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I have yet to spend real cash to play this game. Im contemplating the monthly card but as of yet cannot find any details for how the fee is charged to renew (auto or otherwise), so the jury is out on that.

The game has stalled a couple of times, but Ive had that happen with other games Ive played so it isnt a deal breaker for me. Ive been enjoying this one quite a bit, especially since I finished Plants vs Zombies 2. I needed something that was a bit more challenging.

I just wish this one had a game play manual since some features are hard to figure out.

Again, I dont work for the company despite the allegation that "all" positive reviews are from the developers. I am, however, a diehard Trekkie for decades.

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Despite the proliferation of negative reviews, I downloaded this and started playing last night. It was, after all, the 50th anniversary of the premiere of ST:TOS and I couldnt think of a better way to spend my evening.

Im enjoying the game play quite a bit. Its very much a "choose your own adventure" style game which is fun. I like the idea that you can have crew members from across the Trekiverse. I started with a very decent crew compliment after I chose Captain Kirk (who is and always will be my favorite captain).

Ive managed to level up my characters in a decent amount of time, score decent rewards from missions and complete some of the daily challenges. Overall, I think that if you play strategically, you wont have to spend your hard-earned cash to enjoy the game unless youre a Ferengi and want to game the system. It might take some ingenuity to complete all the missions without expending actual cash, but isnt that the nature of Trek after all?

As far as playing with the sound on, theres something infinitely comforting about the sound of space travel, even if we all know that theres actually no sound in space. The sound of the warp engines humming is oddly soothing, almost as if Im in my home away from home. My only complaint is that the Alexander Courage theme isnt present.

The game did hang briefly when I mashed too many buttons at once but a brief restart of the game solved the issue, it has not had any issues since. For those who claim that all the positive reviews are written by employees of the company, understand that I am in no way affiliated with the game designers or their distributors.

EmpressG1973 about Star Trek Timelines, v1.4.1