After the rather weak end of the last episode of Star Trek Enterprise many fans kept back a rotten feeling in the pit of the stomach. Nevertheless, this series had imens potential in showing how the people of today become the spaceship crews of tomorrow.

Star Trek: Origins would like to narrate on the story around the first ship of starfleet with the name Enterprise and ties on to the events of the episodes “Terra Prime” and “Regenerations”.

In 2160 – a time during the earth-romulan war – the crew of the Enterprise faces a danger from it’s past. The unknown life forms from the “Regenerations” incident – the Borg – again catching up with Cpt. Archer and his crew. More than this: On her trip the Enterprise will threaten in incidents which involves the future of a whole quadrant and at the same time the past of a complete civilisation.

Star Trek: Origins tells a new episode of Enterprise in form of a Point&Click-Adventure and will tie up his player in intrigues, tension and a dramatic story. The game itself is as a non-commercial project in development.

A completion date has not been fixed up to now yet.

Prologue

March 2153.

When a ship, crashed almost 100 ago, and some corpses are discovered at the Arctic Circle Starfleet is very eager to find out what this strange finding is all about. Immediately a research expedition is sent to the site to start the investigation.

It is Admiral Forrest who calls the Enterprise NX-01, one of the most modern and up-to-date ships of its time, for help, when the contact to the artic research team is lost and all that can be preserved of the small research station are ruins.

At that time none knew what evil they were up against. Nobody had ever heared of a species called “Borg”. Even though they had the a sligh idea of how overwhelming their enemies technological advantage was they were willing to fight’em.

Paradoxal this story will have its start almost 200 years from now, when a group of Borg will be trying to assimilate Earth – an attempt that will fail due to the intervention by the NCC 1701-E commanded by captain Jean Luc Picard. The same attempt they will repeat shortly after the third World War. Captain Picards Crew is able to prevent this too, but has to suffer big losses, in order to do so.

To defy the unfathomable capability of resistance and adaptability of the borgs collective could only be achieved by few and most of those who even dared fell prey to the hive mind. To meet one’s death was one thing, conciously loosing your own existence was another. Whitnessing yourself killing friends and family, beeing stripped of your free will and your ability to resist has to be a dreadful experience. To extradite your former friends to that same fate, by injecting them with Nanites into their blood circuit, is a cruelty of other dimensions. All you have to do is pierce their soft skin with your nanotubes, an intermixture of a hose and a blade, integrated inside your forearms. Mothers don’t know their children anymore. Brothers turn against each other. Lovers tumble into tragic chaos and eternal suffering.

In the collective there is only one voice. Identity is eradicated, remaining only as an echo, freely recallable for all in the collective. Your thoughts are the collectives thoughts, and the collectives thoughts are your thoughts. That complex system works much like a hive of bees with billions of drones. A huge organism with only one goal, to expand, to enhance themselves and achieve ultimate perfection in everything. Those who defy that urge and resist, are assimilated or annihilated. Those who don’t submit are extinguished. Whole worlds ceased to exist and amazing cultures are robbed of their peculiarity. Remaining mutilated as a part of the collective, mixed with thousands of assimilated races, their former members carving out a miserable umbral existence. Sorrow, compassion, mercy – fundamental values are unknown to the Borg. Just the pure anxiety for perfection dictates their actions.

As a result of their strive and to achieve their goals, the reanimated Borg assimilated the research team and fled from Earth, using a cargo ship. Soon the ships appearance had been changed almost beyond recognition, because it has been altered and upgraded piece by piece. Engines, weapons, navigation – the Borg made use of all their skills to transform the defenseless cargo ship into a serious opponent.

When the Enterprise was finally able to capture the modified frighter, the collective was prepared to shut down the earhtlings ship. Crewmen of an attacked frighter, assimilated and brought aboard beforehand, sabotaged vital systems of the Enterprise and Captain Archer had no choice but to catapult the Crewmen just saved, by dint of an airlock, into space. That was the only way to prevent the Enterprises destruction and his Crews death.

No one knew then that besides the Borg another party was present. Observing. Passive. Biding it’s time…