Weren’t the FASA coordinates based off a screen in TOS?
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No, Spock's graphic in "The Cage" has a different string of numbers (092 07 ????); the 7-4-9 Mark 1-4-8 string is from a map drawn for the FASA manual, although on the map the digits were Cartesian, for X and Y, while in-universe coordinates supposedly are spherical and define two angles (in this case presumably wrt a fixed reference point such as the galactic core, rather than wrt Burnham's then location).
Both sets would be completely inadequate in practice, though: space is 3D so just two clusters of numbers won't do. Cartesian would require a Z and spherical a distance. Although of course the numbers could be mere Starfleet code rather than actual, plain coordinates.
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Both sets would be completely inadequate in practice, though: space is 3D so just two clusters of numbers won't do. Cartesian would require a Z and spherical a distance. Although of course the numbers could be mere Starfleet code rather than actual, plain coordinates.
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If the Song turns up again, Alex Kingston should play the captain.
You'll figure it out.
Should they go DS9 with the shuttles and name them all after rivers?
My feeling is wanderer is the class name for the 'new constitutions'. We know they're big and book says the wreckage is going to be hard to navigate around. Seems odd that burnham would identify a random, wrecked alien ship by its class name instead of just saying 'look out for that orion cruiser'.
I'd love that! Wanderer is a great name for the explorer-class of the day.
Even SF of the 32d century might encrypt Talos IV coordinates.
No it wasn't. If you're talking about the Sartorix, it is a fan design made for the FASA system designed after the D'Deridex's appearance in TNG.
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I think the designation "B-type warbird" came from FASA. I dunno though all this stuff is blurring together.
This is an excerpt (page 119) of FASA's Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual, published in 1988 (the same year it appeared on-screen):
It is misspelled as "D'Daridex", but I believe is the first time this ship class is named in any publication (if I'm wrong, someone please post a correction). I don't know if it was an intentional misspelling or just a typo in the notes sent from Paramount to FASA, but it's certainly close enough to what eventually became the D'Deridex that we all know and love in the canon. And there is also the mention of the "B type" Warbird that the Enterprise encountered in "The Neutral Zone". The picture above ostensibly shows the "A type" (they knew it to be an inaccurate representation and technobabbled their way out of it due to an "incomplete scan"
), and maybe that's the difference between the two in the class name.
It is misspelled as "D'Daridex", but I believe is the first time this ship class is named in any publication (if I'm wrong, someone please post a correction). I don't know if it was an intentional misspelling or just a typo in the notes sent from Paramount to FASA, but it's certainly close enough to what eventually became the D'Deridex that we all know and love in the canon. And there is also the mention of the "B type" Warbird that the Enterprise encountered in "The Neutral Zone". The picture above ostensibly shows the "A type" (they knew it to be an inaccurate representation and technobabbled their way out of it due to an "incomplete scan"
), and maybe that's the difference between the two in the class name.
428 meters long! It's a hatchling, not a warbird
Heh... yeah, they were still working out the details back then. 
FASA sounds way more fun than current Trek, especially early on. Things felt bigger, more adventurous. Didn't matter if was canon or not; just have fun with it.
I loved the FASA system. It was easy to work with and wasn’t bogged down by overengineered character sheets. It also did a fantastic job filling in holes left behind by the canon. They effectively explained all the different Klingon looks (at the time) for being hybrids specifically stationed at borders with other species. No foolishness with Augment viruses. The Imperials (bumpy heads) were in charge of everything and the smooth heads were stationed along the Fed neutral zone. There were also Romulan-Klingon hybrids, as well, for service along that front, which looked like less-fugly Remans. I miss those days. We did some amazing things back then...
According to Wiki, sadly, yes. In its original form, it ceased operations back in 2001. They lost the Trek license not long after the TNG Officer’s Manual was published.
In 2012, however, a new company started under the same name (FASA Games) that seems to hold the IP for all the original titles for its parent company (except Trek & Dr. Who) but they don’t seem to be quite the gaming juggernaut of their former self.
In 2012, however, a new company started under the same name (FASA Games) that seems to hold the IP for all the original titles for its parent company (except Trek & Dr. Who) but they don’t seem to be quite the gaming juggernaut of their former self.
Does that mean people no longer play it? I mean, I figured that they still were not publishing but that doesn't mean it is gone.
I’m sure people still play it, but newer companies have since come along (Decipher, Modiphius, etc.) with their own version of the Trek RPG which I’ve tried and found to be a little too overly-complex for my taste. They do cover more recent incarnations of Trek since 1988, though, and have invested considerable amounts of money in expansion materials, which could theoretically be rewritten and ported back to the older system.
Heh... yeah, they were still working out the details back then.
I'm certain the Galaxy Class had some major changes from the TNG Officer's Manual to the First Year Sourcebook. I can't remember what they changed, it was a long time ago. Could've been the length.
ETA: The length didn't change, even a little. Some other stats were changed.
Officer's Manual
First Year Sourcebook
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