How do I get the Star Trek Mod to work? (new at this)...

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knavery - it sounds like you've installed the mod OVER your original se4 instead of putting it into a sub-directory and leaving your original game intact.

This causes problems because the original races are then mixed up alongside the star trek ones and the game uses them when starting the game. Those races are incompatible with the ST mod and cause the errors you see.

You really ought to wipe your se4 folder, re-install, re-patch and then put the star trek mod into a sub-directory rather than overwriting your original files. Then you can use path.txt (or better yet, the mod launcher) to choose between the two games rather than mashing them together.

If you just want to make ASTmod work and don't care about the original game, you could just go into pictures/races and delete all the non-star trek race folders. I don't recommend that at all though.