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Okay, while I still have very little interest in the game itself, that was a pretty good commercial for it. I might look more into the game once it comes out, but it's not something I'm eagerly anticipating. It just sounds like it's going to be mostly running around and fighting, which doesn't really appeal to me (in general, but especially in a game based on Star Trek).
Seriously, why can't they make games like the PC version of 25th Anniversary, Judgment Rites, or A Final Unity anymore? Star Trek isn't just space battles and hand phaser fights, you know.
Those are the Trek games I enjoyed the most, by far. Beyond that, I've played several more Trek games over the years, ranging from pretty good to pure crap.
I liked Bridge Commander, even if it was mostly just space battles. Same with Starfleet Academy and Klingon Academy. Armada was pretty good, if you like RTS games, but again it was just all space battles all the time, and for some reason I've never really been able to get into Armada II. Legacy got panned quite a bit by critics and players alike, but I thought it was... okay, I guess, even if it was yet more space battles and nothing else. The NES version of 25th Anniversary was okay for what it was I guess, though I only first played it a couple years ago (well past the expiration date). The Game Boy version sucked though, in retrospect, despite the fact that I have a bit of a soft spot for it given that it was the first Trek game I ever played as a kid, decades ago. Future's Past for the SNES was fairly interesting, but not great. The simply titled Star Trek: The Next Generation for Game Boy was kind of lame as well in retrospect, since again it was just space battles, but that didn't stop me from playing the hell out of it at the time. The Generations Game Boy game was just more of the same. The Generations PC game, however, sucked some serious ass, at least based on what little I remember of it (which is mainly just the fact that you can get Riker sucked out into space during the first mission and something about Dr. Crusher and gigantic blood cells or some shit like that). I managed to get through the Federation campaign of Starfleet Command but I didn't like it all that much, and never played any of the sequels to it. New Worlds was pure, unadulterated shit, and the less acknowledgement of its existence the better. Borg was awesome, in my opinion, if only because it had Q in it and that it was still the pre-"Borg Queen" Borg when they were still actually cool, and despite being in the FMV genre, which seemingly everyone hates. Klingon on the other hand... well, I don't really remember much of anything about that, except that it wasn't very good. And, lastly, I was sad when they never released The Secret of Vulcan Fury.
I haven't played any of the other multitude of Trek games though, and thus can't really comment on them. I did watch the entire Linkara Let's Play of Elite Force but that's about it. Lately, though, I've been kind of vaguely interested in Star Trek Online, despite it being a MMO game, primarily because I've heard that it's more solo-friendly than most MMOs tend to be. (EDIT) I've since played through a good chunk of STO, and it was pretty cool, especially for being a free-to-play MMO game. It is indeed quite solo-friendly. It may be a bit too heavy on the space combat and hand phaser combat on the ground for my liking, but there was still enough non-combat stuff to make it fairly interesting, at least for me. (/EDIT)
One thing I don't get, though, is why nobody ever tried to make the Trek equivalent of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. That would have been amazing. (Ah, the days back when BioWare didn't suck ass. How I miss those days.)
