There are no lives, experience points, or score points. However the game does have a pretty extensive HUD--most of the time. Two of them, in fact. I will bend, and reveal one now, but I think it will then be extremely obvious. Or maybe that's just because I wasted hours of my youth on this game.    

OOOOOOoooh!

Now I... nope. Still no clue.

The screenshot above is an info screen, where you can see the map and other, uh, information. Here is the other HUD, which is is the action screen.



If nobody recognizes this, well, I guess this game is really obscure. But it is an American, licensed game for the NES from a major (well-known) publisher and it did not come out very early or very late in the console's life.

Last Starfighter 

The popular T.V. show would be Star Trek Voyager (well popular is subjective).

Here is the Atari 2600 version



The NES version is

Star Voyager







The L.S.S. stands for Life Support System



I have never played it.

NLogan saves the day!

Rampart for the NES. The title was shown right as I clicked view image.

Oh man I pasted the address instead of browsing the pic from my computer. Fail. You are up blue!

DEFEAT!

Happens to the best of us, man.