The Star Trek reboot might be working out well in terms of the movies, but the video game is a complete mess. At best a bland shooter, the game is plagued by poor design, glitches, bugs, and other issues.

Is there a worse fit for the world of Star Trek, that subversively powerful force of social equality and acceptance, than a brainless, cover-based third-person shooter? I submit that there is not.

Star Trek is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Animated Blood, Violence, and Language. I didn't see any of the red stuff at all while playing, and most of the time you just zap enemies with your phaser.

The positive message is that once you buy it you will know never to buy another T-Rated shooter besides Goldeneye Reloaded EVER again! I WASTED $20 ON THIS PIECE OF [email protected] /*

Star Trek doesn't belong in the modern games industry. Gene Roddenberry's idealistic space-faring parable was driven by big, heartfelt beliefs: multicultural co-existence, diplomacy, strategy and an unquenchable thirst to find new things and understand them.

It would be something if I could sit here and report to you that the new Star Trek videogame was a stellar adventure for the revamped (as in Chris Pine is James T. Kirk, not William Shatner) franchise.

Hailing from a single Star Trek (The Original Series) episode titled "Arena," the Gorn is an alien race of lizard-men that do battle with Kirk in the California desert. It's clear now that this is the moment that launched William Shatner's travel-site-spokesmen career.

Roles reprised by stars from the movie; A few decent one-liners

Why can't I fly the ship or command the crew; Broken AI partners; Throwaway enemies for a throwaway plot