Star Trek - The Next Generation: A Final Unity - Cinematic Intro

[knowthatyoudontknow]

I would say this game was and is the best Star Trek game until today. You never had such a degree of freedom again. You could explore every star, planet, moon and anomaly in the sector. I remember fighting 3 Romulan warbirds desperatly hoping that my warpdrive would be repared in time to flee the scene while losing one system after the other. Update the graphics and add a few more missions and you can still sell it today.

[Kampy187]

Incredible! This was a DOS game?? impressive

[sjsharp2007]

@Kampy187 I agree and it's a good game too although not my favourite I wouldn't say it's far off

[sanderrodijk]

i played this game grey

[4perture5cience]

They recreated the intro perfectly... That's epic.

[Justforvisit]

Want...this...game.....so bad! :(

[sunwukong86]

wow childhood memories

[urbium]

@sunwukong86

I know! Holy lord; I'm 12 again.

[RobTFirefly]

They replicated the look and feel of the intro so well, especially for back then. I remember how much I geeked out seeing that last swooping shot of the ship, something EXTRA the TV version didn't have.. it's like the developers did a little somersault to show off to us. :-D

This game was everything a Star Trek game should be. Thoughtful puzzles, diplomacy and altruism over violence, and a hell of a good story. Pity Trek only ever got a few games like this among a sea of total junk.

[danvrm]

wow, good old DOS games haha!!

[Teiji89]

This is a classic point & click adventure game. One of my favorites actually. It could be a bit

challenging at times. However I think this particular star trek game is abandonware. It might

be free. Just need to get DOSbox running. Don't quote me on it though. 

[sumbuddyx]

I think I have this somewhere. I hope so, I want to get the sound files off it. I keep wondering whether they got the shuttle bays mixed up to how they're supposed to be. Oh well, this was a great game anyway! Maybe one day I'll finish it!

[stevelatinner]

Every Star Trek game since has missed the point.

[jc851]

this game easily could have been an episode of the show... very well done.

[PFCSheridanMFO]

you need just a little bit of anti alliasing and you could sell it again. It would be bought a million times more than LAAAAAAAGGGGGacy and STO (crap games!!!)

[Blackfury1]

@PFCSheridanMFO STO surely has it's issues and was rushed by Atari, but it isn't crap imho. Brought me some great story moments and got some nice improvements since launch. I don't really like the whole way Star Trek went with the latest film and even some parts of the last series, but that's a different story and not the fault of STO.

[Cathode0]

@Blackfury1 By "some parts of the last series" are you referring to the nationalism/ intolerance propaganda? If so, I didn't like that part of the final series either =/ Hopefully STO's custom campaigns don't turn out that way too (I used to play, but before the patch).

Thanks for upping this btw, my parents bought this for me in 1993, but it didn't work due to computer's being iffy back then. I hope this will install in VM ware or a dos box, I've got a back up copy downloading now =D

[SirMafia]

@Blackfury1

yeah its not like there is anything ingame worth buying/playing it except stupid grind and silly "team missions" but still..."good" game,really

[stopmojim]

@Blackfury1 No, he was right, STO is crap. And btw, Atari didn't own them when the game was rushed to release. They were indy at the time. They bragged they could get it out in "18 months". They did it to themselves.

[brybish]

this game has to be one of the best sttng adventures it is a bit fidley to run on new PC's

[ocerg1111]

btw this game, old as it is, is about a trillion times more engaging and immersive than the new star trek online.

[ocerg1111]

I really loved this game, played it all the way thru. The only thing that got annoying wa Geordi's, "It didn't work..." complaint, every time you clicked on an object that didn't do anything. Its still something I laugh about. Try and say something funny to a stranger who just looks at you blankly and I hear Geordi's "It didn't work..."

[wolfpax22]

One weird thing about the Enterprise in A Final Unity is that the red and blue colors on the deflector dish are reversed from what is normally seen on the show.

[rangeroperatorseries]

This used to scare me at a young age. Great video though

[ucdconnectq]

The sound is so crude! Thankfully this show inspired someone to developeQuickTime! :-)

[lcmorgan1221]

Man, I loved this game, but it was difficult for a 12yr. old. I'd like to try it again.

[rocklord2020]

@lcmorgan1221 Hey I played this when I was 9 years old.

[lcmorgan1221]

@rocklord2020 Do you remember the part where you had to guess the pattern of the floating floor tiles to walk across, I about had a nervous breakdown tryin' to figure that out. LOL

[brybish]

@lcmorgan1221 i was 32 ish. you youngsters. i did finish it i think you must be a bit trekky to do it not much i may add. the libary computer was very good i remember

[jayce79]

I'd almost rather them look like cool loking cartoon's than the look of the computerized game-res today. Yuk.

[gobears14]

Parts of this version of the TNG theme sound like it is being played on an organ. It still sounds majestic.

[metallavery]

i rember this game when i was a kid...

[simjim00]

god old DOS game!!!! i still have this game

[Zcontinuum]

Didn't DATA look ill and very pale in this game or is it just me....? lol, Loved this game :)

[Justforvisit]

OMG now where I see this I MUST HAVE! Anyone selling it on any seldom site? $_$

[place910]

is this on xbox? :)

[mygaffer]

Haha, Worf's face looks like a fanny!

[dthejc]

The flyby over the Enterprise at the end of the credits is better than the one from the series.

[MasterMacLeod]

Wow, this intro is quite impressive for an early 199x PC game.

[jhviolin29]

Unfortunately, as cool as this opening is, it nearly rips off verbatim the opening of "The Defector" from season three TNG.

[CynicalVision]

"They have cut off transmission"

Wow Worf, you don't say!

[wootlanter]

Worf looks like he's just come out of a concentration camp....

[SciFiCajun]

ahh, this brings back memories. This game had a good story, especially the ending.

[ThotPran]

Out of all the Star Trek games to follow this.

This is the only one Patric Stewart put an effort into with his voice acting, in the games to follow this, his voice sounds very bored as if to say *sigh* Not another Star Trek game I have to do the voice of Picard for...

I don't know if he just disliked playing Picard in video games, or if it was just the voice directors of the games, but his heart was really very much into this one, than the ones that were to follow.

[ThotPran]

This was the first PC game I ever bought, before I even bought a PC!!!

I wish I could play it today, still got the cd for it as well. :D

I had Star Trek The Next Generation Futures Past for the snes which is very similar to this one, but not as good graphics or gameplay wise. :D

[samethingtwice]

@ThotPran Same thing here :) Great game...

[captainbossi]

That Enterprise is actually very well rendered even by today's standards IMO.

[VinnyVanYiffy]

I had no idea DOS could produce this in 1995! I thought it might've been for Dreamcast!

[cgasucks]

Yep...I remember buying this game 14 years ago for my 486 DX computer at the time....what memories...

[jc096]

where can i get this game?

[petri152]

P.M. Me your address and i will burn u a copy

[JUSTBAKERS135]

what happens?? That would have been a good episode!

[qbrassfield]

hmmm... Never noticed the red section on the back of the Enterprise, must be brake lights...

[TheTurbinator]

Impulse Drive much?

[DraftMasterJohn]

To reply to boxa1500's comment on my comment a while back ago and maybe to help other people. My brother-in-law got my old copy of A Final Unity to work on our Vista PC's by downloading a program called "TheDOSBox". That is how he said we did it. Hope this helps people. Its all I know at the moment. Good luck and "Make It So."

[trema006]

what exaclty does "TheDOSBox" do? does it make old video games work on new computers?

[Blackfury1]

yes by emulating an old DOS computer

[HardWarUK]

@trema006 and you can get front-ends so you don't have to program DOSBox in command mode! Just google D.O.G. or D-Fend Reloaded, for example.

[metallavery]

@trema006 yea but it can be a bit of pain in the ass. and for some reason the way to get the game to work is difrent so most toruls wont work. but they help alot so look at some of them and if they dont work fidle aruond with it intel it does.

[DELIVEREE]

I NEED SOME HELP, EVERYBODY!

I tried to install both Emergency Room by IBM and Star Trek The Final Unity but the CD Speed Test wouldn't work. Can somebody please make a video about how to install Emergency Room sucessfully or how to install Star Trek AFU sucessfully?

[rustynailed]

I managed to play it out. This game came before its time, it was prone to crash alot, but it was incredibly interactive. I wish some one had the brains to reboot that game. To think my mobile phone is more power then the system i played it on back in 96

[trema006]

what happened at the end of the game?

[TheTurbinator]

It's been a long time since I played it, however I do remember that the ending was very well thought out and quite amazing.

[rafreaki]

Did anyone else play this but then get stuck at a point where nothing further happened? My brother and I never finished the game because it seemed to run out of story. We could travel in any direction for any length of time and there would be no action, no transmissions, nothing. We'd completed all we could complete and it just went dead, basically. We weren't going to call the pay-for-tips line, the internet was in diapers, and, eventually, we just gave up. Very sad.

[LMUli]

perhaps it's when you must find the location of the unity device...

[Rudolph4223]

I remember playing this game, took me forever to beat but I loved it. Now to go see if I can dig up the cd and get it running on dosbox

[Spacepoliceman]

wow, this brings me back......

[lcmorgan1221]

Wow, that's some old-school shit right there, haven't seen it in years, thanks for posting.

[BobM925]

Memories! I rememeber going out and buying a quad speed CD-ROM drive just so the cinematic sequences would play properly on my good old 486 DX-4. Thanks for posting this vid!

[garak0410]

@BobM925 YES!!!! I did the same thing...took me several weeks to get it running well. Wish I could get the game to run well with DOSBox...maybe GOG will release it soon.

[sapphirestone99]

OMG! I have this game. Haven't played it in years. Think I got stuck at one part and never finished it. I want to totally get it out and play now.

[ob1benji1]

You say 1995. These are amazing graphics. The 64 wasn't even invented until 2 years after.

[CptPakundo]

It is too bad they resorted to midi music, when surely the dialog was in wav or mp3...

[bigk181]

I remember playing this game. It took me a while to beat it. This is a really good game.

[kendrawhisp]

iwouldn't thy have went to red alert as soon as the romulan vessel decloaked?

[OrcaCraft]

Somebody can correct me on this, but I don't think they would be going to red alert unless it posed some danger or some other situation where weapons were needed (like in the end where they're probably gonna attack the tractor beam). Seeing as how weapons weren't being charged, remaining at yellow alert was fine.

[Blackfury1]

I don't know about other captains, but Picard would have stayed at yellow alert, I agree. The intro would be less cool without the change to red alert though ;)

[OrcaCraft]

Agreed, but I was referring to the comment about the starship being changed to red alert immediately as the warbird showed up.

[samethingtwice]

@Blackfury1

I don't know, since they're violating federation space, which could be considered as hostile activity I'd think that red alert is apropriate in that case. This doesn't even lessen the odds of an unviolent resolution of the situation, it's a precaution. If things go wrong the ship is ready for battle.

In this situation I think red alert is the best choice, ensuring the safety of the ship and its crew.

[sumbuddyx]

yeah that made me think of something. i could be wrong but the immediate mission after this puts you straight into a combat situation. it makes me wonder whether the heightened tactical state of the enterprise, like presumably raising shields and locking weapons, actually caused the conflict, rather than being a result of it.

[sjsharp2007]

@OrcaCraft the other ship was violating Federation space and the captain of the other ship wasn't particularly friendly in that situation it'sstandard procedure to call for red alert I have this gasme and it's good I haven't managed to get it to work on my newer machines yet but weiththe aid of the Dos box I downloaded I should be able too

[Xwingpilot]

This sure seemed like a pretty good one too. I didn't really get too far on this. Obviously because for some reason it would always crash whenever I got anywhere farther than the first level. Or else I know that I would've made it throughout the whole entire game.

[Blackfury1]

yeah, the game has some technical issues :/

[BorgHub]

i remember playing this game.

i got stuck on a mission on a jungle planet and could never pass it

[CptPakundo]

Same.

[picardshero]

Got this back in the 90's I don't remember what store but wasn't planning no getting a game while out cruising around the city. I think it was a newegg when they still had stores, but not sure. It's still one of the best star trek games I have played next to klingon honor guard.

[jack9911]

I still have this game, it's gold!

[johnalang]

I wish they'd put this game for Window XP

[dave929]

Never saw this one. Ironically, there was a Next Generaion pinball machine and that was funny!

[MIDIacefro]

What if they edited the TV intro to look something more like that? Your really don't see the whole top sections of the Enterprise in the TV intro.

[radiohazard]

There was a documentary, round about when first contact was released, saying that the Enterprise D was the most difficult thing to film as it didn't look right from many angles. Thankfully they corrected that with the Enterprise E.

[DoomTay]

Then how did the guys behind this video pull it off?

[Lagamorph]

This is computer generated. In the original series they used a model. It's easier to get whatever camera angle you want with a computer generated ship than an actual model.

[Vampyreboy23]

R.I.P Jerry Goldsmith The best music maker ever !

[R8erNation636]

He did some of the best Trek music, even scored half the films (until it's released, I'm not counting JJ's film). Ironically, of the five Trek films he scored only one (First Contact) is really good.

Very sad that his last film was a Looney Tunes movie. *shudder*

[GeraldRobotnik]

I doubt he will be working for the 11th film ... ya know, it's hard to compose music from inside a grave...

[DELTA1978THETA]

Jesus Christ I wish this game was redone for Windows XP. I miss this game a hell of a lot

[kranktank]

LMAO why is the Romulan chick wearing an orange sweater??!

[Captainjohntaylor]

She's not Romulan, she's Gahridian (spelling i think), they have ships from the Romulans, shown through the Red wings on the Warbird

[kranktank]

ok but she has BAD taste in clothes ick

[R8erNation636]

Maybe, but then again, just about EVERYONE on TNG had bad taste in clothes (aside from the Starfleet uniforms of course). Seriously, ugly one color pantsuits? I'm not even gonna talk about the grey thing Wesley wore for two years!

[kranktank]

yeah and everyone hates Wesley

[R8erNation636]

What about... ummm.. hey, you forgot... uhh... man, I doubt the Borg would want him! Yeesh, Wesley, Neelix, the Kazon, and Lwaxanna Troi should form a support group; Star Trek characters that NOBODY likes. I'm not including Rom 'cause at least he did useful stuff once in awhile, like the replicating mines at the end of DS9 season 5, not to mention he was good in "Little Green Men," which is the only GOOD Ferengi episode!

[GeraldRobotnik]

I kinda like Wesley... when he started growing up and left. xD;

Neelix was quite sympathetic, to me, too, as was Troi's mom, to me, personally. Dunno. xD;

[AisuSeijin]

Whoa whoa, hold up now. Leave Neelix out of this!

He's such a timid cat...

[R8erNation636]

Sorry 'bout that, Mr. Vulcan.

[kranktank]

WOW @ the old animation but points for the real cast doing the voices

[twocvbloke]

I wish to this day that I got that game when I had it in my hand years ago, ah well, I'm sure I'll find it again someday... :)

he intro music seems a bit iffy though, I do wish they could use the actual music from the TV shows (STV: Elite Force for example!!! A rubbish theme!!!)... :(

[R8erNation636]

eBay! 'Course, can you make it work on your system? Probably, but I wouldn't know how. I'm not a computer dude.

[Orious69]

supposedly there's a version of this game that works on modern version of pc's.

[DraftMasterJohn]

My old original version of A Final Unity works perfectly fine (as well as it was designed to work) on my brother-in-laws new PC with Vista.

Any questions: Ask me and I'll ask him and post back.

[burr1aj]

I have a XP windows PC and it doesn't work for me.

[4642eb]

Run it in DOSBox and it'll be fine.

[HardWarUK]

@burr1aj use DOSBox or VDMSound

[Voids2006]

i so recon they should remake this game:)

[Blackfury1]

I'd prefer a kind of sequel. Continue TNG in adventure-episodes or something like this.

[Xwingpilot]

Nice

[DevilMaster]

The Generations tie-in *is* a sequel to this game. Besides being made by Spectrum Holobyte, they added a new Chodak-related subplot that does not appear in the movie. They even had a movie-quality sequence of a Chodak spaceship going to warp.

[avynian]

This game is great. Paramount should better have looked at and got inspired by that effort when making the nutty Nemesis movie which is not worth being the last adventure of TNG.

[motellivin]

yea this game was top notch

[sexmate200]

no i did not see any other videos that i haven't seen before save 1

[SwordfishII]

I wish I could get this to work on my computer. :(

[Blackfury1]

Just use DosBox and it will even run on a Mac or Linux (and many more) platform

[JoshGellis]

Blackfury1, you really worked har don this. Too bad there arren't any current shows or eppisodes of the Star Trek franchise.

[Blackfury1]

uhm, I didn't create this intro if you thought that. Its from a computer game. But thanks anyway ^^ And yeah its a pity there are no current shows but to be honest I didn't like the last attempt (Enterprise) anyway.

[sexmate200]

plz post the whole game

[Blackfury1]

Sorry I'm not currently playing it. But I think there are videos by other users from the game.

[brionyphillips]

ROFLMAO.

The music is shit..

They couldn't have nicked it from the show?

It sounds like a master on their Yamaha.

[tysontomko]

Spectrum Holobyte was a bitchin company and churned out nothing but gold games. Interplay and SH were probably my 2 favorite companies back in the day.

[busdriverohio]

this is the best star trek game ever, too bad it doesn't work on my pc.

[Xwingpilot]

Now that you mention it, when I had this game as a kid, and whenever I made it past like the very first level it still ironically just crashed or something. Back then it usually took us a while to figure out how to get past from one level to the next. Especially when we changed our computer programs which made it unable to function correctly.

[Xwingpilot]

I used to have this too. For some reason though I never quite got any farther as to after one of the very first levels. Probably didn't have a reader's guide or something, ah well. Here's an idea: someone should take the music from this and put it with a clip of the intro of the actual show. Just a thought.

[motion2005]

I prefer the overhead animation of the ENT at the end of the credits to the actual shot from TNG!

[pscott90]

this was an awesome game. i used to play it all the time when i was like 4. i miss it..........i'm gonna go see if it can work on dos-box.

[ToneHufford]

It does. =)

[Firefox13A]

What a great game this was. I thought it had a better plot than Generations.

[Star841]

I'm impressed as they got nearly all of the cast for the voice overs!

[cgasucks]

I bought this game back in the day just because of the intro!! It was ahead of its time..

[mdk317]

Stewart's VO cracks me up.His voice sounds so weak.

[Mazryonh]

Actually, all the stars reprise their roles in voice!

[Aleniums]

link to it plz!!

[misitifilm]

This game was a bitch to get to run. It is the best Star Trek game ever though!

[gdement]

It always crashed on my 486. The furthest I think I ever got was the first scene in this video where you see Picard and Riker. That was a motherboard problem though, lots of games crashed on that thing. By the time I had a newer board, the disc had been lost. I didn't even remember having this game until I discovered the manual recently.

[Xwingpilot]

Yeah same here. I believe we had our main computer programs altered not long after we first got this game. Back at the time it'd always take time whenever we would try to make it past from level to the next. Even when father and I built my first own computer which was at first capable of playing any old game from the early/mid 90s, ironically this game would still crash probably just after the first level.

[darian1968]

I would likr to see more on the out come of this game!! Nice game

[guanwaiz]

a great game - a great experience for every star trek tng fan!

[Goldiney]

Awesome game. Just awesome.

[ShadowLite]

this was a great game.. it's a shame i can't play it anymore. I have the cd but can't run it.

[tsb247]

Wow! I had almost forgotten about this game! I love it!

[hamster700]

ni got it min requirement 233 Mhz i kept crashing on my 400mhz puter so i got a 1 gig works ok

[paralegal2b]

The only Star Trek game I ever bought. Great game. Looks like the show.

[AlexKord11]

exelent

[Beef354]

great graphics for the day

[dthejc]

I've still got this game on CD. I remember my Brother bought it for me for Xmas. At the time my pc was 25mhz and the min requirements for the game was 33mhz. Took months before I was able to play it.

Any chance of uploading the final cutscene? If I remember correctly, it's pretty good.

[rl1712]

Best Trek game ever and the Chodak are the coolest villans ever created even better then the borg they have this sinister and scary image to them especially later on in the game with the unknown attacks along the neutral zone

[CharlesP2009]

The Enterprise CGI animation in this game looks better than the crap they made for Star Trek Enterprise!

[motion20011]

erm, no. lol

[EnterpriseKnight]

LOL true

[Arecibo]

An amazing game. The first Windows PC I got (picked up a cheap, and probably last ever made, 50 MHz IBM PS/1 in May 95) had the display model running the intro of this game on loop. Needless to say I walked out of the store with it (well, my parents did). Easily the best S/T game out; even Bridge Commander misses the point. So will ST:O. Good times.

[Blackfury1]

Was also best ST game for me. All my hope now lies on STO

[pandora50]

I noticed someone asked if you could play the game on xp yes program called dosbox I downloaded version 0.70 thats the version you will need. You have to mount your cd rom drive and hardisk. First you must extract all of the content of the disk on to your hardisk or external hardisk.unzip the sttngins.zip dont extract the sttng.zip file.mount c f:\dosgames. when you have done this it will tell that it is mounted now.

then for the cdrom drive:

type: mount d d:\ -t cdrom.

[Destructor111]

Seemingly the only Trek game to get the warp sequences right, too. Usually the ship doesn't stretch, or the nacelles don't flash, or the superluminal flash looks like birdpoo on the lense, but this game got it all right!

And I love the alternate angle they use at the end of the opening titles. They should have used that in the show.

[Ted2of25]

DAMN!!! Now there's a game i haven't played in a loooong time! Probeble one of the BEST Star Trek games ever made!

[RichardSwayne]

That warbird should get the f**k out our space!

[jc851]

best star trek game ever made.

[CSV1]

Best trekgame EVER

[pyramidhead138]

that was one kick ass game

[snooopie1982]

is there any chance you could post more videos on this game.

can you play the game in win xp at all?

[z4g0]

was a great game!

[z4g0]

[quote]DOSBox 0.65[/quote]

does A final unity works good in XP with that dosbox?

[Blackfury1]

yep perfectly playable for me :)