Much of the material for FASA's Star Trek RPG was set during the movie era, but some of it was also set during the Original Series. The first edition of FASA's Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game included a combat game for space battles, which was later spun off into its own game, called Starship Tactical Combat Simulator. Star Trek The Next Generation wasn't launched until five years after the launch of the game. Like its predecessor from Heritage Models, Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game was developed using primarily material from the original television show. This game was released in 1982 and was supported until 1989, when FASA lost the license to the intellectual property of the Star Trek universe. The next Star Trek roleplaying game line to be published was produced by FASA, and the game was titled Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game. Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier is an interesting look at Star Trek gaming from the perspective of gamers who hadn't seen the motion pictures and had to develop their own canon based on nothing more than the television show and cartoon series. Miniatures were also produced by the company for use with the game, which would complete a collection of Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier collection.

Space Gamer #30 featured a review of the game.

Different Worlds #18 featured an article about the game titled: 'Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier.' The article included rules expansions and variants to the published game.

If you want to collect these magazine articles to go along with your copy of Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier, then you'll want to look for the following issues: (You can find more information about RPG magazines here.) No official supplements were produced to support Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier, but some unofficial supplementary material was published in Different Worlds magazine and White Dwarf magazine. (Other games included John Carter, Warlord of Mars, Knights and Magic, and Swordbearer. Written and published in 1978 by Michael Scott and Heritage Models, Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier was one of a handful of RPGs published by this model company. The earliest RPG set specifically in the Star Trek universe is called Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier. Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier

Other types of Star Trek roleplaying games exist, but they're beyond the scope of this site. This page focuses on collecting tabletop Star Trek RPGs. Multiple editions of Star Trek roleplaying games have been produced by multiple publishing companies.

Collecting Star Trek RPGs and Roleplaying Games

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