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Delta Vega: Meltdown on the Ice Planet

VIDEO GAME
Delta Vega: Meltdown on the Ice Planet

Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Production information
Publisher:	Esurance
Developer:	W!ldbrain studios
Platform(s):	web-enabled PC
Published:	February 2009
Chronology
Date:	c. 2265
Stardate:	1424.26

Delta Vega: Meltdown on the Ice Planet was a short flash video game released by Esurance in their promotional campaign for the 2009 Star Trek movie.

1 Summary
2 References
3 Appendices

SummaryEdit

Star Fleet Command tasks special agent Erin Esurance with a maximum security mission to investigate the status of their outpost on the ice-planet Delta Vega.

Erin is transported to the surface of the planet and battles her way past the aggressive indigenous species, collecting phaser ammo packs and materials that are scattered around as she passes through the icy wilderness. She then falls through the ice and finds herself in a network of ice-caves, inhabited by the same two native species. As she gets to the end of the caves she encounters are particularly large version of the native gorilla-like species, which uses its bulk to create concussive force waves. Erin dubs the animal a "polarilla", and dispatches it before moving past.

She then makes her way into the Starfleet outpost, which is also infested with the two native species. She treats her injuries with a medkit she finds near the entrance and proceeds into the base. She eventually finds her way to an especially wrecked part of the base, within which she locates Keenser, trapped behind a giant version of the other type of native lifeform, the "snow slug". She kills the larger animal and successfully rescues Keenser.

ReferencesEdit

AppendicesEdit

Erin's "phaser" appears to be a rather more complex weapon than a standard phaser. The ammo packs she collects appear to give it different settings, anything from vaporisation, to generating a small black hole or wormhole which sucks the target away, or tagging the target so that it is transported away.
The game is primarily a promotional device for both the Star Trek film and Esurance car insurance. As a result Erin (who ordinarily plays the role of a spy in Esurance's more Earth-bound adverts) makes occasional references to insurance, quipping that life was a bit easier when she was a mere insurance agent, and at the end of the game compels the player to go and get an insurance quote and to go and see the movie when it is released.

Related storiesEdit

Star Trek (TOS movie & novelization) - Delta Vega, Keenser and the two native species all appear in this movie. The novelization gives more scientifc names for the species: Drakoulias and Hengrauggi.
Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS episode) - Delta Vega first appeared in this episode.

Stories set in the alternate reality from the movie Star Trek
Comics	When Worlds Collide: Spock Confronts the Ultimate Challenge • Nero ("Number One" • "Number Two" • "Number Three" • "Number Four") • Star Trek Movie Adaptation ("Number One" • "Number Two" • "Number Three" • "Number Four" • "Number Five" • "Number Six") • Star Trek ("Issue 1" • "Issue 2" • The Galileo Seven: "Part 1", "Part 2" • Operation: Annihilate: "Part 1", "Part 2")
Novels	Star Trek • Starfleet Academy (The Delta Anomaly • The Edge • The Gemini Agent • The Assassination Game)
Board games	Expeditions
Video games	Delta Vega: Meltdown on the Ice Planet • Academy Trainer • Cadet Training Facility • D-A-C • Race to Destiny • The Mobile Game
Websites	Starfleet Shipyard • Dossiers • Experience The Enterprise

TimelineEdit

The game gives a stardate of 1424.26, which places it in the mid-2260s, most likely 2265. It is not yet clear how this might fit in amongst the events of the film Star Trek or if it is necessarily set in an alternate timeline created by that film.

Published Order
Previous game: First video game associated with the film	Star Trek (2009 movie) video games	Next game: Academy Trainer
Chronological Order
Previous adventure: Alien Spotlight: Tribbles	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Dark Traveler