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Game Box and Components
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge was a video-based board game for three to six players and produced by Decipher in 1993. It was released mainly to capitalize on the flood of "VCR board games" many game companies released at the time. The video footage of the game was filmed on the actual TNG sets, and the material was vague enough that the game played differently every time.
The game was produced in the US by Decipher, but marketed for the UK and European markets by Milton Bradley. A follow-up, Borg Q-Uest, was planned but never released.
Premise and gameplay
A renegade Klingon named Kavok (played by Robert O'Reilly) has hijacked the USS Enterprise-D. The ship has a skeleton crew aboard (the players), as it was at a starbase undergoing repairs, including a warp core instability that has caused relativistic anomalies during warp travel. The crew has 60 minutes – possibly less because of the warp core troubles – before the ship reaches Klingon space and Kavok uses it to start a new Federation/Klingon conflict.
As the video plays, the crew (players) move around the board trying to obtain five isolinear chips they can use to reprogram their tricorders and reach the bridge to stop Kavok. However, Kavok knows the players are trying to stop him, so he jumps in from time to time to force players to make certain moves or draw certain cards.
If a player can get all the needed chips, access the Jefferies tube to the bridge and stop Kavok before time runs out, they win the game.
Trivia
Images of Kavok were later used for game cards in the Blaze of Glory expansion for Decipher's Star Trek Customizable Card Game First Edition.