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There's literally conflict in Star Trek though lol
Ah yeah you're right! You can totally make exploration dangerous and exciting though. But it would change the feel a bit for sure. If you wanna blast people with laserguns then you're out of luck.
A lot of the things that are fun to do in Starfield wouldn't be as fun in a star Trek game: piracy, taking down the main faction, stuff like that. I would have loved a star Trek game too but it would be a completely different vibe.
There's plenty of interesting stories to tell without invoking aliens. The Measure Of A Man, for instance, where Data's personhood is debated
Okay it's been a while since I watched it but I recall being thoroughly disappointed with that episode. Like this is a sci-fi setting with all manner of strange alien life that has been determined to have legal rights (hence the prime directive etc), but there's no legal definition of what does or does not constitute a legal person? Then Picard ends up "winning" the argument with what was IIRC mostly empty rhetoric.
To be clear I don't disagree with you, I quite liked most of Asimov's I, Robot anthology which is mostly about interesting logic puzzles and the difficulty of creating inviolable rules.
Yes but not the kind of conflict that would make a good "pew pew I'm a ship captain bopping around systems and maybe being a pirate too" game.
Blowing up the federation in a star Trek game would not be as fun as blowing up the UC in Starfield is.
I would also love exploring and navigating through conflicts in a star Trek game though.