Star Trek: Frontiers

Star Trek: Frontiers is a Star Trek version of the popular board game Mage Knight. It focuses on exploration of the Gamma Quadrant (although you fight a lot of Romulans and Borg). It’s suitable for up to four players, who pick between Picard on the Enterprise D, Sisko on the Definat, Lursa and B’etor on a Bird of Prey and Markok on a Negh’var.

It can be played co-op or competitively (although you still have to complete objectives. The game is very in depth with a lot of complicated rules, which means a lot of checking to see how different abilities interact. That said, all parts of the game are engaging, even if it’s a lot to wrap your head around. There’s a big list of scenarios to choose from, and the good combat mechanics (while you explore, it’s very much combat focused) are well thought out.

Frontiers also got an expansion. In following on from the Enterprise D and Defiant, it added a new playable ship: The Enterprise A. Along with a new opponent: Khan, flying in his Dominion Warship. The designer was clearly a Wrath of Khan fan and went with that even though there was still plenty of TNG era ships, such as Voyager, or other races.

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