Star Trek Fleet Command, a free-to-play MMO strategy game set in multiple Star Trek eras, is popular for its animated shorts with canonical character returns. And now fans can watch the latest installment, “Lost and Found," which features the return of Nana Visitor as Major Kira Nerys.
Scopely's Fleet Command lets players manage a starbase, collect ships, and recruit personnel from TOS, TNG, the Kelvin films, Discovery, and more. While running missions, you build and upgrade ships like the Enterprise as well as Klingon, and Romulan warbirds, form alliances, and explore an expanding map.
The game's nostalgia and cross-era mashups allow mixed crews and experimenting with combinations that would never exist on-screen, making it ideal for brief, continuity-adjacent animated stories. The Realta, Fleet Command's "mascot" ship in a Borg-dominated timeline, is the focus of these shorts.
In “Maia,” a LeVar Burton-voiced short about Geordi La Forge, Fleet Command experimented with animated storytelling. “Maia” reworked the game's early missions as a cinematic adventure in which Geordi and the Realta crew are ambushed by Klingons and meet Maia, a mysterious AI that unlocks extended narrative arcs.
In “The Rift,” Jeffrey Combs voiced Weyoun as the Realta investigated a dangerous space tear, giving DS9 viewers an animated Vorta threat.
"Lost and Found" involves the Realta crew and Major Kira Nerys investigating a missing Starfleet training vessel near Federation space on the Defiant. It centers Kira without neglecting the game's original cast by acting as a DS9 side quest with the Realta as the guest ship.
Visitor's return as Kira is the short's hook, and her voice anchors it in DS9's emotional depth. The story gives her command presence and moral clarity to feel like the same woman who defended Bajor and the station for seven seasons. The animation isn't groundbreaking, but it shows Kira's authority on the Defiant's bridge, and seeing the ship in this way is pure fan-service.
For DS9 fans, “Lost and Found” can be seen as a bonus scene from a hypothetical “season 8” framed by a mobile game. The stakes are low, a missing training vessel and a dangerous border region, but that scale reflects DS9's better mid-tier episodes, where character and leadership decisions mattered more than galaxy-ending dangers.
Fleet Command stealthily constructs its own Borg-dominated timeline while honoring each series' tone: “Maia” feels TNG-adjacent, “The Rift” draws Weyoun into DS9's Dominion War shadows, and “Lost and Found” evokes Kira and the Defiant's frontier-at-a-crossroads vibe. These are astonishingly earnest Trek shorts, and Kira's return suggests DS9's setting is now getting more attention in modern tie-in culture than it once had.
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