Trivia / Star Trek: Elite Force

• Dueling Works: With The Collective's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen, released during the same time frame. Both games are based on rival Star Trek series (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine vs Star Trek: Voyager) as well as using competing game engines (Unreal Engine 1 vs id Tech 3). However only Elite Force sold well enough to warrant a sequel and digital rerelease, while The Fallen lies in copyright limbo due to the closure of its developer Simon & Schuster Interactive.
• Executive Meddling:
  • As the show was still on air when the game was being created, Paramount's license dictated that none of the show's characters could be killed. Hence the Hazard Team was created for the game's storytelling purposes, and any attempt in attacking the show's characters would result in a Non-Standard Game Over.
  • James Hoyle wrote in a 2018 Den of Geek article how the reins of developing EF2 went from Raven Software to Ritual Entertainment. EF2 Lead Designer Chris Stockman recalled how Activision execs were unimpressed with Raven's Starfleet uniform-clad pitch while also developing Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Alongside crunch times and sporadic storyline changes, Ritual was kept in the dark on the concurrently-produced Star Trek: Nemesis. A snowball effect of Nemesis bombing, Activision limiting EF2's disc production, and the Activision/Viacom lawsuit left the former without the Trek license. Ritual folded shortly after EF2's release and lower-quality Trek games trickled out of other studios.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Due to Activision losing the Star Trek license in 2003, both games were not legally available in any digital download platforms until September 2021, when they were finally released on Good Old Games.
• The Original Darrin: As noted below, while she wasn't able to reprise the role originally, the Expansion Pack does see the return of Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine.
• The Other Darrin (voice only): Jeri Ryan was not available to voice Seven Of Nine in EF1 and was replaced. In the Expansion Pack, however, Ryan's voice replaced the replacement's, making her The Original Darrin.
• What Could Have Been: Ritual Creative Director Jon Galloway originally envisioned EF2 as a hard-M story with the Hazard Team fighting separatists who crashed a hijacked ship into Starfleet Academy. Similarly, Alexandria Munro was also slated to return before getting cut, as Galloway describes to Den of Geek.

  Jon Galloway: “It was talked about pretty regularly...a pretty innovative move at the time in a white male-dominated industry. And then what do they do? Turn around and hand EF2 to a bunch of perma-boys who have played too much Duke Nukem. We get frat boy Munro playing two chicks at once – one a co-worker and the other a sexy genius alien whose everyday wear is a space bikini and chiffon.

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