If you’ve never played Settlers of Catan, you’re surely missing out on one of the best board games to grace your dining room table. The award winning game by Klaus Teuber has been a staple of board-gaming wonder for years, involving strategy, resource management, and more sheep jokes than you can shake a stick at.

The greatest thing about Settlers of Catan, other than nefarious shady deals with your opponents and using roads to cut off their acquisition of territory, was that it’s such a simple game. As other such simple games go, such as Monopoly or Munchkin, it would have been very easy to port Catan in to almost any genre, yet Klaus has neglected to do so… until now.

Star Trek Catan has been announced. While it is very similar in play to the original Catan, it incorporates a new system of Star Trek Personalities for the individual player including Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Scott, Uhura, Chekov, Chapel, Rand, and Sarek. Each will have special powers to aid the player, such as forcing someone to make a trade with you. Resources will have changed from the original Wood, Stone, Wheat, Clay, and the everloved Sheep to now be Dilithium, Tritanium, Food, Oxygen, and Water. Roads are replaced with star ships, villages and cities with large and small space stations, and the Rogue with a Klingon Bird of Prey.

The only question remains: Why characters from the original Star Trek? Is it because the makers of Catan wish to honor the original show, or because they know the crew of Next Generation are too skilled and intelligent to succumb to squabbling over petty territory? Yes, I went there.