There is nothing better than a family game night. Actually family game nights are intense so maybe instead of making it a family thing just have all your friends over. But the most important part of game night is, well the games. So, here are the 10 best star trek games to host the ultimate Trekkie game party. Just picture this, good pizza, all your friends, maybe hummus for those vegans out there, and the ultimate Star Trek trivia or card game.
Besides, it's fun to prove that you are the smartest one out of all your friends, or at least the one that knows the most about Captain Kirk (aka the one who has spent the most nights binging their favorite show). And, if trivia is not your thing there are a lot of board games that will definitely make you get into a fight with your mom. But, hey what's game night with some competitive person who is a sore loser or an annoying winner.
Or, you can just enjoy these fun games, and pretend to be your favorite Starfleet officer. And, it's even cooler if you play while watching "The Game" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Either way, these will definitely keep you entertained and will make you the most popular host. Specially if there is a prize for the winner. I'm sure you can find a Spock shaped trophy.
Star Trek: Five Year Mission Board Game
The game is the beginning of a five year mission aboard the USS Enterprise. And, you get to pick between joining the Star Trek bridge crew for The Original Series or Star Trek The Next Generation. I'm kinda biased, but the Original Series is better. You and the rest of the crew have to work together to figure out how to solve different situations. If one looses, you all do. Which is exactly what would happen if you were the real Enterprise crew.
You win the game by solving threats and help out your crew. Each crewmen has a unique ability and weakness. The idea is that each ability can help in a different situation and you and your friends need to figure out what ability to use next. Which crew would you pick?
Monopoly Klingon Collector's Edition
Like they say, "it's a good day to die." This is a bi-lingual game in English and Klingon in which you have been chosen to defend the glory of the Empire. How many people actually know Klingon? Anyway, this version of Monopoly is particularly warrior-like. Conquer all the systems within the galaxy and prove you are one to honor your family. Qo'onos, Romulus and Earth are all up for grabs. Now, focus on destroying your enemies. Instead of a Chance and Community Chest cards there are Honor and Combat cards to fit the Klingon virtues. The space combat based game is perfect for all Monopoly fans. And, well Star Trek fans.
Star Trek Ascendancy
This strategy game is the perfect for people who love long complex competitive board games. The game has tree races, the Federation, the Klingons and the Romulans. The Federation is hoping to find peaceful resolutions to the game. The Klingons use combat as a way to solve things. And the Romulans look for new technology. It's like a video game but without the video. You can expand the game in any direction to create a different adventure each time. Each race has it's own set of weapons, ships (Enterprise, Bird of Pray, and Romulan starships), planets (Earth, Romulus, and Kronos), as well as a control set to manage your strategy. Who will rule the galaxy?
USAOPOLY Star Trek Panic Board Game
In this game you get to play as any member of the Original Series. Take on the roles of Captain Kirk, Spock, or you know, Lieutenant Sulu. In order to win you have to work together to save the Enterprise from alien invasions while performing vital ship tasks, exploring new world, and find new civilizations. The goal is to complete a five year mission (I'm not sure why all of them have five year missions). Each year is a different smaller mission, so in theory it's five different missions. All of this while keeping at least a section of the haul intact. If the Enterprise is destroyed, you lose.
Star Trek Catan
This game is for three or more players, so make sure you have friends to hang out with. The goal is to explore new planets and learn about new cultures. You have to build outposts and star bases to extract the necessary resources from federation planets, and use your fleet to further exploration and create a supply route that makes sense. Trade with your opponents but make sure that they don't drift too far into your territory. Some of your favorite characters will be featured in the "support cards." Build, trade and settle in space, the final frontier.
Looney Labs Star Trek Chrono-Trek Card Game
This is the ultimate game for the ultimate Trekkie. It covers everything in The Star Trek Universe. From The Original Series to Star Trek Voyager. Even the animated series. This card game allows you to travel through all timelines and one event can alter other timelines. Very "butterfly effects" like. There's 32 different characters to choose from and 4 different difficulty levels, so you can basically play this game every day is that's what your heart desires. Imagine figuring out how to found the Federation, or even create a whole new timeline where Picard and Spock are best friends and are Star Trek Starfleet Command. Basically you randomly create a new timeline, and then you have to fix it.
Mattel Star Trek Scene It?
Scene It? Is a classic. First of all, make sure you have a DVD player before starting this game. The set includes over one hundred trivia cards. So, this game is perfect to have a big trivia night. Even a Star Trek trivia party! Just add pizza. Anyway, finally figure out who's the biggest Trekkie in the group, and if you're competitive just make sure that everyone can have a good time before you loose. Plus, you don't actually have to entertain people. You just pop that DVD in and let the night evolve. Also, check out Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, because it's an awesome video game, it's a first person shooter game.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Fluxx
This game is all about your favorite Deep Space Nine characters. Be the best Star Trek bridge commander you've always wanted. Would you pick Kira Nerys, Benjamin Sisko or Jadzia Dax? Either way this adventure game will bring your favorite tv show to life. All while studying the a wormhole and watching out for creepers and getting help from keepers. Each keeper has a specific goal, you collect the right keepers to achieve the goal. It's a really entertaining game if you like cards and Worf is your favorite Klingon.
STAR TREK: The Game
It's "a strategic game of logic, trivia and chance that will engage the senses." Trivia is the best way to get your friends to hate you, but also, the best way to prove that you are the smartest of them all. Besides, if you're a Trekkie who retains as much information as Data does you'll probably surprise your besties. Do you know what the Star Trek Armada is? Or Star Trek Elite Force? Either way you're gonna shock everyone with your knowledge. Plus, you can always study that Star Trek online trivia before playing.
Star Trek Fluxx
This is a pretty similar game than the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Fluxx, except this one includes all Star Trek titles. This is perfect for all sci fi fans. This game also includes creepers and keepers. Except some of these keepers might be phasers or communicators. Which in my opinion makes the game so much cooler. So, like you can have Captain Kirk and a phaser and the goal would be to "set phasers to stun." You can even add a bridge expansion. You can command the Enterprise, fight Klingons, fight Romulans, or stop a doomsday machine from destroying Earth.
That kind of thinking, however, does little to keep us from feeling dejected for days on end.
Curious to hear from heartbroken strangers on the internet, Redditor whitecheeks-24 asked:
What's your sad love story?
Death never comes at the right time.
A Difficult Decision
"The love of my life and soulmate who I was married to for 20 years and together for 24 passed away about 8 months ago. I feel alone and empty inside. I have nobody to love or to love me. My life is an empty waste of space now."
"I took her off of life support because I know that's what she wanted and I had to respect her wishes but I sometimes wish I was a little more greedy. I just want my doll face back."
– StraightSho
Deep Despair
"I am so sorry. I had to do the same thing with my love, married 40 years. It's been 28 months and I'm sinking deeper into despair. We had so many plans, did everything together, and I am honestly lost without him. I send you warmest regards."
– imrealbizzy2
The Shy Admirer
"I was a shy teenager, in love with a cute neighbor. His sister and my mom were friends. He died in a car accident. Nobody knew how I felt about him. I overheard his sister tell my mom that he was in love with me. We never got to share our feelings with each other."
The Illness
"I think a guy I found on match.com died but I have no way of knowing. We had only been dating for 2 or 3 months and we were taking things slow. Then he got sick..tumors in his back and he needed surgery. We still hung out but he was in a lot of pain."
"At the time I was frustrated because I felt he was pushing me away. I just adored him and he was sending mixed messages. Now looking back.. I'm thinking he was just trying to survive. He went in for surgery and I never heard from him again. I didn't know his family and he didn't have social media."
"My mom would check the obituaries in the paper for me and I just always wondered. I hope he didn't know how to end things and just felt this was easier. It's been 5 years and I have a family of my own now but Michael..I hope you're okay."
It's hard for these Redditors to accept the fact their love was never meant to be.
Long Distance Fizzle
"I had to leave my first boyfriend behind because I moved out of state and didn't even get to say goodbye because I didn't know we were moving when I left. We left to see my aunt who had been traveling and was diagnosis with brain cancer in another state, she was too sick to travel home so they rented a house and stayed there essentially until she passed away."
"My mom liked the area better than my hometown tho so we ended up staying, our stuff was shipped to us so I never got to say goodbye to my boyfriend in person."
"We kept in contact for a couple years but being 16 and 18, it wasn't easy for me to just pack up and head back to move in somewhere with him. We both knew we weren't ready for that so we tried our best to keep the long distance romance going."
"Eventually he messaged me one day and told me that he can't do it anymore and he didn't want to hear from me again because he couldn't handle it."
– MotherOfBorzoi
Unrequited Love
"When I was in my early 20s, I've had a love at first sight experience. It completely broke me. He actually was into me too, but not in love like I was."
"I had never had a boyfriend before and I got so excited, I came in like a wrecking ball to cite a great poet. Long story short, I scared him off, he broke up, I couldn't get him out of my head and couldn't imagine a world without him, so I tried to kill myself."
"Though let me reassure you all, it's been years and I'm over him (as long as I don't see him IRL, I just know that I'd fall back in the spiral), I even had a long-term relationship after him."
– marie-llama
Tough Reality Check
"I got left out of a 5 year relationship. I got injured, lost my job, and had to go take care of my dying mom. I was not in a good way. I come back from the ER and she calls our entire relationship off because I was not 'passionate' any longer. Right."
"My entire life fell apart. Lost the house we had gone in on. Lost the dog we had gotten together. And I lost my girl. She was my bestfriend, my first love."
"Huge reality check but at least I'm only 22. I'm glad I saw her true colors when things went bad. Easy to stand by someone when times are good. Saddest part is I would take her back in an instant. I lost a piece of my soul with her."
– schassis408
Some of the biggest heartbreaks come when someone shows their true colors.
Deception
"FOUND OUT MY BOYFRIEND WAS MARRIED WITH KIDS ON THE INTERNET. I was happy and in love for two years. One day while doing my research for a client work, I come across a research paper. The research paper matched what I was looking for, scrolling through it, I realized the owner had some names as my boyfriend."
"But this time he acknowledges his wife and two children for being patient with him as he was busy doing the thesis. I got curious, I took a screenshot and sent him a picture and asked if it's his paper."
"Also, I asked if it's true that he has two kids and a wife and he why didn't tell me. He answered 'DOES IT MATTER '. That was the end of my relationship. Never talked about it, never told any soul what happened."
– MURKOMEN
Heartbreaker
"I finally got with my best friend and soul mate. He knows more about me then anyone and knows what I've been put thru my whole life. When we first got together he promised he would never do anything to me that others have."
"One year later he cheated, lied and and broke my spirit. Something i never thought was possible with me, yet he accomplished it. It's been a year since i left him and he still tries to get back into my life. The sad part is I know he doesn't love me and I can't stop loving him."
– shortgirl1978
Ungrateful
"After four years of supporting my lover through his depression and alcoholism, he announced tonight that he is leaving me. I'm pretty depressed."
– Jackie_Mojica
A Devious Scheme
"Wife moves our small family across the country for a promotion at her company. When we arrive and settle into our house, she leaves me for her boss."
"The move was a scheme for her boss to leave his wife and kids, and for her to leave me, while being able to be close to all their children. So I unknowingly left my career, family and friends behind to move to a state where I don't know anyone so she could be with her new guy."
– ramos1969
Unexpected tragedy will always be, to me, the saddest break up story.
A co-worker of mine used to date a young man who was a patron at the store where we both worked.
Their budding romance was new and exciting and absolutely adorable to watch.
He told me he planned to propose to her before he went away on a family vacation, but sadly, my friend never got the proposal. The guy drowned in a horrible boating accident during his trip.
Although my friend is now happily married with two kids, I wonder if she still thinks about him.
If you or someone you know is struggling, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
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I swear if every single person was forced to work in the hospitality industry for at least one month in their life, y'all would be beside yourselves. The amount of craziness and laziness could keep you eating at home for every meal until death.
Play Big
martin scorsese casino GIFGiphy"Casino dealers really do want the players to win. We don't work for the house. We get paid crap hourly rates and rely on tips. Unless the player is super nice they only to tip if they win so we really do want you to win." ~ thedevilsgame
Not the Good Stuff...
"That you can take a gallon of paint and give it a different label, price point, and warranty depending on the store it is sold in." ~ big_d_usernametaken
"My professor told me the same thing. He was a job coach and erased the due dates on food products with I believe acetone or some product in nail polish remover."
"Would slap a new date on it, and the food would get shipped to poorer neighborhoods. That crap blew my mind." ~ Additional_Bar_2013
"Oh crap, I may actually go to jail."
"That if everyone being charged with a crime insisted on it going to trial, no plea bargaining, the system would crash." ~ mikenyle
"When I was a juror, the judge also commented before everything started that trial by jury is the only thing causing people to plea bargain and "getting the system moving."
"Many trials sit in limbo for years, and it's only the threat of "Oh crap, I may actually go to jail."
"That really negotiations start. That's exactly what happened in my case - jurors got selected, and that afternoon (after being 2 years in the system), the defendant pleads out." ~ zealeus
Fake Care
"Safety. It's not really about your health and well being. It's about saving the company money from medical expenses, lost time, lawyer costs, etc. Very rarely does your company actually give 2 craps about you, no matter how much they preach safety, they just don't want to pay if you get hurt/killed." ~ WhenThePiecesFit
"pen to paper"
New Girl I Give Up GIFGiphy"TV/screenwriter here. If you're established and well connected, it's very easy to coast and be a TV writer for YEARS and do very little actual writing. Most of TV writing is just talking in a room with other writers spitballing."
"This is why there's so many old, unfunny dudes still "writing" on TV shows. They're hired by their friends and in TV, a lot writers don't actually do much "pen to paper" writing. Plus everything gets rewritten to death." ~ GardenChic
So much mess. Someone hire me to write for TV. Why are you just giving away jobs to unqualified people? Life is so unfair. This list makes me mad. Let's continue...
Carbon Copies
mail GIF by RabbidsGiphy"I work in the print industry, we print cheques for companies and there is so little security involved in hiring, or keeping the materials secure, or running the actual work, or shipping the work to customers. I'm shocked we haven't had a problem with stolen cheques." ~ Jeff_Cunningham
Followers
"Advertising. I keep reading that advertising is leading people to be more woke, or multicultural. Companies don't lead, they follow. They do lots of research and know where the future markets are."
"I worked for a very conservative global brand. 5 years before gay marriage became legal, they told us it would happen and we needed to start targeting the LBGTQ community." ~ leftside72
"connection"
"Visa agent and I've seen people be refused because the manager didn't like their face." ~ Ok_Albatross9395
"Omg this happened to my sister. She couldn't start her semester in time because she kept being refused a visa even though she fulfilled all conditions."
"Finally my parents found a "connection" in embassy to see what's going on; turns out someone just didn't like her when she came to give her papers the first time. I never knew if I can fully believe that story." ~ animal7239
So much typing...
"I'm a writer, among other things. I used to ghostwrite. You'd be amazed how many popular books are partly or fully ghostwritten. I specialised in taking people's crappy first drafts and rewriting them so they were actually good. Not "good" according to people's taste, which is subjective."
"But objectively better in the sense of being properly spelled, not having gaping plot holes, making sure characters were consistent. By the time I was done there was often very little left of the draft the "writer" had created, but there was a marketable product."
"Pisses me off no end when I see all the bull the publishing industry comes out with about how writers submitting a manuscript must make sure it's perfect because only excellence will get you anywhere."
"I don't know how they can say that and still sleep at night, knowing full well that they're hiring people like me to do large-scale rewrites (or to take a half-baked plot and create a draft from scratch)." ~ iwillckingbiteyou
Thieves
Joseline Hernandez Facepalm GIFGiphy"I work in payroll. The number of payroll reports I see where people are conned out of their overtime is saddening."
"Also, taxes paid by a business shouldn't actively dissuade them from paying employees less. The system shouldn't be based on paying a percentage of employee salary in taxes (FICA, Workers Comp), in other words." ~ ThongofSekhmet
I think some investigations need to be launched. I always knew payroll departments were running a scam. Too many people are being ripped off. Time to expose some people.
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