Trek RPG Auction of the Week - 3/13/09

Just a quick entry for Auction of the Week, a little earlier than ususal. If you've been looking for this, I didn't want you to miss it:

STARFLEET VOYAGES

The Final Frontier holds Danger and Adventure for those who volunteer for STARFLEET VOYAGES!
A complete roleplaying system for interstellar adventure including a separate starship combat game with color counters.

Publisher Terra Games Company (1982), designed by Michael Scott (this copy signed by the designer!)

As briefly covered here in one of my first entries, Michael Scott Kurtick released this game, called Starfleet Voyages, which is esstentially the 4th and final version of Space Patrol. Which makes it sort of an 3rd version of Heritage's Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier, and includes most of the same material but adds starship combat.

Despite it being a not-so-thinly-veiled unlicensed Star Trek game, I'd say it's arguably the best of his games in almost every respect. As any of them are notoriously difficult to find, this is a great opportunity to get your hands on one. Good luck!

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Not-Trek

STARFLEET VOYAGES

The Final Frontier holds Danger and Adventure for those who volunteer for STARFLEET VOYAGES!

A complete roleplaying system for interstellar adventure including a separate starship combat game, color counters, and special Gamescience HIGH IMPACT™ dice!

Publisher Terra Games Company

Designer Michael Scott

Released 1982

I'd like to emphasize that this is not Star Trek. You can tell because one of the officers has green hair. You don't remember any green-haired officers in Star Trek, do you?

Despite references to Klingons, the Romulan Star Empire, Gorn, Vulcans, disruptors, and the transporter... this is not Star Trek.

Starfleet Voyages includes rules for the Basic Game with a scenario called "The Shuttlecraft Crash", and an Advanced Game with a scenario called "The Slaver Ruins".

Despite the inclusion of these familiar scenarios, Starfleet Voyages is not Heritage's Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier. For one thing, they've got the maps in the right order this time. And it's in a box that doesn't say "ⓒ Copyright Paramount Pictures Corporation" anywhere on it.

You get the idea. More at a much later time.

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