heres what I have written in my notes from this weekend, sorry if this is all old info:
Star Trek: Expeditions
by Reiner Knizia
1 to 4 players
co-op game
mission based
6 pre painted minis

Star Trek: Fleet Captains
24 Pre-painted star ships
game by Mike Elliot
2 to 4 players
head to head game play
starship combat and exploration

Thanks for the info.

You've probably all seen this by now:

http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2010/10...es-open-house/

Good to see some news coming out!

Since there was a 'long line of retialers snapping pictures of the ships' how come we haven't seen any of those pictures yet???

here is the best I got:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php...01.98901122757

Thanks! Those sculpts look pretty cool actually! And it gives me hope that they might even be usable in Heroclix

Looks like yellow on speed for the teleporters, Psychic Blast on Attack for Phasers, and Super Senses on Defense for the Tricorders.

I wonder if that Enterprise will be usable in the Fleet Captains game?

I'm not seeing a damage stat. Could make them a bit... unpopular as Heroclix. : - )

They probably don't have point costs either. Just house rule the damage as 2 across the dial, and then feed them into a point calculator.

Of course, the values in the other slots could be anything, and who knows what other colours are on the dials. But there's hope!

The designer of 'Expeditions' has a lot of decent games under his belt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiner_Knizia#Games

Lord of the Rings
Lost Cities
Modern Art
Medici
Tajmahal

Just to name a few. I don't necessarily love all of those, but it is promising to know that an independant designer with his experience is involved.

Likewise! Though I read there is another Star Trek game Wizkids is doing, but I don't know if that is heroclix compatible. Or it could be the same one but a different series, etc. We will just have to see when it releases.

Yeah there are two seperate games. One is kinda based on the new movie, and is a Coop style boardgame where you each play as one of the bridge crew on the enterprise

The other one is called 'Fleet Captains' where you build a fleet of starships to explore and fight Klingons (or you can be the Klingons).

Neither is compatible with Heroclix. But they look pretty cool!

That or just put in a dial from an existing clix figure and away you go. I am excited they are clix scale figures and not the bust-like items that was reported earlier.

I wonder if you will be able to get more figures...

Problem is, I want to play the actual game as well. And I'd rather not buy two copies of the game just so I can have some cool customs.

Hmmm....I wonder if the dial bottoms will be interchangeable.

from what little I've seen of the fleet game, I'm interested. The board game leaves me flat from what I've seen online; but the starship battle game looks good. If I read the elements I saw correctly, you start in a starting area, and as you move forward, you lay down space tiles as you "discover and explore them".

I could get into this... but they are going to have to broaden it beyond Federation vs Klingons....

It looks like they plan to release expansions, as long as it sells reasonably well. Most likely the first one will be a Romulan Fleet, then hopefully we'll get the Dominion, the Borg, and maybe even a set with a bunch of minor races.