Roberto Orci On Star Trek Video Game and Teaser Trailer

I've always been jealous of Star Wars' fans because they always had better video games (Rogue Squadron and The Force: Unleased being my personal favorites) related to their universe. For years I've yearned for a Star Trek video game that rivals the awesomeness that Star Wars video games often have. Finally, my wait might be coming to an end. Below is a teaser trailer of the newly proposed Star Trek video game presented at the E3 convention last month. The music score from the movie plays well with the video game and I love the third-person shooter aspect. I also love how you get to pilot a shuttle craft and space jump from the USS Enterprise. The game will tie into the reboot Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams as well as the upcoming sequel. Below is a quote from writer Roberto Orci concerning the movie and 'Canon':

True fans will tell you that canon is only what’s filmed. I’m not an authority on what is canon. However, I will tell you that this may be the first game that falls within the parameters of the people who are in charge of canon for now; the “supreme court,” as we call ourselves because we are the ones in charge of Star Trek for now. We won’t be in charge forever, but for right now we’re deciding what canon is, so I can tell you this is the first time where the game itself is generated by the people who are deciding canon and we generated the game to fit within canon.

I always loved that Star Trek had a very rich and continuous canon, that’s one of the reasons why Alex and I and Damon and J. J. even though it’s not our responsibility, and we don’t care what we get paid for it, we want to help make the games, the comics; we want consistency. We do it because we love Star Trek.

The release date for this game is unknown but it is expected to hit video game stands sometime between April - June of 2012 (Note to self: mark calendar).