Captain’s Log, Stardate 3100.0. Our routine survey mission in quadrant Capella I has been cut short. USS Enterprise has received word from Starfleet Command that a rogue Klingon fleet has crossed into Federation space. Orders from Admiral Turner are to intercept and destroy all 11 Klingon vessels in Federation space. We are going to red alert; sensors indicate two Klingon vessels are have entered quadrant Capella I. Battlestations!
Sometimes Super Star Trek, described here, starts one off with really dumb parameters. And this was one of the sillier scenarios — in a galaxy of 64 sectors, I would face 11 Klingons (that’s roughly 1 for every 6 sectors), with 8 starbases (that’s 1 for every 8)!
Suffice it to say, I rid the galaxy of the Klingon scourge, but…
I destroyed a starbase! With malice aforethought!
It was in the same sector as the last Klingon I had to defeat, and I was curious what would happen if I, oh, fired a photon torpedo at a starbase. After all, when I’m docked to a starbase for repairs and there are Klingons in the sector, they will attack but the starbase’s shields will protect the Enterprise. But against the Enterprise‘s torpedoes…
Sorry, starbase. You had a good run.
My score was not good, but that’s really down the fact that there weren’t many Klingons to destroy, and it takes just as much time to explore a galaxy almost devoid of Klingons as it takes to explore a galaxy absolutely teeming with them.
I wonder if Sam Cogley is willing to defend me in my court-martial proceedings…