Description
An enemy armada is invading the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet Command estimates that Earth will be attacked in about a month. So you, playing James T. Kirk, commander of the original NCC-1701 Enterprise, are ordered to stop that invasion.
WinTrek is Star Trek simulation game, where you virtually control every aspect of the Enterprise yourself, which would normally done by your crew.
For navigating the Enterprise through the sectors and quadrants, you do not "drive" her, but instead you control the navigation station directly (setting course, whereby any of the 360 degrees can be used, and setting speed limits, both impulse and warp). If you attack an enemy, you have to manage your shields, coordinate phaser fire and your photon torpedoes, including the control of how much dilithium (fuel) you invest into your shields and weapons. Finally, you must manage your dilithium fuel (i.e. refilling at starbases) and must make sure that your ship don't break apart (damage system).
You win the game by destroying the enemy armada and you loose the game when the armada attacks Earth or you ran out of fuel (or you explode).
The story above is written a bit vague, because both the number of enemy ships and the days you have are randomly set when you start a game.
In addition,
WinTrek offers six difficulty levels, ranging from Admiral (expert) to Expandable Crewman (easiest).
You play the game both with the mouse and the keyboard. All stations are mouse controlled, but you also have to use the Computer Station, like you would use MS-DOS, to get informations not visible at your other stations (i.e. to retrieve the position of your starbases). And since this is a Windows game, you will see all the informations in 11 sub-windows of your game window, which are all re-sizable and movable.
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Trivia
While originally being Shareware, the author
Joseph Jaworski has released the game a few years ago (2003 or earlier) for free. The game can be downloaded from its official website (see Link section).
Along with the game itself, the author also released the manual, which was initially only available in printed form for those that bought the full version, for free too as a PDF file.
Finally, the entire C source code was also made available, which resulted in the open-source project
WinTrek Enhanced, a remake of this game, which is designed for Windows 95 and newer.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Xoleras (66998) on Aug 05, 2005.
