Aleatorio: Majora's Mask X TNG Mash Up de este artista es demasiado bueno para este mundo
If you like yourself some Star Trek — and what intelligent, attractive person no? - ciertamente hay mucho de eso en este momento. Series nuevas, nuevas peliculas, new games; it’s a bountiful time for fans of the final frontier. Star Trek: Picard is currently deep into its second season, with the full main cast of La próxima generación confirmed to be returning in Season 3, and the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds seems to be offering a return to the episodic planet-of-the-week-style format that fans of ‘Legacy’ Trek have been jonesing for.
Sin embargo, we recently stumbled across the beginnings of a fan project that loaded our torpedo bays with more nostalgia than that, even. Behold a bold meeting of two of our very favourite things in the universe: Star Trek: TNG and Zelda: Máscara de Majora.
Artist-animator @Amaruuk is the genius responsible, posting on their fan art Twitter account @SpinaSanctuary, and as you can see from the tweets below, the low-poly mixture of MM X TNG looks utterly incredible.
The idea seems to have started recently, when they tweeted the fabled words “What if Star Trek, but Zelda 64????” before posting a 64-bit rendition of Captain Picard’s Ressikan flute from ‘The Inner Light’ poco después:
The artist decided that the episode ‘Masks’ — a rare late-TNG misfire that falls into the so-bad-it’s-fascinating category — was another natural fit for the Majora’s Mask mash up. Observe a beautifully blocky Picard having just found the mask of Korgano:
From there the artist made quick progress with low-poly versions of iconic Trek objects, plus Commander Data playing his violin and the redoubtable Commander Riker on the ‘bone, both rendered in glorious 64-bit form:
And finally some audio to go with Jean-Luc’s Ressikan flute. Pass the tissues, will you? We’re getting a bit weepy…
For fans of both franchises, this feels like the most perfect mix imaginable. ya hemos pondered the whereabouts of the great Star Trek console games — and a Star Trek: Prodigy game was recently announced for Switch — but it’s amazing to see that there’s hope yet for nostalgic Nintendo fans who like a bit of TNG.
The likelihood of this “ongoing low-poly personal project” ever being something playable is remote, but we’ll gladly take a steady flow of gifs like these in our feeds. You can see more of the artist’s work on their Artstation page o vía Twitter. They’re also open for subs on Ko-fi and stream on Twitch, demasiado (where we glimpsed Teniente. Worf with his trusty bat’leth). Be sure to express your great joy and gratitude.
Let us know below on a scale of 10-10 just how much you’d love to play Star Trek 64.
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