Bridge Commander was a rushed game. Extremely rushed, juding from all the information that the community has gathered over the years. That the game turned out to be bloody awesome is frankly a wonder of truely cosmic proportions.
Once upon a time, a healty modding scene existed for BC. Among the most famous modifications were NanoFX2, which included both improved as well as entirely new effects for the space battles, the Kobayashi Maru adding tons of new content (and crashing the game's wonky engine while doing so) and even mod projects that aimed to introduce a more complete ship, explorable in first person (never completed). The one thing all these projects shared is that they basically broke the single player campaign...

A while back, that changed. And with GoG's re-release of this beloved game, the Last Great Star Trek Game (TheGamer) and The Greatest Star Trek Game Ever (PCGamer) can be remastered to both play better, run better and crash less often.

You will need the following:
1.] Access to the game, for instance here from GoG, but the original CDs are supported as well.

2.] The Remastered Mod, be certain to also download the latest patch. This is your basic happiness package.
https://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-bridge-commander/downloads/bridge-commander-remastered

Alternative download locations for all of these exist on Nexus Mods and GameFront.
In any case, yes, you will actually need to read those instructions and follow them. Make it so!

Thanks for this! It worked right up until the dbVoodoo2 part. Now it only plays the intro movies and then exits to desktop with a pop out of the speakers.

Im making regular videos for this mod too!

https://youtu.be/n4CM8q9pYTk

Hi all,

As of this post, the remaster mod's most recent update on ModDB and Nexus Mods is Aug 06 2022, while the essentials pack dates back to May 2022.

Is the essentials pack still needed or relevant with the latest update of the main mod, or is the latter sufficient?

Right now, main mod only. Updated OP.