The video game Minecraft may be one of the most popular indie games ever made with millions of users, but since 2012 one group of “Star Trek” fans have been using Minecraft as an art form and an architectural tool to recreate starships from their beloved science-fiction series.
If you haven’t played it, the video game Minecraft, developed by Mojang, is like a virtual sandbox. Players are dropped into an open world with no clear instructions and must create their own goals and use the surrounding resources as they see fit. Players chop down trees to build homes, explore tunnels, mine resources and defend themselves against monsters in a world that is randomly generated each time a new game is started.
Players can convene in online servers where communities may work together or against each other to achieve a goal. It’s on one of these servers where MineTrek owner Michelle Heller works with a community of fans and builders to build as close to 1:1 models of the U.S.S. Enterprise and other iconic ships from the “Star Trek” series as possible.
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