As I am sure many of you who own this game are aware of the lack of a save game feature in Star Trek Generations. You know what I mean. The inability to save a mission during an away mission, only being able to save it at stellar cartography. Many people on AOL are deeply upset with Microprose for this. If you have AOL, you can use the goto keyword microprose to access the Star Trek Generations message board. The Microprose web site lacks the information to tell people that they have no save feature. MPS1 (The screen name for Microprose on AOL) replied to the complaints a copy of his letter follows.

Dear Customers,

Star Trek is about making difficult decisions and living with the consequences. If we gave the user the ability to save their game anywhere then there would never be anything to lose. There would be no reason to be careful or any need to think like a Starfleet officer if you were just able to restart where you left off after making a mistake. I think the fact that you cannot save your position during a mission means that by the time you get near the end you may have a significant investment in time built up and that adds to a real feeling of tension. Picard may be able to save his Holodeck program anywhere he likes but he knows that when he is facing a Romulan Warbird in "real life" he has no such option. The decisions he makes in one instance have no lasting effects where as they most certainly do in the other case. To get this feeling of realism we made a conscious decision to not allow saves and there is NOT going be a patch to change this."

Rick
Microprose Customer Support

It would probably be all right to have no save feature if these were ten-minute missions, but they are not. They are long and generally taking 1 hour and 30 min to 3 hours. If you don't die a hundred times because of the lack of a save feature. A save feature should be standard on a game like this! It is sad they don't have one. :'( If you could please help by sending Microprose a letter asking them to fix this serious problem. It would be greatly appreciated. This is a list of how to contact them:

Internet Email
support@microprose.com (English)
service@microprose.de (Deutsch)

America Online
e-mail: MPS1
keyword: MicroProse

CompuServe
e-mail: 76004,2223
go word: GAMBPUB

GEnie
e-mail: MicroProse
keyword: Scorpia

MicroProse USA
Attn: Customer Support
2490 Mariner Square Loop
Alameda, CA
USA 94501
(510) 522-1164
(510) 522-9357 FAX
(510) 522-8909 BBS U.S.

MicroProse UK Europe
Attn: Customer Support
The Ridge
Chipping Sodbury
Bristol
England, UK, EU
BS17 6BN
44-(0)1454-893-900
(1000-1230 & 1330-1600 GMT)
44-(0)1454-326-499
(0900-1730 GMT) FAX
44-(0)1454-327-083
(14,400 baud) MPS*BBS UK
44-(0)1454-327-084
(14,400 baud) MPS*BBS UK

MicroProse Germany
MicroProse-Spectrum HoloByte
GmbH
Bartholomausweg 31
33334 Gutersloh
Germany, EU
49-(0)5241-946-480
(1400-1700 CET) Nur am
Montag und Mittwoch.
49-(0)5241-946-484
(28,800 baud, 2 Lines)
MPS*BBS GERMANY

Or you can send the letter to me and I will make sure it reaches them.

My name is Mike. My e-mail
1st www.mike80686@aol.com
2nd www.mike80486@msn.com

Thanks for your help and support! I hope they do make a patch for this.