Hmm, I'm curious to know about this as I can say mine does it as well. I always wondered if something was loose...maybe they are all that way?

Interesting, I wonder what causes it on some then. Thanks for confirming!

That was me, thanks @erak! I got my wireforms back from being plated, and my my ball has been hitting/getting stuck under the ramp by the lock light so something is wrong. When I changed a spacer around so it clears, the glass scrapes the top wireform when I try and slide it back in. I can't believe the plating is thick enough to be the issue, so I'm thinking something is wrong with the way I reassembled the washers or hex post associated with that wireform. I figured photos from a HUO to compare might shed light on it. Here is mine currently in case anyone has dealt with something similar.

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ClarkKent Is that an Eaglemoss Type-6 Shuttle? ebay.com link: Type 6 Goddard Shuttle Enterprise 1701 D english Metall Modell Star Trek Eaglem

Several on Ebay if so...

Cool!

I've got a question for the collective. I hadn't played in a while and my son and I were fighting the Borg the other night, and even beat it I think (I got the Super jackpot and he got at least 3 hits on it). However, a ball never fired out of the Borg ship, although one appeared to roll out the start mission scoop after the super jackpot. Am I correct in remembering that a ball should fire from the upper ship and land on the playfield at some point? If so does it shoot out, or just drop down? Or does it actually come out the scoop and I have to do something else to get it to fire? Just trying to figure out if something isn't working right since it doesn't match what I recall. Thanks.

Thanks guys, I thought I remembered it doing that but didn't realize one had to be locked up there first. When one rolled out of the start mode scoop, I was so disappointed and wasn't sure what to think

On the score, that's a known issue with STTNG. It can't keep track of the numbers that high while playing (not that I've ever had that problem) and I believe scores above 10 billion go to the Q Continuum list, rather than the regular high scores. See if it registered there.

Found this: The real STTNG has multiple issues with high scores. For one thing, scores over ten billion are well within the realm of possibility, but the score when shown in game doesn't show the ten-billions digit, so players may think their score has reset. the game DOES keep track of the score properly, though. when it displays the Grand Champion score during attract mode, it shows the full, correct score (which on mine is about 22 billion). However, there are other problems: there are four different high score lists -- there's the Grand Champion, the Honor Roll (for players with no buy-ins), Officer's Club (for one or more buy-ins), and Q Continuum (for scores above ten billion, with any number of buy-ins). Unfortunately, scores over 10 billion are ignored completely by the Honor Roll and Officer's Club, and will only register on either the Q Continuum or for Grand Champion.

That's normal. When you start a new game, it launches 3 balls--one at a time--to stage balls under the left cannon, one under the right, and one under the VUK.