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- A Brief History
-
- On the date of 9,8,1966 the very first episode of STAR TREK was shown
- on American Network Television. This of course was the fore runner of
- the now world famous TV series. The costs in preparation of this series
- were considered at that time to be the most expensive.
- The TV series' ratings weren't exactly as what was expected during
- the years of '66 -'68 and the Networks began considering "shelving" the
- series. But through many thousands of letters, from many viewers, the
- series was saved and placed into the night-time viewing period. After
- one year in this "evening" time frame, it proved to quite successful
- for an outside company's effort in showing this series to the public
- nationally on TV. Today, there are very few countries that haven't seen
- "STAR TREK".
- After many years of talk and discussions, an agreement came into
- being between PARAMONT and others into making a series of movies based
- on the original TV series. This first movie "STAR TREK: The Movie",
- was the most expensive, costing 40 million to produce and was released
- in 1979.
- Over the next ten years four other movies have been produced, they
- are:
- STAR TREK II The Wrath of Khan
- STAR TREK III The Search For Spock
- STAR TREK IV The Voyage Home and finally
- STAR TREK V The Final Frontier.
-
- In all five films, Paramont has been successful in keeping all of the
- now world famous STAR TREK characters intack and as a complete group.
- In effect, you were able to not loose contact with the original
- character from the TV series. The main characters of the series were:
- Captain Kirk - William Shatner, Science Officer Spock - Leonard Nimoy,
- Dr McCoy (bones) - Deforest Kelly, Helmsman Chekov - Walter Koenic,
- Navigator Sulu - George Takei, Chief Engineer Scott - James Doohan,
- Communications Officer Uhura - Nichelle Nichols.
- Just recently in the last few years there has been a new series on
- American National Television. STAR TREK The Next Generation, this
- series has all new characters, a brand new Enterprise, but retains the
- flavour of the old TV series. In the fall of 1990, this new series
- possibly will be viewed by European "Trekkies". Again as in the
- original series, the main writer is Gene Roddenberry. He's very
- involved with the new series just as he was with the movies and the
- original TV series. The success of the original TV series brought forth
- a large following of "Trekkies". I hope this new series doesn't turn
- any of them away, but instead brings out more.
- The love for this TV series was emphasized quite strongly by the
- people of United States. Thousands of letters were sent to the
- President Of The United States (at that time period) suggesting that
- the name ENTERPRISE be put on the first space shuttle that NASA was to
- successfully launch.
-
- Monolog
-
- It took me two years to write this game. Halfway through though, I
- seriously thought about quiting as I was loosing interest. I couldn't
- see any end to this game as it will continue endlessly. But now it's
- finally finished and I'm happy with what I've done. The actual game
- code is about 160 K long. My source code for the game is 512 K long.
- There are two versions on this diskette. A 512 K version, and a 1 Meg
- version. The 512 K version has many of the non-esential sounds removed
- so that 512 K owners can play the game. The 1 Meg version is just as I
- originally wrote, unchanged. The 1 Meg version will check your
- computers memory and if there's room will ask if it can copy the "data
- disk" into ram. This makes the game much faster and much more
- enjoyable.
- This game was written with the program AZTEC 3.06 in "C" and some
- assembly language as well.
- At this point I would like to thank the following people. Special
- thanks goes to Thomas Kruja whose abilities helped make this game what
- it is. My thanks to Silvia, Tanja, and Guido. THey all gave me good
- input as to the content of this game. STAR TREK: The Game is played
- 100% with the mouse, but also a joystick is needed in port #2 for
- manouvering the Enterprise.
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