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I am an avid Star Trek gamer, and I try my best to collect the Star Trek computer games that interests me, as much as my finances allow. However, I'm rather embarrassed to say that although I have collected many Star Trek games, I haven't gotten around to play most of them. This is because of an incident which happened when I was playing the game Star Trek: Borg. Somehow, the computer couldn't handle the demands that the game required and it crashed, resulting in the computer being offline for several weeks before I got it running again. This caused much inconvenience to my other family members who also used the computer for their work.

After the incident, I became rather hesitant when it comes to installing new Star Trek games to play. In addition, collecting Star Trek games is a rather expensive hobby, so I would rather buy the games that I know I would have much fun in playing, rather than be a 'completist' and buy all avaliable Star Trek games for the sake of completing an entire collection of Star Trek games, especially when I wouldn't even be playing most of them! Therefore, I do not have ALL Star Trek games, and neither do I really need to.

Alright, here is a list of my Star Trek games ...
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1991)
This is a very fun game, requiring much puzzle-sloving and space combat. The game was first released as five 5 1/4 inch disks. Later, CD-ROM versions were also released, featuring the voices of the original actors and actress.
Star Trek: Judgment Rites (1995)
A sequel to
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, this game was just as fun and entertaining. The game was first released as eleven (!) 3 1/2 inch disks. Similarly, CD-ROM versions were also released, featuring voices for the characters.
Star Trek Federation Compilation (1997)
This compilation contains the CD-ROM versions of
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Star Trek: Judgment Rites. Apart from these two games, the compilation also includes Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Cadet Briefing, a four level preview of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, for Gameboy (1991)
Here's another Star Trek game to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the great show. Despite having the same title as the above-mentioned PC game, this game has nothing to do with the PC game produced by Interplay, the story is different altogether. In this Gameboy game, a doomsday machine is heading towards Earth, and the Federation has developed a weapon against this threat. However, the Klingons, fearing that the weapon could be used against them, stole the weapon and took the weapon apart, placing the various components on three planets. The
Enterprise has to recover the weapon, reassemble it and use it against the doomsday machine. The fate of the galaxy now lies in your hands...
Star Trek: The Next Generation, for Gameboy (1993)
You are in charge of the USS Enterprise-D as you undergo various missions such as delivery of supplies, close combat, and asteroid shooting. Various skills are tested including flying and phaser firing, engineering power transfers, and even your transporter skill comes in handy when intruders occasionally beam aboard and wreck havoc. The level of difficulty increases as you progress, and sometimes even the Borg may pay you a visit.
Star Trek: The Next Generation - "A Final Unity" (1995)
This game features characters from TNG, and involves a quest to stop a long-forgottened alien race, the Chodak, from obtaining a powerful weapon. The Chodak were actually adversaries from an earlier TNG game called ST:TNG Future's Past which ran on a Sega platform.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger (1996)
This game features the characters from
DS9, but not all the main characters. Apparently, a plasma storm had forced most of the station's crew and civilians to evacuate to Bajor, leaving only a skeleton crew (Sisko, Dax, Odo, no O'Brien and Kira) and a couple of denizens onboard. A murder takes place, and it's up to you to solve it. Another plot involves an invasion by an unknown alien race from the other side of the wormhole (not the Dominion), and yes, it's up to you to stop that too. It's a terribly long and boring game, and I am amazed by the fact that this is actually one of the few games that I have played to completion.
Star Trek: Klingon (1996)
This game is an interactive movie in which, you are Pok, a young Klingon warrior who must avenge your father's death after he was killed during your Rite of Ascension. You are aided in your quest by Gowron, the head of the Klingon High Council. I bought this game in New Zealand when I came across it in a shop, but again, I have yet gone around to playing it due to the
Star Trek: Borg incident.
Star Trek: Borg (1996)
Another interactive movie game, but this time the game is dealing with the Borg, an insidious race who only want to assimilate you, your technology and your culture. You are a Starfleet cadet whose father was killed by the Borg at Wolf 359. There is now another Borg attack on Earth, and when you are refused permission to join in the fight to avenge your father (sounds familiar?), an omnipotent being called Q suddenly appears and offers you a chance to go back in time and join your father in his starship when he engaged the Borg, and possibly save your father's life. As I had explained earlier, I was playing this game when the computer crashed. After I fixed the computer, I continued on to finish the game, but have since been hesitant to play other new games on my computer, resulting in numerous games being not played ever since I bought them, just sitting on their shelf (!).
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997)
Here's a game which I have yet to play finish thus far. Basically, it's a starship simulation, with quite a lot of dialogue, not just between the cadet (you) and other cadets, but also with alien captains and your instructors. The game also stars William Shatner, George Takei and Walter Koenig, reprising their roles as Captain Kirk, Captain Sulu and Commander Chekov respectively. This game should not be confused with another Star Trek game of the same name which ran on a Nintendo platform.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Chekov's Lost Missions (1998)
An expansion pack to
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, it adds on several more missions. Nope, haven't got around to playing this either.
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