Video games

Throughout the years, the influence of Star Trek has expanded sufficiently to warrant the creation of a long series of PC games. One of the most notable is 'Star Trek Armada' by Activision. This game's sequel, Star Trek Armada 2 (by MadDoc Software and published by Activision), is often considered the highest quality Trek game commonly available. However, the Star Trek games franchise dates to at least 1993 with Interplay's now classic title Star Trek: 25th Anniversary for the PC. Activision, Inc. ... Interplay Entertainment Corporation was an American video game and computer game publisher and developer. ...

Interplay, Simon and Schuster, Microprose and Activision all had their part in the early era of Star Trek gaming, with Activision ultimately taking over the publishing rights for the main license packs in late 2000, bringing to an end what was known as "The Golden Era" by Star Trek gaming fans and PC gaming magazines. The short period between the release of the Microprose PC title "Birth of the Federation" (1999) and Activision's "Star Trek: Armada" (2001) saw the release of many major Trek-themed PC games. The quality of the games compared to the older titles of 1993 to 1999 had risen to new heights and along with the Interplay mini franchise of "Star Trek: Starfleet Command", "Star Trek: Starfleet Command 2 - Empires At War" and "Star Trek: Starfleet Command 2 - Orion Pirates" -- not to mention the timeless classics "Star Trek: StarFleet Academy" and its sequel "Star Trek: Klingon Academy"-- sealed the future of Star Trek gaming going into the 21st century. Interplay Entertainment Corporation was an American video game and computer game publisher and developer. ... Jean-François Millet Le Semeur (The Sower) Simon & Schuster logo, circa 1961. ... MicroProse Software, Inc. ... Activision, Inc. ...

• Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator (arcade game)
• Star Trek (script game)
• Star Trek (text game)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (video game)
• Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations
• Star Trek Customizable Card Game
• Star Trek Invasion
• Star Trek Online
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (computer game)
• Star Trek: Armada
• Star Trek: Armada II
• Star Trek: Away Team
• Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
• Star Trek: Borg
• Star Trek: Borg Assimilator
• Star Trek: Bridge Commander
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen
• Star Trek: Elite Force II
• Star Trek: Generations (game)
• Star Trek: Judgment Rites
• Star Trek: Klingon
• Star Trek: New Worlds
• Star Trek: Legacy
• Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Final Unity
• Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force
• Starfleet Command (game)
• Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates
• Starfleet Command II: Empires at War
• Starfleet Command III
• Star Trek: Klingon Academy
• Star Trek Starfleet Academy
• Star Trek Starfleet Academy: Checkov's Lost Missions

Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator is an arcade game released by Sega in 1982. ... Star Trek was a text-based mainframe computer game written by Don Daglow on a PDP-10 timesharing computer at Pomona College in 1972, and upgraded periodically through 1974, including contributions by Jonathan Osser. ... A simple version of Star Trek, running in a Linux command terminal The Star Trek text game is a classic text-only computer game that originated from the BASIC programming language hacker culture of the 1970s. ... The Star Trek Customizable Card Game is, as the name implies, a collectible card game based on the Star Trek universe. ... Star Trek Invasion is a videogame, released in 2000 for the Sony PlayStation console. ... Star Trek Online is the working title of a MMORPG being developed and published by Perpetual Entertainment which was announced on September 7, 2004. ... Star Trek: Armada is a computer game published by Activision, based upon the Star Trek universe. ... Star Trek: Armada II is a computer game published by Activision, based upon the Star Trek universe. ... Star Trek: Away Team is an isometric computer strategy game set in the fictional universe of Star Trek and focusing on commando-style combat. ... Star Trek: Birth of the Federation is a 4X turn-based computer strategy game, based in the Star Trek fictional universe, that was released in 1999. ... Star Trek: Bridge Commander is a tactical simulation, or flight sim, game, published by Activision, based in the Star Trek universe. ... Star Trek: Generations the Game is a first person shooter by Microprose, based in the Star Trek universe. ... Star Trek: Judgment Rites is a video game first produced by Interplay in 1994, featuring the original cast of the classic Star Trek in a series of new adventures, including one featuring Trelane, the omnipotent child from the original episode The Squire of Gothos. Uses the same DOS gaming engine... Star Trek: Klingon was a Star Trek Windows-based game, released by Simon & Schuster Interactive in 1996 and directed by Jonathan Frakes. ... Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Final Unity is a computer game by Spectrum Holobyte, based on the Star Trek universe. ... Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force is a first-person shooter computer game made by Raven Software and published by Activision in 2000. ... Starfleet Command is a computer game based on the table-top wargame Star Fleet Battles. ... Star Trek: Starfleet Command III is a Star Trek computer game published in 2002. ...

Pinball

There were three pinball games that were based on the Star Trek series. This article is about the arcade game. ...

• Star Trek: Released by Bally in 1979.
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary: Released by Data East Pinball (now Stern Pinball) in 1991.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Designed by legendary pinball designer Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics in November 1993. It was part of WMS' SuperPin series of games.

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Role-Playing Games

The Star Trek franchise has spawned a variety of Trek-themed role-playing games, including the following: This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... A Star Trek RPG or Star Trek Role Playing Game is a role-playing game that is set in the Star Trek fictional universe. ...

• Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, the original Star Trek RPG produced by FASA (1982)
• Star Trek Simming, a freeform style of role-playing game which originated on the Internet and proprietary online services. Several types of sims exist, including live action (chat-based) and e-mail/message board sims. (1990)
• Prime Directive, currently produced by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. in partnership with Steve Jackson Games and uses GURPS' d20 and d6 systems. (1993, 2002, and 2005)
• Star Trek: A Call To Duty, the first online text based game officially endorsed by Paramount Pictures and advertised on the Star Trek website from 1997 until sponsorship was discontinued in early 2000. [1] (1997).
• Star Trek Role Playing Game, produced by Last Unicorn Games (1998)
• Star Trek Role Playing Game, produced by Decipher, Inc. (2002)
• Star Trek Simulation Forum ( STSF), founded in July 2002, it has served as the chat based role-playing game of the official Star Trek website since October 2002. [2]. Remains the only simming organization currently recognized by the site (2002).
• Star Trek Online, a MMORPG produced by Perpetual Entertainment (projected for 2007)

Star Trek: The Role Playing Game is, as the name indicates, a role-playing game set in the fictional Star Trek universe published and edited by FASA Corporation from 1982 to 1989. ... This article is about the role-playing game company. ... Simming is an online text-based role-playing game that takes place in a chat room, by e-mail or on an Internet forum. ... Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct 1 on 1 chat or chat rooms, using tools such as instant messenger applications—computer programs, Internet Relay Chat, talkers and possibly MUDs, MUCKs, MUSHes and MOOes. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Gaia Online, the largest English language forum-based community as of April 2005 — powered by a modified version of phpBB. An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. ... Prime Directive is a role-playing game set in the Star Trek-derived Star Fleet Universe. ... The Amarillo Design Bureau, based in Amarillo, Texas, is a company specialising in tactical and strategic board wargames. ... Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is a game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. ... The Generic Universal Role-Playing System, commonly known as GURPS is a form of a role-playing game (RPG) designed to adapt to any imaginary gaming environment. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... D6 System logo The D6 System is a system of game mechanics, primarily for role-playing games published by West End Games. ... The Star Trek RPG is a role-playing game set in the fictional Star Trek universe, designed by Last Unicorn Games. ... The Star Trek Role Playing Game is, as the name implies, a role-playing game based on the Star Trek universe. ... Decipher, Inc. ... The Star Trek Simulation Forum (abbreviated STSF) is a simming organization for Star Trek centered on providing numerous online chat based role-playing games created in 2002. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... Star Trek collectively refers to an American science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series (which comprise 726 episodes) and ten feature films, in addition to hundreds of novels, computer and video games, fan stories, and other works of fiction — all of which are set within the same fictional universe... Star Trek Online is the working title of a MMORPG being developed and published by Perpetual Entertainment which was announced on September 7, 2004. ... Players interacting in Ultima Online. ... Founded in March 2002, Perpetual Entertainment is an American computer game and video game developer, publisher and operator of multiplayer and MMORPG games. ...

Card games

• Star Trek Customizable Card Game, produced by Decipher.

The Star Trek Customizable Card Game is, as the name implies, a collectible card game based on the Star Trek universe. ... Decipher, Inc. ...

Board games

• Star Fleet Battles, the seminal tactical tabletop wargame created by Steven V. Cole and produced by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
• Federation Commander, the newest tactical tabletop wargame in the Star Fleet Universe produced by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
• Federation and Empire, the strategic companion to Star Fleet Battles also produced by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
• Monopoly, produced by Hasbro licensee USAopoly in two versions representing the original Star Trek series and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• How to Host a Mystery, produced by Decipher in a Star Trek: The Next Generation version (1992)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Klingon Challenge (1993)
• Star Trek: The Adventure Game, produced by West End Games (1985)
• Star Trek: The Final Frontier, produced by Toys & Games Limited (1992)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Romulan Challenge, produced by MMG LTD (1994)
• Star Trek game, produced by Milton Bradley, based on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

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References

Star Trek gaming for PCs and various consoles has been continuing for more than a decade. Below are links to further information about the gaming franchise and its past.

• STGU - Star Trek Games Wiki
• Games article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki
• The History of Star Trek PC Gaming 1993~2003' by Victor Mullin, 2006 [3]
• Star Trek games at BoardGameGeek
• TrekCore Gaming Museum