I've always liked Star Trek.  TOS Movies are my firstborn, DS9 is my favorite, and Enterprise is the red headed stepchild. 
 
As I wait for STO to download ($6.47 from Amazon), I can't help but think of the days when Star Trek was a bankable gaming franchise.  I remember all the games that arrived after First Contact.  Armada was my favorite.  
 
I wonder now why there weren't a slew of games released for Star Trek (2009).  Though, with all the shit put together these days, It's probably better that the new Star Trek franchise is spared its equivalents of SW: Bounty Hunter, SW: Super Bombad Racing, Marvel Nemesis, GI JOE: Rise of Cobra, and anything made with the Transformers license.   
 
Maybe the bargain of my purchase will counteract any imperfections in this game. 
 
P.S.  Is it just me, or pound for pound, game for game, the Lord of the Rings franchise has produced the best games?

I've always liked Star Trek.  TOS Movies are my firstborn, DS9 is my favorite, and Enterprise is the red headed stepchild. 
 
As I wait for STO to download ($6.47 from Amazon), I can't help but think of the days when Star Trek was a bankable gaming franchise.  I remember all the games that arrived after First Contact.  Armada was my favorite.  
 
I wonder now why there weren't a slew of games released for Star Trek (2009).  Though, with all the shit put together these days, It's probably better that the new Star Trek franchise is spared its equivalents of SW: Bounty Hunter, SW: Super Bombad Racing, Marvel Nemesis, GI JOE: Rise of Cobra, and anything made with the Transformers license.   
 
Maybe the bargain of my purchase will counteract any imperfections in this game. 
 
P.S.  Is it just me, or pound for pound, game for game, the Lord of the Rings franchise has produced the best games?

I hope you mean for games based on movies/books, because there are plenty of franchises with higher overall quality than the Lord of the Rings games. 

I also remember playing Star Trek Armada feverishly as a teenager and I absolutely adored it! The same goes for the TNG game for the Super Nintendo.
 
But yeah, there were a bunch of CRAP games released based on the TNG/Deep Space Nine/Voyager era of Star Trek and nearly all of them completely sucked or bombed in the market anyway despite their quality. One jewel in the sea of shit however was Star Trek Voyager Elite Force for the PC. I loved it! Was probably the only FPS Star Trek game at the time (apart from older FMV games like Star Trek Klingon) and everything just clicked as far as the mechanics and flow of the story went...but it never sold a lot of copies. It did however merit a sequel to try and pull in more buyers through word of mouth that the quality of the first game was in fact good but the sequel ended up being turd in my eyes.

Bioware might as well rename themselves MIDAS Entertainment.  Everything they touch turns to gold.