A very simple card game set in the Star Fleet universe. Each round, a mission card is read and all players select which ship card(s) to commit. Then, all players' ship cards are revealed and the winner of the round is determined by comparing the mission's requirements with the ratings of each player's ship(s). From the rulesheet cover: Star Fleet Missions is a card game played with two decks of cards: Ship Cards and Missions Cards. Each Ship Card represents a starship. there are 18 cards for each of six "races" (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn, Tholian, and Orion Pirate), for a total of 108. (Race means "nation" or "empire.") Each Ship Card shows the class (type of ship), the name of the specific ship, and five Ratings which are used to determine the suitability of a ship for a given Mission. These Ratings vary from 1 to 16. The other two Ship Cards represent starships with Legendary Captains and are the most powerful Ship Cards in the game. All five Ratings are 20! [...] Each Mission Card describes an exciting mission on which you will send one or more starships. Each Mission Card describes the Mission, tells how many ships to send on the Mission, provides any special instructions, and describes how to "win" that Mission (i.e., which Ratings of the ships sent will be used to determine which ship performed the best.) Components: * This instruction folder. * A deck of 110 Ship Cards. * A deck of 48 Mission Cards.