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<blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 2488991" data-attributes="member: 571">The company is the Amarillo Design Bureau, the Star Fleet Battles people. The founder was a huge Star Trek fan back when it all started, and he approached Gene Roddenberry about doing a game. Gene agreed, and gave the new company what amounts to a perpetual license. The SFB universe is based on the original series, and the animated series, making no reference to subsequent life action series. Thus the universe contains races such as the Gorn and Kzinti, but no Bajorans or Ferengi. Paramount and (later) Viacom tried to have the license suspended, but ADB proved tougher than they had expected, so they decided to leave well enough alone and accept the license payments.Obviously the PD history diverged from official Star Trek history a long time ago, and there are some who insist the Prime Directive timeline isn't real Star Trek. Then there are those who insist the Prime Directive timeline is what Roddenberry would have gone with without the unfortunate interruption caused by the original series' cancellation, and so is the true Star Trek. It's a lot like the disagreement over the two versions of Greyhawk.BTW, Prime Directive comes in three wersions; d20, GURPS, and d6.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mythusmage, post: 2488991, member: 571"] The company is the Amarillo Design Bureau, the Star Fleet Battles people. The founder was a huge Star Trek fan back when it all started, and he approached Gene Roddenberry about doing a game. Gene agreed, and gave the new company what amounts to a perpetual license. The SFB universe is based on the original series, and the animated series, making no reference to subsequent life action series. Thus the universe contains races such as the Gorn and Kzinti, but no Bajorans or Ferengi. Paramount and (later) Viacom tried to have the license suspended, but ADB proved tougher than they had expected, so they decided to leave well enough alone and accept the license payments. Obviously the PD history diverged from official Star Trek history a long time ago, and there are some who insist the Prime Directive timeline isn't real Star Trek. Then there are those who insist the Prime Directive timeline is what Roddenberry would have gone with without the unfortunate interruption caused by the original series' cancellation, and so is the true Star Trek. It's a lot like the disagreement over the two versions of Greyhawk. BTW, Prime Directive comes in three wersions; d20, GURPS, and d6. [/QUOTE]

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