But the engines canna take it cap'n. Shall we be trying auxillary power then?

Eject the core if its necessary just GIMME

This model starship canna eject the core cap'n....it'd damage the fusion reactors and fluctuate the dilithium matrix besides!

Star Trek is in a worse state than the D&D games were. Paramount have jumped into bed with so many publishers over the years that re-releasing the older games must be a total nightmare. You would need an agreement with Paramount but also with the current licences holders Atari not to mention the license holders of the classic games like Activision or Bethesda. The chances of anything except Star Trek D-A-C are extremely slim.

I trust in GoG! They've surprised us before, I'm confident that if they decided to, they could bring Star Trek to us.

There's a few more I can think of:

Star Trek Online
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation (played remotely similar to Civilization, more closely to Star Wars Rebellion)

I don't think Atari holds the license anymore, Perfect World bought Star Trek Online from them.

But doesn't Cryptic still hold the license? I thought I read that they were going to continue to work on STO?

The Star Trek license is so confusing. My favorite game series is the Starfleet Command series, and that would also have to get licensing from Amarillo Design Bureau, the company who makes the board game the PC game is based off of.

THe legal mess guarantees we will not be seeing any Star Trek games on GOG anytime soon.
IMHO the Starfleet Command games were the best of the lot. On the whole, Star Trek has not done nearly as well as Star Wars when it comes to games. Lucasarts did a number great Star Wars games before they were seduced by the Dark Side; most of the Trek titles were pretty mediocre. There have been a few good Star Trek Games; but IMHO the Franchise has not produced a game as great as X Wing/Tie Fighter or Jedi Knight. ANd the wierd thing is that usually I am more of a Trek person then a Star Wars person.
Star Trek:Birth of the Federation actually uses the Mastes of Orion 2 engine. It plays likes a MOO 2 Mod, which in a way it is.

Aside from Voyager: Elite Force and Bridge Commander there have been mostly duds in the mix, as well as some forgettable experiments in 90s FMV gambing. I actually think the format of Star Trek doesn't lend itself very well to computer gaming since the story emphasis in the average Star Trek episode de-emphasized ship-to-ship combat or otherwise violent encounters that'd be easiest to convert into the basis for a game. I think a long period in the Star Trek arc the Human Federation wasn't even technically at war with any other space-faring race, if my memory serves.

In my opinion I think a good game could be made from the perspective of playing the Maquis in the demilitarized zone, starting with you, a rogue Starfleet officer, in which you advance in the organization planning raids, piracy, and incursions against Cardassian ships and holdings, both on land (where I imagine a Thief-esque interlude of gameplay) and space (where it could be more Wing Commander-esque in one of those fighter-shuttles they pilot). That'd be a refreshing change of pace to yet another game where you yet again take the reigns of the Enterprise. And hell, get Michelle Forbes to guest voice act, and it'd be a winner. :-)

I had no idea. I've been told a hundred thousand times to try MOO2. I'll have to do it some time.


Why are you not at Atari right now making this thing? Sounds like it'd be an awesome game.

I want this Star Trek game to be awesome:

http://startrek-is.com/game-facts/

I hope it's good too. The footage of gameplay I saw though didn't leave me with high hopes.

Of all Star Trek games, I have only played Star Trek: Hidden Evil and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen. The later is amazing.