Away Team was released in 2001, the year Activision gained complete control of the Star Trek game franchise. Away Team was Activision’s first Star Trek game title following the success of Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force in 2000. By this time some PC gaming magazines were beginning to note a decline in the quality of Star Trek games, and many reviews of Away Team make reference to this so-called ‘Star Trek stigma’. Despite this, Away Team had reasonable success in both sales and reviews