You might already know a little something about Star Trek: D-A-C. If so, just cast it out of your mind and think about what you’d actually want or expect from a new Star Trek game. Star Trek licenses have been many over its long and illustrious small and big screen career, and some could even be described as classics. Take the original series adventure Star Trek: 25th Anniversary for example (we really must dig that out some time). Although it paid to be a proper Trekkie to get the most out of the experience (what licensed game doesn’t?), it offered an honest-to-goodness taste of the real Star Trek. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force did much the same for the FPS genre in the year 2000. The Earth might not have moved for many people, but Raven captured the magic – we’ll even forgive its ‘set phasers to frag’ catch-line.

According to the people of Paramount, Star Trek: D-A-C is a fast-paced, top-down space shooter ‘inspired’ by the new motion picture, which we happened to like a lot. I dare not waste too many words going into too much detail – suffice to say the most inspired aspect is that, upon destruction, your ship jettisons an escape pod that you can drive about for a bit avoiding further enemy fire. Manage that and you can re-spawn with the same miserable array of cack-handed power-ups you died with. Multiplayer doesn’t help save this travesty of a Star Trek tie-in and neither does the sub-£10 price point.

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