I started this series off with a tiny, baby little allusion to Star Trek. Star Trek‘s role in my life, in actuality, deserves its own massive essay. But Star Trek is not a videogame, and so we’ll have to leave that for another time. You know what is a videogame, though? Mass Effect. I grew up wanting to live on a starship — to explore the final frontier, discover new life and new civilizations. Star Trek always made the future look hopeful and inspiring; it was a future you wanted to take part in, full of starships you wanted to live on and crews you