Gamers got a pair of spaceship shooters from Bethesda Softworks (Star Trek: Legacy) and Paramount Digital Entertainment (Star Trek: D-A-C) before Cryptic Studios launched Star Trek Online in 2010.
The U.S. players kick off their Group C campaign against the star-studded England team in Rustenburg on June 12 boosted by last year's showing at the Confederations Cup in South Africa, where they bravely went down 3-2 in the final to superpowers Brazil after beating European champions Spain 2-0 in the semis.
Ironically, the Star Trek D-A-C downloadable PC and console game from the first film ended up scoring higher across the board on Metacritic (50 PC, 53 Xbox Live) than the much more expensive shooter that had such promise.
The Black Star Project was founded in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) organization designed to eliminate the racial academic achievement gap among Black, Latino, White, and Asian students.