Product Description

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Birth of the Federation is the first PC CD-ROM strategy game based on the rich Star Trek universe! Forged from the cultures, time lines, events and technologies of the hit TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, this turn-based epic emphasises resource management, combat and diplomacy. Control one of five major alliances: Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Ferengi or Cardassian, each with its own set of abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Encounter over 30 exotic races. And beware, there lurks the potential for a Borg invasion--threatening all players!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12591 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Hasbro
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 95

Manufacturer's Description
If a long, complicated journey into Star Trek minutiae sounds like your idea of a perfect weekend, Birth of the Federation is certainly worth the time investment required to play it. That said, this is a very deep strategic game, too abstract and complicated to appeal to the casual gamer.

Similar to space-expansion games like Master of Orion, Birth of the Federation is a race to gain control of the galaxy. In this case, Klingons, Romulans, Ferengis and Cardassians compete with Jean-Luc Picard and the Federation.

Customer Reviews

BETTER THAN THE BEST!!!!!
Star Trek Birth of the Federation has to be the best Star Trek game ever!! Playing as one of five main glactic powers (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian or Ferengi)you gradually build up a fleet, your solar system (e.g planets, outposts, starbases). You also gradually build uo research (the better the research the better the ships),resources, intelligence, diplomacy, morale and military forces. If you're looking for an adventure look no further than this. Who you alliance with will help you if the borg are to pay you a visit.

All in all this game is one of the most engrossing, strategic games I've ever had the pleasure to play. Wether your a star trek fan, you just like strategic games or you want to try a new sort of game and have a challenge this is deffinatly the game for you.

A great game for all trekkers
Birth of the Federation is the best strategy game I've ever played. there are five major races the Federation, The Klingons, The Romulans, The Cardassians and The Ferengi each have there own set of different ships to build. There are other races like the Bajorans and the Trill who you can get to join your group that can also be expanded by colonizing uninhabited systems. There are a number of different things that can effect you like a stray comet hitting a system or a climate change increasing the population of a system. The biggest threat is Borg cubes invading the galaxy (54 cloaked Klingon Bird Of Prey's work well against the Borg). All in all it is a great game and fun

Wonderful !
This really is an excellent game. I love star trek and stratagy games so when I heard about this I was very excited. The battle sequences are engrossing to do and beutiful to watch - you will find yourself fighting just to watch them and the control management of sytems, which allows you to allocate energy and the native work pool is genius, though if there is one bad thing about this game it is the inability to see the buildings you have created - you don't even see a cut scene after you finished building a fifty turn Vulcan science acadamy or the Cardassian central command. But apart from these few flaws the game is very good, though might not appeal to the casual gamer or 'non trekies'. Buy this now if you like star trek and stratagy or don't if you don't - it's that simple.