Spock takes the spotlight in the first Star Trek: Resurgence gameplay trailer

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First revealed at the 2021 Game Awards, Star Trek: Resurgence is a «narrative adventure game featuring dialog choices, relationship building, and exploration» set in the year 2380, the era immediately following the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. Now, courtesy of IGN, we've got the debut gameplay trailer, and it's got just about everything you'd expect from a classic five-year mission: An intractable conflict between alien races, tough moral quandaries, the prime directive, ion storms, and—of course—Spock.

Resurgence is being developed by Dramatic Labs, a studio founded by former Tellgame Games CEO Kevin Bruner and other Telltale veterans, and it looks very much like a Telltale game in this trailer: Over more than seven minutes of gameplay in the video, there are no fewer than six A-B-C choices which steer the conversation in one way or another, presumably leading to slightly different outcomes at various points along the way. Resurgence will feature two playable characters, with gameplay switching between them over the course of the game, but will differ from Telltale games in one notable way: It will not be episodic, but will be released as a single, large story.

It'll be very interesting to see how this works out. Telltale closed very suddenly in 2018 after what appeared to be years of consistent success, but an in-depth Verge report into the studio not long before its closure found that crunch and mismanagement were common, and multiple sources said much of the studio's problems arose from Bruner himself. Bruner, who co-founded the studio and took over as CEO in early 2015, stepped down from the top job in March 2017 and actually sued the company in June 2018 for effectively freezing him out and voting him off