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It is the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Incursion (NX-74808) under Captain Marcus Refelian. The vessel is a prototype, Defiant-Class Federation starship equipped with the Holographic Masking System that can transform the physical appearance of the Incursion. The crew is a newly formed group of highly trained, elite specialists called the Away Team. The first test is infiltrating Klingon space to investigate disturbances such as distress calls and reports of battles that have been emanating from the empire. After crossing the border, a distress call is received from a Klingon ship under attack by a Romulan Warbird. The Romulans are tricked and bluffed to leave the area by disguising the Incursion as another Warbird.

The above paragraph occurs in the opening cinematic sequence of Star Trek Away Team from Activision and Reflexive Entertainment. Star Trek Away Team is pauseable real-time squad level tactical game. The player views the action, the characters and maps from an overhead ¾ perspective. The game is set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation timeline after the Dominion War. The mission of the Incursion. is to seek the answers to what is behind this outbreak of violence in the Klingon Empire. Besides the Federation, Klingons and Romulans, the Borg rounds out the strategic actors involved in the plot. The player will visit locations such as Starfleet Headquarters, Starfleet Academy, Romulus, Q'onoS (the Klingon homeworld), a Borg cube and various bases and outposts.

The Incursion's crew is highly trained Starfleet officers who include many of the well-known races of the Federation: Humans, Betaziods, Andorians, Bolians, Vulcans, Trills and Bajorans. The crew are specialists to be used in special forces-type operations throughout Star Trek Away Team's eighteen missions Specialist skills are related to all five branches of jobs found on a Starfleet ship: Command, Engineering, Science, Security and Medical. These are not your typical make nice Starfleet officers. Along with various technical skills, your specialists are trained for combat and espionage. Seventeen characters are available to the player but only three to six can be used per mission. Star Trek Away Team has only two difficulty levels, Easy and Normal.