were optional, the completion of them unlocked either an improvement to existing equipment or the awarding of new items. There is no experience gaining features and characters do not change over time. The player's interface during the missions has a series of character portraits on the left side of the screen, whilst the icons for the character's items and abilities are on the bottom right. Actions are controlled via a number of buttons on the bottom left. The player can left click on the mouse to select items in the game, while right click brings up a menu to issue orders to the crew members. There are also a series of hot keys for a variety of actions, such as the use of hyposprays or to select phaser rifles. The multi-player mode is based on co-operative play for up to six players on a local area network. Synopsis Setting The game is set in the Star Trek universe, in the same period as the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, 2 years after the Dominion War. It follows the adventures of a team of Starfleet crew on board the USS Incursion, which is sanctioned by Starfleet as a special operations group. The ship is equipped with a holographic device, which allows it to appear as any other vessel. Amongst the eighteen missions in the game, it see the team go up against Klingons, Borg, Romulans and the Federation amongst others. Missions are set on the Klingon homeworld, a Borg cube, Starfleet Academy and a Starfleet starship. Characters Michael Dorn and Brent Spiner lend their voices to the characters of Ambassador Worf and Lieutenant Commander Data, roles they previously portrayed in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the respective films and, in the case of Worf, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Data acts as a technical advisor to the team for each mission, while Worf is an Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Other actors who provided voices for the game include Alexander Enberg and Kim Rhodes. Rhodes appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth-season episode "Ashes to Ashes", and Enberg appeared in the recurring role of Ensign Vorik in that series. Development Activision approached Reflexive Entertainment to create the game, whose previous work was the 2D space Swarm (1998). Reflexive had created a new game engine for Zax: The Alien Hunter (2001), and saw potential in