FireDrake007 said:There are actually several older Star Trek games on PC(Star Trek Academy, Starfleet Command Gold Edition, Star Trek Judgement Rites, Star Trek 25th Annivesary, etc.) as well as a VR game Star Trek: Bridge Crew, but the only one I know of on the Xbox console aside from Star Trek Online, is the Xbox 360 Star Trek from 2013. It has been de-listed though like many other movie based games from that gen. I have never heard of Legacy until you told me about it.
There was a wealth of Star Trek games early on. Interestingly, new games seemed to dry up after the release of Star Trek Online on Windows PCs in 2010. I don't know if there was any cause and effect.
The first Star Trek I played (when I was in college about 1972) was a text game written in BASIC for mainframe and midframe computers. The best way to describe it is as a sophisticated combination of Battleship and Minesweeper. Klingon ships and bases are in a grid that you explore with the Enterprise. You can scan or shoot phasers & photon torpedoes. You could play it on a terminal or get teletype readouts. The goal was to clear the grid of the Klingon presence and you got a report card telling you how efficient you were.
After that, every platform--Amiga, Apple II, Atari 800, Commodore 64, TRS-80 seemed to have Star Trek games. Sega had an arcade cabinet that was ported to consoles like the Atari 2600 & 5200 and Colecovision as well as the above-mentioned PCs. There were well over a dozen different DOS games.
Apple was a big player with the Apple II. One of the most ambitious games was the Apple II
Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative that was ported to a number of other platforms. There were a few Apple Macintosh PC games though the Macintosh PC line was not the dominant gaming platform the Apple II had been. Some of the DOS & Window games were later ported to Macintosh PCs but it was clear Apple's interest in Star Trek games had declined.
However, once Online was released, new games (not counting mobile) slowed to a trickle. Only a handful has been released on all platforms.