Not sure about the comment on the Vengeance and not being able to start a mode after draining with the multiball ready.
Never had that happen on my game and it is up to date code with over 2k plays.

I actually just won a game last night in a tournament on Star Trek and was presented with this scenario:

Opened up Vengeance for multiball in ball 2 and drained, was not in a mode had mode lit and missed and drained.

Ball 3, I short plunged. I had like no points and had mission start ready on the left mission start saucer. I had to decided if I wanted to stack a mode or just play the multiball. I had 2 rough balls and decided to just cash the points so I started Vengeance Multiball and went on to win the game. So I do not think you are correct in your assertion as this is exactly the situation I was in. Unless you are commenting on the fact that it doesnt auto let you start a new mode, which is by design so you have to earn the stack, not a flaw in the code at all.

It isn't beneficial, in the flow of the game you have to start a mode from a shot to stack it with a multiball (unless you have a mode running and start the MB) , its the same thing if you drain. Star Trek is a very controllable game, if you dont execute your shots at the right time thats you the player.

Either way, I do not think that would ever change if they did do a small code update to fix the end game glitches Elwin found.

I feel the code is really good and doesn't need anything eles, its already an great game. This late in games life I would assume we are at the mercy of it getting coded in a coders free time rather than Stern allocating time for it.

The comment about Kiss code or things like WWE I think is more attributed to being a poor seller than anything else. Star Trek sold great for Stern so it got more love in the code department, Stern seems to abandon code on games that don't sell well.

fair enough. just yell at them in a Steve Ritchie voice "PLAY BETTER!"

I got it ready then bricked mode start and drained on ball 2

Meh I won the 3 strikes tournament without taking a strike with 34 players so I guess I played well enough

The play better was a joke hence the smiley face but I guess that was lost on you somehow.

I killed the vegence and cleared my victory laps so it works out. If I bricked and drained the mode shot I woulda lost. I chose to cash in points.

I'm not here to get into a pissing match with you so ima drain out of this thread.

OP, star trek is an awesome game with a bunch of different strategies to score big with really nice dots in the later missions and the code is really good in most players opinions