Enlarge / The basic game setup: ship in the center and enemies approaching from six sectors, ring by ring. One shield is already down; two others have taken damage. One hull section has been destroyed. (credit: Nate Anderson)

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com.

Star Trek fans: did you like the original series best when Kirk was off on some distant planet wrestling the Gorn or threatening to spank the female leader of an alien civilization(!)? Or the space standoffs where the Enterprise came under assault by Tholian, Romulan, and Klingon ships, where shields were raised and phasers were fired and Scotty began shouting about how the ship couldn’t take much more o’ it, cap’n?

If the latter, then consider the new Star Trek Panic board game, where you will fight… a lot.