Are you as excited as I am about the news of Sir Patrick Stewart returning as Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series? Well, now you can nerd out in style with Stage 9 which let's you explore the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation.
Sent in by a reader, who also happens to be one of the people working on it, Stage 9 aims to recreate the entirety (inside and out) of the Enterprise-D using Unreal Engine 4. They also gave me a little fun fact, that the Linux version seems to be more popular than the Mac version.
You can see a recent release video below:
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Performance is a bit hit and miss and at one point I had to perform an emergency transport, as I seemed to fall out of the Turbolift into space—quite amusing. I also got blown up in a warp core breach, so that was certainly something.
Also, they recently shared an update on progress towards the next version:
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A fun idea, will be interesting to see how far they can push it. As much as I love some fan projects, I do fear the eventual copyright hammer coming down on them.
Find out more on their official website. You can download the Linux build here, once you extract the archive find the "Stage9Linux.sh" file and run it. They also have a Discord Channel you can join.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
wvstolzing Aug 14, 2018
Quoting: slaapliedjeBut to be fair to DS9, a lot of weird things got into the Original Series of Trek
You mean, like this:
Space Hippies
Or this:
Abe Lincoln in Space
slaapliedje Aug 15, 2018
Quoting: wvstolzingExactly like that!Quoting: slaapliedjeBut to be fair to DS9, a lot of weird things got into the Original Series of Trek
You mean, like this:
Space Hippies
Or this:
Abe Lincoln in Space
Ha, the space hippy episode...
wvstolzing Oct 2, 2018
youtube link
Quoting: TheSHEEEPToo bad, really. But not unexpected.True.
“Hey, boss, look at this! These guys have made this amazing recreation of the Enterprise! They're really talented! We could get them on-board, maybe use what they've made as the basis of a game or something, put our marketing weight behind it, and take a cut of the profits! Everybody wins!”
“SHUT IT DOWN.”
slaapliedje Oct 3, 2018
Quoting: DuncQuoting: TheSHEEEPToo bad, really. But not unexpected.True.
“Hey, boss, look at this! These guys have made this amazing recreation of the Enterprise! They're really talented! We could get them on-board, maybe use what they've made as the basis of a game or something, put our marketing weight behind it, and take a cut of the profits! Everybody wins!”
“SHUT IT DOWN.”
Ha, with the exception of the announcement of the return of Picard, I'm fairly certain that's the owner of Star Trek's answer to any good idea... Don't get me wrong, I thought the first movie with Chris Pine was decent, the second one was so atrocious what they did to Khan I will never forgive them... though they tried to cover bad decisions with a comic book, still was just bad. The third was entertaining at least.
Discovery should have been done in the far distant future with some of their tech and how the Klingons look.
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