Hello!
Does anybody know, who owns the rights for these two games and whether we can hope to see them on GOG?
Thanks & Greetings
A.Borque

That's going to be difficult. As Paramount holds the right to the Star Trek IP, so one would have to get their and whoever made it's permission before it could get added.

And I doubt Paramount would be interested in it, but I can be wrong

EDIT: certain Parts of the IP belong to Paramount the rest belong to CBS

Start spamming Paramount's Failbook page with GOG's URL to request their marketing/law divisions have a cosy chat about the games. Once a week should be sufficient :P

Getting Star Trek rights is probably not impossible, but it may be quite expensive. FarSight Studios recently ran a Kickstarter to raise the money for a Star Trek license in order to recreate the Star Trek: TNG pinball table in video game format. They said they would need $45,000 to acquire the rights to use the Star Trek brand name itself as well as the voices and actor likenesses involved.

Is 45,000$ considered expensive in this context?

It's obviously a tall order for a small developer, but for the brand name, actor likenesses, _and_ voices I would have assumed a cost of several times as much.

I can't claim any particular knowledge of this part of the entertainment industry though. :)

The licensing cost may be proportional to the quantity of licensed material in the game. In the case of the Star Trek pinball table, there is only a hand-drawn image of the main cast on the backglass, as well as a limited number of speech samples recorded by the actors. (In addition to general Star Trek stuff like space ships, generic aliens, logos, etc.) A full Star Trek video game might be many times more expensive to license. In any case, even a $50,000 license might be too much to make a re-release of an old Star Trek game profitable.

Thanks for the info! :)

At least this seems to indicate that the rights holders _are_ willing to talk about licensing their IP for games, even non-AAA-titles. I'll take that as a positive sign. :)

Licensed shit like this will almost never come here, or be resold. Thank god for abandonware.