Paramount Global is an American media company that holds many major licenses, including Star Trek and brands from Nickelodeon. Paramount plans a series of NFT games with some licenses and has now started selling spaceship NFTs – what the game looks like remains completely unclear.
Star Trek was one of the biggest and most popular film and television franchises in the world in the 90s and early 2000s. There was also regular new content for fans in the video game market.
Then there was silence for a while regarding travels to infinite expanses.
Currently, there are again 2 television series running for Star Trek, more movies are set to come, and for gaming fans, an adventure is about to be released (via gamestar.de).
Additionally, there is now a project from rights holder Paramount that is fully focused on NFT content. Initial spaceships are already being offered, but so far, it is unclear what the game will actually look like. MeinMMO presents “Star Trek: Continuum”.
Star Trek: Continuum – Entry into the game costs $250 at launch
What kind of game is this? It’s difficult to say at the moment. Currently, there is only a roadmap with 4 Seasons that provides little indication of what kind of game this is intended to be:
- Season 0: NFT ships can be purchased, which you will need for missions
- Season 1: NFT crew members will be added – you need them for traveling with the ship
- Season 2: You can start missions to collect additional NFT goods
- Season 3: More NFTs will come into the game – including planets, characters, species, and more
So far, only Season 0 has a date. The first drop of NFT spaceships will take place then. On April 9th at 5:00 PM our time, the first ship sale will start for 24 hours. The ships of the first drop will cost at least $250 (around €230 / as of April 8, 2022).
It is a game, but what it looks like, whether you can control the ships yourself or just send them on missions regularly, cannot be said at this time.
Pamela Kaufman, President of Consumer Products and Experiences at Paramount, says: “Fans should be able to interact with our content wherever they are, including the Metaverse” (via intl.startrek.com).
Currently, it seems rather that the “game” with the missions is secondary. It is more about a collection of NFTs in “Star Trek” style.
How can you participate? You can sign up on a Star Trek website (startrek.xyz). Here you buy a ship and become part of the NFT project.
The first batch of ships will be available from April 9th, 5:00 PM for 24:00 hours. Here you need to spend at least around €230 to acquire your part of the new Continuum.
More ships are to follow later, but there is currently no information about the prices of the next batch.
What ships are available? Overall, you have the chance of 6 different ship classes. The whole thing will be organized through the Metaverse marketplace “Recur”.
However, you cannot choose which one you get. It is more like NFT loot boxes:
- Offer “Captain Pack”: 6 ship classes
- Price: $250
- Miranda – 22.23 %
- Oberth – 22.23 %
- Soyuz – 22.23 %
- Class III Carrier – 22.23 %
- Constitution – 5.55 %
- Constitution Refit – 5.55 %
- Offer “Admiral Pack”: 2 ship classes
- Recur pass required (about $350)
- Price: $250
- Constitution – 50 %
- Constitution Refit – 50 %
All ships are also visually unique and are created by an automatic algorithm. To gain access to the Admiral Pack, you need to have a pass from the “Recur” marketplace beforehand. The pass offers advantages when purchasing digital goods on the platform.
The price of the pass varies, at the time of the article it was $350.
To promote the NFT project, several actors from the series “Star Trek: Discovery” have also been involved. These include Sonequa Martin-Green, who played Captain Michael Burnham.
Part of the cooperation apparently also involved tweets, and under one post, it can already be clearly seen what fans think of the project (via twitter.com).
Many comments go in the direction of: “I respect you and I hope your agent works overtime to get you out of this scam promotion”.
Because NFTs have a tough standing and are very controversially discussed. When content is sold and an appropriate game is only hinted at, that is quite understandable.
What will come out of the project remains to be seen. In the meantime, Paramount is already planning the next licensed NFTs featuring characters from Nickelodeon.
We recently reported on another game with NFTs on MeinMMO: Ubisoft brings controversial NFTs to Ghost Recon Breakpoint, wants a lot of money for it – kills the game shortly afterwards
