Anyhow, I picked this up for a few reasons back in the day. First, this sucker was Star Trek. Star Trek rocked, and was always more my kind of Sci-Fi than Star Wars ever was (not saying Star Wars was bad - it was pretty awesome, but Star Trek is the Sci-Fi I wanted to live).
Second, although it says it's for 2 players, it also prominently stats on the back of the box that it's suitable for solo play. As a role-player, I never had trouble getting a group together, but getting together for 1 on 1 play was rare to non existent. What few war games I had I rarely had someone to play with. A game that billed itself playable by one player sounded awesome.
Alas, few things work out as well as planned, and this was one of them. The rules were fairly intricate - this was not a sit down and play game, but a sit down, grab a drink and start studying these damn rules. Fairly heavy rules for something that had a whole book of solo adventure type paragraphs. Study I did. Look at the box. Look at the counters. Everything was punched out. I tried, I really tried. But a s a solo game this sucked. It was boring. It was hard to get invested in it. The counters were less exciting to look at than those of the war games I wasn't playing.
I still think of this game from time to time. Wondering if it was me. Was I somehow defective and not the game? Would it have played better as a two player game (probably, but than again, probably not enough better to justify the experience)?Ah well, this one is definitely destined to go to storage. Interesting more as a curiosity to me and little more. It's a shame, really.
But hey, here's Spock for your Hobbit enjoyment ;)
Re Kirk's green shirt: I think the costume William Shatner wore was green in real life, but the studio lights made it look yellow.
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ReplyDeleteStar Wars is science FANTASY, so we're talking apples and oranges here. That's why I never got the whole Star Wars versus Star Trek thing. Maybe the fact that they both have the word "Star" in their titles, I guess. But they are different subgenres, people! Give all the arguing a rest! ;-)
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ReplyDeleteThe cover art is actually reused - it was originally used for the cover of the Star Trek novel Black Fire, by Sonni Cooper. I'm not surprised they reused it - it's a great piece of art
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