And so the list of Star Trek titles from Bethesda Softworks is now complete. The developer happily announced today that Star Trek: Legacy is finally shipping to our favorite alien hubs, err, retail stores. It would be remembered that the game should have come out earlier if not for the recent invasion mounted by the Klingons.

Like the other Star Trek titles on other platforms, Legacy puts players in command of a few selected star ships into battle. Not only that, this strategy game also features a fully customizable skirmish mode. More interestingly (at least for this blogger), there is also a single player mode that takes players not only to the whole of the Star Trek universe but to infinity and beyond.

Star Trek Legacy is just one of the many Star Trek titles that were recently launched for various platforms. The PS2 got Encounters, while handhelds DS and PSP have Tactical Assault. If you happen to get one of these copies, just update us if William Shatner's voice is still as pristine as it used to back then.

Buy: [Star Trek: Legacy for Xbox 360]
Buy: [Star Trek: Legacy for PC]

Calling all Trekkies! With the release of Bethesda's Star Trek: Legacy for the PC and the Xbox 360 just around the corner (December 12, to be exact), Bethesda has just released this batch of screenshots for fans to inspect before hopefully grabbing a copy of the game within the next few days.

A strategy game based on the highly-popular Star Trek series, the game features a completely customizable skirmish mode, as well as a single-player campaign which spans storylines from the original series, to The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. So with such a vast timeline, players will surely be running into Captains Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, and Archer, as well as battling against the forces of the Romulans, the Klingons, and the Borg Collective (whether the lovely Seven of Nine will make an appearance is unknown).

As for gameplay, this title derives its roots from Star Trek: Bridge Commander, but further realism is achieved thanks to superior graphics.

Kahplah!

More screenshots after the jump!

"That famous Shatner humor is still in high gear!" That's what fellow QJ-er Chris Coker said about William Shatner, the actor who played James Tiberius Kirk on Star Trek.

GameSpy interviewed him about what it was like to voice Kirk in the Bethesda Softwork Star Trek games: Star Trek: Legacy (for Xbox 360 and PC), Star Trek: Encounters, and Star Trek: Tactical Assault (for DS and PSP).

How did Bethesda manage to convince Shatner? "I didn't want to do it," Shatner said, "But they kept coming back to me... It was the groveling that got me. It broke my heart." Although Star Trek: Legacy impressed him ("cool" was how he described the game, and with the best graphics among Star Trek games, yeah it's cool).

Is it hard work to do voicing for a game?

GS: Have you ever been doing a voice for something and had the director say you're sounding too Kirk-like?

Shatner: No. But you have to explain that to me: What's Kirk-like?

GS: Well, Kirk is very commanding, very authoritative…

Shatner: No, there's no such thing. I just say the words. "NO!" Was that Kirk-like?

GS: Yeah.

Shatner: But that's also how I ordered dinner last night.

Anyway, Legacy is coming out on November 21, while Tactical Assault has already been released. Shatner said, "Star Trek is coming back, you can feel it in the air." We QJ Trekkers and Trekkies agree.

Comment: There hasn't been a good Star Trek game in ages. There will never be one. Unless it's an MMO.
Max F.: Hope springs eternal. The graphics and attention to detail, the story (award-winning writer), and the hard work they're putting into the development of this game all make us hope it'll be good. And there is an MMO.

Comment: I heard all the captains are voice acting in it. The game will span the Original Series, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.
Max F.: We don't mention the disappointing Enterprise series. *old-school Trekkie giggles* Picard forever!

Comment: Star Trek: Legacy is just a rip-off of Wing Commander.
Max F.: Hmph. There wouldn't have been a Wing Commander franchise if it weren't for us Trekkies. Hmph. And the last Wing Commander game was, when, way back in 1996, right? Just kidding (I'm so gonna be flamed; please don't flame me).

We'll see who's right (or if I have to eat my Trekkie heart out) when this Mad Doc Software and Bethesda Softworks game comes out November 21. So let's move on to the remaining screenshots courtesy of WorthPlaying. If you're curious, the images alternate Xbox 360, PC, Xbox 360, PC, etc., starting from the images above. Just thought you'd like to see them side-by-side.

Too bad they didn't show the debris and sparks from damages, and it's not clear if this is multiplayer or single campaign.

Pre-order: [Star Trek: Legacy for Xbox 360]
Pre-order: [Star Trek: Legacy for PC]

Bethesda Softworks announced a couple days ago (August 4, in fact) that the famous Dorothy "DC" Fontana is writing the scripts for its upcoming Star Trek: Legacy (for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and for Windows / PC) and Star Trek: Tactical Assault (being developed for Sony's PSP and for the Nintendo DS).

This is big news because DC Fontana is one big writer: she wrote for the original Star Trek series and kept on writing until Star Trek: Deep Space 9. She wrote Star Trek: The Next Generation's first episode (the two-part Encounter at Farpoint) and she also wrote for Babylon 5 and Earth: Final Conflict.

And did we mention that she was inducted into the American Screenwriters Association Hall of Fame?

Star Trek computer games don't seem to do as well as Star Trek movies, but Trekkers and Trekkies are hoping that DC Fontana has crafted wonderful plotlines for both Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: Tactical Assault.

Bethesda Softworks was behind the successful Elder Scrolls series, it might be fair to have high expectations for their upcoming Star Trek games. Both games will be released on October 3, 2006.