The game pits the crew of the USS Enterprise and a squadron of three smaller Federation cruisers against the crew of a Klingon D7 class battleship and a squadron of three Klingon Bird-of-Prey cruisers. Both squadrons are exploring planets in the Organian Treaty Zone a.k.a. the Federation/Klingon Neutral Zone (in reality, various planets visited during the run of TOS) in an attempt to get the most planets to join either the Federation or the Klingon Empire, and thus earning the most Reputation and Political Points.