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Three students lean over the center table where Nat Howard is writing his AM 110 assignment. The talk turns to Star Trek, the computer game often played to relieve the drudgery of long homework assignments. "Star Trek is pure escape," says one envious thesis writer...
...challenge of perfecting a technique that allows one to destroy enough alien ships before the computer blasts your own ship to pieces have brought Star Trek top popularity among the 18 game programs available in the computer room. "You should see the atmosphere when people play Star Trek," Nat says. "Everyone gathers around cheering. But I've sworn off Star Trek. It's too expensive...
...Nat Howard won't go back to playing. "First there's the inconvenience of having to ask for more money. Secondly you get to feeling a little guilty. One of the systems managers keeps saying 'Please, I got you more money. Please don't play anymore Star Trek...
This Saturday night, no Klingon or Romulan spaceships appear on terminal screens. "Star Trek is the most fun of what people do here on Saturday night," Nat says. "But at the moment most people have started getting their assignments bi-weekly, so there's no game playing...
...room has become so crowded that a waiting list is started on the blackboard. Even the three old terminals at the back of the room, which Nat says are "so slow and noisy and made you spend all Saturday night doing your homework," are being used...