This is lovely!. Obviously there's a looong history of clones of the original Super Star Trek. The first I ever played was EGATrek. And I recently learned of a rather feature rich one from the 90s called Visual Trek which was never completed (According to Ancient Dos Games on YouTube). That one in particular has managing Tribbles as a mechanic. It might be interesting to explore these older clones to find mechanic that could be integrated here too.
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Thanks a lot! Yes, there are a lot of remakes out there. I know EGATrek, but I have never heard about Visual Trek. I'll have a look for sure. I have a half idea about making a list of the most popular remakes and making a table with all the features they added. I'll let you know if I'm able to do it :)
I've got a current personal project of trying to play every Star Trek game (although for versions of the Mike Mayfield game, I stuck to significantly different versions that used the name "Star Trek", there are lots of almost identical versions).
Visual Star Trek is my favourite version about it. It really is strange how there's no information about it, where it came from or who made it. It's a complete mystery - yet the actual code from both (very different) 1971 BASIC Star Trek games (the other one is by Bill Peterson) is preserved.
I found Visual Star Trek via a floppy disc on the side of the road in the trash when I was a kid. If I had realised it was so shrouded in mystery back then I would have done a better job holding onto it. Might have had more info in the label. lol. It was one of my fav versions as well. Although I didn't realise it was just one in a long line of clones. It taught me to fear tribbles though