Video game:Sony PlayStation Star Trek: Invasion

Few series, if any, have made as large a pop culture impact as "Star Trek." When it first aired in 1966, the television show failed to make a large impression, and NBC cancelled it after only three seasons. However, over the years it has amassed a cult following, several spin-off shows, a movie series, and a library of novels and comics. Beginning with a board game in 1967, developers released many forms of interactive entertainment involving the beloved "Star Trek" characters.

Mike Mayfield developed the first "Star Trek" video game in 1971. Entitled simply "Star Trek," this text-based computer game spread to most home computers by the end of the 1970s, and became the first of its kind to sell more than one million copies. It showed that games based on the series could be successful, and paved the way for the release of many more video games.

In 2000, Activision released the first "Trek" game for the PlayStation. Entitled "Star Trek: Invasion," this action-shooter game drew its story and characters from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and included both a single-player and multiplayer mode. Several actors from the television series, including Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn, provided their voices for the game.

In the single-player campaign mode, gamers play as Ensign Ryan Cooper and fly a Valkyrie fighter ship to protect the galaxy from the Borg, Romulans, and Cardassians. Numerous weapons from "The Next Generation" are available for players to use.

"Invasion" received positive reviews from critics, who praised the game's graphics, sound, and the way it brought "Star Trek" to PlayStation. In his review, Douglass C. Perry of IGN wrote, "this game has all of the great presentation, in both visuals and audio to put it up there with the best of the Star Trek' games. In fact, it is one of the best productions of any game on the system."

More than four decades after the original "Star Trek" series aired, the franchise remains popular. J.J. Abrams and Paramount released a rebooted movie version of the series in 2009, followed by its sequel in 2013. Over fifty different video games featuring the beloved "Star Trek" characters exist, allowing fans to go "where no one has gone before."