I'm oddly proud of having asked the nerdiest questions at the Star Trek: Legacy presentation. "Can you play the three-nacelled future Enterprise from the last episode of Next Generation? Can you separate the saucer on the Galaxy-class Enterprise?" The answers are no and no, but that doesn't mean that Legacy doesn't try to please the most nitpicky Star Trek fan. It's just that the task is impossible. If you put in the triple-nacelle Enterprise, someone will want to do the Picard Maneuver. Give them that, and they'll demand the ability to order "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

What you do get is a tactical starship battle game for the PC and Xbox 360 with over sixty different ships covering the Trek timeline from the early days with the guy from Quantum Leap to the Next Generation era. In the demo, Kirk Enterprise faces off against everyone's favorite bare-chested eugenic superman, Khan Noonien Singh. Apparently the game takes a "tactical" approach to fighting, which the guy behind the control pad demonstrates by running like a space bunny into a nearby nebula where he and Khan are on more equal footing.

Another fight involves Romulans attacking Deep Space Nine, and three player-controlled Federation starships coming to help the Klingons defending it. Suddenly the Borg appear! Everyone decides to team up against the evil six-sided die of assimilation! Fans of the series will be pleased to hear that you can even play the Borg cube in the online multiplayer version of the game, but dismayed to hear that it was taken out by less than a dozen ships. Come on! Wolf 359, people!

Okay, that was even too nerdy for me.

Legacy Overview [Official Site]