Editing Star Trek (section)

= Video Games =
Again, you're in /tg/, so /v/ comes LAST.

There have been over 100 Star Trek video games to date but you'll be lucky for find more than [https://www.gog.com/news/6_classic_star_trek_games_ready_to_beam_up_new_players_and_fans_alike 6 on Steam or GOG] that aren't shitty mobile phone games. The vast, vast majority of Star Trek's games are abandonware with no way to purchase them, let alone get them from completely trustable sources. Also for a long time gamers had the (justified) prejudice that ''Trek'' games were shit and ''Wars'' games were good. This changed a bit after ''Elite Force'' redeemed ''Trek'' a bit and more so on the other end after EA ran ''Wars'' to the ground.

* [https://www.gog.com/partner/startrek List of Star Trek games on GOG.com]

=== Star Trek Online ===
''Star Trek Online'' is the free-to-play online game built by Cryptic Studios and run by <s>Infogrames</s> <s>Atari</s> <s>Perfect World</s> Gearbox. With an official license CBS, recurring characters voiced by various Trek alumni, and a license to include references to both the reboot chronology (officially known as the "Kelvin Timeline") and recent shows, it's the closest existing thing to an "official" continuation of the "Prime" timeline, and contains history and fluff extending nearly 30 years from the end of Star Trek: Nemesis.

Taking place in the 25th century (around the year 2409-2412), the Hobus supernova (the event that kicked Nero and Spock into the past alternate timeline during Star Trek 2009) has devastated the Romulans, resulting in the near-collapse and fragmentation of the Romulan Star Empire. This causes tensions between a resurgent Klingon Empire and the Federation which blows up into a war. Members of the new (and nicer) breakaway Romulan Republic play both sides in exchange for development aid.

There are six possible starts for characters.
*Current Starfleet - The standard starting point.
*Klingons - You are a warrior of the Empire! Qapla' warrior! Today is a good day to die!
*Romulan Republic - Part of a breakaway state after the destabilization of the Star Empire, you get a choice on which major faction (Starfleet or Klingon) you can join later on.
*Dominion - Quite possibly the least played, you do start at level 60 (basically right at end game since levels cap at 65) and you pick which major faction to join too, but you're part of the Dominion so...
*TOS Starfleet - With all the redshirt shenanigans that entails. A time anomaly and weird mission later and you're now in the standard timeline for STO.
*DSC Starfleet - Similar to TOS, comes with a series of starting missions that are possibly the best any of the starts have. Drawback is that it is couched in the Discovery era.

The game contains deep cuts from all over Trek lore, and answers questions about what happened to various key characters, including Data (took over the Enterprise-E, then retired), the Enterprise (now an even bigger ship run by Andorian captain Shon), and the Voyager crew (it took Harry Kim 30 years to make Captain lol). Raises barely-shown, unnamed, and otherwise obscure races to new prominence as big bad foes, including the Iconians (ancient aliens with god complexes who mutated into energy beings, currently live in Dyson Spheres and were only defeated by a predestination paradox), Tzenkethi (4-armed halo guys whose weak points are the FRONT of their shields), and Na'kuhl (the alien nazis from Enterprise as time-traveling terrorists who blame the Federation for a throwaway event that happened in TNG's beach episode).

The two most recent major arcs center on a Klingon power struggle and civil between mostly TNG-era Klingons and some DSC-era Klingons (and you also go to Klingon Hell) followed very quickly by a Terran arc with heavy tie-ins to the original Star Trek movie's V'Ger. While the Klingon arc made some players more than a little irked due to not only its length (spread out over several "seasons" of play) and it's attempt to shoehorn in the controversial Discovery era, the Terran arc has been widely praised and brought back a very notorious character from the TNG era.

Ostensibly free to play, but don't let that fool you... the ''not-so-micro''transactions are the only reason the lights stay on.

That said, the game does get really decent updates and now is in a groove of running two seasonal events ("Summer on Risa" and "Q's Winter Wonderland") as well as a year-long campaign, as well as a smattering of smaller ones throughout the year. The seasonal ones tend to give you really good shit (often a ship, other times major equipment that can help define an entire character) but the year-long campaign gives you a choice of 3 options to pick from - a shit ton of in-game currency known as Lobi (enough to get a Lobi ship and a little extra), TWO regular Zen Store Tier 6 ships (these unlock for all characters, by the way), or one of the "Premium" ships (ones you typically get from lockbox drops). The only major stipulation is the Premium ship can't be one that has been released in that specific year, but previous years ones are fair game to grab.

=== Bridge Commander ===
A game that lets you feel like a captain. Very dated, but mods are very good. Has had a resurgence in recent years, with newer mods adding stuff from the newer shows.

=== Elite Force ===
There was an "Away Team" game that sucked and a "Voyager" game 1995-7 that got canceled. ''Elite Force'' was the ST:VOY away-team FPS game that critics didn't poop on, and it even got a sequel featuring much of the cast of ''TNG''.

=== Starfleet Command ===
''Starfleet Command'' was a series real time space battle games by Interplay based on the much older tabletop game Star Fleet Battles.  It came out in 1999 and was followed by several sequels and expansions.  Gameplay was much like ''Battlefleet Gothic'', but with the player only controlling one ship.  SFC remains Interplay's best selling game, topping even ''Baldur's Gate''.

=== Armada ===

A series of low effort RTS's churned out by Activision in 2000.  Tried to take on both ''Homeworld'' and ''Age of Empires'', both of which have recently gotten HD remakes and ''Armada'' hasn't so that should tell you all you need to know.  However, for one of the first 3D model space RTS's it was surprisingly easy to mod, resulting in many ship mod packs being made for it.

=== Legacy ===
Starfleet Command dumbed down but with fancier graphics and the ability to fly in 3D. Features ships and protagonists from all 4 main series before the reboots so it has everything iconic. The Ultimate Universe mod has every single ship from all series before the reboot.

==NonCanon==
=== Homages ===
Being such a long-running franchise with a wide audience, Star Trek has gained enough pop-culture recognition that it is often referenced in other works. In a few cases entire projects are made to pay homage to Star Trek. Here are some examples.

==== Galaxy Quest ====
A sci-fi/comedy film released in 1999, directed by Dean Parisot. Built around that ''Three Amigos'' premise of "What if the cast of ''Star Trek'' ended up on a real spaceship and had to actually do the shit they did in the show?", this one parodies science fiction films and series in general - ''Star Trek'' (and its fandom) in particular.

The film stars big name actors including Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and the late Alan Rickman. The plot revolves around the cast of a defunct cult television series called Galaxy Quest (for example, Tim Allen played the Kirk/Shatner expy and Alan Rickman played the Spock/Nimoy expy). They're also suffering fatigue that mirrors the experiences of the actual Star Trek actors (Rickman's character is typecast with his Galaxy Quest character and laments it, similar to how these things happened to the late, great Leonard Nimoy).

The cast are suddenly visited by actual aliens, the Thermians, who believe the series to be an accurate documentary (they have no concept of fiction and only the most bare bones idea of lying - which they only just learned about when the antagonist deceived them repeatedly) and seek their help. The Thermians take the actors with them, who find themselves involved in a very real, and dangerous, galactic conflict against the alien warlord, Sarris.  Unlike the show where it all wrapped up quickly they struggle to learn about and relate to the aliens.  Can these ordinary, flawed actors find greatness within themselves, and possibly personal redemption?  (Spoiler: yes, and it is incredible.)

Speaking of the aliens, in a witty nod to the "rubber forehead aliens" so common in Star Trek, the Thermians first appear to resemble humans with unnaturally pale skin and straight hair/cheap make-up, but that's revealed to be a holographic disguise and their true forms are squid-like.  This does not stop one of the actors from striking up a relationship with a female alien anyway. [[/d/| Shine on you crazy /d/iamond!]]

/tg/ deems this one of the best parodies ever made, and an affectionate love-letter to the franchise as a whole. If you disagree then feel free to consume a big bag of Saurian Swinoid dongs.

''"Never give up, Never surrender!"''

==== The Orville ====
Now has [[The Orville|its own page]].

===Fanfics===
We ''could'' point you to An Archive Of Our Own but, for those (few) of you not keen to watch Kirk and Spock probe Uranus, here are some of the better noncanonical Trek you might want to watch.

====Star Trek: Renegades====
Kickstarter Trek. The makers submitted their made-for-TV movie pilot to CBS in an attempt to get it made into a legit on-the-air series (and by god it shows), but they were not successful. As a result, while the project limped along for a few years afterward, it has good and bad in equal measure. As a non-official product it also cannot be considered canon. Some characters are actually interesting (about time we saw more of the Breen!) while others are pure Mary Sues (including a male Seven of Nine with a built-in Borg-gun/personal shield/fully-functional hand). Some of the ideas are interesting while others are boring or already-been-done. The CGI is all Hollywood-quality, but the practical effects are okay at best. 
It's obvious that they made this without knowing that they were going to be able to make a TV show or not, and tried to cram the sort of build-up and intrigue we saw in DS9 into a span of 90 minutes. For now though, it's decidedly meh, and probably a dead project as well since it hasn't been mentioned on the maker's website in over a year as of late 2019.

====Star Trek Continues====
Of all the offerings listed here, Star Trek Continues is BY FAR the closest in theme and tone to the original 1960's series. Indeed, this is the whole point: from its inception, this fan-funded project was intended to represent a what-if "4th Season" of the Original Series, ending with the conclusion of the Enterprise's 5-year mission. It is surprisingly and at times ''delightfully'' watchable, with strong stories, consequences and arcs that carry over to later episodes, tons of attention to detail, unexpected cameos, and a cast that really came together, particularly in later episodes. It also delicately navigated a line between viewing female characters through the lens of a show that was rooted in 1960's culture while also not treating them as weak children dependent on men for protection. Star Trek Continues successfully concluded its "season" with all 11 episodes gradually released from 2014 to 2018, to heaps of industry awards and wide praise (including a personal endorsement from Gene Roddenberry's son, who said his father would've approved).

===Parodies===
====Futurama====
Matt Groening, that mad lad, got almost all the original actors in a ''Futurama'' episode to [re-]enact a ''Trek'' episode on behalf of an alien fan. But not Doohan, so "Scotty" is replaced by "Welshie". Who gets horribly killed and has his corpse zapped whenever the alien loses his temper.

====Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning====
Another parody, parodying not only ''Star Trek'' but ''Babylon 5'' as well. The seventh in a series fan movies released in 2005, it's about Captain Pirk builds a starship called CPP ''Kickstart'', allies with Russia and takes over the world. He wants to take over more planets but the ships of his P-Fleet aren't fast enough to travel outside the Solar system. A maggot hole opens and it leads to an alternate reality. Pirk wants to take over the Earth of this reality, which leads to an [[awesome]] space battle between the P-Fleet and the fleet of the space station Babel 13 led by Johnny Sherrypie. The movie features some of the best special effects ever put in a sci-fi movie, which is pretty impressive, considering that this is an amateur film with a very low budget and was rendered in five years in someone's bedroom. The film is spoken in Finnish but subtitles are available for a wide variety of languages, including Klingon. They also made [https://web.archive.org/web/20070828010927/http://rpg.starwreck.com/ a role-playing game based on it], where your character [[Truenamer|becomes more incompetent]] [[Page 42|as he levels up]].