Star Fleet Battles/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Funny: As mentioned in Tournament Play below, you use specially written and tested ships in such games. One empire's ship turned out too powerful one year, and had to be rebalanced. One of that empire's main players took one look at the new ship just before a tournament and said "I have to fly this crate into combat?" This led the ship to be renamed to what it is STILL called today... the Krait.
 * Serial Numbers Filed Off: The original design for the Federation New Light Cruiser had the warp engines below the saucer, suspended by a boom that crossed over the top of the ship. Sound familiar? When Paramount threatened a copyright infringement suit over this clear imitation of the Reliant design, they quickly changed the pictures for the NCL to show its warp engines sticking out above the saucer, and no boom.
 * When they first appeared, the Klingon X-Ship battlecruisers had photon torpedo launchers in their nose and tail. No other Klingon ship before or since has ever mounted a photon torpedo launcher. Why this weapon? Because the K't'inga-class Klingon warships shown at the opening of Star Trek the Motion Picture were shown firing photon torpedoes from their nose and tail. Subsequent editions replaced the photon torpedo launchers with Klingon-standard disruptor bolt launchers.