My first non-D&D RPG was FASA Star Trek

[TardisCaptain]

I remember playing the FASA Star Trek RPG and I have many fond memories of it.  Especially the starship combat game.  I had assembled a book of starships from any source I could find them from.  It had the official books, ships from any of the modules and supplements.  Magazine articles and even any fanzines I could find.  With the Starship Construction Manual I was converting ships from various tech manuals and blueprints to FASA stats.  I've still got all of my books in storage.

I always noticed when references from FASA material would show up in comic books, novels and episodes from TNG to Discovery.

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Aug 30, 2020 0:47:29 GMT -5 TardisCaptain said:

I remember playing the FASA Star Trek RPG and I have many fond memories of it.  Especially the starship combat game.  I had assembled a book of starships from any source I could find them from.  It had the official books, ships from any of the modules and supplements.  Magazine articles and even any fanzines I could find.  With the Starship Construction Manual I was converting ships from various tech manuals and blueprints to FASA stats.  I've still got all of my books in storage.

I always noticed when references from FASA material would show up in comic books, novels and episodes from TNG to Discovery.

This post brings back memories of happy days. I had just about everything FASA published, back in those days, and GM'd a FASA STTRPG group for about eight years.
For me it was the game that first got me writing my own scenarios.
I started them as a vanilla plain Starfleet crew on a Constitution / Starship class vessel, playing the published scenarios and then branching out to my (very TOS standard) homebrews.
Then a Starfleet Intelligence crew posing undercover as traders in the Triangle.
Finally a several years long ongoing campaign as the Klingon crew of a D7 on the furthest corner of the Empire away from the Federation, Romulans and Kinshaya.
I created two alien races as ongoing foes, one of which challenged the whole Komerex/Khesterex dichotomy.
Happy days!