List of Star Trek games
The enduring popularity of the Star Trek science fiction franchise has led to numerous games in many different formats, beginning in 1967 with a board game based on and continuing through the present with online and DVD games.
Board games
- Space Checkers, a variant of Tri-dimensional chess, produced by Pacific Game Co
- Star Trek Game, the only game based on the original series to be released during the show's run, produced by Ideal Toys
- Star Trek game, produced by Hasbro
- Star Trek game, produced in UK by Palitoy
- Star Trek game, produced by Milton Bradley, based on '
- Star Trek: Starfleet Game, a promotional game released by McDonald's to coincide with the first movie
- Struggle for the Throne, produced by FASA. Players control factions fighting in a succession crisis in the Klingon Empire.
- ', produced by West End Games
- Golden Trivia Game: Star Trek Edition, Golden Books
- Golden Trivia Cards: Star Trek Edition
- Star Trek: The Game, produced by Classic Games
- Star Trek: The Final Frontier, produced by Toys & Games Limited
- The Star Trek Trivia Game, Board game based on the original series, created by Terry W. Hill of Ogden, Utah, limited edition custom made and privately produced. 1992–Present)
- How to Host a Mystery - Star Trek: The Next Generation, produced by Decipher in the U.S. and Canada Games in Canada
- , the only Star Trek: The Next Generation video board game, although a second game involving Q and The Borg was planned. This game was produced by Decipher
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: Romulan Challenge, produced by MMG LTD
- Trivial Pursuit: Star Trek Edition VCR Game, a "Sci-Fi Master Game" supplement for the main game, made by TelStar Video Entertainment
- Monopoly, produced by Hasbro licensee USAopoly in three versions; one representing the original Star Trek series, another featuring Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Continuum Edition Monopoly, covering all five series
- All About Trivia: Star Trek, released by Fundex Games. A trivia game with material specifically based on The Original Series and the first six feature films
- Scene It? Star Trek, developed by Screenlife and Mattel. Contains Star Trek TV and movie clips from all 5 live action series and the first 10 movies
- Star Trek: Expeditions, developed by Reiner Knizia and WizKids, taking place in the new continuity established by the latest movie
- Star Trek: Fleet Captains, developed by WizKids, a tactical game where players create fleets out of a selection of Federation and Klingon ships and battle to control hex based sectors
- Star Trek Catan, created by Mayfair Games, is a TOS themed version of the board game The Settlers of Catan
- Star Trek: Ascendancy, published by GaleForce 9, is a 4X strategy game,
- Star Trek Panic, published by USAopoly in 2016. A cooperative game based on Castle Panic that uses Star Trek themed enemies and player characters to complete missions before the U.S.S. Enterprise is destroyed.
Tabletop wargames
- Star Trek Battle Manual, designed and published by Lou Zocchi in 1972. Unlike most other games in this category, it was played without a board. Ships maneuvered on the tabletop using rulers to determine range and protractor-like angle measures on the large counters to determine facing. The game was produced without authorization from Paramount Pictures, leading to its reissue in 1973 as the Alien Space Battle Manual with all Star Trek references removed, followed by a further release in 1977 as the Star Fleet Battle Manual after Zochi obtained a license from Franz Joseph Designs for material in the Star Fleet Technical Manual.
- Star Fleet Battles, the tactical tabletop wargame created by Steven V. Cole and produced by Task Force Games in 1979. Like Zocchi's Star Fleet Battle Manual, it also made use of a license from Franz Joseph Designs. It has had four major editions and is currently published by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
- Federation Commander, a more streamlined tactical tabletop wargame in the Star Fleet Universe produced by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. in 2005.
- A Call To Arms: Star Fleet is another hexless game set in the Star Fleet Universe. Published in 2011, it is a collaboration between Amarillo Design Bureau and Mongoose Publishing, using a variant of the system seen in '.
- Federation Space, a strategic companion to Star Fleet Battles produced by Task Force Games in 1981.
- Federation and Empire, the second and more elaborate strategic game set in the Star Fleet Universe, first published by Task Force Games in 1986 and presently by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
- The ', Star Trek III Starship Combat Roleplaying Game, and ', all published by FASA Corporation in the 1980s, based on the combat system from the '
- ', published by Wizkids in 2013, and based on the "FlightPath maneuver system" from the ' under license from Fantasy Flight Games.
Card games
- Star Trek Customizable Card Game, produced by Decipher.
- ', produced by Fleer.
- ', produced by Bandai.
- Star Fleet Battle Force, produced by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.
- Star Trek Adversaries, produced by Puppetmaster Games
- Star Trek Fluxx, published in 2018 by Looney Labs with Gale Force 9
- Star Trek TNG Fluxx, published in 2018 by Looney Labs with Gale Force 9
- Star Trek Deep Space Nine Fluxx, to be published in 2019 by Looney Labs with Gale Force 9
- ChronoTrek, a time travel game similar to Chrononauts set in the Star Trek universe, published in 2019 by Looney Labs
Role-playing games
- ', produced by Heritage Models
- Starfleet Voyages, produced by Terra Games Company
- ', the original Star Trek RPG produced by FASA
- Enterprise: Role Play Game in Star Trek, released in Japan by Tsukuda Hobby
- Prime Directive, designed by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. and published by Task Force Games. Later editions were produced for the GURPS 3rd edition, 4th edition, d20 and d20 Modern.
- ', produced by Last Unicorn Games and derived in two other standalone games:
- *'
- *Star Trek: The Original Series Role-playing Game
- Star Trek Roleplaying Game, produced by Decipher, Inc.
- Star Trek Adventures, produced by Modiphius Entertainment
- Star Trek Simulation Forum, has served as the chat based role-playing game of the official Star Trek website since October 2002. Remains the only simming organization currently recognized by the site
Starship simulator games
This :Category:Starship simulators based on Star Trek|game category includes both computer games and non-computer board games, since the Star Fleet Battles game series provides a starship simulation, and is wholly a tabletop board wargame. As well as the Star Trek RPG by FASA which allowed players to take charge of specific areas of a ships functions during combat.
Star Fleet Battles is different from most other wargames, which usually indicate unit strengths with simple numerical ratings. SFB players are able to deploy and manage power for a variety of ship weapons and resources. This is done via an elaborate Energy Allocation mechanism where even partial points of energy can be allocated to a number of different systems. Federation Commander is the continued development of this system in a more fast-paced version. Instead of the Energy Allocation system it uses an innovative tick sheet system, which manages power use for each ship, and also tracks which weapons and systems are in use. The ' computer game is based upon Star Fleet Battles.
In Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, produced by FASA, players actually had individual bridge functions during combat. This at one point became a separate game known as '. The Captain determined the strategy, the Engineer was responsible for power management and allocation to different systems such as weapons and shields, the Helmsman for firing weapons, the Navigator for managing deflector shields, the Communications Officer for damage control and so on.
Starship simulator computer games which are set in the Star Trek universe occupy a large role in the history of computer games. Some of the earliest and more influential space simulator video games were :Category:Starship simulators based on Star Trek|Star Trek simulations designed to run on mainframes.
David H. Ahl played such games in the late 1960s at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley. He stated that they were much less sophisticated than Mike Mayfield's Star Trek text game, which originated as a BASIC program on an SDS Sigma 7 mainframe system in 1971 and ported to many different systems. Ahl published source code for this game in his best selling BASIC Computer Games, and variants of the game spread widely to personal computer systems.
Decwar in 1978 was also a groundbreaking game. Another is Super Star Trek, an early text-based, DOS-based game. This game created an impressive starship experience using only text-based commands and graphics. The game Begin is considered notable for having a convincing model of game dynamics, as it has very few random elements, and is highly mathematical. In 1986, the game Multi-Trek was brought online at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Written in C for a PDP mainframe, and also available via dialup and later TELNET, MTrek was arguably the first ever game to combine a persistent world, online multiplayer environment with a real-time, true 3-dimensional game engine and versions of the game still have an active player base.
Netrek was released in 1988, and was probably the first game to use both the TCP and UDP protocols, the first Internet-aware team game, the first Internet game to use metaservers to locate open game servers, and the first to have persistent user information. Netrek should not be confused with NET TREK, a 1984 Macintosh game unofficially based on Star Trek.
In later years, fewer games were produced within this genre, and more games were produced in the adventure games genre. The first new recent game was ', which incorporated many Star Trek elements, but was criticized for depicting starship operation as more akin to fighter planes than capital ships. A sequel, ', was actually quite different, and was one of the first games to depict starship operation with an appropriate amount of complexity.
The Starfleet Command game series released by Interplay was based largely on the tabletop game Star Fleet Battles, and comprised ', ', and '. It constitutes one of the most definitive current games, depicting a wide array of ship systems and Star Trek storylines. This series had a more naval flavor, and depicted a number of ship systems. This series spawned a very large multiplayer ladder competition first with the "Starlance" system, and later on the "GamerZone" ladder. The main multiplayer setting is the "Dynaverse," which began as an official server hosted by Taldren, and has continued as a private effort.
' was another addition to this genre, reflecting the more deliberative, command aspects of this experience.
In late 2006, Bethesda Softworks released several console games which carry on the tradition of classic Star Trek ship simulator/combat games, ' for the PC and Xbox 360, ' for the PlayStation 2, ' for the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable and ' for the Wii and PlayStation 2.
Several online games have appeared on the Internet. Vega Trek is a game mod which is planned to eventually become active as a multiplayer game. Flashtrek: Broken Mirror, first created by Vex Xiang, is one of the online Star Trek games, and is entirely browser-based. It has spawned several sequels. One sequel was created by Vex Xiang, and multiple others were created by fans. A newer game titled Star Trek: Broken Mirror was being developed by a man named Darkwing for several years, but was apparently abandoned in 2014.
is one of the newest additions to this genre, and continues the historical pattern of Star Trek-themed simulator breaking new ground. This cross platform game is in a virtual reality environment in which four players actually occupy the bridge of the USS Aegis, Enterprise-D or the Original Enterprise. Players get to see each other in real-time, and interact during the game to operate the ship and work together to handle various game scenarios.
Pinball games
Four pinball games have been based on the Star Trek series:- Star Trek, released by Bally in 1979, designed by Gary Gayton with artwork by Kevin O'Connor.
- Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, released by Data East Pinball in 1991.
- , created by legendary pinball designer Steve Ritchie and released by Williams Electronics in November 1993 as part of Williams' SuperPin series.
- Star Trek, created by Steve Ritchie and released by Stern in winter 2013.
Video games
Arcade
| Year | Title |
| 1982 | Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator |
| 2000 | Star Trek: Borg Contact |
| 2002 |
Computer
The history of the Star Trek personal computer game franchise began as early as 1971, with a Star Trek text-only computer game written in BASIC. Many PC titles have since been published, and the franchise was one of the first based on a TV program to break into the young PC gamer market in the 1990s. Activision and Viacom signed an agreement to develop games based on the Star Trek property in September 1998Interplay, Simon & Schuster, MicroProse and Activision released most of the best-known Star Trek games between 2000 and 2003. Titles like Star Trek: Armada, Star Trek: Elite Force and Star Trek: Bridge Commander were all published during this period, as were over half of all the other major Star Trek PC games. The absence of new titles after 2003 was due in large measure to a split and subsequent lawsuit between Activision and Viacom which ended in 2004.
With the departure of Activision in 2003, the franchise under the tenure of Paramount effectively came to a close. Since the end of 2005, CBS has assumed most franchise management, including games and other products. Even with no new licensed titles released during 2003-2006, the older games like Armada and Elite Force still have an avid fan base which keeps the small community going. Development of the new Star Trek: Online title is complete and the game was made available for sale on February 2, 2010.
is a flash-based Star Trek multiplayer strategy game currently in open beta phase developed by GameSamba, in conjunction with CBS Interactive.
Commercial games
| Year | Title | Platform | Developer, publisher |
| 1971 | Star Trek | Multiple | Mike Mayfield |
| 1972 | Star Trek | PDP-10 | Don Daglow |
| 1973 | Super Star Trek | Multiple | Bob Leedom, David H. Ahl |
| 1976 | Galaxy | 8008, 8080, SCELBI | Bob Findley, SCELBI Computer Consulting |
| 1977 | Star Trek | Apple 1 | Bob Bishop, Interface Age |
| 1979 | Apple Trek | Apple II | Wendell Sander, Apple Computer |
| 1980 | 3-D Star Trek | Atari 800 | Color Software |
| 1980 | Battle Trek | TRS-80 | Gilman Louie, Voyager Software |
| 1980 | Star Trek 3.5 | TRS-80, Apple II, Atari 800 | Adventure International |
| 1981 | Star Trek | DOS | |
| 1981 | Tari Trek | Atari 800 | Quality Software |
| 1982 | Video Trek 88 | DOS | Windmill Software |
| 1982 | NewTrek | DOS | |
| 1982 | SpaceTrek 2 | Commodore 64 | |
| 1982 | Super Star Trek | DOS | |
| 1982 | Dragon Trek | Dragon 32/64 | Salamander Software |
| 1982 | Star Trek | Dragon 32/64 | Personal Software Services |
| 1982 | The Warp Factor | Apple II, DOS | Strategic Simulations, Inc. |
| 1983 | Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator | Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Colecovision, C64, VIC-20 | Sega Enterprises, Inc. |
| 1983 | Galaxy Trek | DOS | Larry E. Jordan |
| 1983 | Star Trek | Commodore 64 | Interceptor Micro's Software |
| 1983 | Star Trek 6.8 | Commodore 64 | Anik Microsystems |
| 1983 | 3D Time Trek | Commodore 64 | Anirog Software Ltd. |
| 1983 | Trek Adventure | Commodore 64 | Aardvark-80 |
| 1984 | Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation | DOS | Clockwork Software |
| 1984 | NET TREK | Macintosh | |
| 1984 | StarShip: Invasion | DOS | Thinking Machine Associates |
| 1985 | Star Trek Evolution | Commodore 64 | Load'n'Go / One Step / Green Valley Publishing |
| 1985 | ' | Apple II, C64, DOS | Simon & Schuster |
| 1986 | Trek73 | DOS | David A. Soussan |
| 1986 | ' | Apple II, C64, DOS | Simon & Schuster |
| 1986 | Trivial Trek | DOS | Rugsoft, Inc. |
| 1986 | Star Trek: Trivia Game, Volume 1 | DOS | Apogee Software, Ltd. |
| 1986 | Tommy's Trek | DOS | Tommy's Toys |
| 1987 | Three Dimensional Star Trek | DOS | Carl Schelin |
| 1987 | TREK | DOS | Carl McLawhorn |
| 1987 | ' | Atari ST, C64, DOS | Simon & Schuster |
| 1988 | Star Trek: The Last Generation | DOS | Xordanbhorgh, Inc. |
| 1988 | ' | DOS | Micromosaics, Simon & Schuster Interactive |
| 1989 | ' | DOS | |
| 1989 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | DOS | Level Systems, Mindscape |
| 1990 | Star Trek: The Next Generation - Trivia Game | DOS | Sci-Fi / Futuristic |
| 1990 | Visual Star Trek | DOS | |
| 1991 | Begin 2 | DOS | Clockwork Software |
| 1992 | NCC-1701 | Windows 3.x | Robert W. Feakins |
| 1992 | 3D Trek | DOS | Scott Douglas |
| 1992 | The Alcor Trivia Pro Classic Star Trek | DOS | The Alcor Group, Inc. |
| 1992 | ' | DOS, Macintosh, Amiga | Interplay Entertainment |
| 1992 | EGA Trek: The Mongol Invasion | DOS | Arcanum Computing, Sofsource, Inc. |
| 1993 | ' | DOS, Macintosh | Interplay Entertainment |
| 1995 | ' | DOS, Macintosh | Spectrum HoloByte, MicroProse |
| 1996 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | Simon & Schuster |
| 1996 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | Simon & Schuster |
| 1996 | ' | DOS, Macintosh | Stormfront Studios, Viacom NewMedia |
| 1997 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | High Voltage Software, Interplay Entertainment |
| 1997 | Star Trek Generations | Windows | MicroProse |
| 1997 | Star Trek Pinball | Windows | Interplay Productions |
| 1998 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | MicroProse |
| 1998 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | |
| 1998 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | Imergy, Simon & Schuster |
| 1999 | ' | Windows | MicroProse, Hasbro |
| 1999 | ' | Cancelled | Interplay Entertainment |
| 1999 | ' | Windows | Quicksilver Software, Interplay Entertainment |
| 1999 | ' | Windows | Presto Studios, Activision |
| 2000 | - Captain's Edition | Windows | Quicksilver Software, Inc., Interplay Entertainment Corp. |
| 2000 | ' | Windows | Mad Doc Software, Activision |
| 2000 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | The Collective, Simon & Schuster |
| 2000 | ' | Windows | Genetic Anomalies, Activision |
| 2000 | ' | Windows | 14 Degrees East, Interplay Entertainment |
| 2000 | ' | Windows | 14 Degrees East, Interplay Entertainment |
| 2000 | ' | Windows | Taldren, Interplay Entertainment |
| 2000 | ' | Windows | Imergy, Simon & Schuster Interactive |
| 2000 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | Raven Software, Activision |
| 2001 | ' | Windows | Raven Software Corporation, Activision Publishing, Inc. |
| 2001 | ' | Windows | Gizmo Games, Simon & Schuster |
| 2001 | ' | Windows | Mad Doc Software, Activision |
| 2001 | ' | Windows | Reflexive Entertainment, Activision |
| 2001 | Star Trek: Borg Assimilator | Cancelled | Activision |
| 2001 | ' | Windows | Taldren, Interplay Entertainment |
| 2002 | ' | Windows | Taldren, Activision |
| 2002 | ' | Windows | Totally Games, Activision |
| 2003 | ' | Windows, Macintosh | Ritual Entertainment, Activision |
| 2006 | ' | Windows, Xbox 360 | Mad Doc Software, Bethesda Softworks |
| 2009 | Star Trek: DAC | Windows, Xbox 360, Macintosh, PlayStation 3 | Naked Sky Entertainment, Paramount Digital Entertainment |
| 2010 | Star Trek Online | Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 | Atari, Cryptic Studios, Perfect World Entertainment |
| 2011 | Star Trek Infinite Space | Cancelled as of 2012, Windows, Macintosh | GameForge |
| 2013 | Star Trek | Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 | Digital Extremes |
| 2015 | Star Trek: Alien Domain | Browser | GameSamba |
| 2016 | Star Trek Timelines | Browser, iOS, Android | Disruptor Beam |
| 2017 | Windows, PlayStation 4 | Ubisoft | |
| 2018 | Star Trek Adversaries | Discontinued as of 2019, Windows, Macintosh, iOS, Android |
Console
| Year | Title | Platform |
| 1979 | ' | Microvision |
| 1982 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Vectrex |
| 1983 | Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator | Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 400/800/1200XL, ColecoVision, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, TI-99/4A |
| 1989 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Nintendo Entertainment System |
| 1991 | ' | Nintendo Entertainment System |
| 1992 | ' | Game Boy |
| 1993 | ' | Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Game Gear |
| 1993 | ' | Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System |
| 1994 | ' | Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| 1994 | ' | Game Boy, Game Gear |
| 1994 | ' | Sega 32X, Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| 1994 | ' | Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| 1994 | ' | Game Gear |
| 2000 | ' | PlayStation |
| 2000 | ' | Windows, Mac OS 9, PlayStation 2 |
| 2004 | ' | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| 2006 | ' | PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS |
| 2006 | ' | Xbox 360, Windows |
| 2006 | ' | PlayStation 2 |
| 2007 | ' | Wii, PlayStation 2 |
| 2009 | Star Trek: DAC | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 |
| 2013 | Star Trek | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows |
| 2016 | Star Trek Online | Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows, Macintosh |
| 2017 | ' | PlayStation 4, Windows |
Mobile
| Year | Title | Platform | Developer, Publisher |
| 2009 | Star Trek: The Mobile Game | iOS | Electronic Arts |
| 2013 | Star Trek: Rivals | iOS | Elephant Mouse |
| 2013 | Convoy Raider 2013 | Windows Metro, Android, Apple iOS | MicroGames.biz |
| 2014 | Romulan 2014 | Windows Metro, Android, Apple iOS | MicroGames.biz |
| 2014 | Starfleet 2014 | Windows Metro, Android, Apple iOS | MicroGames.biz |
| 2014 | Star Trek Trexels | iOS, Android | Xcube Games, YesGnome, LLC |
| 2016 | Star Trek Timelines | iOS, Android | Disruptor Beam |
| 2018 | Star Trek Trexels II | Android | Kongregate |
| 2018 | Star Trek Fleet Command | iOS, Android | Scopely |
Electronic and casino games
- Star Trek Super Phaser 2 Target Game is similar to Laser Tag
- Star Trek Phaser Battle Game is similar a tabletop arcade game
- Star Trek is a casino slot machine game designed and marketed by WMS Industries since 2008
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Red Alert, video game gambling machine.
Handheld electronic games