Game combining ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ and ‘Star Trek’ is an actual thing

Coming soon to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live is an oddball pairing of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Star Trek that sounds pretty awesome. And naturally we’re not getting it.

There’s really not much else to say here, other than to state its official title: Star Trek: The Original Series – Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Special Edition coming early next month, from Deep Silver, is a video game version of the now classic game show sans Regis. But unlike that chick from The View, or The Today Show, or whatever the hell, the replacement here is somewhat worthy.

Unfortunately, he doesn’t like look like James Tiberius Kirk the least bit, and the emblem he’s wearing is clearly not the same one that signifies Starship Enterprise either…

Yet the African American woman who sorta looks like Lt. Uhura is indeed supposed to be her. So I have no idea what the hell is going on here (other than the obvious: William Shatner wasn’t offered enough money and refused to lend his likeness)…

You play as her, a Vulcan officer, some random human cadet, or an Orion slave girl (aka, one of the many types of female aliens that Shatner banged in the original series)…

Everything appears to work like normal: the studio is molded after the bridge of a Constitution Class-Starship (as you can tell, I’m somewhat of a Star Trek nut), but otherwise is essentially what you’ve seen in the live action version…

And as one of the four aforementioned contestants, you have to answer questions (there’s supposedly 600 in total, all based upon the Star Trek universe, which sounds like my kind of game), and have all the tools from the real thing at your disposal.

That includes the Phone-A-Friend lifeline, which also includes eight other characters from the show. Who will they be? Anyone who actually needed the money bad enough to lend their likenesses. I bet you anything that Walter Koenig is one of them.

But here’s the best part: it’s coming to PS3s and Xbox 360s across the globe, EXCEPT to North America. Why? Due to some wacky licensing agreement, one has to assume.

So basically, the people who would enjoy it the most (presumably, since the US is where most of the Trek conventions takes place) will not get to play the damn thing. Including myself. And for that, I am legit pissed off.

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