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Star Trek: The Next Generation is a widebody pinball game, designed by Steve Ritchie and released in November 1993 by Williams Electronics. It was part of WMS' ''SuperPin'' series (see also ''The Twilight Zone'' and ''Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure''), and was based on the TV series. It is the only pinball machine that features three separate highscore-lists. Apart from the regular highscore-list and the buy-in-list, it also features a reminiscence to ''The Machine: Bride of Pin *Bot'' billionaires club. It is also the third pinball game overall based on the Star Trek franchise, following the 1979 pinball game by Bally, and the 1991 game by Data East (both based on the original series). ==Production notes== According to an interview, Steve Ritchie, a longtime ''Star Trek'' fan, stated that getting the license was a challenge, due to Paramount insisting that they don't want to put any violence in the game; however, he told them that he would never violate the Prime Directive.〔"''Getting the rights to do 'Star Trek: Next Generation' was also a challenge. Because they didn't want us to use any guns in the game. I said 'Hey, wait a minute, when the Enterprise is provoked, they use photon torpedoes.' I didn't set out to make them space pirates from hell, I just wanted to represent the show accurately in my game. I told them that I had been a fan of the series all my life, and I would never violate the Prime Directive ... and they came around.''" -- Steve Ritchie. (Hollister Free Lance: ''The original Pinball Wizard'', by Danielle Smith. ) Retrieved on August 13, 2007.〕 Originally, the game was supposed to be based on the 1992 film, ''Under Siege''.〔"''For a while the game we were doing after “The Getaway” was going to be Under Siege based on the upcoming movie. Steve had ideas of putting two cannons on the right side of the playfield and dress that side up to look like half of a ship. The two cannons would look like cannons of the destroyer, the ship that is used as the setting of the movie... Then the opportunity came to do Star Trek: The Next Generation. Steve and I were both huge fans of the show. We switched tracks from Under Siege fast.''" -- Dwight Sullivan, (My Pinball Blog: T2, Getaway, and Star Trek: TNG. ) Retrieved on 7 October 2008.〕 The game uses the DCS Sound System and includes voice clips recorded by the cast of the television series, with: *Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard *Jonathan Frakes as Commander William Riker *Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data *Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher *Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf *Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi *LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge *Majel Barrett as the computer voice *John de Lancie as Q. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Trek: The Next Generation (pinball)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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