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Star Trek: Generations

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Make a Prerelease page with the screenshots from an archive of MicroProse's website. They feature things that don't appear in the final game.

A movie adaptation that came out three years late.

Unused Graphics#

Unused Object Images#

On away missions, objects of interest appear at the bottom of the screen for interaction. Some objects had graphics made for that purpose, but went unused.

Combadges#

Combadges cannot be dropped, but they nevertheless have a graphic for them.

Early Phaser#

An early version of the phaser as seen from the player's perspective.

Unused Borders#

Apparently, the small window borders were to be unique to each away mission, but that was scrapped and supplanted by a single LCARS border. Not all levels have an associated unused border, though.

Amargosa

Antilios

Arvada

Enterprise

Epsion

Halee

Veridian

Developer Photos#

Hidden in COMBAT.DAT are photographs of the developers and, presumably, their families.

There's also a bunch of unused ship textures, probably leftovers from Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity. Will get to those later.

Sisko?#

Graphics for a male Admiral who looks kind of like Ben Sisko from Deep Space Nine.

Q?#

Opening up 015.gs2 inside verid1.dat reveals an unused sprite who looks vaguely like Q, but with a different color scheme and a beard.

Gens_q1.gifGens_q2.gif

Unused Audio#

Space Combat Segment#

File

Dialogue

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "TARGET SELECTED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "WEAPONS LOCKED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "TARGET DESTROYED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "FORWARD SHIELD HAS FAILED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "VENTRAL SHIELD HAS FAILED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "AFT SHIELD HAS FAILED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "DORSAL SHIELD HAS FAILED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "WEAPON INOPERATIVE."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "LIFE SUPPORT COMPROMISED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "TARGET DESTROYED."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "WARP ENGINES OFF-LINE."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "IMPULSE ENGINES OFF-LINE."

ENTERPRISE COMPUTER: "SYSTEM DAMAGED."

DATA: "CAPTAIN'S LOG, SUPPLEMENTAL. LIEUTENANT COMMANDER DATA, ACTING CAPTAIN. LIFE SUPPORT HAS FAILED. THE CREW IS DISABLED. I AM ATTEMPTING TO CONTACT STARFLEET FOR ASSISTANCE."

DATA: "YES!"

DATA: "MESSAGE BUOYS AND LOGS JETTISONED. ATTEMPTING TO CONTACT STARFLEET..."

GEORDI: "POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS ARE DESTROYED. I'VE STABILIZED THE WARP CORE, BUT IT'S BEYOND REPAIR."

PICARD: "FIRE PHASERS."

PICARD: "FIRE PHOTON TORPEDOES."

PICARD: "STAND DOWN RED ALERT. HAIL THE Q'URASH."

PICARD: "CANCEL RED ALERT."

PICARD: "EVACUATE THE SHIP! ALL HANDS TO ESCAPE PODS!"

RIKER: "GOT 'EM."

RIKER: "WITHOUT NORMAL LIFE SUPPORT, WE'LL HAVE TROUBLE WITH THE TORPEDOES AND THE DAMAGE CONTROL SYSTEMS."

TROI: "I'M SENSING GREAT ANXIETY ON THE OTHER SHIP, CAPTAIN. THEY MAY BE GIVING UP."

TROI: "I'M SENSING TRIUMPHANT FEELINGS ABOARD THE OTHER SHIP, CAPTAIN. I BELIEVE THEY'RE MOVING IN FOR THE KILL."

WORF: "THE ENEMY IS CLOAKING. COURSE PROJECTION INDICATES THEY ARE LEAVING THE SYSTEM. WE HAVE WON."

Alternate Alternate Ending#

If, in the final mission aboard the Enterprise, you manage to kill Soran but die before you get to the escape pod, you would get a message like this:

For whatever reason, this was replaced with a standard text crawl and a different version of the Game Over music.