Star Trek: Bridge Crew The Next Generation impressions — VR’s empty Enterprise

I don’t own a real Star Trek uniform, but having watched every film and most of the TV shows in the franchise, I’d consider myself a fan. Even so, after multiple attempts to immerse myself in Ubisoft’s Star Trek: Bridge Crew, I couldn’t get into the tactical gameplay. And as excited as I was about the new looks and audio of The Next Generation DLC, which releases today exclusively for the PlayStation 4 and PSVR, it doesn’t change the base game enough to engage me.

It wouldn’t be fair to offer a full review of the DLC based on the portion of Bridge Crew that I’ve played — as our news story noted, there are multiple new missions, including an expert-level battle with the Borg that I was in no way ready to win, and the game still has kinks to be worked out. So what follows are initial impressions that may or may not be updated in the future.