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Star Trek Iii

Players

1-2

Time

?-?

Age

12+

Weight

2.29

Rating

6.18

Fit

Teach 2.1

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.4

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.8

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Star Trek III has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players frequently need to be aware of and react to each other's strategies. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much.

Replay value

Star Trek III has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, quality expansions, deep strategic possibilities, and good scalability. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, and the expansions add new content and gameplay elements. Players have room to improve their strategy over time, and the game adapts well to different player counts. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the effort.

Luck profile

Star Trek III has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While there is some room for players to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy.

Overview

Set of three Star Trek themed solitaire games in one box, none of which has anything to do with the movie "Star Trek III", the number 3 being a reference to the three games included. In "The Sherwood Syndrome," the Enterprise crew must stop a renegade Federation sociologist who has set up a "king of the world" on a planet with medieval technology -- but they must do this *without* causing any further major disruptions to the planet's society. So you control them as they become the equivalent of Robin Hood and his merry men. Strange. In "The Kobayashi Maru," you take the infamous final Starfleet Academy test and see how far you can get. You can measure yourself against either the standard version of the test, which can't be beaten, or against Kirk's reprogrammed version of the test, which can. In "Free Enterprise," you as the Federation are competing with the Klingons for the allegiance of the Glista, a species obsessed with mercantile trade. You have two weeks to warp back and forth between the Glista worlds and out-trade the Klingons. Playing time is completely arbitrary; it will depend on which variety of which of these games you choose to play and how fast or methodically you choose to play it.

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Credits

Designers

4
Greg Costikyan John M. Ford Doug Kaufman Ken Rolston

Artists

3
Larry Catalano Stephen Crane Kevin Wilkins

Publishers

1
West End Games

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