The Greatest Trek

In order to move forward, maybe it’s time we looked back.

Let me just start off by making it clear that this is not going to be a rant about Star Trek versus Star Wars. I love them both for the ways that they’re the same and also the ways that they’re radically different. It’s 2026. It’s okay to like both.

Visionaries

I’ve been doing a lot of diving into games I played decades ago during a very difficult time in my life. I’m finding that I appreciate them now in a completely different light than I did when I was younger. Now I’m seeing them through the lens of an adult that survived that what had seemed at the time the “end of the freakin’ world”.

My younger self appreciated games like Fable and the many Star Trek games for what they were: Incredibly tough games. Tough, but ultimately fun. They were simply an escape from having to think about everything I was dealing with in the real world.

As an adult I realize when I played those games I was escaping into the vision of the perfect world through the creators eyes. Was Fable’s world flawed and imperfect? Sure. But (depending on the players choices) there was always going to be a Hero (with a capital H) there to make sure it’s going to be okay. Fable 3 is the exception but to be fair Molyneux had lost control at that…