The Star Trek Secrets All Over Starfield

“First Contact” is perhaps the single most Star Trek-inspired quest in Starfield, including the name which reflects the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact. But when you make that contact, it isn’t Picard’s crew you’re reminded of, but those from Voyager.

The crew of the ECS Constant has been traveling for centuries on the way to what they thought was their new home, just as the crew from Star Trek: Voyager anticipated becoming a “generational ship;” and in fact that’s a term you hear used in this Starfield quest.

You see, unlike in Star Trek, in Starfield‘s backstory interstellar travel was incentivized by Earth being rendered uninhabitable. Grav Drive tech was developed, allowing for faster-than-light travel (this isn’t the whole truth, but set that aside for now). However, the crew of the ECS Constant left Earth before the creation of Grav Drive, and so it takes them centuries to travel the distance it takes you a matter of seconds, and so the planet they’d hoped to settle is already populated.

Not only is Constant much like Star Trek’s Voyager, but you may noticed the crew dresses in colors similar to those of the TNG era. If you play the quest to its conclusion, you’ll be forced to make some tough decisions, and some of your options are decidedly dark.