The 'FASA-Trek' Four Years WAR Explanation & Breakdown! Part 1 of 2! 

Part 2 has arrived! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w9B9BLKCmlE.html

The FASA canon could easily have been adapted to fit within established canon while still telling a god story. Prelude to Axanar did a marvelous job but unfortunately the people currently at the helm of the franchise lack the same passion for the series.

FASA was famous for their good storytelling. And their tabletop ST Tactical Combat simulator was and still is awesome. I appreciate your coverage of this.

Good to see FASA getting it's dues

I’ve always thought the FASA 4 years war should’ve been canon! Well done sir I’ve been waiting for this!

I loved the Fasa tabletop Starship Simulator Boardgame back in the day. Designing ships for it was fun, and even better testing them out against friends. Great system.

I'm 50, and I Role-Played this particular game extensively for Four Years,(heh), as a teenager. FASA fulfilled my, and many other Lifelong Trekker's, needs for an Established-Canon, Star Trek Universe during the rather sparse 1980's Movie Era. The FASA Universe was actually based on the fascinating 1980 book: 'Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology' by Stan and Marta Goldstein. As well as the earlier, 1974-published,: 'Starfleet Technical Manual', by Franz Josef. Many paperback novels, as well as much of Fan Fiction, at that time also used those Early Established Canon sources to flesh out their plots. This Early Canon, in turn, was VERY sadly completely rejected by Paramount at the start of the TNG-era in the late '80's-early 90's. Incidentally, while it is well-done and otherwise very accurate, this simulation depicts Captain Garth's U.S.S. Xenophon as a Saladin-Class destroyer. It was actually depicted on the cover of the F.Y.W. Information Sourcebook as a member of the Marklin-Class, and of an entirely different design.:

I feel like Axanar has been really open about the story being based on FASA's Four Years War.

Awesome video. Can't wait for part II. Small correction though - The Four Years War was not an invention of FASA. It was first mentioned in "Star Trek: Spaceflight Chronology", published by Pocket Books in 1980. This is also where the fanon first contact between the Empire and the Federation is listed as a confrontation between the USS Sentry and the IKV Devisor. A lot of FASA's history/timeline was influenced by the Spaceflight Chronology. That's what I loved about FASA actually. It was written by fans who had respect for what came before, even if not official canon, rather than simply write whatever they felt like. They incorporated material from things like the Spaceflight Chronology, the original Star Trek Maps set, the Starfleet Technical Manual and even stuff from articles in TREK magazine. And when they overwrote something from these sources, they usually bent over backwards to explain it (for instance, in the FASAverse, Starbase 1 is at Sol - but in an article on the Romulan War from TREK magazine it lists Starbase 1 as being destroyed by the Romulans. FASA writers made up a story about the vainglorious commander of Deep Space Outpost 1, who had taken to calling his station "Starbase 1" and exclaimed "Starbase 1 has been destroyed!" after the Romulan attack.)And of course, most famously, FASA adopted wholesale the world-building of John M. Ford for the Klingon Empire from his novels "The Final Reflection" and "How Much For Just The Planet?"FASA demonstrated how to treat a long standing property with respect while still telling new and interesting stories.

I wish FASA-Trek had set the tone for the subsequent series

We begin a new year!!! Enjoy!

So Garth really was a military genius. Its a shame then, he goes completely conkers insane after this

Fantastic! So nice to see this, FASA Trek should never be forgotten. I grew up on FASA trek, was very disappointed when it was ignored and erased. Klingons became little more than moderately intelligent animals instead of the layered and interesting race FASA fleshed out based on John M Ford's novels. FASA Trek is still the only canon for me.

This was so much more fun than Discovery thanks!

We see a lot more development in terms of technology in FASA than we do in canon. Photonic torpedoes were a major mistake, in my opinion. I also liked how the Klingons actually felt like if we had met them before founding the Federation they would have conquered us.

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Thanks so much! Looking forward to more.

Finally some credit to the original authors of this story. I still have my copy. Well done

Ij just need to say, those one-engine starfleet ships look ridiculous.

In some alternate reality this is what Star Trek Discovery was about.

I absolutely LOVE this video, PLEASE keep up the good work!

Nice to see an animation based on the RPG I used to play. My memory of the '14' story is different. I had heard that the Federation's first starship commander to visit Axanar was Captain Fortine. Later, A Klingon ship visited the planet. The captain, first officer, one team of six guards and one team of six xeno-biologists (or was it a second group of guards?) beamed down and were asked the "Are you of the 14?" question, to which, after making a quick head count, the captain relied 'Yes." and the Klingons were treated like accepted friends.

Yes definitely get part 2 out there. I really enjoyed this. Thumbs up, and shared.

You make some of the best content about star trek on RU-vid. Keep it up🤗

I REALLY enjoyed this!! It was totally worth it. Please keep up the great work!! :-) Cannot wait to see part 2.

FASA created a lot of good stuff back in the day.

I look forward to seeing more large-scale fleet reenactments in the future! Keep it up! 😄

This is great! My hat’s off to you. I can’t like this vid enough.

I'm so glad that this exists. The only other place on RU-vid that I've seen FASA Star Trek was on top of one of Red Letter Media bookshelves, but they've never brought it up in their Star Trek discussions. The fusion Klingons is such a fun solution that could have made for some excellent TNG plotlines.

At roughly 7 mins it said the klingon border went quiet. Unless its known otherwise the likely explanation for the klingons being busy is that the were launching their tribble extermination offensives. I think it was a large scale offensive by the way the campaign was referred to made it sound that way.

Great video, love the four years war stuff from FASA.

Great video, his really enhanced my history knowledge of the Federation. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Great work. Eagerly awaiting the second part.

I still have my STRPG I bought in the 80s. Still have my STCCG packs (mostly TNG but some TOS as well) plus comics. Glad to see this vid.

WELL DONE! cant wait for part 2!

Man its been 4 months! I apologize everyone for the wait. I shall be putting previews of this in replies here. I'm hoping i can finish within 2 weeks or sooner (probably).

Good vid i enjoyed that. Nice work man im going to watch part 2 as well

5:02 "Ray, if somebody asks you if you're a god, you say YES!" Obviously, the USS Yardley did not have Bill Murray in its crew.

Small error: per pg 6, the Bonaventure Landing Party was led by Colin B. *Fortine* - hence "of the Fortine". The Klingon Landing Party had 14 members (pg 14). It is just an amazing coincidence - or bad writing - that "fourteen" in Axanari means the same thing as in English.

I love the FASA games. My buddies and I used to play them all the time.

That was a really great video i can't wait 2 c part 2

I love the graphics, showing the front lines and areas of control.

Looking forward to part 2!!!

I loved the FASA ST RPG, nice to see it’s remembered. I still have Return and the Four Years War, the SF intelligence sourcebooks..

Nicely done. I always thought FASA's Four Years War was a great addition.

Nice! Thanks for covering this.

This is awesome I’m a follower for sure

Great video! Now to part 2!

I played the FASA table tip game "Shadowrun" in the 1990s, but had never heard of this. Thank you for posting.

Can't wait for Part 2

Fantastic stuff.Good work.

A great segment ! I can't wait for part II (14 January 2019 1730 hours)

Great stuff! Makes me want to pull out my fasa stuff n do some gaming :)

This was a brilliant video!

It’d be nice if some of the #Axanar crew lent their voices to this video, seeing as how it’s basically the genesis of their film’s story. Plus, it’d give your channel some much-needed publicity! 😄

This is phenomenal. Bravo.

I love watching this over and over again. Not sure if it is because I own the ST:RPG but that might be a factor. 😀

Great work dude.

Very awesome video.I really love this video.

Thank you. I really enjoyed this video. I loved FASA's Star Trek the Role Playing Game. Wish people still played.

looking forward to the next episode!

Finally, I get to know what happened during this war! Thanks!

Great video. Just two minor quibbles. USS Xenophon was a Marklin class (You have it as a Nelson Class Scout) and Bonhome Richard is a Constitution-class. ( You have it as an Anton). Still a super video can't wait for part two

Nicely done👍👌💪

Brilliant! Well done man ;-)

Brilliant Video nice to see a real star trek story at last.

Cosmic! I just did a Star Trek Fasa RPG looksy on my channel! I love your video and Axanar is looking good too. I'm thrilled they started back up.

Axanar first contact sounds a lot like the season finale of The Orville. I'm sure MacFarlane is familiar w/ FASA/Axanar.

This is great. Super job

"Whatever Klingon war happened" That's what we say nowadays to refer to pre-TOS UFP-Klingon war.

Excellently done.

Excellently explained👍🏼

Good tactics, Garth. He's one master tactician when dealing with Klingons. And it does appear that the Klingon defeat in this war led to them being vassalized by the Romulans really rapidly at that.

"Ray, when some one ask you if you are a god you say Yes!"

This is great! Well done! Many years ago a friend of mine and his girlfriend were working on a story inspired by the FASA universe. It wasn't' the four years war, but it did take inspiration from the idea of a major conflict between Feds and Klinks before the original series. I'm curious, are those sound effects for the lasers and accelerator cannons taken from the Starfleet Command game? They tickle my brain, but I cant quite place t hem! Again, well done on this series.

Very nice!!

Concur with Matt Bell. Nice presentation on the history. Enjoyed it.

fun fact: the unknown threat turned out to be tholians, around this time the tholians were anixing some Klingon out posts and were sussecfull on taking about 5%-10% of Klingon territory before moving on to other regions

Really good video

Fantastic to see this.

Never even knew there were Role Playing games of Star Trek. Question do you plan on doing an updated CGI version of your videos I would really like to see your fan documentary soon. I know you are busy its just a suggestion. Second question can you consider doing of the Robotech war with the Invid of the Macross saga against the Robotech Masters?

Cool video! People do forget that we have seen the Axanar in canon in the ENT episode "Fight Or Flight". This is one of the first species that Archer and the NX-01 make first contact with. The Axanar are an intelligent spacefaring race whose ships carry significant firepower and are nothing at all like the FASA version.

i realiy like it i was inprest of the vidoe keep up the good work

I had never heard of FASA Trek before this video and now I'm wanting to know more.

Point : The far away enemies? Maybe Kinshaya, Hur'q, Tzenkethi or Gorn.

O man I wanted these back when me and my friends got into Battletech around 88 or 89.

I remember this role playing game quite fondly. I used to own and play it.

I really appreciated FASA getting some love. I still have all my old FASA Trek rpg books.

we really can't ever expect it to really be such a thing as cannon when it is so many contradictions into many star trek episodes, including fan-made trek, shows, so many different so-called events contrary to the so-called canon.

Well done sir! well done!

"Is this the end of gulliver's travels"?! "Tune in next week and see the exciting conclusion"! :P

This is awesome!

Well done!

Good work

Great video.

This was superb..!😁😁

Awesome bit of nostalgia.

where you been?! Haven't heard from you in a while! WELCOME BACK 😎

I loved the FASA games. The RPG and the Tactical Simulator. It's still my favorite 'version" because they followed established story lines whenever possible. In fact, Paramount had to approve of materials before release under the license. Unfortunately, that's also how FASA lost the license. They published and released an officer's manual for TNG before Paramount approved it. I thought from the beginning that '"Prelude To Axanar" was based on the FASA materials and stories from the older Spaceflight Chronology and other materials of the day. Discovery is it's own thing IMHO. Has nothing to do with that canon AFAIK. I really appreciate this re-telling of the story. Maybe eventually, you can look into 'Operation White Flame" and many other FASA based story lines. Until then, I'll be eagerly looking forward to part two. Thanks again.

Love the credits man!

Great job! When will you upload part 2 and also when will you do a video on the Klingon K'tinga class battlecruiser?