The game will focus on ship versus ship combat, and you'll start off in charge of the Enterprise NX-01. As the game progresses you'll get more ships to command, eventually controlling up to four units (a unit is comprised of one capital ship and two smaller crafts).
Each time you win a battle, you'll be rewarded with "Command Points" which you can use to buy new ships or upgrades, including stronger shields and photon torpedoes.
"There's action, but it's not like 'I'm a figher pilot' action. It's 'I command a starfleet' action... We treat the ships as your characters," Lane Davis explained.
"When a ship dies, that's a big thing in Star Trek. It only happens a few times in the whole 700-plus hours of the whole Star Trek cannon where you see the Enterprise get destroyed. It's a big thing and it should mean something."
The single player game will take place over three different time periods: the era of the original series, the next generation and the Enterprise. You can expect to face off with Klingons, Borg and Romulans as a result - and you'll be able to play as them in multiplayer mode, which will see up to eight players fighting it out via Xbox Live or the good old internet.
