... Wild Goose Chase! — memory beta

"... Wild Goose Chase!" was a two-page game insert in Star Trek Annual 1978 and Star Trek Annual 1986. The premise of the game involved the crew of the USS Enterprise collecting technology from six tribes, each living on a different plateau of an alien world.

Description

A Wild Goose Chase! That's how Chief Medical Officer McCoy decribed the mission, and while Spock acknowledged no evidence of an enraged aquatic fowl, he agreed the assignment was most demanding.

Summary

While in orbit of the planet Klatoor, James T. Kirk, Leonard McCoy and Spock discussed the complexities of their assignment. Temporal disruptions and disruptive magnioactivity limited the use of transporters, so they would use shuttlecraft. Personnel were required to visit six isolated tribes on the surface, each of which possessed a component to a building a device of critical importance to the Federation.

References

Characters

James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Spock

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) shuttlecraft (Enterprise shuttlecraft)

Locations

Planets and planetoids

Klatoor

Planetary locales

Klatoor: Amsha Plateau • Belga Plateau • Gnass Plateau • Kla Plateau • Shema Plateau • Zelu

Races and cultures

Klatoor natives

Lifeforms

animal • fowl • goose • humanoid • insect • space wasp

Materials and substances

element • lead

Technology and weapons

cyclonic generator • starship • transporter

Appendices

Background

Players rolled dice to determine the number of moves along a board. Experiences along the way to the various tribes included magnioactivity, temporal disruptions, instrument failure, attacks by space wasps, and giant molten lead geysers, which either aided or obstructed players' progress.
It was not explained how each of the tribes came to have a different piece of technology needed for the cyclonic generator.
The game accompanied TOS comics: "One of Our Captains Is Missing!", "Prophet of Peace" in Star Trek Annual 1978, and TOS comics: "Ice Journey", "Furlough to Fury" in Star Trek Annual 1986, suggesting a placement near those stories in 2266.

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Connections

Gold Key Comics stories and publications
Issues	"The Planet of No Return" • "The Devil's Isle of Space" • "Invasion of the City Builders" • "The Peril of Planet Quick Change" • "The Ghost Planet" • "When Planets Collide" • "The Voodoo Planet" • "The Youth Trap" • "The Legacy of Lazarus" • "Sceptre of the Sun" • "The Brain Shockers" • "The Flight of the Buccaneer" • "Dark Traveler" • "The Enterprise Mutiny" • "Museum at the End of Time" • "Day of the Inquisitors" • "The Cosmic Cavemen" • "The Hijacked Planet" • "The Haunted Asteroid" • "A World Gone Mad" • "The Mummies of Heitius VII" • "Siege in Superspace" • "Child's Play" • "The Trial of Captain Kirk" • "Dwarf Planet" • "The Perfect Dream" • "Ice Journey" • "The Mimicking Menace" • "Death of a Star" • "The Final Truth" • "The Animal People" • "The Choice" • "The PsychoCrystals" • "A Bomb in Time" • "One of Our Captains Is Missing!" • "Prophet of Peace" • "Furlough to Fury" • "The Evictors" • "World Against Time" • "The World Beneath the Waves" • "Prince Traitor" • "Mr. Oracle" • "This Tree Bears Bitter Fruit" • "Murder on the Enterprise" • "A Warp in Space" • "Planet of No Life" • "Destination... Annihilation!" • "And a Child Shall Lead Them" • "What Fools These Mortals Be.." • "Sport of Knaves" • "A World Against Itself" • "No Time Like the Past" • "Spore of the Devil" • "The Brain-Damaged Planet" • "To Err Is Vulcan" • "The Empire Man!" • "Operation Con Game"
Additional stories	"James T. Kirk: Psycho-File" • "A Page From Scotty's Diary" • "Spock: Psycho-File" • "From Sputnik to Warp Drive"
Games	"Voyage of Discovery" • "The Tunnel of Death" • "... Wild Goose Chase!" • "A Hint of Life" • "Space Chase" • "Escape from the Clinging Dags"
Collections	Star Trek Annuals (1969 • 1970 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1983 • 1986) • The Enterprise Logs (Volumes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • The Key Collection (Volumes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Gold Key Archives (Volumes 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Gold Key 100-Page Spectacular
Related media	"The Exile" • "The Red Hour" • "Colouring Book" • "Eye of the Beholder" • "The Menace of the Mechanitrons" • "Trial by Fire!"

Star Trek board games

Star Trek Game (1967) • "Voyage of Discovery" • Star Trek Game (1974) • Star Trek Game (UK, 1975) • "The Tunnel of Death" • "... Wild Goose Chase!" • "Space Chase" • "Escape from the Clinging Dags" • Star Trek Game (1979) • Starfleet Game • Make-A-Game Book • The Invasion of Klingon Empire • The Wrath of Khan • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Game • Struggle for the Throne • Starship Duel I • Starship Duel II • The Adventure Game • The Enterprise⁴ Encounter • Star Trek III (The Kobayashi Maru • The Sherwood Syndrome • Free Enterpri$e) • TNG (BMI) • Star Trek: The Game • The Final Frontier • Game of the Galaxies • TNG (Classic) • A Klingon Challenge • Romulan Challenge • TNG: The Board Game • DS9: The Board Game • Son'a Ambush • Monopoly (TOS Monopoly • TNG Monopoly • Continuum Edition • Klingon Edition) • Fleet Captains • Expeditions • Catan (Federation Space) • Attack Wing • Road Trip • Five-Year Mission • Panic • Ascendancy • Star Trek: Risk • Frontiers (Frontiers: The Return of Khan) • Conflick in the Neutral Zone • Black Alert • Away Missions • Cryptic

Timeline

published order
Previous comic: Voyage of Discovery	Star Trek board games	Next comic: Space Chase
chronological order
Previous adventure: Ice Journey	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: A Hint of Life
Previous comic: Ice Journey	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Year Two	Next comic: A Hint of Life

Production history

1977: First printed in Star Trek Annual 1978. (World Distributors Limited)
1985: Reprinted in Star Trek Annual 1986. (World Distributors Limited)