History VideoGame / StarTrekBridgeCommander

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Legate Matan is sucked into a sun along with all of his crew in the final battle. Couldn't have happened to a nicer Cardassian.]]

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: The Captain.
** TheLancer: Saffi Larsen.
** TheSmartGuy: Chief Brex and Miguel Diaz share this.
** TheBigGuy: Lt. Felix Savali.
** TheChick: Subverted by Kiska Lo Mar who is a ActionGirl.
** Finally, the Federation ships in the game form a FiveManBand of their own with the [[LightningBruiser Sovereign-class]] as TheHero, [[GlassCannon Akira-class]] as TheLancer, [[MightyGlacier Galaxy-class]] as TheBigGuy, [[SquishyWizard Nebula-class]] as TheSmartGuy and [[JokeCharacter Ambassador-class]] as TheChick.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: The player character is never seen or heard. The only information about the character comes in the intro while your doomed Captain is dictating his log, and identifies the player character in an offhand remark as a [[AlwaysMale male]].

* GameMod: Dozens. A notable example is Kobayashi Maru, which combines many of them, dramatically altering the game and refining the gameplay such as being able to deploy and pilot shuttles, separate the Galaxy class and Prometheus class vessels and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads and Loads of Ships]] added to the game, most of them containing their respective bridge to use as well and adding additional ships from factions not seen in ''Bridge Commander'' such as Borg, Dominion, Species 8472/Undine and even non-canon ships such as the [[VideoGame/StarTrekArmada Aegian Class Frigate]]. There's even custom scenarios to play and a limited scenario editor, one of the examples being the UnwinnableTrainingSimulation that the mod gets it's title from.

Developed By Totally Games, who years prior gave us ''VideoGame/XWing'' and ''VideoGame/TIEFighter'' from [[StarWars that other franchise]], Star Trek: Bridge Commander is a [[SimulationGame space sim]] set in the Franchise/StarTrek [[TheVerse universe]]. The plot revolves around an inexperienced captain (read: YOU), trying to prevent an interstellar war, shortly after the end of [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine another]].

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Saffi pulls this ''on herself'' when she mentions the crew are TrueCompanions all loyal to their Captain--except her. Given her OOU reputation as TheScrappy, this reputation seems well-deserved.

* CoolShip The ''Dauntless'', and later [[spoiler: the ''Sovereign'', class progenitor and sister ship to the ''Enterprise-E''.]]. Those provided by the game's still ''very'' active modding community are too legion to list. In other words, pick any CoolShip from the television series or movies ([[{{Crossover}} or other series]], they're in there.)
* CrewOfOne: Subverted, while you can take control of systems manually, the ship is normally run by your AI crewmates, who will actually do a pretty good job keeping it in one piece.
** This mainly extends to maneuvering the starship and targeting/firing its weapons though, although you can also personally set power allocations and repair priorities.

* FantasticRacism: Kiska has an intense prejudice against the Cardassians. It gets to the point Commander Larsen has to tell her to knock it off. ''Everyone'' is prejudiced against the Romulans, except, potentially, you.

* SubsystemDamage: And how!
** Calling for a damage report when your ship's been reduced to the point where it's being held together with little more than good intentions will pound it home to you as Brex starts rattling off what's not working. May or may not cause an OhCrap moment for the player.
*** It can get worse, since you can only have three subsystems at a time on the repair queue and it's SO slow.

* YouAreInCommandNow: ''The Dauntless'' has its captain killed within the opening minutes of the game, making you the receiver of this trope. {{Justified}} as you're it's first officer. Made somewhat questionable when, despite being young for head of the ''Dauntless'', you're made commanding officer of the prototype super-ship ''The Sovereign'' soon after.

* GameMod: Dozens. A notable example is Kobayashi Maru, which combines many of them, dramatically altering the game and refining the gameplay such as being able to deploy and pilot shuttles, separate the Galaxy class and Prometheus class vessels and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads and Loads of Ships]] added to the game, most of them containing their respective bridge to use as well and adding additional ships from factions not seen in ''Bridge Commander'' such as Borg, Dominion, Species 8472/Undine and even non-canon ships such as the [[VideoGame/StarTrekArmada Aegis Class Frigate]]. There's even custom scenarios to play and a limited scenario editor, one of the examples being the UnwinnableTrainingSimulation that the mod gets it's title from.

* CoolShip The ''Dauntless'', and later [[spoiler: the ''Sovereign'', class progenitor and sister ship to the ''Enterprise-E''.]]. Those provided by the games still ''very'' active modding community are too legion to list. In other words, pick any CoolShip from the television series or movies ([[{{Crossover}} or other series]], they're in there.)

* EarthShatteringKaboom: The main plot of the game revolves around what caused a star to suddenly go nova in the games intro, and after trying to prevent it from happening again.