The Limited Edition of Stern’s Star Trek is the top-tier form of Steve Ritchie’s flowing 2013 design, dressed in exclusive art and premium trim for the dedicated collector. The Master of Flow built it for speed and stacking, anchored by a U.S.S. Vengeance bash toy, a memory drop target, a spinner, and a “Fire” button on the lockdown bar that lets you blast the ship when yellow arrows are lit. It’s a deep, tournament-favorite machine that rewards a player willing to learn its layered scoring.
The structure revolves around mission modes and warp factors. You play through Level One missions, then chase the Kobayashi Maru wizard mode — and how well you perform in each mode directly inflates the value of that mode’s shots later, up to 7.5 million apiece. The genius wrinkle is the warp system: hitting Warp 9.1 starts double scoring, while Warp 9.9 doubles scoring and adds a ball, so the elite play is to time a warp to coincide with a multiball for enormous jackpots. Combos are everything here, since any shot that’s part of a combo scores double.
There’s staggering depth — completing a mode three times bolts a permanent 2X multiplier onto a main shot, finishing three modes in a row lights super pops, ramps, or spinner, and a well-maintained spinner alone can rack up millions per shot. Medals earned in missions feed a massive Kobayashi Maru bonus. Fast, brilliant, and endlessly replayable, the Star Trek LE is Ritchie engineering a galaxy of strategy into one relentless table, in its most collectible form. To boldly go where few machines have gone before.