Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars - Intro

Developer - Gizmo Games
Release date - 2001

[@daric_]

The late 90's - early 2000's was the "golden age" of Star Trek PC games. So many great ones: Klingon Academy, Starfleet Command I, II, III, and Orion Pirates; Dominion Wars; Bridge Commander; Elite Force I and II; Armada I and II. I have so many great memories of playing these as a young teenager.

[@tobias7162]

dont forget DS9 The Fallen :D or Star Trek Generations :D that was my first game when i was around 8 years old :D my brother got all of the star trek games :D

[@Arkay24]

There's a Sins of the Solar Empire mod that turns the game into Armada 3. IMO, it's absurdly fun, especially with the new updates.

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I have to concur about armada 3, it's so we'll done and is a lot of fun

[@joshfletcher6870]

I plan on finding them again to play. I loved the star trek starship creator

[@Zeithri]

@@joshfletcher6870 I've managed to get my hands on most Star Trek games out there. You can find Starship Creator over at the fantastic myabanonware. Honestly the best page for old games.

[@TheEventHorizon909]

Anyone else here because Star Trek Online just added the Achilles even recreating this very intro in its bundle trailer?

[@djayk9692]

Gawd damn I STILL love the the Achilles 20 years later!!! The best ship EVER that unfortunately never became canon.

[@paulscott2037]

It's a shame it'll never show up on STO. Same with the Hutet. Such a great design for a Cardassian dreadnought.

[@Zeithri]

It's design looks like an oversized Norway class. Technically you could take one of the Emissary classes in STO as a stand-in. Personally I always wanted ST Invasion's Typhoon with fighters to be added.

[@djayk9692]

Zeithri The moment I saw the low profile streamlined design, I’ve been in love with it ever since. The forward pulse phasers and quantum launchers. And the iconic micro quantum phalanx array to hold off attacking suicide fighters while dealing pummeling blows during direct assaults. There’s so much out there that isn’t canon that is far better than what actually is!!

[@JaredLS10]

@@paulscott2037 Atleast the Hutet showed up in th.e Sins of a Solar Empire mod. The Achilles deserves to either in STO or atleast be mentioned in ST Picard

[@teslahertz4916]

agreed. STO has a ship class, that comes close to that beauty

[@infernomaster2702]

I have very fond memories of this game growing up. I loved it as I did the show. Always a soft spot for this one.

[@gamepad3173]

oh how I remember playing this game. it was back during my high school days that I found this and began playing it.

[@Sovereign01]

Me too!

[@Sovereign01]

They just added the Achilles to Star Trek Online!

[@Zeithri]

Such interesting times we live in, right! This, Invasion and Armada!

[@WalterDWormack214]

Talk about ecstatic rapture! On Stardate 08.03.2024, I transported directly to the C-Store! Feverishly clutching my debit card! Saying "JUST SHUT UP! And TAKE MY ZEN!" My 68 year old GEEZER eyes glazed over at the prospect of welcoming TWO of my very favorite Starfleet vessels from the past, into the realm of Star Trek Online! TAKE ME NOW, LORD! I'VE ACHIEVED PERFECTION! And believe it, or not; I haven't even BEGUN to access any of the OTHER 'goodies' that were included in the Star Trek Online Heritage Bundle... probably because NO ONE at Star Trek Online, has TOLD ME WHERE I NEED TO GO, GET the other 'GOODIES' that come in the Heritage Bundle.

[@Sovereign01]

@@WalterDWormack214 I hope they add the Hutet next, that thing would be a perfect dreadnought! 😁

[@aaronreyes1590]

For a game that came out in 2001 this is pretty good footage

[@shade8816]

The Achillies Class Starship. Thats what you get when the Federation stops twidling its thumbs and decides ass needs to be kicked.

[@Zeithri]

You should look up the Federation class Dreadnought, pre-TNG days. Oversouped Constitution with 3 levels of shielding and capable of creating convincing holograms of itself by hacking enemy starship's computer.

[@marckrieger3277]

Thats what the defiant is build for.

[@jonharper4478]

Back in the day when this first came out. I thought this game was 'the shit!'. I still have fond memories of playing it. Sadly its incompatible with systems today.

[@Inthatgoodway]

remember being able to take over other ships and use them against the enemy. i had a small group of klingon birds of prey in cloak doing hit and run attacks

[@unematrix]

windows 98 emulator

[@Marcus51090]

Jon Harper I preferred playing the dominion I never like playing the good guys I like bad

[@WalterDWormack214]

I still have a Windows XP desktop that I'm going to get around to 'upgrading'! (Maxing out the onboard RAM, finding a 4 or 5 Gigabyte graphics card) Just so I can run the old Star Trek PC programs I own, and some others I hope to acquire. *Bridge Commander* *ST-VOY: Elite Force II* *ST: Armada I & II* *ST-DS9: The Fallen*

[@Sovereign01]

You can get it to run on modern systems if you edit some files.

[@EvilSpockEmpire]

I got this game for Christmas when it came out when I was five. Loved it. Great memories.

[@naneek2]

anyone else recognize the homage to this cinematic in Star Trek Lower Decks, when the texas class ship saves the Cerritos?

[@naneek2]

in the new lower decks season 4 finale, there was a steamrunner class ship. There was an additional easter egg, it was painted with red trim looking like the steamrunners on star trek armada in multiplayer mode. that's a deeeep easter egg.

[@niagarawarrior9623]

i remember being excited to buy this game when it first came out in 2001. not only did it have revolutionary 3D ship models and a progressive ship damage model that ive yet to see implemented well in any other games since, but i absolutely LOVED how it paired with 'ST: Ship creator Warp 2', so you could import your profile picture (of you in a federation uniform) AND the ship you designed from 'scratch' into the game. i still have the game, in the box... i tried to install it a few year ago, and wouldnt you know it the quicktime player built in to it is out of date.

[@asb169]

How exactly did the import work? Never managed to get it going...

[@niagarawarrior9623]

@@asb169 it worked poorly, as I recall. I didn't understand how to get it working, but my brother figured it out Same with importing your photo to put yourself in various star trek uniforms, not intuitive enough.

[@Sovereign01]

@@niagarawarrior9623 I remember this feature, it was available on a handful of designs because that was the only overlap between the two, I'm pretty sure it was purely cosmetic with none of the performance upgrades going in. As for ship damage, Klingon Academy was released the year before and also had that feature.

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

They should have called her the David class cruiser because of how it could slay giants

[@asb169]

What's the weird half-saucer Galaxy at 0:51

[@RyanSellman1]

How in the fuck does the Dominion battlecruiser shoot 2 torpedoes and completely miss? Was Elmer Fudd at tactical??

[@joshfletcher6870]

This is a awesome game intro

[@phillip1054]

damn, now this brings back serious memory mate. thanks for the nostalgia trip here. :D

[@OrangeFruity7]

Why there's no Romulan ship ? That's unfair

[@tmptjohn88]

Amazing how far we have come in graphics.

[@amciuam157]

Achilles, Defiant and few Akiras were my favorite in DS9 Dominion Wars

[@bigevil1001]

Federation take NO PRISONERS. 0:49

[@beangrff]

I was so lucky my computer would actually play this game as a kid, it was amazing (if buggy lol)

[@FromDream2RealityNow]

Damn great game! Although the final mission could be buggy at times. Ships would blow up because they collided lol

[@Cerbyo]

it was a cool game just the actual combat system was flawed. It revolved around all ships standing still firing at the closets enemy ship. You could do cool meaneovers and fly around other ships and fire from the back of ur ship...but it did less damage than just standing there firing did and u took more damage as well since the enemy ships could fire their forward AND back torpedo's at you without cooldown....u were literally helping them use their forward and backwards guns on your ships.

[@joeswanson733]

holy cow the achilles is a beast. wish this thing fought the scimitar.

[@ThomasTarrants]

My computer could barely run this game. I would go into the badlands and the graphics couldn't handle it so the screen went blank. ... which seems odd in retrospect. Revisiting this intro movie and seeing the quality of the graphics, this game should have been able to run on a chiseled stone tablet.

[@marcusrutkowski8919]

0:51 what the hell is that crippeld Galaxy Version? :D

[@ETRTriad]

Remember this being the very first game I ever ordered online. From Play or something like that. Setting up gamespy and loving life 😂❤

[@craigtawater9501]

Yes we need more of this

[@steveblissett654]

I loved this game

[@kadindarklord]

What is that ship @0:51? The One leading the fleet near the Sabre-class.

[@WalterDWormack214]

I still have this program! Boy. oh BOY! How I really wish that the *U.S.S. Achilles* was available in the C-Store!

[@Sovereign01]

It is now!

[@GibsonVienna]

I've never understand, why the Starfleet didn't bulid more Ships of this Super Predator. One Ship is not enough. A Fleet of this and you can kick the Borg in the Ass.

[@Finn-OleHertz]

Besides given the wrong deflector color, the Achilles Class is a great ship. Clearly inspired by the Intrepid but way more badass

[@justinwallace269]

Poorly done but I did enjoy the first part with the giant Hutet trashing Federation and Klingon ships. You'd think a ship that size would generate a powerful enough shield to repel that firepower, because it certainly did in game. I always beat everything with it.

[@Sovereign01]

On the flipside, it's a shame the Achilles didn't have the firepower in game that it demonstrated here.

[@Cerbyo]

The hutlets in this game were by far teh strongest ships ironically. The kingon class 5 were one of the weakest. The galaxy class wasn't great either. even teh dominion one wasn't amazing. the class 4 dominion shiips were the best on their side....the ones that were supposed to have 3x as much firepower as a glaxay class (alas they were weak like all class 4 ships in this game). Valor class cardasian ships were also pretty cool in this. The breen class 4 was prolly the more tacticle ship since they disabled enemy ships....but they fired sooo slow u were wondering if they weren't targetting properly half th etime.

[@Sovereign01]

It was a shame that you'd only be able to access the Hutet for 1 or 2 missions (for the same reason that you never picked Cardassian or Breen captains for your ships). Presumably including its feature of launching a pair of Norin-class ships would have made it too OP ingame.

[@Okiedog1]

Oh man, that was awesome!

[@gregnulik1975]

Thank you. A game I got but could never play because the whole disc was buggy.

[@Daehawk]

What is that Fed ship that saves Defiant from the Hutet? The one with the large amount of pulse phasers and micro torpedoes. Also those Birds of Prey look awful with how sharply they animated the wings in a down position. I got this game to run only ONE time. I sat it aside to play some other stuff and between those times a new OS came out and new vid cards and to this day the game has never ran once.

[@martindaviddevonsmartmart5690]

Achilles class

[@Daehawk]

thank you

[@DanBen07]

I agree with u on how those klingon birds of prey look !

[@Sovereign01]

And in the game one of the Fed missions is to rescue Thomas Riker so that he can command it. The Dominion mission is to destroy it.

[@jamieolberding7731]

Awesome!

[@GeordiLaForgery]

Wow, the devs must have really enjoyed making this intro.

[@austinperry1671]

Did anyone ever figure out the mini quantum torpedos one this boat

[@evilkirk9360]

Dam the star ship from hell!

[@willy102073]

what was the star fleet ship tward the end? i remember playing this game but haven herd anything about that ship since this game.

[@Daehawk]

Always wondered that myself. Seemed to have a big pulse phaser array and a fast firing micro torpedo thing.

[@Daehawk]

Actually looking into it it may be the USS Achilles......Mulciber-class

[@Sovereign01]

It was the Achilles-class, it does play a part in the story where you rescue Thomas Riker from a Cardassian transport ship so he can be captain. Really the ship was obviously based on the Intrepid.

[@FekLeyrTarg]

Actually, there is an unofficial fix which lets DW run on Win7.

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

I want the achilles in star trek online. Better looking ship than those god awful miracle worker class cruisers

[@Sovereign01]

Closest thing you can get is the Intrepid, you can see from the design this ship was based on it. EDIT: They recently did add it!

[@yiffydragon151]

anyone know were this song comes from? also amazing game its a shame it cant be played in windows 7 ;_;

[@gicking3898]

I used to play this all the time until it stopped working on the latest MS OS 😠😠😠

[@JackRendar]

Awesome

[@LETHE.X.FL.HARDCORE]

I used to play this in 1st grade, haha.

[@Sovereign01]

The unknown ship going from right-to-left at 1:16 never made it into the game itself.

[@Zeithri]

That's a Miranda class. EDIT: Oh wait, it's a second after that. Well that's a Galaxy class without Nacelles. My bet it on render issue.

[@Sovereign01]

@@Zeithri I just noticed it also appears at 0:48 in the bottom right corner. Next to an actual Galaxy class.

[@evilkirk607]

Wow even the Galaxy didn't want to engage that Hutet Battle Cruiser it simply went around it! Looks like a mobile Space Station coming right at you!

[@DanBen07]

As much as I like to see a Akira class, it's a shame that they take so much damage Deep Space Nine

[@absolutedynamite4979]

2:00, things just got real lol.

[@OrangeFruity7]

USS Defiant was injured

[@rtb2k6]

The music is horrendous.why has the jem hadar ship got a pointless exterior charging up light !

[@brav0wing]

The main menu music was brilliant. Still one of my favourite pieces of music from any Star Trek game to date. That and the suspense music were fantastic in this game. Even this intro has very good cues.

[@Sovereign01]

To let the audience know how close it was to blowing the Defiant away! 😁

[@joshfletcher6870]

I also liked the star trek starship creator game

[@OrangeFruity7]

USS Achilles is such a great savior for saving USS defiant when USS Defiant was injured because it get shooted by Cardassian ship

[@fernandovargas7562]

Cool game..

[@dannyhartwig7676]

Horrible Bugged when came out

[@Marcus51090]

God the graphics where terrible lol

[@evilkirk607]

Hutet Battle Cruiser Cardassian Pride!