History YMMV / StarTrekTextGame

** In the Commodore 64 version, if you destroy a starbase accidentally (by firing a photon torpedo in its path) you get "Starfleet reviewing your record to consider court martial". You get this same message even if you destroy a second starbase. But if you look a the code, there is NonStandardGameOver where "You are stripped of rank and will spend the rest of your life mining dilithium!" You never get to see this ending, no matter how many starbases you destroy (or if there was only one starbase to begin with).

** In the Commodore 64 version, if you destroy a starbase accidentally (by firing a photon torpedo in its path) you get "Starfleet reviewing your record to consider court martial". You get this same message even if you destroy a second starbase. But if you look a the code, there is NonStandardGameOver where "You are stripped of rank and will spend the rest of your life mining dilitium!". You never get to see this ending, no matter how many starbases you destroy (or if there was only one starbase to begin with).

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: If your ship is destroyed, the enemy wins, period. If you don't destroy every last enemy ship in the galaxy by the deadline, the successful invasion of TheFederation is treated as a foregone conclusion, even if there are only one or two enemy ships remaining.

* ThatOneRule: Aiming torpedoes. The makers of the ''Star Trek III.5'' variant of the game actually sold aiming charts, so that you could figure out exactly what bearing to fire your torpedoes at, depending on the sector the Klingon ship was in. (Averted in ''EGA Trek'', which allows the player to specify coordinates to fire the torpedoes at, although they can still miss.)

* ScrappyMechanic: "Long range tractor beams" in ''EGA Trek''. Need to get to that distress call on the other side of the sector block? [[YankTheDogsChain Nope]], you just spent all the time and energy you had to get there but ended up in the sector right next to where you started, and dumped into a battle anyways for good measure.

** Averted in the early years. When the game was first created and gained popularity, Star Trek was just another little remembered (except, at the time, to a fringe audience) cancelled TV show from the previous decade. It had yet to generate a significant fan following as ubiquitous reruns hadn't yet begun. Also, during much of the first two decades of the games existence, the game was distributed for free, the code often published in computer magazines. Although expy versions of the game did exist during TheEighties (like ''Stellar Track'', understandably as it was an Atari 2600 game), Paramount didn't start to aggressively defend the copyright until years after the popularity of the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration franchise really took off]].

** Averted in the early years. When the game was first created and gained popularity, Star Trek was just another little remembered (except, at the time, to a fringe audience) cancelled TV show from the previous decade. It had yet to generate a significant fan following as ubiquitous reruns hadn't yet begun. Also, during much of the first two decades of the games existence, the game was distributed for free, the code often published in computer magazines. Although expy versions of the game did exist during TheEighties (like ''Stellar Track''), Paramount didn't start to aggressively defend the copyright until years after the popularity of the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration franchise really took off]].

** Averted in the early years. When the game was first created and gained popularity, Star Trek was just another little remembered (at the time) cancelled TV show from the previous decade. It had yet to generate a significant fan following as ubiquitous reruns hadn't yet begun. Also, during much of the first two decades of the games existence, the game was distributed for free, the code often published in computer magazines. Although expy versions of the game did exist during TheEighties (like ''Stellar Track''), Paramount didn't start to aggressively defend the copyright until years after the popularity of the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration franchise really took off]].

** Averted in the early years. When the game was first created and gained popularity, Star Trek was just another little remembered (at the time) cancelled TV show from the previous decade. It had yet to generate a significant fan following as ubiquitous reruns hadn't yet begun. Also, during much of the first two decades of the games existence, the game was distributed for free, the code often published in computer magazines. Although expy versions of the game did exist during TheEighties (like ''Stellar Track''), Paramount didn't start to aggressively defend the copyright until years after the popularity of the franchise really took off.

* ThatOneAttack: Mongol plasma bolts in ''EGA Trek''. As difficulty goes up, even standard [[{{Mooks}} Mongol battleships]] can deploy them, they do hundreds of points of damage all at once, and regardless of your ship's shield strength they typically deal SubsystemDamage to multiple parts of the ship (usually with [[RedShirt casualties]] too). Barring having a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin plasma bolt shield]] on hand and [[PressXToNotDie using it right away]], the only other option is to avoid being hit by warping away to another sector. And good luck if [[ThisIsGonnaSuck your warp engines are already offline]]!
** On the upside, ''you'' can also obtain these by raiding Mongol supply bases and supply ships, and then turning them on their former owners, typically for a OneHitKill, or a OneHitPolykill on tightly grouped enemies -- assuming it doesn't [[EpicFail fail to detonate]], that is. And then, they still tend to deal damage to the player's vessel, even when used from a distance.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The Sinclair / ICL port to the [=ZX81=] files off any Paramount trademarks -- the game becomes "Star Trail", the starship becomes the ''Endeavour'', and so forth.

* ThatOneRule: Aiming torpedoes. The makers of the ''Star Trek III.5'' variant of the game actually sold aiming charts, so that you could figure out exactly what bearing to fire your torpedoes at, depending on the sector the Klingon ship was in.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The Sinclair / ICL port to the [=ZX81=] files off any Paramount trademarks -- the game becomes "Star Trail", the starship becomes the ''Endeavour'', and so forth.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: The Sinclair / ICL port to the ZX81 files off any Paramount trademarks -- the game becomes "Star Trail", the starship becomes the ''Endeavour'', and so forth.

* ExcusePlot