Tag: Star Trek
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Bored? Game! – Destination Neptune + Quartermaster General
We take a look at two games from Ian Brody in this board game double bill
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Bored? Game! Space Cadets:Dice Duel
In which Fran fiercely takes command of a starship! Or fiercely uses the escape pods.
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Star Command Debuts on Android in Humble Mobile Bundle 2
Star Command, which began life as a Kickstarter project, gained popularity earlier this year for promising (and mostly delivering) a Star Trek-like crew management experience on the go. The only problem was that it was limited to the iOS platform. That’s not longer an issue as the latest Humble Mobile Bundle includes Star Command and…
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Star Trek: The Video Game
Susan: The Science Museum was a highly appropriate venue to hold a preview event for the upcoming Star Trek video game, even more so since to get to the actual event you had to walk through a space travel exhibit as well as some metal walkways straight from sci-fi. Myself and Duncan were excited about…
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Bored? Game! – Star Trek Catan
Star Trek is awesome. One of the most popular science fiction franchises today, its influence knows no bounds. Spawning five television series, 11 films (with the 12th, Into Darkness, coming out this year), hundreds of novels expanding the universe and dozens of videogames, it only makes sense that it extends its reach into tabletop games…
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Prophets of Continuity
Continuity is a fantastic thing. Defined as ‘the unbroken and consistent existence or operation of something over a period of time’, in fiction this relates to events that have already happened in a story arc being remembered and playing their part in the current tale. Some series do fine without bothering with it: the Final Fantasy games…
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Boldly Coming
There are a lot of pervs on the internet. Yes, it’s great tool for sharing information, making new friends and keeping in touch with old ones, but there’s a lot of porny stuff out there as well (and that’s not even taking into account ‘the darknet‘). Amongst all the Wikipedia articles, TV Tropes index pages,…
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Three of Ten – Five: Memory
It’s been six weeks since the Khitomer crisis. Naibe and I were retrieved by the Shergold and taken back to Starfleet headquarters in San Francisco for debriefing. The Borg were held off and eventually retreated from the Vega system, albeit at the cost of several hundred Starfleet personnel and starships, the Kicking Horse included. Despite…
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Three of Ten – Four: Vega
“Emergency transport complete, sir.” We materialised on the bridge of another starship. We spun round to look through the viewscreen just in time to see the Kicking Horse plough into the side of the Borg cube, smashing into its hull like a wrecking ball, the resulting explosion tearing it into a million tiny pieces. The…