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+ Star Trek 1971
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+ for Python
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+About
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+I recently discovered the classic old BASIC game `Star Trek`_ from 1971, through a post seen on Reddit_.
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+The post contained a version of the game rewritten in C-Sharp which I thought was quite good.
+I wondered if anyone had ported it to Python.
+
+After a little bit of research, I didn't find a definitive version for Python.
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+This is by no means a definitive version itself; I just took the C# version and converted it to Python.
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+.. _Star Trek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
+.. _Reddit: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28228/Star-Trek-Text-Game
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+Improvements
+============
+
+There's heaps that can be done with this program. A lot of implementations used global variables.
+I tried to fix this by encapsulating them in a global object, but this can definitely be improved further.
+
+Here is a list of possible improvements:
+
+- Encapsulate everything in classes
+- Include help/instructions
+- Add extra features;
+   + new ships, celestial objects, etc
+   + new weapon types
+   + crew functions
+- Easier navigation (using cartesian system maybe)
+- Make some parts more 'Pythonic'
+- ...Plenty more!