It’s another for the message sender to be tiresome prodigy Wesley Crusher, historical bearer of unwanted news.

This time, Wesley isn’t the problem.

But long-game space strategy isn’t unique to Star Trek, nor should it be synonymous with the franchise.

Star Trek Infinite official artwork showing several well-known characters in a montage such as Captain Picard and Gowron.

Some of your officers will be complacent and lazy, while others will go above and beyond to succeed.

Romulans will be appropriately high on their own superiority, and Cardassians appropriately genocidal against the Bajorans.

This is the way of Star Trek.

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As a result, it oscillates between both without real spirit or conviction.

But after the problem is addressed, she inexplicably continues to work as an ordinary scientist for Cardassia.

A copy of Star Trek: Infinite was provided for review by Paradox Interactive.

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing the Starfleet starbase Spacedock One during the game tutorial

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing a Starfleet science team event prompt as they investigate a holodeck pocket dimension anomaly

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing an incoming transmission message inviting the player to recruit Spock to their crew

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing a Starfleet mission log to investigate a crashed Borg ship

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot of the Beta Hetera star system filled with alien pirate units and Cardassian military fleets

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot of the galactic map showing the Cardassian Union and its reachable space, all surrounded by various other powers

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot of the war interface between Cardassia and Romulus where the Cardassians are on the verge of winning

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot of the Cardassian mission tree

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing an event prompt titled The Ashes of Khitomer, asking the player how they want to behave toward other civilisations

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing a Starfleet science ship scanning a planet for anomalies

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing a portion of the map mostly featuring Cardassian territory

Star Trek: Infinite screenshot showing an event prompt announcing the Romulan sun supernova