Here's an incredibly interesting article about a video game called Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury (Memory Alpha Entry), that was started by Interplay in the late 90s that never saw the light of day.

As reported by Gamesetwatch.com and revealed on the 1up Retronauts podcast, Vulcan Fury was to be a full motion video adventure game exploring the conflict between the Romulans and Vulcans, with voice acting from the original show's cast and a script penned by series writer D.C. Fontana. Apparently things didn't work out as planned due to interplay's producer centric work environment and other mitigating factors. Former lead engineer Thom Robertsons explains:

"Just one of the many reasons why that project was doomed to failure was because the team and the management had really no concept of exactly how expensive a proposition they were imagining when they set out to do it," the programmer explained. "I saw the plans. They were looking at four to six hours of created video, and they were planning on doing it at maybe a 1/20th of the budget of a Toy Story movie. Something did not connect."

"They had a working demo of the bridge and Scotty cutting through the door, you know, five minutes of play, and pretty much nothing else. There was a large scale plan for about the first half of the entire game, at which point the script itself had petered out. They admitted from the beginning to me that they didn't have the full script. ...

At the time I left, I didn't see any indication that the producer had resolved the issues with getting the rest of the script worked out. This is so close to Hollywood that, you know, when you don't have the script, you don't have anything. You have to start with the script.

If I'm sounding like the project was doomed to failure from the beginning, I'd say that's quite accurate, but it was doomed to failure for a lot of little reasons, not one big -- somebody left -- reason." (source Gamesetwatch.com)

Read the full article here.

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