Star Trek : The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge Star Trek : The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge was a video - based board game for three to six players and produced by Decipher in . 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 , " " , was planned but never released . Premise and gameplay . A renegade Klingon named Kavok ( played by Robert O ' Reilly ) has hijacked the . 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 sixty 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 chip s they can use to reprogram their tricorder s 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 . In the event that no players win , the " Enterprise " is destroyed ( footage from and is used to illustrate the Klingon Attack ) . After the destruction , a title card reveals that the " Enterprise " passed through a temporal causality loop . The players can rewind the tape and play again to avert the disaster . Cards . Holodeck - holographic simulations of the " Enterprise " crew offer advice . Players usually receive a benefit or bonus from this advice . Bij ( Klingon for Punishment ) - Players experience a forfeit at the top of the card . In the event of a " systems malfunction " immediately after a declaration of Bij the player receives the positive bonus at the bottom of the card , much to the dismay of Kavok . Stickers . A series of adhesive - backed stickers come with the game ; rank insignia to represent the order of play ( highest rank goes first ) , the Combadge s the players must use and the player who stuns Kavok receives a sticker medal . Other items . Stasis field s - plastic tubes put over player tokens when said player is in stasis . Bridge tokens - the final tokens before a player wins . When it is the players turn , they reveal the caption " you stun Kavok " , in which case they win , or " Access Denied " in which case they must wait a turn and try again . Trivia . Most of the foreign ( non - US ) versions of the game featured a black background for the box art , rather than white background used for the US release in the photo above . Jonathan Frakes sets the scene as William T . Riker in an opening log entry . Riker is not seen on screen . Images of Kavok were later used for game cards in the " " expansion for Decipher ' s " Star Trek Customizable Card Game " First Edition . See also . These Trek - related games with a video element ( VHS tape or DVD ) :