It was developed by Digital Extremes and co-published by Bandai Namco Entertainment under license by Paramount Pictures in association with CBS Studios International.

The player takes control of either Kirk or first officer Spock, and investigates the theft of a terraforming device from the colony of New Vulcan by the Gorn.

[1] The Gorn, who previously appeared in The Original Series and Star Trek: Enterprise, were heavily redesigned, with fifteen different classes of creatures created.

Star Trek is a single-player third-person shooter action game with cooperative gameplay elements, which allow two players to control Kirk and Spock.

[1][5] In a similar manner to the Gears of War series, the game includes a cover system, which protects the player characters from enemy fire.

It follows the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (voiced by Chris Pine) and his crew on board the Starfleet starship, the USS Enterprise.

They encounter T'Mar, a childhood friend of Spock, who explains they were gathering energy to power the Helios device, which would speed up the terraforming of New Vulcan; the team inadvertently opened a rip in the fabric of space.

Beaming to New Vulcan, Kirk, and Spock meet with T'Mar's father, Surok, who explains the station's power from the base was lost after they were attacked by creatures — who call themselves the Gorn — from the rip.

Kirk and Spock enter the locked-down sections of the base to recover the infected survivors but are unable to stop the Gorn from stealing the Helios device and kidnapping Surok.

After Enterprise enters the Gorn's galaxy, Kirk and Spock take a shuttle with Sulu (voiced by John Cho) and Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) to a nearby planet.

When their shuttle is shot down, Kirk and Spock use wingsuits to glide to a Gorn outpost and blow it up before infiltrating a base to rescue T'Mar.

They help Scotty (voiced by Simon Pegg) and Keenser reactivate the warp core, and restore power to sickbay so McCoy can replicate more of the antidote for airborne dispersal.

The duo head to the bridge where the Henchman is holding Uhura (voiced by Zoe Saldana) hostage, demanding Kirk give them control of the ship.

With only an hour before the Rip closes, Kirk and Spock space dive to the Gorn Commander's ship, where they disable the targeting platform to give Enterprise a fighting chance and enter the core where T'Mar and the device are being held.

[2][12] Lesinkski had a background in video game production, having previously worked at companies such as Crystal Dynamics, Ion Storm and Kuju Entertainment.

A true military dictatorship, the Gorn are made up of billions of self-sacrificing warriors across thousands of colonies, each focused on the conquest of alien races.

By utilizing their chaos-causing infectious venom, the Gorn seed mayhem and destruction as they destroy populations and deplete planets of their resources.

[7] Paramount secured the likeness rights of Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the summer of 2011 for an upcoming game based on the universe of the film Star Trek (2009).

[13] The game was scored by Chad Seiter, who had previously worked with Michael Giacchino, the composer for the music in the 2009 film and Star Trek Into Darkness.

Reviewers were sent a Steam download code to play the game while waiting for their console versions to arrive in the mail and upon attempting to launch the co-op mode, players were given the error message "Could not join.

"[37] However, this affected a number of gamers playing via Steam on the PC, resulting in a statement being issued by the Twitter account for the game and an email being sent to customers,[37][38] stating the company was looking into the problems.

[38] Following inquiries by the media, Paramount and Namco released a joint statement explaining that it was an issue with the Steam system and was something that the company was seeking to fix shortly.

[39] A day after the co-op issues with Star Trek were resolved, the Dead Island: Riptide problems were also corrected, with speculation by reviewers presuming that it was the same error in both games.

[41] It was set on New Vulcan with the player helping to develop the planet by "building landing pads, founding water treatment centres, establishing mining rigs and more."

The first trailer for the game made its début at the Namco Bandai Global Gamer Day in Las Vegas in April 2012 and showed gameplay footage in 3D.

[43] In order to promote the new video game in 2013, a trailer was produced which featured William Shatner and a man in a Gorn suit playing it on a console.

[56] He wrote that both playable characters were too similar, the combat was "completely generic" and that errors in the animation looked clumsy with "objects clipping through each other; crazy, badly lip-synced dialog (not that syncing it with this corny writing would fix it); and general screwups make Star Trek play like a blooper reel.

[56] Edge magazine said that the game "[has] more bugs crawling on it than a Fear Factor contestant",[51] and mentioned issues such as the characters running through walls, enemies becoming immortal and camera angles showing the inside of Kirk or Spock's skull.

[51] Mark Walton, while writing for GameSpot, thought that the general idea for the game was good, but that the gameplay was "tiresome" and failed to excite.

[9] Star Trek Into Darkness director J. J. Abrams stated in September 2013 that he was hurt by the game's poor reception and quality,[63] saying that it was "obviously a big disappointment".