Additionally, in Voyager, Seven of Nine is often frustrated by Captain Janeway's superior skill at Velocity, a game played in a racquetball-like arena.
According to the history presented in Star Trek, the Earth game baseball suffered from a decline in popularity that culminated in the final World Series, which was played in 2042 before a crowd of 300 and won by legendary player Buck Bokai.
[3] Parrises Squares is a vigorous athletic game, mentioned in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager.
The game involves the use of a piece of equipment called an ion mallet and a ramp, and players often wear special padded uniforms.
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Suspicions, Guinan comes to Dr. Beverly Crusher complaining of tennis elbow.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Julian Bashir, during his childhood, briefly considered becoming a professional tennis player (DS9, episode 173, "Melora").
Captain Jonathan Archer from Star Trek: Enterprise had a passion for water polo, a sport he enjoyed playing during his time on Earth.
In the episode "Catwalk," he is shown watching a water polo match on a portable viewing device as he tries to fall asleep.
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Forge", the bridge crew (except T'Pol) is briefly seen playing basketball.
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Minefield", Captain Archer mentions to Lieutenant Reed that England has made the World Cup Final (this being in 2152).
In the memorable Original Series episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion", Captain Kirk and some of his crew are forced to participate as gladiators in combat against other humanoids, for the entertainment of unseen masters who wager Quatloos among themselves on the outcome in the arena.
Picard scores a touch, and then the match is cut short because of a strange time loop (which serves as the plot for the main story).
He carries a retractable sword during the space jump to the mining probe over Vulcan, and proves to be a formidable swordsman against his Romulan opponents.
During various betting hands (similar to poker) each player either "buys" or "sells" or "converts" their gold-pressed latinum (money) in preparation for the next spin of the dabo wheel.
Leeta (Chase Masterson), who was a dabo girl in Quark's bar, maintained that dabo girls not only had to look appealing enough to lure customers to play, but also be able to quickly calculate odds and ensure a house victory in the long run, typically by enticing gamers to stay until they lose.
The crew of the Enterprise (NCC 1701-D) plays dealer's choice, usually five-card stud, which is one of the more rare variants of poker by 20th and 21st century standards.
William Riker, a highly skilled player, hosts regular games for the senior officers; in the series finale "All Good Things...", Jean-Luc Picard joins in for the first time.
Fizzbin is a fictional card game created by James T. Kirk in the Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action".
While being held hostage on Sigma Iota II with Spock and Leonard McCoy, he spontaneously invented a confusing card game to distract the henchmen guarding them.
Playable versions of the game have been invented, and it featured in the episode "Nantucket Sleighride" of the animated series Starcom.
The game itself involves a large number of small gray holographic rods called t'an, generated from a platform below.
They are arranged in a specific manner, which eventually produces the shape of two nested icosidodecahedra connected by the center points of their edges.
Kotra is a Cardassian board game, seen played only once in the entire franchise, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Empok Nor".
It is shown on the table in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night".
The longest game of Strategema on record was between Zakdorn master strategist Sirma Kolrami and Lieutenant Commander Data, lasting over 30,000 moves.
Kolrami, realizing that Data was playing to achieve a draw, eventually threw down his controls in disgust and resigned the game to the delight of the Enterprise-D crewmembers who were watching.
The Game was eventually revealed to be deliberately addictive, stimulating the pleasure centers of the players' brains, and was designed by aliens called the Ktarians, as a stratagem to take control of the Enterprise.
Rules for the game were never explained within the series; in fact, the boards are sometimes not even aligned consistently from one shot to the next within a single episode.
Terrace is a board game introduced in 1992, and was subsequently featured on Star Trek: The Next Generation as a permanent prop.
Durotta is a board game played by Paris and Torres in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Night".