Screenlife has released the Star Trek version of their award-winning “Scene It” game. Here is my review

With J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the Star Trek franchise hitting theaters this week, I thought I would start our slte of articles dealing with tie-in merchandise with a product that celebrates the 43 previous years of Star Trek. Star Trek Scene It is Screenlife’s labor of love for Star Trek fans. The game follows the standard format, using questions and clips from all five previous Star Trek Series (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise) and, all ten previous movies (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis.) Anyone reading this who has played any of the other version of Scene It knows all about the quality of the game. The DVD footage is very high quality, and using their proprietary “Optreve” technology, Screenlife manages to avoid duplicating clips.

Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation will be particularly pleased, as the “home base” for this version, where all of the questions are launched from, is a perfect CGI recreation of the Enterprise Bridge. The various games are tied to the consoles around the Bridge and are randomly chosen by the DVD. The camera zooms in on the particular station or console where youa re shown teh game the DVD has selected. FIlm clips, when required, are shown on the main viewscreen.

Games are varied, and include: Energize, where you must identify a character that has been removed from a scene. Captain’s Log, where you will hear the opening voiceover from an episode and must supply that episode’s title and Life Signs, where you musty identify the alien species, as it’s picture is unscrambled.

As with all Scene It games, questions can also come from specially prepared question cards. With this edition some of the questions come from the winners of a special contest.

I loved playing this game. It absolutely celebrates everything that makes me proud to be a “Trekker.” My only problem is the difficulty. There is no doubt this game was not made for casual fans. Some of the questions are very hard and the Captain’s Log games can be downright sadistic at times. However, this should not deter any Star Trek fan from taking a crack at it. This is another fine high-quality offering from Screenlife.

Star Trek Scene It gets a 4 out of 5.

The game is in stores now. For more information on this or any of Screenlife’s other games, visit http://php.screenlifegames.com/