Star Trek fans, here is something special for you today. Stage 9 is a fan project that aims to remake the sets used in Star Trek The Next Generation in Unreal Engine 4. According to its creators, the ultimate goal of this remake is to allow players to explore the entire Enterprise D from Star Trek The Next Generation in a detailed virtual recreation.
The iconic series 'Star Trek' follows the crew of the starship USS Enterprise as it completes its missions in space in the 23rd century. Captain James T. Kirk - along with half- human/half-Vulcan science officer Spock, ship Dr. 'Bones' McCoy, Ensign Pavel Chekov, communications officer Lt. Nyota Uhura, helmsman Lt. Hikaru Sulu and chief engineer Lt. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott - confront. Recently, CBS sent a Cease and Desist letter to a very popular recreation of the Enterprise D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. With this petition, I hope that enough support can be gathered to hopefully change CBS' decision and bring back Stage 9. Twitter Post from the Stage 9 Dev Team Official video with some extra information NerdCubed's Video Captain Jack's Video Gamefront's Article TrekNe.
Once the ship is completed, the team will be adding in some subtle easter eggs and create different things to interact with in each room. Furthermore, the LCARS displays will one day allow players to perform various actions in the game by pressing buttons on the displays.
What’s really cool here is that there is a version of this project that you can go ahead and download right now. Not only that, but there is a VR version too that supports both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive VR headsets.
Those interested can download Star Trek The Next Generation Unreal Engine 4 from here, and below you can find the key features of its latest version (as well as some screenshots). Kudos to our reader HAL9000 for informing us!
Stage 9 Version 0.0.10 Key Features
- An entirely new Main Bridge, created by Rekkert with high fidelity accurate LCARS displays made by Stealth_Ferret
- Our first set of ongoing changes to implement better lighting in the interior rooms (turns out, baked lighting is actually awesome!) thanks to Jeff_The_Sloths awesome work!
- The Main Bridge Viewscreen is now a proper viewscreen, change the angles from Worfs Tactical Console
- Our 3rd new NPC, Miles O’Brien, created by Z4G0
- Test your phaser skills in the 2 Phaser Ranges on Deck 4
- A bunch more star systems to warp to
- Type 15 Shuttle is now flyable
- Fly the ship around inside star systems in both first and third person
- Fully functioning Holodeck with a list of simulations to run (including the original series Enterprise Bridge, created by the talented Ian62)
- Brand new music sequences composed by Patrick Phillips
- New Ressikan Flute, you too can play the Inner Light theme tune!
- By popular request, you can see the ship hull outside the Ready Room and Observation Lounge now!
- Often requested, the reinstatement of Disco mode on the Main Bridge, featuring the amazing ‘Data & Picard’ by Pogo.
- Real working replicators (well, most of them anyway)
- Borg Encounter!
- Warp Core Breach!
- Earth, Dry Dock! The Defiant! LOTS OF THINGS!
Stage 9 Vr Download
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A fan-made recreation of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation has been pulled offline following a cease and desist.
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Stage-9 was a two-year-old fan project that let users explore a virtual recreation of the Enterprise-D, the spaceship made famous by The Next Generation tv show.
The hugely-detailed virtual recreation was built using the Unreal game engine, and was available on PC as well as virtual reality headsets Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. You can freely roam the ship, travel to the various decks, enter rooms, interact with objects and even fire a phaser. Stage-9 looked like this:
In a video update, the head of the project, who goes by the name 'Scragnog', explained he had no choice but to can Stage-9 after lawyers from CBS refused to budge on their cease and desist.
Throughout the project, the developers made it clear Stage-9 was not an officially-licensed endeavour with no affiliation with CBS or Paramount. Money was not involved, either. 'We were just fans creating fan art,' Scragnog said. 'I thought we'd made that pretty clear.'
In 2017, a year after work on Stage-9 began, Ubisoft released Star Trek Bridge Crew, a game that lets players work at a station on the bridge of the Enterprise. This year, the game saw an Enterprise-D DLC.
'Internally this was an exciting development, but at the same time it concerned us,' Scragnog said. The team took a break from issuing updates to the game while, in the background, it worked on what would have been the 11th update for Stage-9 and explored the possibility of pitching the project to CBS as a potentially officially-licensed piece of software.
Star Trek Stage 9 Download 2020
'Throughout all of this we knew it could end at any point,' Scragnog said.
Then, on 12th September, the cease and desist letter from CBS' lawyers arrived. The decision was made to put all of the Stage-9 public-facing channels into lockdown while the team tried to convince CBS to change its mind. They suggested tweaking the project to ditch the inclusion of VR, ditch the use of the Enterprise-D specifically and even change the name, but CBS insisted Stage-9 end.
And so now, it has.
Scragnog's video is an emotional goodbye to Stage-9, which clearly meant a lot to him, and there are plenty of thank yous to the people who helped make it happen. There's some understandable anger directed at CBS in there, too. CBS and Paramount have issued guidelines for fans making Star Trek fan films, insisting 'CBS and Paramount Pictures will not object to, or take legal action against, Star Trek fan productions that are non-professional and amateur', as long as they meet the guidelines.
It seems for Stage-9, the rules were a little different.