I ran a short campaign of it. There was a campaign setting "The Triangle" as well as a set of adventures that took place there. It was an area of neutral zone between the Federation, Romulans and Klingons. It wasn't fabulous but it allowed for spy type and merchant trader campaigns that were kind of interesting. Once my players tried the Klingon campaign setting there was no going back to Federation restraint.

It was okay.  I ran a short campaign ages ago but I barely remember how the system worked,  I remember the starship combat system did a good job getting people involved but not much else.  There was some good background material especially ships.  It seemed like a good Trek skirmish game with a role-playing system tacked on.  It ran okay but it wasn't outstandingly good or bad.  It was mostly just forgettable.

Quote from: Bren;909643The FASA RPG came out 5 years before TNG aired on TV.

And AFAIR producing two first season sourcebooks for TNG led to FASA losing the license.

More likely the licensing fee was raised and they couldn't, or didn't want to, meet it. Or no option to renew was offered.

There's a story that Gene Roddenberry learned of the FASA license when they submitted Operation Armageddon (a frequently mentioned but never released Star Trek boardgame covering galactic war between the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans) for approvals.  The story alleges that the Great Bird of the Galaxy threw a fit when he learned his property was being used to promote war, and that led to the doom of the license.  At that point the approval process grew far more stringent, and the only two products approved and released after that point were the TNG First Year Sourcebook and the TNG Officers Manual.  Since FASA didn't see the line as worth pursuing anymore with that level of restriction, they discontinued it to focus on Battletech, Renegade Legion, and a little upcoming project called Shadowrun.

Quote from: Omega;9096412: If you pay attention in TNG. Worf is about the only honourable Klingon in the series. The rest are oft shown to be just as conniving backstabbing thugs as they ever were. Worf just has a skewed ideal of what Klingons are and was very disillusioned when he found out they were not what he thought.

I see Worf as analogous to a Human child on a colony that got destroyed, and was adopted by a kindly alien family, and his only concept of what life was back on Earth were old collections of stories about King Arthur and the Paladins of Charlemagne, and so he imagines that's the way all other Humans behave, and doesn't realize that while some of us might admire the old knightly codes, that doesn't mean we consider them practical for daily life, much less politics.

JG

Quote from: Gabriel2;909605It also led me to Rogue Space.  And now the print versions are sitting in my Lulu cart while I try to decide whether to order.

I hope you did - because it looks like Far Trek was pulled from Lulu, again. (Those not-for-profit print editions are only available for brief periods. One day, or so.)

But Rogue Space is great, as well, and should handle Star Trek perfectly. One of the sample alien races is a thinly veiled Vulcan.
The system feels a bit like a Microlite Traveller.

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;909697I hope you did - because it looks like Far Trek was pulled from Lulu, again. (Those not-for-profit print editions are only available for brief periods. One day, or so.)

But Rogue Space is great, as well, and should handle Star Trek perfectly. One of the sample alien races is a thinly veiled Vulcan.
The system feels a bit like a Microlite Traveller.

Yeah I ordered it, but when I read "will be pulled without notice" I certainly didn't expect it to be removed after one day.

Quote from: Lynn;909647I ran a short campaign of it. There was a campaign setting "The Triangle" as well as a set of adventures that took place there. It was an area of neutral zone between the Federation, Romulans and Klingons. It wasn't fabulous but it allowed for spy type and merchant trader campaigns that were kind of interesting. Once my players tried the Klingon campaign setting there was no going back to Federation restraint.

My players did the same thing when we tried the Klingon game. The desire to go murderhobo is a very strong motivator in players.

Years later, with LUG Trek, I tried to run a Star Fleet game and my group defected to the Maquis and began hunting Cardassians instead.

Far Trek will be back for sale in print next Saturday. No idea how long on Saturday though.

The pdf is still available from the Far Trek blog.

Star Trek is one of those properties I feel Traveller can emulate with very little work. Too bad we're apparently never getting the Prime Directive Mongoose Traveller book.

Quote from: The Butcher;909719Star Trek is one of those properties I feel Traveller can emulate with very little work. Too bad we're apparently never getting the Prime Directive Mongoose Traveller book.

Is that officially dead? I picked up the Babylon 5 Traveller port and it was pretty good.

Quote from: The Butcher;909719Star Trek is one of those properties I feel Traveller can emulate with very little work. Too bad we're apparently never getting the Prime Directive Mongoose Traveller book.

Quote from: Lynn;909779Is that officially dead? I picked up the Babylon 5 Traveller port and it was pretty good.

J Michael Straczynski pulled the license for Mongoose Traveller Babylon 5 due to poor quality of those books. It is not official yet, but with the trouble that Mongoose is having with their TAS licensing, I strongly suspect that Prime Directive Mongoose Traveller is vaporware.

Quote from: jeff37923;909789J Michael Straczynski pulled the license for Mongoose Traveller Babylon 5 due to poor quality of those books. It is not official yet, but with the trouble that Mongoose is having with their TAS licensing, I strongly suspect that Prime Directive Mongoose Traveller is vaporware.

What troubles?

Quote from: jeff37923;909789J Michael Straczynski pulled the license for Mongoose Traveller Babylon 5 due to poor quality of those books.

Are you sure it didn't originate with the d20 based printed books? They seemed to pick their font and color combinations so that its so awful you wouldn't want to try to scan them.