Get this game if you have never played it before... providing you like point and click.

I cannot imagine any other game format that is so perfectly attuned to the concept of Star Trek as an adventure game format. I love this game! I can't wait until I can scrape up the cash to buy the GoG.com version.

Nice!

Never played this and I'm a huge point and click adventure game fan :)

Do you know if this game comes with DOSBox or ScummVM?

Star Trek adventures (games) on GOG. Finaly.
Thank you very much for that.

Played them a lot at that time, and loved them.

DosBox. ScummVM doesn't support either title, but there's some (somewhat abandoned) work on adding them: https://github.com/clone2727/scummvm/tree/startrek

I, too, am very happy about these two games being on GOG now; by the way, why does Judgement Rites have its own separate forum? shouldn't both of these adventures be together in one for constituting a series?

Anyway, I'd never have expected to see these games on the market ever again, given how tight Paramount's grip on the license is. Remember a game called Bridge Commander? To my knowledge, only 3000 items of that one were sold, because Totally Games (yeah, the X-Wing/TIE-Fighter devs) or Activision disgruntled Paramount somehow and got the Star Trek license revoked, which disallowed them from selling any further copies. If GOG could somehow get their hands on Bridge Commander, too... It has some really, really awesome mods!

So, back to these adventures. They are some of the very few games that really capture the feel of the series and understand the franchise; Spectrum Holobyte's A Final Unity does the same for the Next Generation - get on it, GOG! ;)
However, these games may be another one of those cases where offering both versions of the game (as happened with the X-Wing/TIE-Fighter collector's editions) might be in order, because other than the added end-game sequences of the talkie version of 25th Anniversary, there's another notable difference between the floppy and talkie versions of both games: The ship's computer has a lot more entries in the floppy versions, because either CD-ROM space ran out due to all the audio data, or it was too expensive to put all its content into the re-release.
Those many more entries in the ship's computer are cool insofar as you can look up a lot of stuff that occured in the series and doesn't play any role whatsoever in the games! Also, the final battle was patched to be more doable in the talkie version - the floppy version's final battle is infamous for its difficulty. Would be nice if that one was still available for posterity's sake.

Needless to say, I did beat that final battle in the floppy version back in the day. On the 23rd try, if I remember correctly. :D #bragrights

Wholeheartedly agree with this thread.

The 25th anniversary and Judgement Rites were among the best if not the best Star Trek games ever made. Beautiful scripts, amazing starship combat that to this day ranks as the best for the franchise IMHO, and the original voice actors providing that TOS charm.

Anyone who stumbles on this thread and post, if you enjoy Star Trek, get these games. They are in a way the 4th season we never got.

Hi C17,

I agree with you on the game recapturing the same atmosphere of the original series, story wise, effects and so on.

But the starship combat beings the best? I don't really agree on that one. Personally I think Bridge Commander did it much better.

I would honestly like to see a remake of this game, but with the starship combat segment replaced with a Bridge Commander like one. And that there would be a simulator to test your ship against other ships.