An expanded version was released in 2000 titled Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Gold Edition.

Depending on the specific assignment, this can include interacting with various ships, aliens, planetary bodies, and other objects in space.

Though the game has no central story-mode campaign, players may play as a member of one of six stellar powers, each one having at least one elite organization that, when joined, will trigger special missions that tell various stories.

[4] John Lee of NextGen called it "a complex real-time strategy game with a steep learning curve, but it's eminently rewarding.

"[15] According to Erik Bethke, sales of the game surpassed 350,000 copies after a year on shelves "without counting the Gold Edition and the Neutral Zone expansion.