# Need help in remembering an old Star Trek game

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 7, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-in-remembering-an-old-star-trek-game/552949 "2010-09-07T18:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-in-remembering-an-old-star-trek-game/552949/1 "2010-09-07T18:03:30Z")

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It was a game that I played around 1990-1993 (IIRC). It was a game where you had a top-down star map on the right, and you flew around to different planets, and fought Klingons. You could choose your “rank” as a means of levels of difficulty, and if you screwed up too much, you were relieved of your command. You had to power up photon torpedos, shields, etc. I think you flew by dragging a line from your position to another spot on the top-down map

It is kind of like Begin, but the graphics were much, much better and you could use a mouse… I can’t see any screenshots of Begin 2, but it seems even more advanced than that. May have been called VGA trek or something? Any thoughts?  
[http://www.mobygames.com/game/begin-a-tactical-starship-simulation](http://www.mobygames.com/game/begin-a-tactical-starship-simulation)

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**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-in-remembering-an-old-star-trek-game/552949/2 "2010-09-07T18:10:25Z")

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NM, found it! it was vtrek.