Bethesda reveals Trek talent

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 August, 2006

DC Fontana worked on scripts.

Bethesda Softworks has revealed that Dorothy "D.C." Fontana and her partner Derek Chester have collaborated on three scripts for Bethesda's upcoming Star Trek titles, Legacy and Tactical Assault.

Fontana has contributed to Star Trek for many years, and her writing credits include work on the original "Encounter at Farpoint" episode that kicked off The Next Generation. She's also worked on The Six Million Dollar Man, Babylon 5 and Earth: Final Conflict.

Star Trek: Legacy is in development at Mad Doc Software for Xbox 360 and PC, and puts players in control of a task force of ships, while Star Trek: Tactical Assault is a PSP/DS title in development at Quicksilver Software. Both games are due out this autumn.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Darkedge #1 6 years ago

    oh god - she's a mistress of cheese.

  • Eldritch #2 6 years ago

    She's a hack, alright. But that's still better than leaving the task of writing to some bloke at Bethesda.

  • Eighthours #3 6 years ago

    DC Fontana also wrote for the original Star Trek series.

  • pauleyc #4 6 years ago

    The words "Star Trek" and "talent" used together in one sentence always make me smile.

  • Fubdub #5 6 years ago

    I'd dare to suggest that bethesda over the years has shown at least some talent for writing, that said having an actual scriptwriter on board for a Star Trek game can hopefully do a bit of good to a series that have not always been treated kindly in computergames.

  • Katsumoto #6 6 years ago

    " The words "Star Trek" and "talent" used together in one sentence always make me smile."

    :o!

    *stunned silence*

    :D

  • Razz #7 6 years ago

    As long as Branon and Bagara stay away from it then Razz = happy

  • Subquest #8 6 years ago

    was going to defend ST for having some great writing, but realised that there really is no point. Those that know this already know it, those that presume otherwise never will. Simple as.

  • pauleyc #9 6 years ago

    Subquest, Star Trek is at its roots nothing more than a soap opera with a sci-fi backdrop. It has its moments, granted, but for every "Best of Both Worlds", "Relics" or "City on the Edge of Forever" there's a whole lot of "Sub Rosa", "Outrageous Okona", ST:Voyager or ST:Enterprise.

    Let's face it, there were not that many scripts written by Harlan Ellison.

  • Subquest #10 6 years ago

    pauley, hope you didn't spend too long researching your response, but whilst I agree that there are plenty of bad episodes, such as nearly all of TNG seasons 1 & 7, there's a lot of good too, such as most of DS9.

  • pauleyc #11 6 years ago

    Heh, no, the only research was to put titles to episodes. ;-)

    As for DS9 - I'm not sure about it. It had very good episodes but to me it too often seemed to take itself too seriously; never liked it that much personally. Perhaps the problem was the success of ST itself. TOS spawned 4 spin-offs and 10 movies; such an amount of episodes was bound to stamp creativity into the ground.

    As for Ellison, I so regret I can't precisely recall one particular ST anecdote mentioned by Stephen King in his Danse Macabre book, it was the best summary of both Star Trek and the network people responsible for the "creative" direction.

    edit: Found it (sort of - King quoted the first version). :-)
    Edited by 1 at 07/08/06 @ 22:40

  • Sko #12 6 years ago

    "The words "Star Trek" and "talent" used together in one sentence always make me smile."

    It is a bit of a downward spiral, ain't it? Star Trek then B5 then EFC and now finally computer games. It'll be the back of cereal boxes after this...

  • dryden555 #13 6 years ago

    Would love to see a great tactical PC game in the ST universe but we we will more likely get is some real-time crud with brain-dead AI :(