I WANT TO BE IN THIS CLUB SO BADLY. SOMEONE SELL ME A DANG STAR TREK GAME. UGHHHGHGHGHGHGH!!!

Guys, I'm looking to join the club. Is there anyone out there with a Data East or Bally Star Trek for sale anywhere in the southeast? It would have to be reasonable driving distance of Birmingham.

Still looking to join the club. Anyone selling in the southeast??

There are some that are the United Federation of Planets, Klingon insignia, Enterprise, and probably a couple more I'm forgetting. I'll have to look. There's also a bumper sticker that says "Have you played Star Trek pinball today?"

Finallly, after months of searching, I've booked my room in a city 360 miles away to become part of the club this weekend!

FINALLY!!!!! After a year of saving and searching, I joined the club this weekend!!! 700 miles later and I have one of my grail games!!! I got extremely lucky finding this in such GREAT shape. I'll post more pics later. 20160619_203550_resized_(resized).jpg

Grace Lee Whitney?

I don't like it any more than you do, but the only thing you're accomplishing here is hurting our beloved franchise. The only way we get more Star Trek is for it to bring in millions. That's really the only thing the execs care about. Luckily for all of us, they've already greenlit the 4th movie. I went last night to the premier and will probably go again on Sunday.

Oh and... the movie is GREAT!!

I don't normally watch fan productions, but these are unusually good. It actually feels like you're watching TOS. I wonder how they were able to get this online. I know they were basically finished with production when CBS laid down the hammer on fan films.

Yeah I'm pretty bummed about this, but I'd rather have them take a little more time and do it right than rush and put out some shit.

Ehhhh - easily the least-interesting doctor in all of Star Trek canon... I wouldn't be too upset about not having that one. Diana Muldaur was a much better character on TOS.

In terms of more autographs, maybe Armin Shimerman. He had a small part as Quark on TNG.

WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRAIL PIN ACQUIRED!!!!!! Haven't had a chance to really dig in or start cleaning, but it flips and boards all look great. I know it has issues with the trough optos. This is my first DMD, so it'll be a great learning experience. LLAP.20161007_165616_resized (resized).jpg20161007_165551_resized (resized).jpg

Okay so here's where I'm at with STTNG. On game start, the kickout assembly kicks out multiple balls and then begins firing. All of the trough optos and receivers appear to be working correctly. It's like the game doesn't know how many balls are in play. Are there other places I should be looking? The cannons are also unable to find the "home" position. Even after disabling them, they still move back and forth and kick like there is a ball in them. This is my first DMD, so any advise helps.

Thanks!

Now it seems like all of the switches and optos under the playfield aren't working. The trough will make the sound when the light beam is broken, but the optos in the subway and the cannons do nothing. I checked them with a camera and the light is definitely emitting. I find it hard to believe all of those receivers went bad.

Well I guess I'll give everyone the rundown on my Bally Star Trek. I'm a huge Trekkie and started my quest earlier this summer to locate and collect all 4 Star Trek pins. Not having any luck here in the Birmingham area on Craigslist, I started expanding my search to other places in Alabama. While searching on Mobile Craigslist, I happened to find a newly-placed ad for a nice looking POTC in the "Nearby Places" section located in New Orleans. In the corner of the picture of the ad I spotted the all-too-familiar blue backbox. I reached out to the seller who informed me she was looking to sell the Star Trek but hadn't settled on the price yet. She then sent these pictures:

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Crappy pics, but it was all she had. I could tell that it was in pretty decent condition. She told me the price and I almost fell out of my chair. I knew there would never be another find like this one. Luckily, my friends and I were going to New Orleans a couple of weeks later for my bachelor party! OH NO! We booked a train! (Who the hell does that? We did it for the experience. It was a blast and I would highly recommend it, actually.) I asked the seller on a Thursday if she would be willing to hold it for a couple of months. She said she needed to sell quickly, and I knew it would be gone if I didn't get it right then.

I explained to my fiance (now wife) how this was a rare opportunity and asked if she felt like spending the weekend in the city. Sure enough, because she's awesome, we packed up and headed down to NOLA. We booked a room and met up with the seller Saturday morning. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. The thing was beautiful - the nicest example I have ever seen unrestored. Playfield looked NOS, backglass was perfect, cab was solid with minimal scratching and fading, boards looked solid with no hacks, and everything was in the right place. I just ordered some repro plastics this morning. When those go on she'll be ready to be enjoyed by many for years to come.

Here she is as of yesterday:

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Sometimes things just work out perfectly. It was a lot of travelling over those couple of weekends, but well worth the effort. Everyone ended up surviving the bachelor party weekend - albeit with some pretty severe hangovers. For those of you who are curious, I did end up lucking into an incredible deal on a STTNG right in my backyard earlier last month. It's in great shape too. Needs a good shop job and a few minor repairs, but I'm really enjoying it.

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Live long and prosper.

Ha! If one of those Gottlieb ones pops up I'll definitely jump on it, but I don't think I'll go out of my way to find one until I have all of the others.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Is there some kind of saucer protector for Bally Star Trek? Sometimes when I make a hard hit on the drops from the right flipper, it ricochets through the pop bumpers and slams the saucer. Does Cliffy make something for these type of holes?

I saw this a couple of weeks ago. I really hope this isn't the case. I also hope the leaked aliens weren't Klingons. If they start messing with the timeline like that they're really going to piss off their constituent fan base.

Does anyone have a DE Star Trek for sale in the Southeast?

Is this mylar or paint damage? It started after I got the game but the mylar was down when I purchased it.
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I put the mylar down to protect the inserts from getting wear. All of the inserts on the playfield have mylar on them in some form or other. The slingshot mylar was there when I purchased the game from the original owner about a year and a half ago.

I'd like to see what it looks like on overscan.

Any way you can post a couple of examples? I've been really curious to see what this looks like.

What about the scan mode?

I became a triple-club member this week! Picked up a nice DE in great cosmetic shape. Just a couple of tweaks, a shop job, and some LEDs and she'll be primo.

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Definitely next on the priority list! Premium or, if I can find one at a decent price, an LE. Time to start saving.

Pulled this receipt out of the Data East Star Trek i picked up on Wednesday. $843 since 1994 and it's been HUO ever since.

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They put out code for AC/DC like 2 months ago. I'm having faith this time.

They certainly will be for me when I purchase an LE/Prem.

And for some reason the LE/Prem models just have a certain "feel" to them that makes them play better. Call me crazy, but I think it's the rail guards. They make the game feel much more solid.

You can just tell this is the version of the game Steve Ritchie wanted everyone to be playing.

Upper PF GI is out. Any ideas?

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My Data East Star Trek is having an issue where pressing a switch on a particular column will activate all the switches on the row associated with that switch. Any ideas? For example, pressing the left flipper button will cause the game to slam tilt. Pressing the shooter lane switch will cycle all the switches in that row on the switch test.

This whole thing started in the middle of a shop out. I've looked for any switches crossing over or grounding out but haven't seen any. I have very little board repair experience. Hopefully that's not it.

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All the rows, which is why I haven't been able to figure this one out.

I found a bad transistor at Q54. Just placed the order and hopefully my soldering skills drastically improve between now and Friday.

Just a few glamour shots I took after cleaning up yesterday.

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Thanks! Only one more to go! I've been very fortunate to find 2 of these locally and in great shape for cheeeeeeap. I did have to drive to New Orleans for the Bally though.

This is exactly how I feel. I love both franchises, but Star Trek takes the edge.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to do what your're asking other than wiping the scores. Until pinball is integrated into the internet (which, according to George Gomez, will be fairly soon) I don' think we're likely to see anything like player profiles.

Until then, I would recommend keeping up with your personal high scores on the Pindigo app. It is kinda like Instagram for pinball scores and can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices. It will also give you numerous analytics and allow you to share your scores, follow others, etc.

I made a brief tutorial for Data East Star Trek. This is pretty much the only quality footage that exists on YouTube for this game.

How does the playfield look?

That's not surprising. These things are almost always blown out. Yours isn't as bad as a lot of others. You just have to get really luck or spend a lot of money to get a nice one - sometimes both. A Hardtop would be awesome, but I saw where he mentioned licensed games are probably a long ways off unfortunately.

I would just bite the bullet and buy the LED one. It'll be brighter and last forever. You won't have to worry about replacing another one after it also gasses out.

The "colors" are just plastic overlays and can be swapped out to your preference. I called the guy a Boston Pinball once and he said he would send me an additional color plate if I ordered one because I couldn't decide. I ended up being able to fix my DMD, so I didn't need it. I thought it was a nice gesture though.

Does anybody have a spare blue tube for the chase lights on DE Star Trek? I did the LED conversion but wasn't happy with how I cut one of the shrouds.

Not on this game, but I changed out the chrome moulding on my NASCAR to black and it made a word of difference. Much classier look IMHO.

For lifting/lowering the playfield:

https://www.pinballlife.com/interior-cabinet-protector-blade-set.html

I have a soft spot for the reboots. I saw the 2009 remake when I was 19 and said, "there's gotta be something to this Star Trek thing," so I started with the Original Series after that and never looked back. While I think they pale in comparison to anything pre-Enterprise, the reboot films do have some popcorn munching entertainment value to them. Into Darkness is definitely the worst of the 3.

Don't even get me started on Discovery and Picard though. Not only are they the two worst Star Trek shows, they're some of the worst television of all time. CBS and Alex Kurtzman can kiss the fattest part of my ass for putting out garbage like that and calling it Star Trek.

I know that last bit was in jest, but somehow Star Trek becomes a part of you when you really "get it". I may only be 30 and missed the shows in their first run, but in a lot of ways it changes your perspective about the world around you in the best way. I thought after the 2009 movie that Star Trek had to be something special to have (at the time) around 729 hours of content, so I checked it out. I was absolutely hooked after finding the Original Series and have seen every second of the entire franchise and a lot of it multiple times. When you spend that amount of time with something you really love it.

Really looking forward to rounding out the ST pin collection one day. Got really lucky with the first 3, so all I need is a Stern premium or LE.

That said, I think it's sad I couldn't bring myself to watch the latest season of Discovery. It's just that bad.

I've had luck holding ramps together (for a while) using clear packing tape. Not a permanent fix though.

Wonderful! I have them all except the Stern. Still looking for a reasonable premium in the southeast. Old picture without the upgrades, but you get the idea.

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