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Great book, for a great game
One of the common complaints Trek fans have these days is a total lack of continuity in the source material.Well, 'bout 25 years ago a man named Steve Cole designed a tactical game system around another, alternate Trek universe based solely on the Franz Joseph Star Trek Technical Manual.In this universe, you don't find Cardassians, Borg, or the "different forehead alien culture of the week".What you do find, though, is a rich and diverse history with complete continuity from its very inception.This game provides players with a brand new Trek universe to explore, with lots of well thought out systems, technology, and places to play.If you're one of millions of fans who are sick to death of the mediocrity being served up as Trek these last years, then give this a try...you won't be sorry.Based on the popular GURPS system, the rules can be learned in no time.You'll enjoy the universe, though, once you get into it.The Backdrop? A massive, decade long conflict called The General War, pitting the Federation and their allies (the Gorn, the Kzintis, and the Hydrans) against their old enemies the Klingons, the Romulans, and a group of cat like people called the Lyrans.Full of intrigue, adventure and good old space opera fun, this is a great universe and a great way to learn it.Enjoy!

GPD and the SFU ROCK
GPD Rocks.I am not a GURPS player (until now) and find this a fantastic piece of work.I've been playing the SFU's flagship game for 25 years and this is a most welcome product.GPD covers a wide range of material so it cannot go into very great detail but it is just the beginning with an ever growing list of additional products.I'm totally satisfied and look forward to more and more!

Prime Power
Gurps Prime Directive is a game about an alternative Star Trek reality. Based on Franz Josephs original Star Trek Technical Manual, Prime Directive expands and defines a reality that has the original series races and also many new ones. Star Trek fans are given a chance to play characters that hail from the UFP, Klingon Empire, Romulan Empire, Tholian Holdfast, and Gorn Confederation as they appeared in the original series. At this point however the timeline deviates from "TREK" and becomes The Star Fleet Universe, which includes new races and Star nations Such as The Hydran Kingdom, The Kzinti Hegemony, The Interstellar Concordium, and The Lyran Clans. The manual gives all the necessary mechanics to play using the GURPS system, including a wealth of racial templates, skills, advantages and disadvantages. Background information allows readers to see how the various Star Empires relate, including maps (which are few and far between for the "TREk" Universe.) It includes rules for converting ships from the Star Fleet Universe to GURPS Space and deck plans for the Free Trader class ship, which is well suited for roleplaying groups. For those players who want to jump into play there are several starting packages for characters and a reasonable list of equipment. As a bonus there are several examples play to alleviate confusion. In summary this product is packed full of good stuff for players interested in a Universe that takes some of the best elements from the original series and blends them in with new concepts creating a vision of the future that is dynamic and action packed. It is well worth the purchase.

Not worth the money
I'm a trekkie and a gamer geek so I bought this book almost immediately after hearing about it. The dissapointment I felt reading it was palpable. The opening of the book is a story that is, frankly, dull and fails to really give a Star Trek feel to anyting. See an episode of Star Trek you'll have a better grasp on what it is all about. The story is redone as an adventure idea at the end. Pages 23 - 42 give racial templates which while they have good write ups, really aren't much someone who has seen a bit of Star Trek couldn't come up with. Pages 50 - 99 are a minimal retooling of material in the GURPS Basic set. So about a third of the book is completely worthless if you already play GURPS. Then there's information from other Role Playing Games from the Star Fleet Universe. If you play those games, the information might be useful, but it really isn't useful for GURPS. Pages 142 - 152 are a simple timeline and are some of the few pages that would be actually useful in trying to play a Star Trek role playing game. Pages 154 - 158 require you to own GURPS Space to make sense, and GURPS Space does it better. Pages 159 - 164 are some detailed information of a few ships. After going through it, I highly reccomend just getting GURPS Space along with the basic set and Compendium I. If you want to play a Star Fleet Universe game, just buy one of them. Either choice will get you much better information. Of the 40 or so pages of worthwhile information in this book: 20 minutes of thought will probably give you better ideas than they present. Save your money. This book, with shipping & handling and tax, really is worth less than seven dollars. ... Read more

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Star Fleet Universe Role Playing a lot like clasic Trek.
First and most important Gurps Prime Directive isn't a Star Trek rpg it's a Star Fleet Universe RPG. What's the difference? Back in the 1970's when Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Three (Remastered Edition) and Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek had been canceled and the creators had only the vaguest inklings of how much the property would be worth one day they gave a broad license for the creation of Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual whose author then licensed from that book the creation of Star Fleet Battles: Captian's Edition Basic Set and the Star Fleet Universe was born. Further legal agreements has led to the SFU being allowed to include material from the original series but nothing from the movies or later series which worked out ok since the SFU had grown in its own direction before any movies were ever made.

Fast forward through a couple decades of evolution of the Star Fleet Universe setting and throw in a silencing agreement permitting use of the GURPS Basic Set: Characters, Fourth Edition role playing rules and you have Gurps Prime Directive.The setting is a bit more military minded than you might expect of something trek inspired but it did start with a war-game and if you look at classic trek it was somewhat more martial than the later incarnations.The rules don't require players to play members of Star Fleet however, there are discussions of playing such characters as merchant marines, asteroid prospectors or diplomats but most of the attention as you might expect focuses on members of Star Fleet or the Federation Marines.Being a Sci-Fi game there are plenty of non humans too, from those familiar from trek (Vulcans, Andorians, Romulans) to those that exist only within the Star Fleet Universe (Hydrans, Lyrans, Qu'naab).

This volume does an excellent job of introducing both the Gurps rules and the Star Fleet Universe as a setting to explore in role playing games.My only criticism is that after the first two supplements were published (GURPS Klingons 4th Edition and GURPS Romulans (GURPS 4th Ed. Prime Directive) both excellent IMO) the promised future supplements (Gurps Federation, Gurps Feline Empires, etc. have been stalled in development for several years. ... Read more

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