10 Star Trek Games Paramount Should Develop

10. Star Trek: Survival

Star Trek has always had a penchant for telling stories about shuttle crashes, stranded away teams and sole survivors. So why not turn that into a stress-inducing first-person survival game?

Imagine waking up beside a crashed shuttle on a strange new world, surrounded by constant danger. Your only crewmate is injured, and the shuttle is a total write-off. There's no working replicator, no computer, no comms. All you have is a single phaser and a battered tricorder, both with limited power.

With a full day and night cycle to navigate, the only way to stay alive is to forage for food and water, fend off hostile wildlife, search for useful resources, craft essential items, repair the shuttle and check on your injured crewmate to treat their wounds. And if each new playthrough spawned different environments, resources, obstacles, challenges and threats, it could make for one compelling Star Trek survival game.

If you can survive for 30 days and repair the shuttle enough to send a distress signal, you win the game and get beamed back to a life of comfy beds, instant food and sonic showers. But let's face it, more often than not, we're going to end up as plant food, get lost in a cave or run out of tricorder power, so we don't know that the bright red mushroom is definitely poisoned. And if you do win, there's sure to be an awesome reward...like unlocking nightmare mode.