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@@ -6,8 +6,36 @@ Package: super-star-trek
 Description: Super Star Trek, a timeless classic of computer games
  Save the Federation from the invading Klingons!  Visit exotic planets and
  strip-mine them for dilithium!  Encounter mysterious space thingies!
- This is the classic Super Star Trek game from the days of slow teletypes, 
- reloaded.
+.
+ SST2K is a modern Unix port of the University of Texas "Star
+ Trek" game originally written in FORTRAN in the mid-1970s.  It has
+ options to restrict its feature set to what was in earlier versions.
+.
+ SST2K is a kind of time machine back to what interactive programs were
+ like in the days of hardcopy terminals, before graphics and before
+ even video displays. Despite this archaism and decades after it was 
+ written, SST2K retains significant play value.  We think it's both fun
+ and instructive to see how good a game could be written under those
+ conditions.
+.
+ SST is fairly closely related to Eric Allman's BSD Trek, which also started
+ life as a C translation of UT Super Star Trek.  BSD Trek is missing most of
+ the post-1978 features of SST2K, but does add a cloaking device for the 
+ Romulans and the option to take Klingon captives.  These have been back-ported
+ into this version.
+.
+ The only other really current Star Trek port we know of is 
+ <a href='http://shankel.best.vwh.net/opentrek.html'>OpenTrek</a>,
+ which appears to be set in the ST:TNG universe (featuring the Borg
+ Collective as the villains) and has a fancy graphical interface.
+.
+ (There are also some multi-player Trek variants out there, notably
+ XTrek and NetTrek, that have a very different feel from any of the
+ Trek solitaires.)
+.
+ For a truly retro-Trek experience, see the <a
+ href='http://www.calormen.com/Star_Trek/ASCII/'>Star Trek ASCII Art
+ Archive</a>.
 
 Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek
 
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 XBS-Repository-URL: https://gitlab.com/esr/super-star-trek
 
-#XBS-OpenHub-URL: https://www.ohloh.net/p/super-star-trek
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