Star Trek: Away Team is an isometric real-time tactics video game developed by Reflexive Entertainment and published by Activision. The game was initially released in March 2001 for personal computers using Microsoft Windows in North America. The game is set in the Star Trek universe, after the end of the Dominion War seen in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It features a range of new characters, set on board the USS Incursion with voice appearances by Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Data and Ambassador Worf, respectively. The game received mixed reviews, with criticism directed at the graphics, elements of the gameplay including the lack of any artificial intelligence, and the limited length of the game.
In 2023, the game was one of eight Star Trek titles re-released on GOG.com in celebration of the franchise's 57th anniversary.
Gameplay
Star Trek: Away Team is a squad-based real-time tactics video game played in a three-quarters isometric view, in a similar manner to other games such as Baldur's Gate. The player controls between four and six characters at a time out of a selection of seventeen. Each character has different abilities, such as the Vulcan mind meld, It follows the adventures of a team of Starfleet crew on board the USS Incursion, Missions are set on the Klingon homeworld, a Borg cube, Starfleet Academy and a Starfleet starship. and Enberg appeared in the recurring role of Ensign Vorik in that series.
Development
Activision approached Reflexive Entertainment to create the game, whose previous work was the 2D space Swarm (1998). Reflexive had created a new game engine for Zax: The Alien Hunter (2001), and saw potential in its reuse.
Paramount Studios had concerns about the game, and wanted their intellectual property to be protected by the developers. This resulted in permission sought from Paramount to add new Star Trek-based technologies and weapons to the game and to approve the script.
| Allgame = 2/5
| CGSP = 2/5
| CGW = 2.5/5
| EPD = 6.5/10
| GI = 4.5/10
| GameRev = C
| GSpot = 5.5/10
| GSpy = 66%
| GameZone = 6/10
| IGN = 6.5/10
| NGen = 4/5
| PCGUS = 49%
Star Trek: Away Team received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The Birmingham Mail described the game as "satisfyingly challenging and engaging". Daily Radar called the game "respectable", and thought that both the gameplay and plot were "fun and familiar but hardly new or daring".