[@Gunther] Probably some mercenary RP. Be it eccentric half-breed Tolkien-verse lancer, chinese fighter-pilot, or something involving mechas.
-Possibly zombies.

There was a nation-RP where everyone caught Ender trying to get bypass the game-rules with mercenaries that didn't exist.

Oh, right... random facts...

Star Trek: The Final Frontier hadn't come out yet when I was born and the Cold War wasn't over until 1998.
(Fall of Soviet Union was NOT the end... in '93 the Russians were still blowing up their own capitol... the chances of someone making a hasty move with a nuclear payload were high; it was only in hindsight do we realize all the General Rippers of the Soviet Union were sent to gulag)