Other Star Trek Games

We had an interesting conversation on fleet chat yesterday about other Star Trek computer games we had played and loved. What are some of yours?

I think the farthest back we can go (and still be on a computer) would take us to Net Trek, which was kind of an adaptation of the old Star Fleet Battles RPG for mainframe computers, mostly at universities. (Anyone play that? Or am I dating myself?)

There were many fond memories of the ST 25th Anniversary Game. I've got the box in front of me. It came out in 1991 (obviously), for MS-DOS 2.1 and higher, and boasted:

* Full 256 color VGA graphics
* Thousands of state-of-the-art, 3D digitized, space action scenes
* Interact with alien races and artifacts
* Navigate Kirk, Spock and Bones on a variety of world explorations
* Complete musical score from the series and major sound board support
* Easy to use, point-and-click, icon interface

Sadly, it came on five 5.25" floppies. Even if I booted my laptop into FreeDOS, I'm afraid it doesn't have a 5.25" floppy drive. :(

What were your favorite predecessors to STO?

I can kick it old-school on this. I once played a VCR Star Trek game. I had no idea how that would work, but it was cleverly done. I won because the game is very much focussed on speed, and I could play a lot faster than my opponent.

I also did an online roleplay about 7 years ago, I want to say it was called star-fleet.com , or something like that. Doesnt' exist now, best I can tell. I was having a lot of fun with that but a new job kept me from continuing.

I have buried in a tupperware tub somewhere:

Armada 1 & 2
Elite Force 1 & 2
and a bootleg copy of Bridge Commander

I played the Sega TNG game, which was fun at the time, but like most childhood games and movies, its best just not to touch it again lest you're remembering it better than it really was.

Did anyone else play The Kobayashi Alternative? It was kind of a step beyond a text game, with little text windows and at least color text to indicate different people speaking. You gave orders to your crew as Captain Kirk, and I remember the helmsman (or maybe navigator) was named Ensign Avoca. But the text parsing engine only looked at the first 5 letters of any given word. So I used to call him Ensign Avocado, and he didn't mind.

Bridge Commander!!!? I always thought that game had some of the better TNG traits. That was a really fun attempt to put a person behind a real space battle simulator. A Final Unity was somewhat fun too...another protected mode DOS game. DOSBox would just not work for me when I tried Unity...and I haven't tried Bridge Commander in years. Think I still have it around here someplace.

In my personal opinion, the best Star Trek game of all time is...

*drum roll*

wait for it...

*drummer starts to tire*

wait for it...

"GET ON WITH IT!"

STTNG: A Final Unity

This DOS-based game was phenomenal. It had a great storyline, the graphics for the time were amazing (heck, they still look kind of nice), and it was challenging enough without being impossible. Like our friend LeVar Burton said so many times on Reading Rainbow, "you don't have to take my word for it." I'll let you read up on it yourself. Memory Alpha did a better job than I could ever do.

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_-_A_Final_Unity

Any other A Final Unity fans in the house?

OMG I forgot about this one. I had it too!