he Star Trek franchise has been called many things by many people.  Recently, it was called the second most durable franchise ever next to Ian Fleming's James Bond. The enormous timeline and universe had spanned 10 movies, 726 TV episodes and over two dozen games. Condensing all of that down to one game is one hell of a feat. Mad Doc and Bethesda, two companies very familiar with large-scale games, have taken on the task of this rather large endeavor. Gary Conti, the Associate Producer for Star Trek: Legacy recently gave us a demo of the title and we have video of the entire presentation.

Star Trek: Legacy is an action/strategy game for Xbox 360 and the PC that will allow players to relive some of the most epic ship battles in Star Trek’s chronicle and create some of their own. The title will span over 225 years of Star Trek history and begin in era of Enterprise headed by Captain Archer during the years 2151-2155. The timeline will then move forward through the original Star Trek series and then on into the Next Generation era which also includes Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

A good way to describe Legacy would be a mix of an RPG, RTS and squad-based shooter all rolled up into one. The entire game’s focus will be put on the ships of the Federation. Players will command up to four ships at once and have total control over all of them. Or if you don’t want to worry about all four, the AI can govern the other ships and you can focus on just one. As you progress through game (and time) new ships and technology will become available. With the new tech, your ships can be upgraded and outfitted much like an RPG. This will happen on a universal scale. If you have advanced 120 years in technology, so will the Klingons and Romulans.

While hanging out at a certain video game convention, we were given a very cool demo of Legacy by Conti. He showed us many of our favorite ships from the shows like the Enterprise and the Defiant. We also get to see the most famous Star Trek battle of all time, Kirk versus Kahn.

We have made the demo available in both a full screen 16:9 version and a smaller-sized version for a quicker download.