STAR TREK chess set !!!

[RobertScorpio]

I actually have that WRATH OF KHAN chess set somewhere...

If they were to make a new chess set of Star Trek, good guys and bad guys, who would be the pieces? THe "Queen" wouldn't have to be a female, or it could be...depending on you...but who would be the King all the way down to the pawns...and you CAN merge the different TREK eras...

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Sector 7]

It might be more fun to pit series against series. DS9 vs. VOY, etc.
Captain vs. captain.

 

[RobertScorpio]

It might be more fun to pit series against series. DS9 vs. VOY, etc.
Captain vs. captain.

Hey...not a bad idea!! I'd buy it!!!

Rob

 

[CaptainStoner]

TOS:
Pawns- Red Shirts
Rooks- Chekov & Sulu
Bishops- Scotty & Uhura
Knights- Spock & McCoy
Queen - the Enterprise NCC-1701
King - Kirk

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Pawns for the Federation- all red shirts!

Pawns for the Dominion--much as I hate to suggest it...Cardassians.

 

[S'kai]

I was thinking of doing one with Micromachines ships.

WHITE
King - Ent-D
Queen - Excelsior
Bishops - Runabout
Knights - Reliant
Rooks - Starbase/DS9
Pawns - Shuttlecraft

BLACK
King - Borg Cube
Queen - Borg sphere
Bishops - Romulan D'derix
Knights - Cardassian whatchamacallems
Rooks - Klingon D-7
Pawns - Bird of Prey (TNG)

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I was thinking of doing one with Micromachines ships.

WHITE
King - Ent-D
Queen - Excelsior
Bishops - Runabout
Knights - Reliant
Rooks - Starbase/DS9
Pawns - Shuttlecraft

BLACK
King - Borg Cube
Queen - Borg sphere
Bishops - Romulan D'derix
Knights - Cardassian whatchamacallems
Rooks - Klingon D-7
Pawns - Bird of Prey (TNG)

Those would be Galor-class warships.

And I'm curious: why is it that the queen is not the most powerful starship in this arrangement? While the king is the game-ender if lost, I always thought the queen was the most maneuverable, dangerous piece on the board.

 

[Sector 7]

^ I agree. Most people lose when the queen is lost. The key is to learn to play without her. We learned chess in grade 6 when it was too cold to have recess outside. Mr. Richard Dernbach taught me well, I was class champion that year. Now I'd be easy prey as I have no one to hone my skills with these days.

 

[S'kai]

Those would be Galor-class warships.

And I'm curious: why is it that the queen is not the most powerful starship in this arrangement? While the king is the game-ender if lost, I always thought the queen was the most maneuverable, dangerous piece on the board.

I was not thinking about power as much as how pieces would look on the board.

How would you do it?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

In all honesty, I am not sure. I think I had assumed you were trying to assign the pieces in terms of relative power rather than appearance, but now that I see you had a different intention, that's fine.

 

[RoJoHen]

TOS:
Pawns- Red Shirts
Rooks- Chekov & Sulu
Bishops- Scotty & Uhura
Knights- Spock & McCoy
Queen - the Enterprise NCC-1701
King - Kirk

I think I'd probably flip-flop the Knights and Bishops. I like Bishops more.