Star Trek Legends Is, Amazingly, A Gacha Game With No Microtransactions

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It's a strange sensation playing Star Trek Legends. It has all the hallmarks of the kind of scummy gacha games that exist purely to extract money from people. But because it's on Apple Arcade, it has no microtransactions, energy meters, or other 'freemium' features designed to encourage players to reach for their credit cards. This means you can enjoy the positive qualities of a gacha game without having to endure the manipulative, bank-draining negatives, which is just refreshing.

In Star Trek Legends you command the U.S.S. Artemis, a starship created to rescue people trapped in an extra-dimensional realm known as the Nexus. If you've seen the movie Star Trek Generations, which introduced the Nexus, you'll know that basically anything can happen inside it—making it the perfect place to set a gacha game stuffed with iconic Star Trek heroes and villains who otherwise would never cross paths. As you play, you meet and recruit characters from every era of the show.

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Commanding the Artemis, it's your job to fly into the Nexus, recruit famous faces from the history of Star Trek, and battle various threats—including a rogue AI, the Cardassians, and the Gorn. The self-aware story chips along at a breezy pace, and it's clear the writers are enjoying throwing these familiar characters together and imagining how they might interact. Michael Burnham from Star Trek Discovery is understandably shocked to witness Worf, a Klingon, proudly wearing a Starfleet uniform.

There are around 40 characters, all beautifully rendered in an expressive, cartoony style that brilliantly captures the quirks and identifying traits of their TV counterparts. There are plenty of big marquee