Reply #2: Game isn't a good term for it

[YankeyMCC]

you're right. But that is one reason for using something like Star Trek as the setting so you don't need those sorts of roll the dice sorts of rules.

Despite the intense debates out there on how a warp engine works :) pretty much everyone knows what everything is in the Trek universe (which is by far the most popular probably because it is so well known) and how things work in terms of story writing.

Here's an example: http://atrek.org/endeavour/