How to Play

The basic premise of this game is to watch any number of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and take the appropriate number of drinks whenever a condition is met from the list below. You may decide to choose just a number of these conditions, otherwise you may spend more time reading the list than watching the show!

General Actions

A bad fight scene occurs (1 drink)

A bridge officer is seen in dress uniform (1 drink)

A Captain’s Log entry is made by someone other than Picard (2 drinks)

A crewmember drinks (outside of 10 Forward) (1 drink)

A crewmember straightens their uniform (1 drink)

A desk hologram is seen (2 drinks)

A female crewmember has flawless makeup after she’s been put through the ringer (1 drink)

A guest appearance is made by someone from TOS (3 drinks)

A log entry is made (1 drink – 2 if it’s not made by Picard)

A member of the bridge crew looks WAY too pleased with themselves (1 drink)

A member of the bridge crew takes over a by pushing someone else out of the way (2 drinks)

A new alien has differently shaped hands (1 drink)

A new alien has latex on its forehead (1 drink – 2 if it DOESN’T have latex)

A new alien ship is revealed (1 drink)

A poker game is shown (1 drink)

A principle character is put on trial (1 drink)

A probe is launched (1 drink)

A shuttlecraft appears unsafe (1 drink)

A shuttlecraft is launched (2 drinks)

A sound effect from TOS is heard (1 drink)

A stardate is mentioned – not in a log entry (1 drink)

A succession of five face close-ups with no dialogue (1 drink)

A token alien is shown in the background and has no lines (1 drink)

An “expendable” is killed (1 drink)

An “Old Earth Saying” is brought up (1 drink)

An Old Earth Date is mentioned (2 drinks)

Ancient alien technology screws things up (1 drink)

Another Captain or Starfleet Command officer is shown (1 drink)

Bridge command is handed over (1 drink)

Communications malfunction/go out (1 drink)

Communicators are out of range (2 drinks)

Dialogue in the turbolift (1 drink)

English is spoken by Klingons when they are alone and have no reason to speak English (2 drinks)

“Ensign Ethnic” or “Ensign Buxom” gets a line (1 drink)

First names while sexual tension present (2 drinks)

Harmonics are changed in shields/phasers/etc. (1 drink)

Intruder Alert (3 drinks)

Klingon is spoken (1 drink)

Mention of dilithium crystals (1 drink)

Nobody leaves the ship, but we still see more than one room of the alien ship/planet/etc (2 drinks)

Part of a set is destroyed in a fistfight (2 drinks)

Phasers are used for a different function than intended (e.g. overload, power a transporter, etc.) (1 drink)

Picard or Riker order a course change by exact X, Y, and Z coordinates, rather than something like “Set course for Starbase 8” (3 drinks)

Readings go off the scale (1 drink)

Red Alert (2 drinks)

Security alert or request (1 drink)

Someone adopts a persona (Dixon Hill, Sherlock Holmes, etc.) (1 drink)

Someone alludes to a work/person/event/etc. that hasn’t been made/existed/happened yet (1 drink)

Someone brings up the matter/antimatter ratio (1 drink)

Someone changes their pronunciation of a word within the same scene (1 drink)

Someone gives their communicator to a non-crewmember so they can communicate with the Enterprise (3 drinks)

Someone implies that 10 Forward is a Happening Place (1 drink)

Someone is referred to by their first name (1 drink)

Someone is seen out of uniform (in civvies) (2 drinks)

Someone is transported to somewhere other than a transporter room or sickbay from somewhere other than a transporter room (2 drinks)

Someone mentions Jack Crusher (2 drinks)

Someone other than Picard preaches the P.D. (2 drinks)

Someone places their communicator on something so it can be beamed away or destroyed (2 drinks)

Someone preaches about “Humanity’s Unique Potential” (1 drink)

Someone preaches the Prime Directive (1 drink)

Someone quotes Shakespeare, etc (1 drink)

Someone reads a book (1 drink)

Someone receives a shot (1 drink)

Someone receives a shot from a non-medical officer (2 drinks)

Someone removes their communicator (1 drink)

Someone requests that an image on the main viewer be magnified (1 drink – 2 drinks when it’s painfully obvious that it’s necessary)

Someone stops the countdown (2 drinks)

Someone throws/is hit by/etc. styrofoam props (1 drink)

Someone uses the episode’s title in a sentence (2 drinks)

Someone wakes up from a nightmare (1 drink)

Someone who normally pronounces “sensors” as “SEN-sers” pronounces it as “SEN-sohrs” (1 drink)

Something escapes the sensors (1 drink)

Something escapes the sensors and they use the word “interference” as an excuse (2 drinks)

The auto-destruct sequence is activated (3 drinks)

The battle bridge is used (1 drink)

The battle bridge is used with the saucer section still attached (2 drinks)

The bridge crew contemplates mutiny (3 drinks)

The camera pans > 90 degrees to show how BIG the ship is (1 drink)

The computer makes that “I’m listening” chirp (1 drink)

The Enterprise actually fights (shots must be fired) (2 drinks)

The Enterprise avoids a conflict rather than using force (1 drink)

The Enterprise docks at a starbase (3 drinks)

The Enterprise encounters an unknown energy form (1 drink)

The Enterprise is boarded by hostiles (2 drinks)

The Enterprise is captured in a nebula/cloud (1 drink)

The Enterprise is hurled somewhere by another force (Q, Tin Man, etc.) (2 drinks)

The Enterprise is taken over (1 drink)

The holodeck appears in its “natural” state (2 drinks)

The same matte painting of an alien planet is used after each commercial break (1 drink)

The sarcophagus is used in sickbay (2 drinks)

The ship/crew is seconds away from disaster (1 drink)

The token alien is a Vulcan (2 drinks)

The transporter room can’t lock on to someone (1 drink)

The transporter room pulls someone through after their ship explodes (2 drinks)

The warp engine light goes really fast (2 drinks)

The weapons are rendered useless (1 drink)

There is a countdown (1 drink)

They contact someone via communicator or intercom without activating it (1 drink)

They fade to commercial playing the “ominous horns” (1 drink)

They fade to commercial with a soap-opera-like close up on someone’s face (1 drink)

TNG contradicts a fact stated in TOS (2 drinks)

Transporter goes down (1 drink)

Transporter Room 3 is used (1 drink)

Yellow Alert (1 drink)

General Quotes

“Acknowledged” (1 drink)

“Belay that order” (1 drink)

“Eastern/Western/Southern/Northern Continent” (2 drinks)

“Energize” (1 drink)

“Hell”, “Damn” and other swearing (1 drink)

“Impossible” (1 drink – 2 if they say it whilst watching the “impossible”)

“It’s not like anything I’ve ever seen before” (1 drink)

“Just a little more time…!” (1 drink)

“Medical emergency” (1 drink)

“On screen” (1 drink)

“Open hailing frequencies” (1 drink)

“Priority One” (1 drink)

“Set phasers on…” (1 drink)

“Shut up, Wesley” (3 drinks)

“The Klingon Home Planet” or other reference without actually giving it a name (2 drinks)

“Understood” (1 drink)

Picard Actions

Accident or attack draws blood (3 drinks)

Appears uncomfortable (around women, children) (1 drink)

Calls a meeting (1 drink)

Calls a meeting in the middle of a crisis (2 drinks)

Cries (entire drink)

Demonstrates knowledge of a foreign language (1 drink)

Drinks (2 drinks)

Drinks tea (3 drinks)

Drinks tea identified as Earl Grey (4 drinks)

Has an accident or is attacked (2 drinks)

Is called upon to mediate a dispute (2 drinks)

Is possessed (4 drinks)

Is seen on the bridge out of uniform (2 drinks)

Leaves the bridge during a crisis to talk with Dr. Crusher or Guinan (1 drink)

Leaves the ship (1 drink)

Leaves the ship to lead an away team (2 drinks)

Makes a speech that saves the day (1 drink)

Quotes Shakespeare, etc. (2 drinks)

Requests a Level One Diagnostic (1 drink)

Straightens his uniform (2 drinks)

Straightens his uniform before giving a speech (3 drinks)

Surrenders (1 drink)

Swears/hurls an insult in a foreign language (2 drinks)

Takes a communique from Starfleet in his ready room (1 drink)

Takes the helm in a tricky situation (3 drinks)

Talks about death to Dr. Crusher (1 drink)

Tries to avoid Lwuxana Troi (1 drink)

Wears chest-revealing bedwear (2 drinks)

Picard Quotes

“Captain’s Log” (1 drink)

“Captain’s Log, Supplemental” (2 drinks)

“Come” (1 drink)

“Come” (in personal quarters) (2 drinks)

“Engage” (1 drink)

“Make it so” (1 drink)

“Number One” (1 drink)

“Proceed” (1 drink)

“The boy” in reference to Wesley (1 drink)

Data Actions

Affects a human mannerism (e.g. Sherlock Data) (2 drinks)

Brent Spiner breaks character for comic effect (1 drink)

Corrects somebody’s grammar (1 drink)

Does that little head twitch (1 drink)

Gets kissed, etc. (3 drinks)

Gives a list of synonyms for the term he did not understand (1 drink)

Gives an “approximation” out to several decimal places (1 drink)

Has to have “An Old Earth Saying” explained (2 drinks)

Innards are revealed (1 drink)

Innards are revealed other than his head (2 drinks)

Is “used” to save the ship, beam down, or hang around infected people because the situation is too dangerous for humans (3 drinks)

Is able to interpret/use alien technology in no time (1 drink)

Is cut off during a list of synonyms (2 drinks)

Is cut off mid-sentence (1 drink)

Is told that he’s more human than he thinks (2 drinks)

Stops himself during an inappropriate speech (2 drinks)

Uses a contraction (entire beverage)

Uses a new colloquialism (1 drink)

Uses his strength (1 drink)

Uses his strength and shows up Worf (2 drinks)

Uses his superior android speed (1 drink)

Data Quotes

“Accessing” (1 drink)

“Fascinating” (1 drink)

“I am an android” (1 drink)

“I cannot feel emotions”, etc (1 drink)

“Increase speed” (1 drink)

“Inquiry” (1 drink)

“Intriguing” (1 drink)

Worf Actions

Actually wins a fight (2 drinks)

Asks for an explanation of a human term/custom (1 drink)

Fusses about his discommendation (2 drinks)

Gets beaten up (1 drink)

Has a suggestion shot down offhandedly (2 drinks)

Makes a reference to his sexual prowess (2 drinks)

Mentions or participates in some bizarre Klingon ritual (2 drinks)

Says something with a tilt of his head/nod (1 drink)

Throws someone in the brig/Arrests someone (1 drink)

Uses the word “human” in a sense meaning puny, weak, or otherwise unklingon (2 drinks)

Worf Quotes

“Admirable” (1 drink)

“Grrrrr” (A simple sneer qualifies) (1 drink)

“Human women are too fragile” (2 drinks)

“I am a Klingon” (1 drink)

“Impressive” (1 drink)

“Klingons do NOT…” (1 drink)

“Security Override!” (2 drinks)

Riker Actions

Acts blatantly like Kirk (1 drink)

Demonstrates knowledge of a foreign language (1 drink)

Gets that annoying smirk on his face (1 drink)

Gets the girl (1 drink)

Gets the girl for no apparent reason (2 drinks)

Pronounces a word in a way that does not match his heritage (e.g. charade=shur-AHD) (2 drinks)

Stands with his feet more than 2 feet apart (1 drink per foot beyond 2 feet)

Swears/hurls an insult in a foreign language (2 drinks)

Thrusts his chin out with a smug look (1 drink)

Walks forward as if he’s trying to knock an imaginary door down with his forehead (1 drink)

Riker Quotes

“Hell” (2 drinks)

“What the hell is going on?” (entire drink)

“With pleasure, sir” (1 drink)

“You are personally responsible for the Captain’s safety” to Worf (2 drinks)

Beverly Actions

Appears without her lab coat (1 drink – 2 drinks if she’s in sickbay at the time)

Beams directly to sickbay or orders someone to be beamed directly to sickbay (1 drink)

Can’t figure out some bizarre medical problem (1 drink)

Diagnoses something really obvious (1 drink)

Is seen in a sweater (2 drinks)

Is seen on the bridge for no apparent reason (1 drink)

Loses a patient (2 drinks)

Performs major surgery (2 drinks)

Shows maternal instinct (2 drinks)

Uses one of her ridiculous 24th century medical terms (1 drink)

Uses the word “stumped” in regards to problem (2 drinks)

Beverly Quotes

“He’s dead ” (1 drink)

“He’s gone…” (2 drinks)

“Nothing yet, but we’re working on it” (1 drink)

“This man is dying!” (3 drinks)

“This shouldn’t be happening” (1 drink)

“This won’t hurt a bit” (1 drink)

LaForge Actions

Interacts with a woman (real or not) in the holodeck (2 drinks)

Is used as a “human tricorder” (1 drink)

Sees with his own eyes (VISORless) (entire drink)

Tweaks the warp engines/shields/tractor beams (1 drink)

VISOR is taken or knocked off (1 drink)

Wishes he had human vision (1 drink)

LaForge Quotes

“…lost a lotta good people down there…” (1 drink)

“I’m workin’ on it!” (1 drink)

“Maybe not” in response to “Impossible” (2 drinks)

Wesley Actions

Appears to be hitting on someone (1 drink)

Creates some spiffy new science project (1 drink)

Gets that “I’m not just a kid” attitude (1 drink)

Gets that annoying “impish” grin (1 drink)

Has his life threatened (2 drinks – party like it’s 1999 if he actually dies!)

Is seen with a girl (other than when on duty) (3 drinks)

Saves the day (1 drink – 2 if nobody thanks him)

Saves the day and nobody understands his pseudoscientific babbling (2 drinks)

Swallows really hard (1 drink)

Talks back to his mom (1 drink)

Wesley Quotes

“It’s easy!” (or “simple”, etc.) (1 drink)

“Wow”, “Gee”, “Ooh”, etc. (1 drink)

Deanna Actions

Can’t shut out all the feelings (1 drink)

Cries (2 drinks)

Gives us Betazoid insight into something really obvious (2 drinks)

Is hit on (1 drink)

Rolls her eyes (1 drink)

Senses (and lists) more than one emotion (1 drink)

Senses something really shocking (1 drink)

Deanna Quotes

“Are you troubled?” (when they obviously are) (1 drink)

“Mother! Please…!” (1 drink)

“What do YOU think about that?” or other quote reminiscent of ELIZA (1 drink)

O’Brien Actions

Disables a weapon during transport (1 drink)

Has a line in a first or second season episode (1 drink)

Lwuxana Troi Actions

Is referred to in an episode in which she does not appear (1 drink)

Reads Picard’s mind (or pretends to) (1 drink)

Lwuxana Troi Quotes

“Little One” in reference to Deanna (1 drink)

Yar Actions

Decks someone (1 drink – 2 if she does it just to show her strength)

Shows sexual desire (3 drinks)

Suggests that the Enterprise fight, upon meeting another ship, etc. (1 drink)

Guinan Actions

Makes someone sigh at the end of a talk (1 drink)

Talks about “her people” (1 drink)

Pulaski Actions

Calls Data “it” or accuses him of being unable to do something because he’s an android (1 drink)

Cuts Picard off (1 drink)

Mispronounces Data’s name (1 drink)