Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto Set for Star Trek Video Game

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto will be lending their voices – and likenesses – to the upcoming Star Trek™ video game. Paramount Pictures and NAMCO BANDAI Games released the details today, confirming Pine and Quinto will reprise their film roles as Kirk and Spock in the new Star Trek game. They’ll be joined by their Star Trek cast mates Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Karl Urban as Dr. “Bones” McCoy, John Cho as Sulu, and Anton Yelchin as Chekov who’ll also be taking part in the Star Trek game.
 
The Star Trek game will be released on Xbox 360, PlayStation3, and Windows PC in early 2013.
 
“We are thrilled to have these incredible actors, lending their voice to the legendary characters of Kirk and Spock in the video game realm,” stated LeeAnne Stables, Paramount Pictures’ President of Consumer Products and head of the studio’s video game unit. “Players are in for a truly authentic experience with the combination of talent we have assembled bringing this action adventure game to life.”
 
“There are certain elements at the core of Star Trek – insurmountable odds, exploration, villains like the Gorn and heroes like Kirk and Spock,” said Carlson Choi, VP of Marketing and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “Our goal is to pull gamers as deep into the Star Trek universe as possible and an integral part of that is the talent that make these characters their own.”
 
Also just announced were details on the villains of the new game: a legendary lizard-like race known in Trek lore as ‘The Gorn’ will play the destructive and villainous role in the video game.
 
“The Gorn are among the most iconic villains in the Star Trek universe and their role in this game certainly lives up to that persona,” said Brian Miller, Senior Vice President at Paramount Pictures and lead game producer. “Kirk and Spock find themselves in an incredibly challenging amount of mayhem as they confront the Gorn throughout the game.”
 

 
Here’s the scoop on Gorn: “More than just lizard-skinned foes, the Gorn are a blood-thirsty race determined to conquer the galaxy. A true military dictatorship, the Gorn are made up of billions of self-sacrificing warriors across thousands of colonies, each focused on the conquest of alien races. By utilizing their chaos-causing infectious venom, the Gorn seed mayhem and destruction as they destroy populations and deplete planets of their resources.”
 
Details on the Star Trek Game [Courtesy of NAMCO BANDAI Games]:
 
The game’s original story is being penned by BAFTA award winner and God of War writer Marianne Krawczyk in collaboration with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, writers and producers for the upcoming Star Trek film. Built from the ground up as the ultimate co-op experience, the Star Trek video game lets players control both Kirk and Spock in a sweeping journey of epic proportions across unexplored planets and enemy battleships with the latest 23rd century weapons and gear. Kirk and Spock’s complementary personalities result in the most fully realized and varied co-op experiences for this console generation.
 
Source: Paramount Pictures, NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.