Star Trek: Away Team is a strategy game designed to engage the player in one of the aspects of the Star Trek episodes and movies: the Away Missions. The player controls a special team of Starfleet Officers on Away Team Missions. The player controls the movements of the team in a top down, ¾ perspective that allows a "birds-eye view" of gameplay and the interactive environment. The team can use tricorders, phasers, hyposprays, phaser rifles and most of the other "Trek" items.