Based around the voyage of the Starship Enterprise, your task in Starquest is to explore new stars. Though attempts are made to recreate the Startrek theme, with hyperspace journeys and photoscans of each new planet, these features are not linked into the game itself, which is fairly un-substantial.

In Encounter, a lengthy introduction with shades of Close Encounters is followed by what amounts to a logic test. All you are told is that the aliens are four-fingered humanoids - the rest you work out for yourself.

A clever test, but once you've understood what you're supposed to do, that's it. You can't re-run Encounter and, being second on the tape, it's also a nuisance to reload it.