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So I was watching the episode of Star Trek Next Gen where they're playing the wargames with the
enterprise and the Hathaway. There was a segment where they played this game, Strategema. I was
wondering what the details are for the rules of that game. What I do know:

-The player to capture all the territory wins
-This is done by moving little circles
-As the game progresses the territories divide and it becomes more complex
-Its apparently turn-based but looks more like real-time.




Any thoughts?

[Christoph]

Looks like Data is tweaking someones nipple

[supersloth]

http://en.wikipedia....Trek#Strategema

nailed it.

Christoph, on 26 November 2010 - 11:29 AM, said:

Looks like Data is tweaking someones nipple

a really big nipple.

[modi123_1]

.... and google comes through again.

http://www.startrekf....php/Stratagema

Quote

Strategema is a game played during the episode "Peak Performance" of the show Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Strategema is a strategy game played on a holographic board of 8-8-4 squares (4 layers of 8-8 squares each). The object of Strategema is to manipulate circular icons to gain control of your opponent's territory while defending your own.

Strategema is generally played on a specially-designed computer. Both players sit at the computer-controlled Strategema table, facing each other, with the board continuously rotating in the middle. The game is controlled with metal thimbles placed on the players' fingers. Electronics in these thimbles then calculate the movement of the fingers and send the information to the computer.

The duration of a Strategema game depends on the competence of the players. Generally, games last only a hundred moves at most. However, experienced master players can achieve games of well over a thousand moves.

One of the most notable games ever played was with, Sirma Kolrami is a third-level grand master in the game. He lost to Lieutenant Commander Data in the longest Strategema game ever played, lasting over thirty-two thousand moves. The match may have technically been a draw, with Data's strategy being to simply avoid losing until Kolrami abandoned play in disgust.

There has never been an official description of the precise rules of Strategema.

Oh, and here's your 3-d chess.
http://www.chessvari...r/startrek.html

This post has been edited by modi123_1: 26 November 2010 - 06:46 PM

[AlbuquerqueApache]

This was one of those ok early episodes. I liked this one.

a lot of the early TNG kinda sucked. They got a hell of a lot better when Ron Moore starting writing for some of them.