Some people will be surprised that I have chosen to include this not-very-well received and almost forgotten tie-in-game for Star Trek: Generations, in my list. There were three campaigns one as Sisko, one as Worf and one as Kira - unfortunately Avery Brooks didn't reprise his role, but thankfully Michael Dorn and Nana Visitor did! The Fallen can be made to work with modern systems via nGlide. Star Trek: The Fallen unfortunately did not have everyone reprise their role, but was a very interesting third-person-shooter, complete with a plot that touched on Bajoran archeology, and features enemies as diverse as Bajoran and Jem'Hadar soldiers. It wasn't bad, but never really reached the level of those games, despite featuring the entire cast of DS9 reprising their roles (and what a cast that was). Star Trek: Harbinger was an attempt to do an adventure game in the style of Judgement Rites or A Final Unity, but using DS9 as a setting instead.
These two games aren't actually related, but they both share the setting of Deep Space Nine, and thus I have included them here together. The same can't be said for the sequel, which was another step down for Star Trek games - transferring the focus to the Enterprise E TNG movies and post-Dominion War Alpha Quadrant, but failing to capture the spirit of Star Trek badly, as with most of Activision's work. Like Voyager itself, it suffered from a tendency to make certain enemies, who should not look weak, appear less of a threat (you know which ones), and was very gung-ho for a game set on-board a science vessel, but out of everything that happened after the Interplay and Microprose stopped making Star Trek games, its probably the most fun.
Star Trek: Elite Force was an enjoyable, if unrealistic, game, set nominally in Star Trek: Voyager's episodes, but containing elements from other parts of the franchise, including a memorable mission on board a mirror-universe ship.
This is the only game from post-2000 that I will include on this list, because I am very unimpressed with everything that happened to Star Trek gaming after Activision obtained control over the licence.
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