Have me custom paint all the ships, looks way cool !

Cliffys for neutral zone and center scoop. Subwoofer, Undercab, backboard and trough lighting,

Please take a look through the STTNG thread https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/sttng-owners-club there is tons of advice and mods listed there, and please let me be the first to welcome you to the club!

The tieback wire was not the best engineered design but its far from a bomb waiting to go off. What I did on mine was 1) did a professional soldering of the wires to start with (this should be enough) and 2) used heat shrink tubing over the wiring and coil terminal. Truth be told, I did this to nearly all of the coils since I rebuild the wiring harnesses and already had the tubing and a heat gun.

We hope to release a mod that should be huge in about a month, and will have 2 more mods coming out in mid October. I think all 3 will have great acceptance, even with those that don't care for mods.

Hi quality GI LEDs are a must. I used Comet Optix Max and 4+1s and it looks 10x better than incandescent bulbs.

I sell my Leg Light-Ups, many different colors. Here's and example. My camera makes them look purple but they are really blue.

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Obviously, I would give top priority mod to have...ColorDMD.
http://shop.colordmd.com/colordmd-replacement-display-for-star-trek-the-next-generation-pinball-machine/

I'll second Colordmd. Beautiful on this pin. I like the laser cannons too. Might be cheating, but makes cannon shots easier for me.

Don't have this pin yet at home but it's on the short list to buy this year.

+1 on that as well. My machine has it.

Replaced all the red star posts to purple. Also did all the black posts to purple. The top lanes that were red, I used a purple post with clear tops(no purple tops available for WMS games) and frosted purple LEDs. Used frosted purple LEDs in 3/4 of the playfield plastics and frosted cool white for the slings and return lanes. All LEDs are non ghosting from Pinball life. The shields use incandescents because LEDs can't dim. This game uses a lot of flex LEDs for inserts. Romulan and Klingon toys are Hallmark ornaments modified. Klingon has Zitt's purple wing LEDs too. Bumpers are purple Evo's from Pinball Life with purple caps. Back lit plexi wall and apron are from Germany. Laser cannons, color dmd, plastic protectors, and neutral zone cliffy. Mantis protectors for all ramps and subway's. Extra power supply was needed to run both color dmd and apron. Still need to add space side art.

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Alternate translight and shaker from pin bits......in addition to the above.

Wow that's very similar to what I did! The bumper caps, star posts, and rollover lane plastics all look much better purple rather than red, they match the overall game much better.

I also recommend frosted purple around the edges of the GI, and cool white under the slings and inlanes. Cool white works better than warm white on this game because it makes the blue and purple hues of the color scheme look sharper.

The main thing: ColorDMD, LEDOCD, and GIOCD are the top three mods for this game! After that, I would do the following:

- cliffy protectors
- laser cannons
- cut your own third bumper cap. The naked one looks incomplete!
- mirror blades look incredible on this game.
- outlane extenders (really makes only a slight difference, but this game needs them imo)
- replace the ships with Hallmark versions
- translucent rubbers
- pick a cool color for flipper rubbers - I like purple, but you could do blue or red or whatever.
- STTNG PinGulp
- laser etched topper

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These pictures are a couple years old, I've done a lot of work since then (including replacing that darn broken plastic ) but you get the idea.

Any of you guys have a connection to a new plastic ramp cover for the Delta ramp? I put in a new ramp clear as rain but the original cover is faded and looks hideous. It isn't a mod, but it is an upgrade to a newer looking machine.

Disassemble, clean, rebuild and inspect ... everything. Game is now flawless

Oh come on you tease, give us something more than that!!

#1 problem on this game is dirty optos, resulting in lost balls or unexpected multi balls. The very best way to prevent it is to remove and clean the subway. That keeps the optos from getting dirty again quickly.

I suggest changing all the transmitter optos in the game fore long reliability. No need to change the receiver optos as they rarely fail.

Oh yeah, Install NVRAM.

Looks super cool!

If you do take that much of the machine apart to replace all the emitters, you may as well go ahead and replace all the photometers as well, as these are really inexpensive to replace.

I think I need to tie a red LED to the extra ball insert lighting and have it shine up through the mission hole...anyone done this or have opinions on it? Maybe even a second white one to the start mission light ...

In 8 years of repairing games, I only ever seen 2 actual failures with the receiver optos. For sure though, I would clean the receiver optos.

The best mod I think is to move to LED lights. Really makes the game look amazing, almost new. The next (imho) mod would be DMD color display... amazing in this game. I've heard a few TNGs with upgraded sound and it is nice. I haven't done mine yet as the williams sound I thought was pretty good out of the box. I do have a sub on my tron though

- LED upgrade
- ColorDMD

Play!

I don't doubt this as they do have a very low failure rate. My thought on it is this:

1) it will cost less than $10+shipping to buy 25 photometers.
2) they are extremely easy to replace, should take less than 1 minute to remove and replace each one.
3) it will take you the better part of the day to take enough of the machine apart to replace the left orbit emitter why not spent the extra minute to replace the photometer while you are there.
4) If you are going to replace one because you have things taken apart to do so, why not just do this for all of them?

This is just my thought process on the matter ... others may feel differently.

Changing all the coil sleeves will weed out weaker coil kickouts.

Upgrading the speakers in any game is overrated in my opinion. Some games have so much bass that it rattles the glass and makes it to where you can barely hear all the sounds and speech.

You should do this for sure!

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/CS1713

You will probably also find when doing this that the parts were greased at the factory ... subway and Borg diverter ... now have hardened grease and this old grease is impeding the diverts ability to operate smoothly. These should be disassembled, cleaned, and have a TINY amount of new synthetic grease applied. https://www.amazon.com/Super-Lube-21030-Synthetic-Grease/dp/B000XBH9HI/ref=sr_1_1

Please ignore anyone that says grease should never be used in a pinball machine ... these are metal-on-metal parts and are an exception to the general rule.

For sure mine need to be cleaned.

Disclaimer: Super Lube not intended for personal use. haha

STTNG is a fantastic game, congrats!

Nah, it is plug and play.

Yes and no, the software I think you are referring to runs on the COLOR DMDs controller board; this is a small board that is part of the color DMD and has nothing to do with the machines software. You have to download the game specific software from the ColorDMD website and install it with a USD drive, it's pretty straight forward.

And if for some reason you didn't want to keep the colour dmd in sttng then you could always put it in your fish tales or demo man by just changing the game code on the dmd via usb. Simples

I bought a color dmd for my STTNG about 2 weeks ago. Took me about a half hour to install it. Went smoothly. It sure makes a 23 year old machine look amazing. I would highly recommend it. Before I bought it, I had an LA5 rom that I upgraded to the LX7 rom since it the Color DMD page said it was needed. Since then, I have read that a rom upgrade isn't always necessary. I was a little concerned after if first loaded as it was in HiRes and looked horribly in my opinion. I played around with the many settings and find that I still like the normal Dots setting. I wish I hadn't waited so long to get my Color DMD.

Thanks. You can get them from here:
http://pinball-mods.com/oscom/modifications-do-it-yourself-kbop-wingleds-p-1.html

I'm working on another couple of mods; but they aren't yet at ready for production / discussion.

I second the ColorDMD option.