"THERE. ARE. FOUR. GAMES!" -Picard

"No running on the Promenade." ~ Odo

A morn joke for the DS9 fans. I love it.

One of those unknown characters you asked about was named "Leslie Swan," who is a real person who worked (works?) at Nintendo Power and Nintendo for years and did the voice for Princess Peach and others.

That Wrath of Khan score on Starfleet Academy is everything.

I’ll never forget Morn’s rousing speech in the final episode, it really tied everything together.

As a HUGE trek fan, I'm so glad you covered these. For me, the GOAT Star Trek game is Star Trek The next generation: a final Unity for PC. The whole cast provides their voices and it's just a great, classic 90s point and click game. It's like playing a ten hour TNG episode. I played the heck out of Future's Past as a teenager. Like you said, if you're a fan of TNG you'll enjoy it. Otherwise, you probably won't. The combat is really clunky. If you ever do a drunk friend star trek episode please bring me back. I'm obsessed with all Trek and will talk your head off 😅 Sisko's run cycle always killed me. Like, I get that he plays baseball but maybe he should've gone into track and field instead lol. Great video and really spot on reviews imo

"Looks like Dollar Tree Star Fox," had me literally spit up coffee

If I remember correctly, many of the no-name random ensigns were reviewers or staff from a gaming magazine called “Game Players” I had a subscription when I was younger and thought that was really neat when I read that detail in the game’s review

I like to think that somewhere in our attics, snesdrunk and I have the same If They Mated segment from Conan on an old VHS tape.

Total length of video: 680 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2 secs. .29% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

Ironically my favorite Star Trek game on the SNES/SFC is Star Ocean.

As a huge DS9 fan, the Morn joke was perfection 😂. I have the first two games, I could never figure them out. I want that DS9 one though! I don't care if it's bad haha.

I was just thinking the other day, “Has SNES Drunk done Starfleet Academy?”. I remember liking that one as a kid, and really loving the chiptune rendition of the theme from Wrath of Khan.

"You'd have to be a massive Star Trek fan with a lot of patience to sink any meaningful time into this one." So... this was 100% me and my friend back in 1996ish. We used to rent Starfleet Academy almost every weekend from the local video store, and once you get used to the combat it's actually a ton of fun. Plus there are a ton of easter eggs accessible with codes, you can play as extra ships, and select extra names from secret menus. If you enter the name James T. Kirk, the Kobayashi Maru mission is winnable.

As a Bill's fan for life, I appreciate the Thurman Thomas reference. As a fan of Wrestling when I was growing up, I appreciate the Scotty Too Hotty reference.

8:31 The thing about Morn's removed dialoge is that the programmers really had no other choice but to cut it, but do not worry, it is not lost, since all the dialogue of Morn was sold to other video companies at the time and 12 extensive role playing games have been developed that had been filled with it easily.

"Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet."

Deep space 9 had some of the best acting ever... Garak.

By far my favorite KZfaq channel. Please don't ever stop making videos 🙏

Bridge Simulator contains some fantastic renditions of the TOS movie-era soundtracks. Great mood setters.

Apparently The SNES TNG game got a Japanese Super Famicom release, based on the Japanese dub of the show.

It might look like "dollar tree Star Fox", but ST:SFA - SBS was one of the few SNES games that pulled off actual polygons without the use of the SuperFX chip, so it's technically pretty impressive.

When I played the TNG game as a kid I always laughed so hard when I found out you could phaser the scientist you're supposed to rescue at the beginning of the game. I also destroyed the Romulan ship even though they were hailing to cease fire. Always loved seeing the Enterprise going to warp too. I'd reset the game over and over just for that intro.

LOL at "create-a-player characters"

Come for the SNES. Stay for the Drunk.

This video boldly went where no one had gone before.

That Morn joke was tip top.

We must be around the same age. My parents also watched the OG Star Trek from the 60's, and we watched TNG and DS9 religiously as they aired too. Also, my best friend through elementary and high school was an absolute Trekkie, so some of his passion rubbed off on me. Also, you got me to laugh at "C's get degrees" and "Resistance isn't futile, it's encouraged" LOL.

The thing I remember most about the TNG game is that the thing always insta-game overed me every time I tried to go anywhere.

I can only imagine the cost it would've taken to add more memory to the DS9 cartridge to fit all of Morn's dialogue. It might even go up to a single bar of gold-pressed latinum!

Perfect timing, I just started watching TNG for the first time!

Man’s out here doing the Lord’s work. Nothing better than a new SNES DRUNK video to start the day!

I still have my Starfleet Academy cartridge, I was about 10 or 11 when it came out so I loved it. I mostly remember ignoring the missions and just playing simulation battles, haha. Hard to believe there were only three ST games for the SNES, I would have guessed more. Great video as always, thanks for the nostalgia hit!

I loved Starfleet academy as a kid and played through most of futures past but couldn't finish it. I tried going back not too long ago but those games really didn't age well. Back then we were so hungry for any Star Trek and video game form that we just accepted pretty much everything.

Your assessment of Starfleet Academy is spot on, and I was 100% the target audience for it. Great concepts and ambition, but the PC version was light years better. Better still was the PC sequel, Klingon Academy, which they somehow got Christopher Plummer and David Warner (General Chang and Chancellor Gorkon from Star Trek 6) to record some FMV cutscenes for. Klingon Academy boasted improvements in every aspect, it's kind of a forgotten gem at this point. But while Starfleet Academy for SNES was deeply flawed, I still consider it the best of the SNES Star Trek games.

3:25 “Ensign” Ed Semrad was the editor in chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. It also explains why the SNES port of ST:TNG Future’s Past got a better rating over the superior Sega Genesis version in EGM.

That screenshot from the PC version of Starfleet Academy brought back some memories. I loved that game as a kid. I never played the SNES one, seems like I'm not missing much but I played a lot of the PC version. I loved the combat in that game and I remember spending a lot of time just playing the battle mode or whatever it was and pitting different groups of random ships against each other and just messing around with the different ships.

Loved Future's Past. It was a annual rental when i went to the beach. The beach video store had games my local Ma and Pop store didn't have. I always rented the Star Trek game - loved the overhead battles between the enterprise and other ships. Zombies Ate My Neighbors was another I always rented at the beach.

Thank you SNES Drunk. I hope you have a great rest of your day.

I thought it was cool that Starfleet Academy used some pretty complex 3D polygon models without a FX chip. Unfortunately the window is small

Fantastic episode. Never played any of these games but always wondered about them. I actually just started watching DS9 for the first time ever and it's rather embarrassing because I know I'm over 30 years late.

Bonus points for the Blockbuster reference 😄

The manual for SNES DS9 Crossroads of Time game had a mail-away offer for a limited edition Sisko action figure. It was Sisko wearing the TNG uniform from the pilot episode. I managed to get a hold of one, and 3D printed a little bat'leth for him. =)

Still my favourite KZfaq channel after all the years. Thank you very much!

I saw one of the names was Leslie Swan, she was part of NOA and I believe she may have done the first Princess Peach voice ✌️

I've been watching TNG and I watched this before going back to it. I'm watching "Ensign Ro," and the Admiral tells Picard to stop the terrorists "any way he can" and I thought of you

Spectrum Holobyte continued making flight sims throughout the 90s, eventually rebranding to Microprose, releasing even more flight sims, including the iconic Mighty 8th and Falcon 4.0. Those folks are legends.

Its awesome reading 90s comics and coming back for a reminder on games i am seeing adverts for ❤

Great channel. Really interesting content while being short and to the point. 4 mins to review a game instead of 45 like most channels is brilliant. Reminds me of NES Friend. Very much a sub!

I played that first one but on Sega Genesis, it was a lot of fun.

I did not expect a Thurman Thomas reference in this video, but it makes me happy to hear someone remembers him! 😅

3:24 "Ensign Ed Semrad?" Ed Semrad was the editor-in-chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly in the early 90's.

Can't say I am a trekkie or even played the games longer than "Huh, what is this?" but I am here for all SNESDrunk. The games are on my flash cart so maybe one day I will give them a try. Maybe after a Super Star Wars play through lol. Thanks for all the retro action!

Future's Past is a great setup for a Star Trek game. You're on the bridge, you're on the planets, you're in space battles. A modern version could be the new Mass Effect.

“Sisko runs like Thurman Thomas” What a reference!!!!!

Future's Past was definitely good from a fan standpoint. There's a couple reasons why there are extra crewmen that are selectable for the Away Team. First, if one of the "main cast" is injured on an Away mission, you can switch to another crew member to fill out a needed role, as the "main cast" officer will not be available until the next mission. While not as skilled (or durable) as a "main cast" officer, they will at least allow you to complete a mission if a particular skill is needed. Second, you actually have a life counter in the game that revolves around the "main cast" (which you showed at the end of the segment). While they will be revived after a mission is complete, if any of the "main cast" are injured a total of three times (this is shared for all seven of them) during Away missions, the game is over. The random crewmembers do not add to the counter, but they do not get revived. They are just red shirts, and if they go down before the first commercial break, they are never talked of again.

I can't say for sure, but judging from the character portraits, I feel like the random crew members in Future's Past are the devs, lol.

I like how in the table scene of Future's Past it looks like Picard and Riker are holding hands.

I've been a fan of SNES Drunk as long as I can remember

"Good Star Trek games exist, insightful lines of dialogue from Counselor Troi..." "Things that are rare!"

What I remember most about the TNG game is randomly getting attacked by 1 to 3(!!!) Romulan Warbirds and having to then put the password in to restart. Really killed the game for me. There should be a fan patch that smooths those encounters out.

Ah, I haven't thought about recording over a VHS tape in a long time. Weird how that works. Things are so ingrained and part of life that no one gives it much thought. Like complaining that your brother recorded over your favorite tv show for something dumb. Or power went out so your show didn't record or stopped halfway. By time I was a teenager, burning CD's had become a thing. Napster and all that. Still remember the first day I went to a friends house and their neighbor had us write down 10-12 songs we wanted on a CD and burnt it for us, gave it to us the next day. It still took a bit to download even a single song. I remember having 16,000 MP3's downloaded in high school and burning tons of people discs and being the hangout spot to smoke weed and listen to music you'd never heard before, haha. It's weird how those things just... stopped one day. One day was the last time I ever did that and I didn't realize. Last time I ever went on a bike ride around the neighborhood with friends. One time was the last time I ever complained someone recorded over my Stargate SG-1 hahah

My brother and I got TNG along with our SNES for Christmas 1994, and for 9 year old me, TNG was a fun idea, but the amount of information available was overwhelming. This is also one of those games where you need the instruction manual to know how to play. Then there was the Derelict Ship. We got stuck there because we had no idea what to do.

Video count starting with following intros: SNES drunk: 856 Segadrunk: 69 Steamdrunk: 42 Without any kind of Intro: 41 Switchdrunk: 4 Turbodrunk: 2 Previously on SNES drunk IS drunk: 2 SNES drunk IS drunk: 1 Previously on SNES drunk plays StarFox: 1 Previously on SNES drunk plays Final Fight: 1 3 Hours of the SNES drunk Intro: 1 A four minute and 30 second long SNES drunk Intro: 1 Videos completely about Clyde T. Dog (No Intro as well): 3

Leslie Swan (one of the ensigns in the first Next Gen game you showed) was a Nintendo employee who was also the voice of Princess Peach in Mario 64.

I’m not a Star Trek fan, but I always enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!

If I remember right, Picard is special in Future's Past because he's the only one aside from Worf who has a phaser that shoots on 'kill', but you instantly lose if he gets downed (unlike other characters where I think you get three).

I used to own the DS9 game. It was very difficult to figure out what to do in the first level. I remember it took me hours at the time. But somehow I still enjoyed the game.

I saw that one of those ensigns was named Leslie Swan. At the time, I think she was a senior editor at Nintendo Power. Then she went on to voice Princess Peach in Mario 64 and on.

5:44 Dollar tree Starfox. Good one

I remember really enjoying running around the station in ds9 for snes lol

I still have all three of them. I loved them because they were Star Trek, but I remember thinking at the time they came out that I wouldn't be playing them if they weren't Star Trek.

Good old "Future's Past". I wouldn't mind attempting to play this again.

The ds9 game was my introduction to what ultimately became ny all time favourite franchise. Live long and prosper, folks

Always thought about renting these games back in the day. Never did.

According to Memory Alpha (basically the Star Trek wiki), the non-senior staff from "Future's Past" are all OCs. It also states that Ed Semrad is both named after and modeled to look like the editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly. As for the others, I couldn't even hazard a guess as to who Vince Matthews is meant to be, but Leslie Swan was the senior editor of Nintendo Power at the time of the game's release. And Leanne McDermott *might* be based on the author of "Super NES Power Players Guide," although that feels like a stretch.

The two player in Bridge Simulator is fun for about ten minutes.

I loved the DS9 game........... guiding the Runabout through the wormholes was pretty brutal, can't believe that wasn't brought up.

I think they just tried to give you expendable Red Shirts in Future’s Past. I remember always being excited to play it, and always getting bored pretty fast. @4:03 the stars are streaking the wrong way, according to the image, the ship is moving through space sideways. As for Starfleet Academy - it was never not satisfying to take down an Excelsior-class with a Constitution-Refit.

It's funny that the space combat in the TV shows up until DS9 is basically turn based but the games have you zipping around like Wing Commander.

I loved Future's Past when it came out. My friend got the Strategy Guide for it.

legend tells that one ed semrad was once lord editor in chief of electronic gaming monthly, but the runestones detailing the history were lost to time long ago, and the elder gaming druids only speak of it in hushed tones amongst themselves

That first few sentences you talk about your Parents after the intro is so wholesome. You are a very lucky man..

The pixel art in the 2nd game is fantastic! 😮

I sure loved the academy game on snes, dozens and dozens hours played in the 2 player battle mode, really fun

There are 300+ comments so I don't know if there were any who got to this reference first, but at 3:24 or 3:25 "Ensign Ed Semrad" almost certainly refers to Ed Semrad, editor from EGM Magazine back in the 1990s.

My sister used to tape episodes and watch them too. One of the last VHS' I let go of was the episode with the Gorn. I rented the TNG game on the Genesis and my 6-year old brain couldn't quite grapple with it. I do recommend Star Trek: 25th Anniversary on the PC though. It's excellent and very in line with the OT.

My younger brother and I had a lot of fun with TNG: Future's Past. We could never figure out where to go or what to do so we would just fly the ship around and provoke the Romulans.

Oh, gosh, seeing Sisko blaze down the Promenade makes me think of President Skroob in Spaceballs!

The DS9 game suffers from being before they got the Defiant. It would have been so much more interesting if you got to fly something other than a runabout, or had more interesting enemies like the Dominion, or the Klingons from that brief war.

Star Trek was also a franchise my family bonded over (especially my dad and I). Next Generation and Voyager in particular. Oddly I've never played a Star Trek game...

Those extra characters in future's past were redshirts you could employ if you failed missions and people got injured.

Ha! The Thurman Thomas reference 😄 I literally just ran into him at work a couple days ago. Super nice guy

Fun fact regarding Star Trek Starfleet Academy. The SNES version doesn't have a specific helper chip to assist in the polygon rendering. That is why the view screen is so small as so it would be easier for the SNES to display everything in a somewhat reasonable frame rate.

Ah Thurman Thomas! That's some good remembering a guy.

I remember playing future's past and crossroads of time back in the day. Also if I remember right there was a novelization of Starfleet Acadamy that I read.

I have only ever played the first of these, way back in the late 90s, and while I do have some fond memories of it; I've often tried to remember which game had Geordi with a special vision filter, I also definitely remember getting frustrated with its "where to now" factor, and some combat difficulties, in space. Kinda reminded me of the NES Star Trek game with the grid-based movement, having to make blood worm repellent, to steal diluthium, etc., and it could be just as silly. Still, one of my first exposures to the idea stars might be different colors, like a blue one, or purple, and wondering if they'd have properties that would impact any potential life developing on any worlds they held in orbit? Nostalgia, and the fact that I don't have to play it, tight now, are allowing me to mostly remember it positively, though im glad its back there, in the 90s. 😊

I remember the Starfleet Academy game, the only rented game I came back for.

8:33 They were going to ship this on a double cartridge originally because of Morn's dialog.