Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
"We were traveling at warp two through the Maxia Zeta star system when this unidentified starship suddenly appeared and fired on us, point-blank range."
"Where did it come from?"
"It must have been lying in some deep moon crater. First attack damaged the shields. In the confusion, they hit us a second time."
"No clue who they were?"
"No names, no reason. Can you identify them, Vigo? If they come in a second time with our shields damaged --"
"Sir? Who's Vigo?"
"He's my weapons officer on the Stargazer... I'm getting quite caught up in this."
"Your shields were failing, sir."
"I improvised. With the enemy vessel coming in for the kill, I ordered a sensor bearing, and when it went into the return arc --"
"You performed what Starfleet textbooks now refer to as the Picard Manoeuvre."
"Well, I did what any good helmsman would have done. I dropped into high warp, stopped right off the enemy vessel's bow and fired with everything I had."
"And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once."
"And our attacker fired on the wrong one."
"'I did what any good helmsman would have done'. You did it first, sir."
"It was a 'save our skins manoeuvre'. We were finished. On fire. We had to abandon ship. We limped through space in shuttlecraft for weeks before we were picked up. I haven't thought about this for years."
A yes the battle of Maxia of 2355,
Great episode that gave us some background information about Captain Picard, a character that i honestly didn't like at first. But he grew on me.
Also funny how the Ferengi as a species completely change throughout the series, and to be honest i like the later Ferengi a lot more.
* Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax, on Ferengi
"They're greedy, misogynistic, untrustworthy little trolls, and I wouldn't turn my back on one of them for a second."
"Neither would I. But once you accept that, you'll find they can be a lot of fun."
Yeah, I'm of the opinion that the 'barbarian' Ferengi we saw in early TNG were more akin to pirates or other outliers. They improved greatly as they developed into what they became from mid-TNG onwards.
So glad the writers realised the Feregi weren't working out as villains and decided not to flog a dead horse. Because of that decision, we got the Borg. ;)
Wasn't there a writers strike as well?
I think I was about two years old when that episode was aired, so I don't remember.