Robert "Redwood Elf" Hubby, Jeremy(Jay) "NTDN" Jeffery, Ian "Modavian" Jones, Russ "Tumulorum Fossor" Khater, James E. "MagnumMan-iCoP" King III, Peter "DJSatane" Maliszewski, Rich "YnrohKeeg" Matheson, James D. Pierce, Paul "Heavens Eagle" Schaefer, Matt "Catnip Inc" Smyth, Toby "Viking" Stevenson, Bradley B. Upson II
The Middle Circle and Outer Circle members for all their testing help.
Paramount Pictures: Rick Berman, Dave Rossi, Andrea Hein, Terri Helton, Pam Newton, Sylvia Cascallar
Uses Miles Sound System, Copyright © 1991-2001 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.

Interplay Europe
General Manager, Europe: Matt Findley
Associate Producer, Europe: Scott Burfitt
Marketing Departmeng Manager, Europe: Harvey Lee
Senior Product Manager, Europe: Chris East
Marketing & PR Assistant, Europe: Adrian Arnese
Marketing Manager (France): Philippe Cota
Product Manager (France): Sebastien Pensivy
Marketing Manager (Spain): Javier Rodriguez
Product Manager (Spain): Eduardo Lopez
Marketing Manager (Germany): Christina Ettelbrueck
Product Manager (Germany): Lukas Kugler
Product Manager (Italy): Lorenzo Ferrari Ardicini
PR: Doug Johns / 1-UP Media 
Design & Layout: A Creative Experience

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