Top 5 Star Trek Games to Play in 2024!

Luke delves into the State of Star Trek Games in 2023 to see what games are still worth a look at! These games are mainly picked due to mods that update them significantly for a great experience.
00:00 Introduction
00:53 Honorable Mention
01:49 Starfleet Command 3
02:42 Bridge Crew
03:41 Elite Force 2
04:15 Klingon Academy
05:37 Bridge Commander
Top 5 Star Trek Games to Play in 2024!
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[@RhondaFizzleflint]

"Star Trek TNG - A Final Unity" and The TOS 25th Anniversary Edition are my Tops. Both encapsuled the flair of the show's episodes with both stuff on the bridge as well as away teams. Final Unity even had the original voice actors.

[@cnewtonc]

Klingon Academy was one of the best space games of all time. When a Game Studio remasters this game, they will make MILLIONS.

[@wilhelmkaiser9804]

botf > Birth of the Federation > Star Trek: The Next Generation: BIRTH OF THE FEDERATION. With new graphics I played it again after 10 years in 2023 and it was incredible to play for 17 hours without eating, drinking, sleeping and not going to the bathroom, great.

[@robsherrard]

The only thing that spoils that one is the slow down bug that creeps in after so many turns. I dont think it was ever fixed.

[@iluvbotf]

@@robsherrard Try the latest installer for vanilla v 1.03 or the new RMPM mod will be out soon that one is going to be the best version of botf to date.

[@CaseyYam]

Honourable mention to Star Trek Armada 2 with the Fleet Operations mod. Still holds up!

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Have to agree with you there! Have played it :)

[@paulharris7660]

Are the mods on nexus? Thanks

[@thinkingitthrough8368]

Agree! 100%

[@shizzymac6622]

The disrespect for star trek online is crazy

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Much better Star Trek games out there. I'd be tempted to try it again but bounced off it twice already at different stages.

[@shizzymac6622]

Still my personal favorite

[@LTGamingYoutube]

@@shizzymac6622 and that's totally cool!

[@morrit33]

Ugh... Money grabbing and very dated! Needs a complete overhaul.

[@Alfextreme007]

Star Trek Bridge Commander and Star Trek Voyager Elite Force were legendary games. I enjoyed playing these two games.

[@ArnieS1947]

I discovered the remastered version of BC recently and was just in awe of its beauty. I can just watch the Enterprise A and D sail slowly by in flyby mode. Definitely want to have a go at KA next.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

It is awesome to play 🚀😊

[@DarthFlan]

Star Trek: 25th anniversary… It’s just a classic with all the original voice actors. Of course it’s absolutely antiquated by today’s standards but it’s such a fun throwback

[@LTGamingYoutube]

In my list of must plays!

[@lphoenix1091]

KA is awesome and so is BC with the Remastered Mod! Not many of the older ST games hold up well today.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Two of the best :)

[@o0Silverwolf0o]

I just finished a first playthrough of resurgence in a single sitting, i couldn't put it down through the roughly 12 hours. And with me owning around 300 games mostly unfinished that says a lot. It has a great story fully rooted in the stng universe and it never got stale. It doesn't bog you down with too many puzzles or mini games and the decisions you make seem to have lasting effects on the story making you wonder how things would have turned out had you chose option b or c instead of a. The voice acting was great and much of the time the visuals look really good. Not gonna fluff it, the character animations needed a lot of polish, they often move strangly and the facial animations were over exaggerated especially the single eybrow raises and squinting eyes. There were bugs, stutering camera and a few frame drops, and I experienced a fatal error crash. But getting past that it felt like playing through an actual season of a new star trek tv show not a game with a star trek theme and will be doing a second playthrough to try some alternate outcomes.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Very fair opinion and I was tempted to cover it for the Steam release. It is good but possibly not the Star Trek game we wanted.

[@Jaye37481]

Klingon Academy to this day remains my favorite ST game of all time. Wish it would be remade.

[@LegoLover-kz5cx]

Honestly I feel the same way about 2006’s Star Trek legacy with the CGI we have now a days it would so much more like the tv shows and movies.

[@Dknob]

25th Anniversary and Judgement Rights are still great, available on Gog and Steam.

[@iluvbotf]

Birth of the Federation is the best star trek game of all time. I would say its the best game of all time but that's likely just my opinion and im partial to 4x games. Rais multiplayer mod (RMPM) will be out soon and it will be the best modded and modernized version of botf. Sure to knock your socks off I promise! :)

[@GeordiLaForgery]

Enjoyed this they all look great look forward to playing them.

[@jcraigwilliams70]

I *loved* Klingon Academy and spent untold hours playing. I wish it still worked on my computer. I didn't care for Bridge Crew as much because I didn't like the way it held my hand too much, constantly recommending that I do things immediately before I was about to do them anyway. It never gave me the opportunity to think things through on my own. Admittedly, I never finished it so maybe that improves over the course of the game, but it drove me nuts.

[@Rob-el8ti]

I know this is a older video on your channel and ain't sure if you know this answer but has zues master of Olympus had any mods yet to bring it up to 2023/24 standards

[@guyrose2239]

I’m a Klingon Academy sort of Dood, rilly… but thanks for another enthused review and long life widescreen gaming 🐌🐸❤️

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Glad you like the widescreen!

[@trax1794]

Elite force for me! Great vid bro!

[@jyttew6145]

Live long and prosper!

[@slundal]

Star Trek Online's season content is pretty good and offer a super solid start trek game with interesting story arcs voiced by alot of great star trek actors, lots of customization for ships and crew. Also it is completely free.

[@dylanmccaigmusic]

Wish you could get Bridge Commander on Mac.

[@KingWeir]

I've got Klingon Academy! At the time, found the difficultly suddenly ramped up and then later on, think it was my disk 3, seemed to crash on, gutted. Obviously your right, Bridge Commander was awesome! But I'd also recommend Birth of the Federation, I spent hours playing that game, though it does feel abit compared to other similar games but its Trek! Also going totally old school, but Judgment Rites is a great point and click adventure.

[@pendragonshall]

Is there a video on how to get AND make BC playable on a modern system. Link plz. Id love to play it again with all these new mods

[@Jaye37481]

Interesting that STO didn't make the cut given that it's still being actively developed.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Don't enjoy it as much!

[@Jaye37481]

@@LTGamingKZbin I like some of the plots. The gameplay is very repetitive though. I'm looking forward to ST Infinite coming out soon!

[@EntropysSmile]

@@Jaye37481 Sry but the game was abandoned by Devs.

[@GGruber27]

New to the Trek universe but interested in getting into the shows, movies & games! Are any of these games available on console or only on pc?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Mostly PC! Enjoy your journey :)

[@khanmandalor7227]

Greatest game is Klingon academy, period!

[@rezag8369]

I can’t find this game anymore

[@victormendes1588]

Wishing to also find that game.

[@Messametti]

Played Klingon Academy with the Next Generation Academy mod a while and noticed it crashes with some ships if you try to start quick battle with them. Someone noticed the same?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Have not had too many issues myself. But have been playing on Windows 10.

[@marlowe2215]

I really enjoy Star Trek: Starfleet Command Orion Pirates for some TMP era action. Especially with the excellent OP+ mod!

[@LTGamingYoutube]

It is excellent!

[@FrostyThundertrod]

I realy enjoyed birth of the federation a star trek themed civ clone

[@Star88859]

i would love someone to do star trek Dominion war game again, that game was great

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Have it!

[@Star88859]

@@LTGamingKZbin how did you get dominion war

[@Paul__FC]

I am a 20-year eve online player and a lifelong trekie. Really wish the 2 could be melted together.

[@only1muppet]

I’ve still got the Klingon Academy manual somewhere. Sadly I destroyed the disks by leaving them out.

[@ynyslochtyn]

Nice if you made it clear which one are first person. Personally, I usually avoid anything 3rd person

[@brettrigby2226]

They missed the mark SO hard with the VR game. they were onto something so good. The sense of awe you got when you first played it was immense. They only ever added the enterprise D as well, they could of added so many ships as paid optional DLC to keep the game funded, it was reliant on IBM's Watson as well for the voice commands for the computer playing solo and they dropped that support making it useless. They also could of added away missions and stuff. Wasted their time on that title by half assing it

[@brettrigby2226]

Know for a fact i'd of paid to play in a klingon ship

[@ggkris1308]

i want a no mans sky star trek game

[@arcadenightfun]

Thank you for this.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

You are most welcome!

[@GtheMVP]

Bridge Commander remastered looks good, and plays well, but I can't load a save file. I'm not the only one. once that gets fixed, I'm sure it will be awesome.

[@pattyjay9999]

I enjoy playing Starfleet command Orion Pirates back in the day but It doesn't work on windows 10 i need to install a virtual machine on my computer.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

I have a version that works on 10 and 11 🚀

[@pattyjay9999]

How I'm not a Geek, it has to be simple. @@LTGamingKZbin

[@saffi01]

@@pattyjay9999 Enter "Starfleet Command 2 Orion Pirates v2.564" in Google, that should get you the desired result. The game is abandonware so there's nothing to be afraid of.

[@marinkafrans5607]

i still love star trek Starfleet academy would nog mind a new starfleet academy game but now with actors of the tng ds9 voy genatarion. i also stiil love the game Ds9 harbinger

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Its time for a vastly expanded list on this! Coming in the next month :)

[@ColinJordanVanDerMerwe-tr1kv]

Did you play Star Trek Online ?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Bounced off it a couple of times!

[@TheValiant]

Nice video, but you know that you can play Klingon Academy in 4k ;)

[@ilejovcevski79]

Bridge Commander! Anyone knows if the decompiled source hardpoints are made available to the mod-minded fan base?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Is that English? lol. Might need someone a bit more technical to answer that one :)

[@ilejovcevski79]

@@LTGamingKZbin Ah, my bad! Early in Bridge Commander history, the devs released the SDK for the game, which helped modders greatly as we could reshape it any way we saw fit. The data files are essentially scripts written in the Python programming language. Very often, mod creators compile these files after making the changes. This protects their work from unwanted changes, but also improves execution times. However, uncompiled scripts are very easy to edit and if one has them, he or she can easily experiment and play around with ship hardpoints, weapons damage, energy consumption...... everything that the SDK exposes!

[@mdsf01]

I'm still enjoying Birth of the Federation.

[@robsherrard]

Did they ever find a way around the slow down bug?

[@Bruhtatochip742]

It's funny how silly Enterprise looks in any other orientation than upright.

[@SVDGaming55]

Comment for engagement

[@markodizdar1548]

Star Trek Legacy 😃

[@LTGamingYoutube]

On my tier list but did not quite make this one!

[@Jack_gaples]

Heres one to mention star trek legacy

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Included it in my Tier list but didn't make my top 5 overall! The mods are good though 🚀

[@windwalker5765]

Where can I find it, and how do I get it to play on a modern machine? I own a CD copy, but it doesn't run on any modern Windows...

[@LTGamingYoutube]

@@windwalker5765 GOG 🚀

[@Jordan-jn1vj]

what about star trek online?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Not fans!

[@Jordan-jn1vj]

@@LTGamingKZbin oh how so?

[@vinmangob8555]

I got the GOG remastered bridge commander, just can't make it work lol. I am bad with computers. I had mods working 10 years ago for armada and bridge commander, I guess I am dumber now lol.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Did you follow the instructions for the Mod?

[@antoniois28]

Bridge Crew has a bug that doesn't save one's progress. The progress and created avatar are erased every time one logs off the game.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Never had this issue? Has always worked perfectly for me! Might just be localized.

[@antoniois28]

It's been a big deal for 6 months now. Happening to many via Playstation. @@LTGamingKZbin

[@Spock4771]

Im surprised you did put star trek online

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Im surprised people think it makes a top 5 :P I need to go back and check it out again maybe!

[@1985HabsFanForever]

My heart skipped a beat when you said you played KA on Steam Deck thinking that it was actually available on Steam. Alas the lawyers and accountants continue to prevent this.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Yes I had to manually install it outside of Steam but works as a non-Steam game!

[@1985HabsFanForever]

@@LTGamingKZbin I'll have to join your discord to try and find a way to get a copy.

[@BradimusMaximus78]

Armada 3, Ages of The Federation

[@danielkubin3878]

Armada 3 is not official game its let say fan project...

[@carlettasommerville8057]

Interesting ♨now 💙🌼

[@andreweley3907]

Can you get these on PS5

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Star Trek: Resurgence you can I think!

[@Dknob]

Bridge Crew is on the PlayStation Plus free game rotation, so currently playable for subscribers. Also purchasable.

[@lonnyjohnson8732]

Wow, you didn't mention the best Star Trek game, star trek online.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

This surely has to be a joke? It is a long long way from being the best Star Trek game lol

[@brentgerchicoff8084]

A shame ST:I was lazy and shite!

[@theidajawho]

So you do not think Star Trek Online is worth it?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Never got into it! Bounced off it a few times.

[@Liafram]

No need to ask me to like and subscribe. I understand how KZbin works.

[@LTGamingYoutube]

If you wrote this your clearly don't 😃👊

[@MrMe-lf2ov]

Really? Not even a mention of Star Trek online?

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Never got into it!

[@ToddHofer]

OK, title says 2014 and the narrator keeps saying 2023 so, what is it???

[@LTGamingYoutube]

2025

[@ToddHofer]

@@LTGamingKZbin 🤣

[@LTGamingYoutube]

@@ToddHofer 🤷‍♂️😂

[@fberdf]

Star trek infinite is just a bad copy to the Stellaris mod "star trek new horizons"....

[@kenreh87]

Sorry to say, but infinite was not that good

[@LTGamingYoutube]

I put 25 hours into it! Many odd design decisions.

[@sfs2040]

No Star Trek Online? Massive L

[@LTGamingYoutube]

I think that reflects more on you 😂

[@aarongroutage2509]

Nah, star trek online sucks.

[@capnjackgallows3204]

Your missing stage9 , the best st game ever made

[@rebelbumscum]

Wait how do I play Klingon Academy on the steam deck‽ I keep an old laptop to pretty much just play KA. But the idea of being able to play that legendary game on steam deck would be amazing!

[@LTGamingYoutube]

I need to remember how I did it!

[@rebelbumscum]

@@LTGamingKZbin when you do please let me know, would love to play KA on the deck