Star Trek has had an up-and-down historical past with video video games, generally managing to reach gaming genres it arguably shouldn’t, whereas by no means managing to fairly succeed within the ones it ought to. There’s been loads of nice ones, however now a really cool little animation imagines certainly one of its most interesting entries getting a ‘90s tie-in that never was.

Twitter user SpinaSanctuary’s hypothetical title display screen for a mid-’90s Deep Space Nine recreation on the Nintendo 64 imagines a sideways look the place the platform that gave us Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire as a substitute took a go to to the Gamma Quadrant for some licensed gaming goodness, basically riffing on the opening moments of Deep Space Nine’s personal title sequence, however in a gloriously polygonal retro model.

What might’ve Star Trek 64: Deep Space Nine even been? An journey recreation aboard the station? A starship technique recreation set in the course of the Dominion War? A retail administration sim devoted to the Promenade á la Roller Coaster Tycoon or Theme Park World? A primary particular person shooter like Voyager received with the Elite Force video games, that shouldn’t make sense, however completely does? Whatever it could’ve been, this cute little “demake” has me wishing we might’ve discovered.

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