The Star Trek Online: Literary Challenge was a forum-based game where story topics for Star Trek Online gamers would be posted every two weeks and users would respond with entries based on those topics, using their Star Trek Online characters. The challenges were posted on the Star Trek Online Forums and started in 2011. It changed its format from bi-weekly to a monthly challenge in May of 2014. The challenges led to the facilitation of Star Trek Online: Unofficial Literary Challenges.