"A 'Star Trek' Space Opera" Topic

"Some months ago, glancing through a very old (January 1993) issue of the local club's war games magazine Southern Sortie, I lit upon a brief account of a clash between two of the major galactic powers that feature in the TV show, Star Trek. Although not much 'into' SF war gaming, and not much of a 'Trekky' either, so highly do I think of the action, that methought after 30 years, it need not be so soon lost to antiquity. Having received the author's go-ahead, the following account is the his narrative, with just the occasional editing.

Recently I completed running a simple strategic-level campaign based on hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. The campaign was originally based around the Organian conflict (the subject of one of the original TV episodes), but without the annoying appearance of 'strange energy beings' stopping it all. In the interests of making the game a little 'meatier', both sides were beefed up considerably in term of warships and preparedness. In the event the scale of the ensuing conflict was enormous – it turned into a fully fledged bitter border war. By the end of the campaign, both sides had suffered horrific losses, and Star Fleet had resorted to unconventional warfare. In fact the the war had such a devastating effect upon the Federation that by the end of the game its very future existence was in grave doubt (thus providing me with good background information for any future campaign)…"

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