Video game:Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard

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 1998, MicroProse released "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard." Similar to "Klingon Academy" and "Star Trek: Klingon," this first-person shooter game places gamers in the shoes of the infamous "Star Trek" villain - the Klingon. The plot centers around a new member of the Klingon Honor Guard who must help protect Chancellor Gowron from assassination.

"Klingon Honor Guard" received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the graphics of the game while criticizing its level design and gameplay. Tal Blevins of IGN applauded the variety of weapons gamers could use, as well as the game's artificial intelligence, but was unimpressed by the way it adapted gameplay from the popular video game "Unreal." He called the game "fun, just not as fun as it could be," and wrote, "Klingon Honor Guard' feels like it was rushed out the door."

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."