Now, back to the game.

Elite Force brings you all the famous characters and locations from the television show, even featuring the voice talent of Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, Voyager's previously-Borg crewmember. In Figure B you can see a couple of screenshots from the bridge of Voyager, showcasing all the major players of the show being portrayed in the game.

FIGURE B


Voyager: Elite Force has all the stars of the television show. Roll over picture for a larger image.

Elite Force brings you all the familiar locations of the starship Voyager as well, including Engineering, and Captain Janeway's Ready Room shown in Figure C.

FIGURE C


In Elite Force, you'll visit many of the show's familiar locations. Roll over picture for a larger image.

You'll also visit places like crew quarters, the mess hall, the holodeck, and cargo and shuttle bays. And that's just on Voyager. On those dangerous away missions you'll visit places like mysterious alien ships, Klingon vessels, Malon ships, Borg cubes, like in Figure D, and even an alternate universe version of a '60s Federation ship like in the Mirror, Mirror episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

FIGURE D


Infiltrate a Borg cube. Roll over picture for a larger image.

In one Hazard Team mission, you'll even take a ride in Tom Paris' custom shuttlecraft the Delta Flyer, shown in Figure E.

FIGURE E


Take a ride in the Delta Flyer. Roll over picture for a larger image.

Voyager: Elite Force should give you quite bit of play time, and because it's an older game, you should be able to play at its highest detail setting, even on laptops that aren't top of the line. Elite Force quickly became one of my favorite games, and I've come back to it time again when I couldn't find anything new to hold my interest.

There was also an expansion pack for Voyager: Elite Force. The expansion pack, shown in Figure F, does require the original Elite Force of course, but even at the $20 it cost when it came out, I didn't feel it was worth the money.

FIGURE F


Voyager: Elite Force's rather lackluster expansion pack. Roll over picture for a larger image.

There really wasn't much of a plot to it, and it was only a momentary distraction.

Boldly going again
Activision followed up Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force with Star Trek: Elite Force II in Figure G, continuing the career of ensign, now Lt., Alex Munro.

FIGURE G


Star Trek: Elite Force II continues the career of Alex Munro. Roll over picture for a larger image.

Before Voyager's triumphant return to the Alpha Quadrant, the Hazard Team has one more showdown with the Borg, in Figure H, in an expansion of the events that took place in the final episode of the Voyager television series.

FIGURE H


One last showdown with the Borg before returning to the Alpha Quadrant. Roll over picture for a larger image.

Now back in the Alpha Quadrant, the crew of Voyager has been broken up by some insipid Starfleet bureaucrat, and Munro is stuck teaching squad tactics at Starfleet Academy, shown in Figure I.

FIGURE I


The beautiful Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Roll over picture for a larger image.