Whats wrong with Connecticut? I'm not familiar with North American geography enough to quickly get the points made during the intro. Don't get me wrong - it's a quite enticing storyline...just a little hard to follow sometimes.
The engine itself works quite well for this kind of game. My only problem is that once I go back from a link, I have to wait for the text to slowly fade in...again.
Also, got an error message after "my father poked his head thru the half open door" (playing as Rashida): "macro <<nexff>> does not exist". Seems that after that, the game seems to have lost track of where I was?
But hey, Starfleet! Awesome!
You're a competent writer and will certainly make a very good game once you could iron out the kinks.