The Next Generation Episode “The Pegasus” deals with a prototype Federation cloaking device that also phased the ship. Riker served aboard this ship after his academy stint. Romulans get interested, Enterprise finds it and Picard orders it installed on the Enterprise to escape being trapped inside an asteroid. They…

Somebody who played the game for the first time in 2011 has no right to comment on how groundbreaking, or not groundbreaking, the game was in 2004. That 7 year gap is the same as playing new games in the Nintendo in 1989 and then playing new games on the Nintendo 64.