I am a fan of the series and have been ‘playing’ this since it first came out.
It has come a long way since all you could do was walk around in an unpopulated (and incomplete) ship and it has just had a massive update.
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Glad it’s (so far) been allowed to exist, unlike the similar Stage9 Enterprise D project that got the cease and desist.
WAIT - it is the same dev as the Stage9 project.
If this one interests you, it may be worth following the Starship Simulator as well.
Pretty sure it’s one guy but he has regular streams on youtube showing what he’s working on and it’s pretty impressive. There’s also a playable demo.
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Apparently Seth MacFarlane is a fan, so hopefully it is here for the long haul?
I only found out about the Virtual Enterprise D a couple of months after they had received the cease & desist and it was no longer available 
I already have Starship Simulator in my Steam library. So far it hasn’t infringed any Trek IP… or they haven’t noticed yet 
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That was one of the nice things about the Elite Force games. Getting to walk round Voyager and Enterprise E was endlessly entertaining.
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I am pretty sure that with the first Elite Force I spent as much time tracking down all the ‘collectables’ on Voyager as I did battling the Hirogen and the Borg…
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Those games, Klingon Honor Guard, and DS9 The Fallen were excellent Star Trek FPS games that unfortunately all stopped around the same time Enterprise was cancelled. Those and the strategy games like Starfleet Command and Armada.
Now you have to use mods to get that.
I’m sure more people today would buy a TNG FPS than an Orville one, but at the same time not enough to recoup the costs.
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Imagine if they had just hired/contracted a few people who were doing something already, for free, and charged a modest price for the end product.
