- Original Release: 2012
- Developer: Klaus Teuber
- Publisher: Catan Studio
- Platform: Board Game
Catan is a game that is essentially decided by the initial placement of your settlements. Each round, you roll a dice and those tiles product resources to anyone with an settlement next to them. These can be traded with other players and used to build routes, more settlements and cities. It has an importance in board games as one of the games that made modern board games popular, but I really don’t like it at all.
The Star Trek version of Catan is the same game. The resources are not different planets, which don’t really do a good job at portraying what you get from them. The different resources are: Tritanium, Food, Oxygen, Dilithium and Water. Routes are depicted by ships, outpost and starbases represent settlements and cities. The klingon ship is the robber, which stops production on a tile and can be moved on a roll of 7.
The only difference in this version are “Support Cards”. These cards help with the actions in the game, and once you use one it can be swapped with another. It’s a very small change.
This version of Catan did get an expansion, called Federation Space, which provides two boards with maps to play on instead of the hexagon tiles. You also now play as different species, although all you have to represent this is a scoreboard with numbers in the design of that species. The ships are still Constitution class ships.
Apart from having some victory point markets on the board (the first person that reaches them collects it), it plays the same as regular Catan.
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GeekandSundry’s Tabletop show played this with a couple of familiar faces… (Will Wheaton was the host of the show)
https://youtu.be/O7_Yd3_M8iQ
Wil’s Tabletop show is what got me into board games, and ended up changing my life.
Amazing! I was already into it but this show helped. I’m sure Will (and Felicia Day) would be thrilled to read this.
I’ve got this one, not super Trekked up but good fun nonetheless
Honestly it’s one of the best media tie in I’ve seen for a well known board game
I have a copy of this one! It’s fun for the novelty factor, and the art that was used is pretty nice. But yeah, at the end of the day it’s just Catan. I wish they’d do a 5-6 player add-on for this. One of these days I’ll have to look into that map expansion.
I’ve played this a couple of times and it is, as specified, basically normal Catan. With the Support Cards being very similar to the Commodity Decks Cards from the Cities and Knights expansion to the base game.
A variant of Catan that I found more interesting than base Catan because of those Support Cards but less interesting than the expansion makes games because it only added a portion of the expansion.
If I remember correctly there was an expansion to this, that added more of the C&K expansion.