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

Kirk mentions Axanar

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

if I recall FASA made the first mechcommander game, and some othe battletech series games...

Nicely done👍👌💪

No more stupid looking starships please. Kurtzman’s people are dumb about this.

The HUGE problem I’ve always had with Star Trek is apparently a global war made us absolute Pus… er scaredy cats wimps … and not what we are … in reality we’d have a massive navy and probably not be nice at all. I mean the mirror universe is a little more accurate but not as cute as throat

Hey, do you remember where you got that laser sound effect?

Your awesome dude and awesome video

Prelude to Axanar is the best Star Trek I’ve seen since before 2009.

Things did not go well for Garth of Izar afterwards!

I have always thought FASA’s Star Trek was greater than all the other incarnations

This is from when Star Trek was great, and our imagination was UNLIMITED!! Long live all the great adventures in the Golden triangle!

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. 😀

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.

Booie lol, the way Americans say Bouy always cracks me up.

Having looked up the vessel on Trekpedia,the Xenophon looks quite different from the Sawyer-class you used here to showcase it.

Whilst the Bonhomme Richard you showed here looks like the Marklin-class,the one the Xenophon should've looked like,whilst the FASA timeline Bonhomme Richard was listed as the first vessel of the Bonhomme Richard subset of the Constitution-class.

Is there something I'm missing here?...

it is cannon.. i stand by my statement

Wish there was a Star Trek game that shares the same engine as the Star Wars Empire at War game.

🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed in every way and detail provided indeed, And I myself still own the original Fasa game and two other Startrek board games as well and I have different Fasa books of the various different types of ships as well the Fasa Startrek 3 version of the game and still have some of the lead model ships left as well👌.

This is awesome I’m a follower for sure

well at least you showed warp combat hear. nice

“Infamous” Constitution class?

Garth:
It'd have been impossible to get past censors during Vietnam and maybe even 1986 was too soon for a ret-con, but I sometimes wonder if Garth suffered PTSD.

Garth was an explorer. He didn't sign up for four years of blood. We know from TOS he was severely injured presumably late in the war as aliens taught him to rebuild his body.

Suppose the stress of his pain, seeing friends die and the horrors of war get to him. No canonical Betazed counselors in the pre TOS Era. Star Fleet gives him a low pressure job at the Academy to sort things out. This is when Kirk studies his tactics as a cadet.

But it's only getting worse. His temper and tolerance are deteriorating. He makes some candid and frankly dangerous comments. SFC orderd psych eval. But not before he 'rejoins' his ship on a 'radio silence' mission. Deep inside Garth's mind he interprets this as betrayal. Fine. The only way to stop another galactic war is to unify it by force.

SF begins looking for the missing ship and demands Garth either surrender or be detained. His first officer discovers the broadcast and alerts the senior officers. Garth then orders the destruction of a planet making their decision easy. They detain him and contact SF who orders they deliver him to the planet for the insane where Kirk finds him in TOS.

Destroy that federation ship...it looks stupid!

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Notes: Hmm. 🤔. I have that, RPG, but I never really got to play it with anyone. One of my college roommates, had that "FASA" game, but not those two particular supplements. But we enjoyed playing his games anyway. Later on, a different friend had, "Starfleet Battles", and we enjoyed it. We tried to do the, RPG, but never got beyond character creation status.

I've sampled some of the fan fiction material, and I see how they would be quite fun for those that made them. But really, the egos of some, are a big turn off, so I ignore them now. Including the, "Axanar", stuff.

I much prefer material such as yours! 🙂

Since most Trek I written in past tense I love the Axanar story line. Garth being a hero of Kirk and his decline make for the classic tragedy.

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

WAIT A MINUTE How can it be a 4 year war, IF they're traveling in LIGHT YEARS???

Personally l consider the FASA Version of the "Four Years War" to be "Cannon." I had FASA manuel's on all that when l was young for a very long time!

The Axanar fan film borrowed heavily from the FASA Four Years War supplement.

Excellent video…

Axanar would have been the best trek ever made. what a shame

You are wrong on almost 53 percent of the details in this video

Who were the Klingons fighting at this time?

I've watched this two parter at least five times now.

For sure is not start good for the federation ! Ther good dam liberal !!

i have watched this little mini series so many times! maybe if i put it in caps...........ehhh hemmm.........PARAMOUNT, GIVE THIS MAN A SHOT. GIVE HIM LOTS OF MONEY AND LET HIME MAKE THIS MINI SERIES A TRILOGY!!!!!!!.

Hopefully that did it.

STD ignored Axanar completely

Thank you for your classified battle briefing Commodore or fleet captain....

I can't believe that Starfleet would have a single nacelle starship....i mean come on like the Kelvin...also let it be a lesson to you when asked if you're one of the 14 or are you a god YOU SAY YES!!!

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.

They should've said "no", not "yes" for "yes" would be taking on far too much authority and power for any human being or any creature at that- and if the Axanarians decide to kill one of them: slaughter the savages for trying, and make an example in self-defense!

Canon is never ever any kind of a fluid concept; what that'd have to be dealing with is alternate universes therefore.

Garth of Izar , has a story that just blows your mind. He becomes a legendary captain and gains deity level powers .

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

The way the federation operates makes things harder for them. There is no deterrent for agressive aliens that attack them. They put criminals and enemies in comfortable prisons. Most aliens in trek wouldnt attack the far weaker cardassians because being captured by them is very scary.