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                     Produced For Your Enjoyment

                                 By

                            David Matuszek

                                 and

                            Paul Reynolds

                        With Modifications By

                              Don Smith

                            Resurrected By

                               Tom Almy

     Permission is hereby granted for the copying, distribution,

 modification and use of this program and associated documentation

 for recreational purposes, provided that all references to the

 authors are retained.  However, permission is not and will not be

 granted for the sale or promotional use of this program or program

 documentation, or for use in any situation in which profit may be

 considered an objective, since it is the desire of the authors to

 respect the copyrights of the originators of Star Trek.

             ----------TABLE OF CONTENTS----------

     SECTION                                               PAGE

       INTRODUCTION TO THE GAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1

       HOW TO ISSUE COMMANDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

       DESCRIPTIONS OF COMMANDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

            SHORT-RANGE SCAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

            STATUS REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

            LONG-RANGE SCAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

            STAR CHART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

            DAMAGE REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

            MOVE UNDER WARP DRIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

            WARP FACTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

            IMPULSE ENGINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

            DEFLECTOR SHIELDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11

            PHASERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12

            REPORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

            COMPUTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

            PHOTON TORPEDOES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

            DOCK AT STARBASE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

            REST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

            CALL STARBASE FOR HELP. . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

            ABANDON SHIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16

            SELF-DESTRUCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16

            TERMINATE THE CURRENT GAME. . . . . . . . . . .  16

            SENSOR-SCAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17

            ENTER STANDARD ORBIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17

            TRANSPORTER-TRAVEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17

            SHUTTLE CRAFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18

            MINE DILITHIUM CRYSTALS . . . . . . . . . . . .  18

            LOAD DILITHIUM CRYSTALS . . . . . . . . . . . .  18

            PLANET REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19

            FREEZE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19

            REQUEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20

            EXPERIMENTAL DEATH RAY. . . . . . . . . . . . .  20

            LAUNCH DEEP SPACE PROBE . . . . . . . . . . . .  21

            EMERGENCY EXIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21

            ASK FOR HELP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21

            CLOAKING DEVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22

            CAPTURE KLINGONS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22

            GET THE SCORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22

       MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23

       SCORING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24

       HANDY REFERENCE PAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25

       MODIFICATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27

       REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27

               -----INTRODUCTION TO THE GAME-----                       1

The Organian Peace Treaty has collapsed, and the Federation is at war

with the Klingon Empire.  Joining the Klingons against the Federation

are the members of the "Romulan Star Empire."  As commander of the

Starship U.S.S. Enterprise, your job is to wipe out the Klingon

invasion fleet and make the galaxy safe for democracy.

Your battleground is the entire galaxy, which for convenience is

divided up into eight rows of eight quadrants each, like a

checkerboard.  Rows are numbered from top to bottom, and columns are

numbered left to right, so quadrant 1 - 8 would be in the upper right

hand corner of the galaxy.

During battle you will be concerned only with those enemies that

occupy the same quadrant as yourself.  Quadrants are divided up into

sectors: ten rows of ten sectors each. Sectors are numbered in the

same way as quadrants, so the sector in the upper right corner is

sector 1 - 10.  You have a short-range scanner which allows you to

look at the entire quadrant in a single display.

Enemies recharge during your absence.  If you leave a quadrant

containing a weakened enemy, when you return to that quadrant he will

be strong again.  Also, each time you enter a quadrant, the positions

of everything in the quadrant (except your ship) are randomized, to

save you the trouble of trying to remember where everything in the

quadrant is.  Notice that this refers only to the positions of things

in the quadrant--the numbers of each kind of thing are not changed

(except for black holes and the Super-commander, which move around

the galaxy).  If you kill something, it stays dead.

The Romulans are not as serious a threat to the Federation as the

Klingons.  For one thing, there are not as many of them.  For

another, the Romulans are not as treacherous.  However, Romulans are

not to be trifled with, especially when you are in violation of the

"Romulan Neutral Zone."

There are two kinds of Klingons: Ordinary Klingons, which are bad

enough, and Klingon Commanders, which are even worse.  Commanders are

about three times stronger than ordinary Klingons.  Commanders are

more resistant to your weapons.  Commanders can move about during

battle while Ordinary Klingons stay put.  And finally, Commanders

have a thing called a "long-range tractor beam" which they can use,

at random intervals, to yank you away from what you are doing into

their quadrant, to do battle with them.  There is also a special

commander, called the "Super-commander."  This character is so bad he

is reserved for the Good, Expert, and Emeritus games.  Fortunately,

there is just one Super-commander in a game.  In addition to the

undesirable traits of Commanders, he can move from quadrant to

quadrant at will, seeking out and destroying your starbases and any

helpful planets he runs across.  He also has a spy planted aboard

your ship, giving him valuable information about your condition.

Using this information, he can do dastardly things like tractor beam

your ship when you are in bad shape.  And once you've been tractor

beamed by the Super-commander ---

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But the advantages are not all on the side of the enemy.  Your ship

is more powerful, and has better weapons.  Besides, in the this

galaxy there are from two to five starbases, at which you can stop to

refuel and lick your wounds, safe from phaser attack or tractor

beams.  But you had best not dally there too long, since time is not

on your side.  The Klingons are not just after you; they are

attacking the entire Federation.  There is always a finite "time

left," which is how much longer the Federation can hold out if you

just sit on your fat behind and do nothing.  As you wipe out

Klingons, you reduce the rate at which the invasion fleet weakens the

Federation, and so the time left until the Federation collapses may

actually increase.  Since Klingons are the main threat to the

Federation, the Romulans do not figure into the "time left."  In

fact, you need not kill all the Romulans to win.  If you can get all

the Klingons, the Federation will abide forever, and you have won the

game.

Space is vast, and it takes precious time to move from one place to

another.  In comparison, other things happen so quickly that we

assume the take no time at all. Two ways that time can pass are when

you move, or when you issue a command to sit still and rest for a

period of time.  You will sometimes want to do the latter, since the

various devices aboard your starship may be damaged and require time

to repair.  Of course, repairs can be made more quickly at a starbase

than can in flight.

In addition to Klingons, Romulans, and starbases, the galaxy contains

(surprise) stars.  Mostly, stars are a nuisance and just get in your

way.  You can trigger a star into going nova by shooting one of your

photon torpedoes at it.  When a star novas, it does a lot of damage

to anything immediately adjacent to it.  If another star is adjacent

to a nova, it too will go nova.  Stars may also occasionally go

supernova; a supernova in a quadrant destroys everything in the

quadrant and makes the quadrant permanently uninhabitable.  You may

"jump over" a quadrant containing a supernova when you move, but you

should not stop there.

Supernovas may happen spontaneously, without provocation.  If a

supernova occurs in the same quadrant you are in, your starship has

an "emergency automatic override" which picks some random direction

and some random warp factor, and tries to throw you clear of the

supernova. If the supernova occurs in some other quadrant, you just

get a warning message from Starfleet about it (provided, of course,

that your subspace radio is working).

Also a few planets are scattered through the galaxy.  These can

sometimes be a great help since some of them will have "dilithium

crystals," which are capable of replenishing the ship's energy

supply.  You can either beam down to the planet surface using the

transporter, or take the shuttle craft "Galileo."

Finally, each quadrant will contain from zero to three black holes.

These can deflect or swallow torpedoes passing near them. They also

swallow enemy ships knocked into them.  If your ship enters one - - -

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Star Trek is a rich game, full of detail.  These instructions are

written at a moderate level--no attempt has been made fully to

describe everything about the game, but there is quite a bit more

here than you need to get started.  If you are new to the game, just

get a rough idea of the kinds of commands available, and start

playing.  After a game or two you will have learned everything

important, and the detailed command descriptions which follow will be

a lot more meaningful to you.

You have weapons: phasers and photon torpedoes. You have a defense:

deflector shields.  You can look at things: long-range scanners,

short-range scanners, and a star chart.  You can move about, under

warp drive or impulse power.  You can also dock at a starbase, rest

while repairs are being made, abandon ship, self destruct, or give up

and start a new game.

The Klingons are waiting.

                 -----HOW TO ISSUE COMMANDS-----                        4

When the game is waiting for you to enter a command it will print out

        COMMAND>

You may then type in your command.  All you have to remember for each

command is the mnemonic. For example, if you want to move straight up

one quadrant, you can type in the mnemonic (case insensitive)

        move

and the computer will prompt you with

        Manual or automatic-

Say you type in "manual". The computer then responds

        X and Y displacements-

Now you type in "0 1" which specifies an X movement of zero and a Y

movement of one.

When you have learned the commands, you can avoid being prompted

simply by typing in the information without waiting to be asked for

it. For example, in the above example, you could simply type in

        move manual 0 1

and it will be done.  Or you could type in

        move manual

and when the computer responds with the displacement prompt, you can type in

and it will understand.

You can abbreviate most mnemonics.  For "move", you can use any of

        move mov mo m

successfully.  For your safety, certain critical commands (such as to

abandon ship) must be written out in full.  Also, in a few cases two

or more commands begin with the same letter, and in this case that

letter refers to a particular one of the commands; to get the other,

your abbreviation must be two or more characters long.  This sounds

complicated, but you will learn the abbreviations quickly enough.

What this all boils down to is:

        (1)  You can abbreviate practically anything

        (2)  If you forget, the computer will prompt you

        (3)  If you remember, you can type it all on one line

If you are part way through entering a command and you change your

mind, you can cancel the command by typing -1 as one of the

parameters, with the exception of the manual move command. If

anything is not clear to you, experiment.  The worst you can do is

lose a game or two.

-----DESCRIPTION OF COMMANDS-----                                       5

 ********************

 * SHORT-RANGE SCAN *

 ********************

  Mnemonic:  SRSCAN

  Shortest abbreviation:  S

  Full commands:  SRSCAN

                  SRSCAN NO

                  SRSCAN CHART

The short-range scan gives you a considerable amount of information

about the quadrant your starship is in.  A short-range scan is best

described by an example.

         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

      1  * . . . . R . . . .  Stardate      2516.3

      2  . . . E . . . . . .  Condition     RED

      3  . . . . . * . B . .  Position      5 - 1, 2 - 4

      4  . . . S . . . . . .  Life Support  DAMAGED, Reserves=2.30

      5  . . . . . . . K . .  Warp Factor   5.0

      6  . K .   . . . . * .  Energy        2176.24

      7  . . . . . P . . . .  Torpedoes     3

      8  . . . . * . . . . .  Shields       UP, 42% 1050.0 units

      9  . * . . * . . . C .  Klingons Left 12

     10  . . . . . . . . . .  Time Left     3.72

The left part is a picture of the quadrant.  The E at sector 2 - 4

represents the Enterprise; the B at sector 3 - 8 is a starbase.

There are ordinary Klingons (K) at sectors 5 - 8 and 6 - 2, and a

Klingon Commander (C) at 9 - 9.  The (GULP) "Super-commander" (S) is

occupies sector 4 - 4, and a Romulan (R) is at 1 - 6.  A planet (P)

is at sector 7 - 6.  There are also a large number of stars (*). The

periods (.) are just empty space--they are printed to help you get

your bearings.  Sector 6 - 4 contains a black hole ( ).

The information on the right is assorted status information. You can

get this alone with the STATUS command.  The status information will

be absent if you type "N" after SRSCAN.  Otherwise status information

will be presented.

If you type "C" after SRSCAN, you will be given a short-range scan

and a Star Chart.

Short-range scans are free.  That is, they use up no energy and no

time.  If you are in battle, doing a short-range scan does not give

the enemies another chance to hit you.  You can safely do a

short-range scan anytime you like.

If your short-range sensors are damaged, this command will only show

the contents of adjacent sectors.

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 *****************

 * STATUS REPORT *

 *****************

  Mnemonic:  STATUS

  Shortest abbreviation: ST

This command gives you information about the current state of your

starship as follows:

  STARDATE - The current date. A stardate is the same as a day.

  CONDITION - There are four possible conditions:

        DOCKED - docked at starbase.

        RED    - in battle.

        YELLOW - low on energy (<1000 units)

        GREEN  - none of the above

  POSITION - Quadrant is given first, then sector

  LIFE SUPPORT - If "ACTIVE" then life support systems are

        functioning normally. If on "RESERVES" the number is how many

        stardates your reserve food, air, etc. will last--you must

        get repairs made or get to starbase before your reserves run

        out.

  WARP FACTOR - What your warp factor is currently set to.

  ENERGY - The amount of energy you have left. If it drops to zero,

        you die.

  TORPEDOES - How many photon torpedoes you have left.

  SHIELDS - Whether your shields are up or down, how strong they are

       (what percentage of a hit they can deflect), and shield

       energy.

  KLINGONS LEFT - How many of the Klingons are still out there.

  TIME LEFT - How long the Federation can hold out against the

        present number of Klingons; that is, how long until the end

        if you do nothing in the meantime.  If you kill Klingons

        quickly, this number will go up--if not, it will go down.  If

        it reaches zero, the federation is conquered and you lose.

Status information is free--it uses no time or energy, and if you are

in battle, the Klingons are not given another chance to hit you.

Status information can also be obtained by doing a short-range scan.

See the SRSCAN command for details.

Each item of information can be obtained singly by requesting it.

See REQUEST command for details.

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 *******************

 * LONG-RANGE SCAN *

 *******************

  Mnemonic:  LRSCAN

  Shortest abbreviation:  L

A long-range scan gives you general information about where you are

and what is around you.  Here is an example output.

    Long-range scan for Quadrant 5 - 1

       -1  107  103

       -1  316    5

       -1  105 1000

This scan says that you are in row 5, column 1 of the 8 by 8 galaxy.

The numbers in the scan indicate how many of each kind of thing there

is in your quadrant and all adjacent quadrants.  The digits are

interpreted as follows.

    Thousands digit:  1000 indicates a supernova (only)

    Hundreds digit:   number of Klingons present

    Tens digit:       number of starbases present

    Ones digit:       number of stars present

For example, in your quadrant (5 - 1) the number is 316, which

indicates 3 Klingons, 1 starbase, and 6 stars.  The long-range

scanner does not distinguish between ordinary Klingons and Klingon

command ships.  If there is a supernova, as in the quadrant below and

to your right (quadrant 6 - 2), there is nothing else in the

quadrant.

Romulans possess a "cloaking device" which prevents their detection

by long-range scan.  Because of this fact, Starfleet Command is never

sure how many Romulans are "out there".  When you kill the last

Klingon, the remaining Romulans surrender to the Federation.

Planets are also undetectable by long-range scan.  The only way to

detect a planet is to find it in your current quadrant with the

short-range sensors.

Since you are in column 1, there are no quadrants to your left. The

minus ones indicate the negative energy barrier at the edge of the

galaxy, which you are not permitted to cross.

Long-range scans are free.  They use up no energy or time, and can be

done safely regardless of battle conditions.

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 **************

 * STAR CHART *

 **************

  Mnemonic:  CHART

  Shortest abbreviation:  C

As you proceed in the game, you learn more and more about what things

are where in the galaxy. When ever you first do a scan in a quadrant,

telemetry sensors are ejected which will report any changes in the

quadrant(s) back to your ship, providing the sub-space radio is

working. Spock will enter this information in the chart. If the radio

is not working, Spock can only enter new information discovered from

scans, and information in other quadrants may be obsolete.

The chart looks like an 8 by 8 array of numbers.  These numbers are

interpreted exactly as they are on a long-range scan. A period (.) in

place of a digit means you do not know that information yet.  For

example, ... means you know nothing about the quadrant, while .1.

means you know it contains a base, but an unknown number of Klingons

and stars.

Looking at the star chart is a free operation.  It costs neither time

nor energy, and can be done safely whether in or out of battle.

 *****************

 * DAMAGE REPORT *

 *****************

  Mnemonic:  DAMAGES

  Shortest abbreviation:  DA

At any time you may ask for a damage report to find out what devices

are damaged and how long it will take to repair them.  Naturally,

repairs proceed faster at a starbase.

If you suffer damages while moving, it is possible that a subsequent

damage report will not show any damage.  This happens if the time

spent on the move exceeds the repair time, since in this case the

damaged devices were fixed en route.

Damage reports are free.  They use no energy or time, and can be done

safely even in the midst of battle.

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 *************************

 * MOVE UNDER WARP DRIVE *

 *************************

  Mnemonic:  MOVE

  Shortest abbreviation:  M

  Full command:  MOVE MANUAL 

                 MOVE AUTOMATIC 

This command is the usual way to move from one place to another

within the galaxy.  You move under warp drive, according to the

current warp factor (see "WARP FACTOR").

There are two command modes for movement: MANUAL and AUTOMATIC.  The

manual mode requires the following format:

        MOVE MANUAL  

 and  are the horizontal and vertical displacements

for your starship, in quadrants; a displacement of one sector is 0.1

quadrants.  Specifying  and  causes your ship to move

in a straight line to the specified destination. If  is

omitted, it is assumed zero. For example, the shortest possible

command to move one sector to the right would be

        M M .1

The following examples of manual movement refer to the short-range

scan shown earlier.

  Destination Sector    Manual Movement command

        3 - 1                   M M -.3 -.1

        2 - 1                   M M -.3

        1 - 2                   M M -.2 .1

        1 - 4                   M M 0 .1

  (leaving quadrant)            M M 0 .2

The automatic mode is as follows:

        MOVE AUTOMATIC    

where  and  are the row and column numbers of the

destination quadrant, and  and  are the row and column

numbers of the destination sector in that quadrant.  This command also

moves your ship in a straight line path to the destination.  For

moving within a quadrant,  and  may be omitted. For

example, to move to sector 2 - 9 in the current quadrant, the

shortest command would be

        M A 2 9

To move to quadrant 3 - 7, sector 5 - 8, type

        M A 3 7 5 8

and it will be done.  In automatic mode, either two or four numbers

must be supplied.

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Automatic mode utilizes the ship's "battle computer."  If the

computer is damaged, manual movement must be used.

If warp engines are damaged less than 10 stardates (undocked) you can

still go warp 4.

It uses time and energy to move.  How much time and how much energy

depends on your current warp factor, the distance you move, and

whether your shields are up.  The higher the warp factor, the faster

you move, but higher warp factors require more energy.  You may move

with your shields up, but this doubles the energy required.

You can move within a quadrant without being attacked if you just

entered the quadrant or have bee attacked since your last move

command.  This enables you to move and hit them before they

retaliate.

 ***************

 * WARP FACTOR *

 ***************

  Mnemonic:  WARP

  Shortest abbreviation:  W

  Full command:  WARP 

Your warp factor controls the speed of your starship.  The larger the

warp factor, the faster you go and the more energy you use.

Your minimum warp factor is 1.0 and your maximum warp factor is 10.0

(which is 100 times as fast and uses 1000 times as much energy).  At

speeds above warp 6 there is some danger of causing damage to your

warp engines; this damage is larger at higher warp factors and also

depends on how far you go at that warp factor.

At exactly warp 10 there is some probability of entering a so-called

"time warp" and being thrown forward or backward in time.  The farther

you go at warp 10, the greater is the probability of entering the

time warp.

 *******************

 * IMPULSE ENGINES *

 *******************

  Mnemonic:  IMPULSE

  Shortest abbreviation:  I

  Full command:  IMPULSE MANUAL 

                 IMPULSE AUTOMATIC 

The impulse engines give you a way to move when your warp engines are

damaged.  They move you at a speed of 0.95 sectors per stardate,

which is the equivalent of a warp factor of about 0.975, so they are

much too slow to use except in emergencies.

Movement commands are indicated just as in the "MOVE" command.

The impulse engines require 20 units of energy to engage, plus 10

units per sector (100 units per quadrant) traveled. It does not cost

extra to move with the shields up.

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 *********************

 * DEFLECTOR SHIELDS *

 *********************

  Mnemonic:  SHIELDS

  Shortest abbreviation:  SH

  Full commands:  SHIELDS UP

                  SHIELDS DOWN

                  SHIELDS TRANSFER 

Your deflector shields are a defensive device to protect you from

Klingon attacks (and nearby novas).  As the shields protect you, they

gradually weaken.  A shield strength of 75%, for example, means that

the next time a Klingon hits you, your shields will deflect 75% of

the hit, and let 25% get through to hurt you.

It costs 50 units of energy to raise shields, nothing to lower them.

You may move with your shields up; this costs nothing under impulse

power, but doubles the energy required for warp drive.

Each time you raise or lower your shields, the Klingons have another

chance to attack.  Since shields do not raise and lower

instantaneously, the hits you receive will be intermediate between

what they would be if the shields were completely up or completely

down.

You may not fire phasers through your shields.  However you may use

the "high-speed shield control" to lower shields, fire phasers, and

raise the shields again before the Klingons can react.  Since rapid

lowering and raising of the shields requires more energy than normal

speed operation, it costs you 200 units of energy to activate this

control.  It is automatically activated when you fire phasers while

shields are up.  You may fire photon torpedoes, but they may be

deflected considerably from their intended course as they pass

through the shields (depending on shield strength).

You may transfer energy between the ship's energy (given as "Energy"

in the status) and the shields.  Thee word "TRANSFER" may be

abbreviated "T".  The amount of energy to transfer is the number of

units of energy you wish to take from the ship's energy and put into

the shields.  If you specify an negative number, energy is drained

from the shields to the ship.  Transferring energy constitutes a turn.

If you transfer energy to the shields while you are under attack,

they will be at the new energy level when you are next hit.

Enemy torpedoes hitting your ship explode on your shields (if they

are up) and have essentially the same effect as phaser hits.

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 ***********

 * PHASERS *

 ***********

  Mnemonic:  PHASERS

  Shortest abbreviation:  P

  Full commands:  PHASERS AUTOMATIC  

                  PHASERS  

                  PHASERS MANUAL   ...

Phasers are energy weapons. As you fire phasers at Klingons, you

specify an "amount to fire" which is drawn from your energy reserves.

The amount of total hit required to kill an enemy is partly random.

but also depends on skill level.

The average hit required to kill an ordinary Klingon varies from 200

units in the Novice game to 250 units in the Emeritus game.

Commanders normally require from 600 (Novice) to 700 (Emeritus).  The

Super-commander requires from 875 (Good) to 1000 (Emeritus). Romulans

require an average of 350 (Novice) to 450 (Emeritus).

Hits on enemies are cumulative, as long as you don't leave the

quadrant.

In general, not all that you fire will reach the Klingons.  The

farther away they are, the less phaser energy will reach them. If a

Klingon is adjacent to you, he will receive about 90% of the phaser

energy directed at him; a Klingon 5 sectors away will receive about

60% and a Klingon 10 sectors away will receive about 35%. There is

some randomness involved, so these figures are not exact. Phasers

have no effect beyond the boundaries of the quadrant you are in.

Phasers may overheat (and be damaged) if you fire too large a burst

at once. Firing up to 1500 units is safe.  From 1500 on up the

probability of overheat increases with the amount fired.

If phaser firing is automatic, the computer decides how to divide up

your  among the Klingons present.  If phaser firing

is manual, you specify how much energy to fire at each Klingon

present (nearest first), rather than just specifying a total amount.

You can abbreviate "MANUAL" and "AUTOMATIC" to one or more letters; if

you mention neither, automatic fire is usually assumed.

Battle computer information is available by firing phasers manually,

and allowing the computer to prompt you.  If you enter zero for the

amount to fire at each enemy, you will get a complete report, without

cost.  The battle computer will tell you how much phaser energy to

fire at each enemy for a sure kill.  This information appears in

parentheses prior to the prompt for each enemy.  SInce the amount is

computed from sensor data, if either the computer or the S.R. sensors

are damaged, this information will be unavailable, and phasers must

be fired manually.

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A safety interlock prevents phasers from being fired through the

shields.  If this were not so, the shields would contain your fire

and you would fry yourself.  However, you may utilize the

"high-speed shield control" to drop shields, fire phasers, and raise

shields before the enemy can react.  Since it takes more energy to

work the shields rapidly with a shot, it costs you 200 units of

energy each time you activate this control.  It is automatically

activated when you fire phasers while the shields are up. By

specifying the  option, shields are not raised after firing.

Phasers have no effect on starbases (which are shielded) or on stars.

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 * REPORT *

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  Mnemonic:  REPORT

  Shortest abbreviation: REP

This command supplies you with information about the state of the

current game.  Its purpose is to remind you of things that you have

learned during play, but may have forgotten, and cannot otherwise

retrieve if you are not playing at a hard-copy terminal.

     You are told the following things:

       . The length and skill level of the game you are playing

       . The original number of Klingons

       . How many Klingons you have destroyed

       . Whether the Super-Commander has been destroyed

       . How many bases have been destroyed

       . How many bases are left

       . What bases (if any) are under attack; your subspace radio

         must have been working since the attack to get this

         information.

       . How many casualties you have suffered

       . How many times you have called for help.

This same information is automatically given to you when you start to

play a frozen game.

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 * COMPUTER *

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  Mnemonic:  COMPUTER

  Shortest abbreviation: CO

This command allows using the ship's computer (if functional) to

calculate travel times and energy usage.

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 * PHOTON TORPEDOES *

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  Mnemonic:  PHOTONS

  Shortest abbreviation:  PHO

  Full commands:  PHOTONS    

Photon torpedoes are projectile weapons--you either hit what you aim

at, or you don't.  There are no "partial hits".

One photon torpedo will usually kill one ordinary Klingon, but it

usually takes about two for a Klingon Commander.  Photon torpedoes

can also blow up stars and starbases, if you aren't careful.

You may fire photon torpedoes singly, or in bursts of two or three.

Each torpedo is individually targetable.  The computer will prompt

you, asking for the target sector for each torpedo.  Alternately, you

may specify each target in the command line.

Photon torpedoes cannot be aimed precisely--there is always some

randomness involved in the direction they go.  Photon torpedoes may

be fired with your shields up, but as they pass through the shields

they are randomly deflected from their intended course even more.

Photon torpedoes are proximity-fused.  The closer they explode to the

enemy, the more damage they do.  There is a hit "window" about one

sector wide.  If the torpedo misses the hit window, it does not

explode and the enemy is unaffected.  Photon torpedoes are only

effective within the quadrant.  They have no effect on things in

adjacent quadrants.

If more than one torpedo is fired and only one target sector is

specified, all torpedoes are fired at that sector.  For example, to

fire two torpedoes at sector 3 - 4, you type

     PHO 2 3 4           (or)           PHO 2 3 4 3 4

To fire torpedoes at, consecutively, sectors 2 - 6, 1 - 10, and 4 -

7, type

     PHO 3 2 6 1 10 4 7

There is no restriction to fire directly at a sector.  For example,

you can enter

       PHO 1 3 2.5

to aim between two sectors.  However, sector numbers must be 1 to 10

inclusive.

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 * DOCK AT STARBASE *

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  Mnemonic:  DOCK

  Shortest abbreviation:  D

You may dock your starship whenever you are in one of the eight

sector positions immediately adjacent to a starbase.  When you dock,

your starship is resupplied with energy, shield energy photon

torpedoes, and life support reserves.  Repairs also proceed faster at

starbase, so if some of your devices are damaged, you may wish to

stay at base (by using the "REST" command) until they are fixed.  If

your ship has more than its normal maximum energy (which can happen

if you've loaded crystals) the ship's energy is not changed.

You may not dock while in standard orbit around a planet.

Starbases have their own deflector shields, so you are completely

safe from phaser attack while docked.  You are also safe from

long-range tractor beams.

Starbases also have both short and long range sensors, which you can

use if yours are broken. There's also a subspace radio to get

information about happenings in the galaxy. Mr. Spock will update the

star chart if your ask for it while docked and your own radio is dead.

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 * REST *

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  Mnemonic:  REST

  Shortest abbreviation:  R

  Full command:  REST 

This command simply allows the specified number of stardates to go

by.  This is useful if you have suffered damages and wish to wait

until repairs are made before you go back into battle.

It is not generally advisable to rest while you are under attack by

Klingons.

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 * CALL STARBASE FOR HELP *

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  Mnemonic:  CALL

  (No abbreviation)

[Originally, this command was called "HELP", but these days it might

be misinterpreted as built-in documentation!]

When you get into serious trouble, you may call starbase for help.

Starbases have a device called a "long-range transporter beam" which

they can use to teleport you to base.  This works by dematerializing

your starship at its current position and re-materializing it

adjacent to the nearest starbase.  Teleportation is instantaneous,

and starbase supplies the required energy--all you have to do is let

them know (via subspace radio) that you need to be rescued.

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This command should be employed only when absolutely necessary.  In

the first place, calling for help is an admission on your part that

you got yourself into something you cannot get yourself out of, and

you are heavily penalized for this in the final scoring.  Secondly,

the long-range transporter beam is not reliable--starbase can always

manage to dematerialize your starship, but (depending on distance)

may or may not be able to re-materialize you again.  The long-range

transporter beam has no absolute maximum range; if you are in the

same quadrant as a starbase, you have a good chance (about 90%) of

re-materializing successfully.  Your chances drop to roughly 50-50 at

just over 3 quadrants.

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 * ABANDON SHIP *

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  Mnemonic:  ABANDON

  (no abbreviation)

You may abandon the Enterprise if necessary.  If there is still a

starbase in the galaxy, you will be sent there and put in charge of a

weaker ship, the Faerie Queene.

The Faerie Queene cannot be abandoned.

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 * SELF-DESTRUCT *

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  Mnemonic:  DESTRUCT

  (no abbreviation)

You may self-destruct, thus killing yourself and ending the game.  If

there are nearby Klingons, you may take a few of them with you (the

more energy you have left, the bigger the bang).

In order to self-destruct you must remember the password you typed in

at the beginning of the game.

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 * TERMINATE THE CURRENT GAME *

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  Mnemonic:  QUIT

  (no abbreviation)

Immediately cancel the current game; no conclusion is reached.  You

will be given an opportunity to start a new game or to leave the Star

Trek program.

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 * SENSOR-SCAN *

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  Mnemonic:  SENSORS

  Shortest abbreviation:  SE

Utilizing the short-range sensors, science officer Spock gives you a

readout on any planet in your quadrant.  Planets come in three

classes: M, N, and O.  Only class M planets have earth-like

conditions.  Spock informs you if the planet has any dilithium

crystals.  Sensor scans are free.

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 * ENTER STANDARD ORBIT *

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  Mnemonic:  ORBIT

  Shortest abbreviation:  O

To land on a planet you must first be in standard orbit.  You achieve

this in a manner similar to docking at starbase.  Moving to one of

the eight sector positions immediately adjacent to the planet, you

give the orbit command which puts your ship into standard orbit about

the planet.  Since this is a maneuver, a small amount of time is

used; negligible energy is required.  If enemies are present, they

will attack.

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 * TRANSPORTER-TRAVEL *

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  Mnemonic:  TRANSPORT

  Shortest abbreviation:  T

The transporter is a device which can convert any physical object

into energy, beam the energy through space, and reconstruct the

physical object at some destination.  Transporting is one way to land

on a planet.  Since the transporter has a limited range, you must be

in standard orbit to beam down to a planet.  Shields must be down

while transporting.

The transport command is used to beam a landing party onto a planet

to mine "dilithium crystals".  Each time the command is given the

landing party (which you lead) moves from the ship to the planet, or

vice-versa.

You are advised against needless transporting, since like all

devices, the transporter will sometimes malfunction.

The transporter consumes negligible time and energy.  Its use does

not constitute a "turn".

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 * SHUTTLE CRAFT *

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  Mnemonic:  SHUTTLE

  Shortest abbreviation:  SHU

An alternate way to travel to and from planets.  Because of limited

range, you must be in standard orbit to use the shuttle craft, named

"Galileo".  Shields must be down.

Unlike transporting, use of the shuttle craft does constitute a

"turn" since time is consumed.  The time naturally depends on orbit

altitude, and is equal to 3.0e-5 times altitude.  Shuttling uses no

ship energy.

You should use the same travel device going from the planet to the

ship as you use to go from the ship to the planet. However it is

possible to transport to the planet and have the Galileo crew come

and pick your landing party up, or to take the Galileo to the planet

and then transport back, leaving the shuttle craft on the planet.

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 * MINE DILITHIUM CRYSTALS *

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  Mnemonic:  MINE

  Shortest abbreviation:  MI

Once you and your mining party are on the surface of a planet which

has dilithium crystals, this command will dig them for you.

Mining requires time and constitutes a "turn".  No energy is used.

Class M planets require 0.1 to 0.3 stardates to mine.  Class N

planets take twice as long, and class O planets take three times as

long.

Dilithium crystals contain enormous energy in a form that is readily

released in the ship's power system.  It is an excellent idea to mine

them whenever possible, for use in emergencies.  You keep the

crystals until the game is over or you abandon ship when not at a

starbase.

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 * LOAD DILITHIUM CRYSTALS *

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  Mnemonic:  CRYSTALS

  Shortest abbreviation:  CR

This is a very powerful command which should be used with caution.

Once you have dilithium crystals aboard ship, this command will

instruct engineering officer Scott and Mr. Spock to place a raw

dilithium crystal into the power channel of the ship's

matter-antimatter converter.  When it works, this command will

greatly boost the ship's energy.

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Because the crystals are raw and impure, instabilities can occur in

the power channel.  Usually Scotty can control these.  When he

cannot, the results are disastrous. Scotty will use those crystals

that appear to be most stable first.

Since using raw dilithium crystals for this purpose entails

considerable risk, Starfleet Regulations allow its use only during

"condition yellow".  No time or energy is used.

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 * PLANET REPORT *

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  Mnemonic:  PLANETS

  Shortest abbreviation:  PL

Mr. Spock presents you a list of the available information on planets

in the galaxy.  Since planets do not show up on long-range scans, the

only way to obtain this information is with the "SENSORS" command.

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 * FREEZE *

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  Mnemonic:  FREEZE

  (no abbreviation)

  Full command:  FREEZE 

The purpose of the FREEZE command is to allow a player to save the

current state of the game, so that it can be finished later.  A

plaque may not be generated from a frozen game. A file with the

specified  and type '.TRK' is created (if necessary) in

the current directory, and all pertinent information about the game

is written to that file. The game may be continued as usual or be

terminated at the user's option.

To restart a game created by the "FREEZE" command, the user need only

type "FROZEN" in response to the initial question about the type of

game desired, followed by the .

NOTE: A "tournament" game is like a frozen game, with the following

differences.  (1) Tournament games always start from the beginning,

while a frozen game can start at any point.  (2) Tournament games

require only that the player remember the name or number of the

tournament, while the information about a frozen game must be kept on

a file. Tournament games can be frozen, but then they behave like

regular frozen games.

A point worth noting is that 'FREEZE' does not save the seed for the

random number generator, so that identical actions after restarting

the same frozen game can lead to different results.  However,