TREK(6)

🚀 TREK(6) — the trekkie game, bestie edition 🚀

ok so like. this is a page from the Games Manual section 6, and it's about trek — the trekkie game. buckle up, we're going to space 🖖✨

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✨ NAME ✨

trek — trekkie game 💫

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

trek [[-a] file]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

trek is a game of space glory and war. yes literally. space. glory. war. the whole vibe 🔥

below is a summary of commands — for the complete documentation, see Trek by Eric Allman (he's the icon who made this, more on him later 👑).

so here's the cute part: if you give it a filename, a log of the game gets written onto that file 📝. and if you put the -a flag before the filename, that file gets appended to, not truncated. no wiping your old logs, slay 💅

then the game is gonna ask you what length game you want. valid responses are:

• short
• medium
• long

you can also type restart, which restarts a previously saved game 🫶 (yes bestie, your save is safe).

after that you'll be prompted for the skill level, and you must respond with one of:

• novice
• fair
• good
• expert
• commodore
• impossible

and listen — you should normally start out with a novice and work up 😭 no shame in it, that's literally the intended path, we all start somewhere.

in general, throughout the game, if you forget what's appropriate? the game will tell you what it expects if you just type in a question mark ? 🧚 like it's literally reading your mind. iykyk.

ngl the question-mark thing is lowkey the most underrated feature here. when in doubt, ?. periodt.

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Eric Allman 💜

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

/usr/share/doc/bsd-games/trek.me

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🌈 COMMAND SUMMARY 🌈

ok here's the full list, no skips, nothing left out — every single one 💖:

• abandon
• capture
• cloak up/down
• computer request; ...
• damages
• destruct
• dock
• help
• impulse course distance
• lrscan
• move course distance
• phasers automatic amount
• phasers manual amt1 course1 spread1 ...
• torpedo course [yes] angle/no
• ram course distance
• rest time
• shell
• shields up/down
• srscan [yes/ no]
• status
• terminate yes/no
• undock
• visual course
• warp warp_factor

destruct and terminate yes/no are right there in the list, so like… read them before you type them, bestie 💀 the game will do exactly what you told it to.

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and that's the whole page, fr fr 🎀 this one's from Debian, dated December 30, 1993 — yes it's vintage, yes it still ate. go blow up some spaceships, main character 💅🦋⭐