![]() ![]() The first game took the form of seven individual episodic stories that could each have been a proper entry from TOS, with an astonishing amount of variation in how its puzzles could be solved. ![]() (As it turns out, Judgment Rites would prove to be the very last time the original cast all worked together.) That’s right, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols, Kelley, and Takei are all there, at a point when their cinematic stars were shining brightly, agreeing to voice the reams of dialogue for a lowly video game. These were Sierra-style point-n-click adventures, depicting cartoon versions of the original series’ (TOS) bridge crew, and most astonishingly, entirely voiced by the original actors. In fact, this entry should probably encompass two games, both 1992’s Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and 1993’s Star Trek: Judgment Rites, given they work so well as a whole. While LucasArts and Sierra dominated, many others caught a piece of the action, including Judgment Rites’ Interplay, Brian Fargo’s company that would also give us Fallout, Baldur’s Gate, and a miserable legal battle with Bethesda. The 1990s were the decade of the point-n-click adventure, the era during which the genre was capable of being a blockbuster commercial success. More than you’d think, in fact, as hopefully this list - in no particular order - will demonstrate. But games like Elite Force and Judgment Rites showed that TV’s corniest licence could offer a basis for some top-notch entertainment. Sure, it’s hard to argue there’s anything that can measure up against TIE Fighter or Dark Forces, but then nor is there really in the rest of gaming. While it’s fair to say that Star Trek games have not exactly gained the nostalgic prestige of Star Wars properties, that doesn’t mean there isn’t gold-pressed latinum to be found among them. Fortunately, we have the authority to whittle the number down to a more manageable eight, in our legally binding list of the best among them. Go back into the Wild West of the ‘70s and ‘80s and that number shoots up when you include the unlicensed, unofficial titles. There have been, depending upon how you count, approximately 47 official Star Trek games. ![]() But rather than heading to Netflix and struggling through the first three seasons of Deep Space Nine all over again, what about dipping into its rich history of video games? As the final fan-service-strewn season of Star Trek: Picard comes to an end, confusing everyone by not being absolutely awful, you may well be in the mood for some more Trek before the return of Strange New Worlds in June. ![]()
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