Last Unicorn Games (LUG) was a game publisher which produced the Star Trek Role Playing Game from 1998 to 2000. The company was acquired by Wizards of the Coast in 2000, and the Star Trek license moved to Decipher shortly thereafter, mirroring the frequently-changing licenses for Star Trek comics during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Writers for the game included Steve Long, Steve Kenson, and S. John Ross, among others.
Nearly twenty Star Trek RPG books were released during those years, along with a set of miniatures, focusing on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Original Series. Some elements from these books were later referenced by Pocket Books novels, and some (mostly regarding the Andorians) even made their way into canon in Star Trek: Enterprise's fourth season.
LUG had several more books in the pipeline when the licensed was lost, in various stages of completion. At least one was finished and ready to be printed. When WotC decided not to publish these books, the material reverted to the writers, some of whom published sections of their work online. As of 2021, most of this material can be located via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Decipher hired many of the former LUG writers, so the Decipher game, though it uses a different game system, is in many ways a continuation or "reboot" of the LUG material (with some differences).
Fan conversions from LUG's ICON system to Decipher's CODA system were commonplace, and many fan-created supplements can be found at Memory Icon.
Star Trek: Pendragon adapts elements from the LUG and Decipher games, among other Star Trek RPGs, for use in both Star Trek Adventures gameplay and in fiction. Some of these sourcebooks will have pages on this wiki, but more detailed information on all the titles can be found at Memory Alpha, Memory Beta and other sites.
Supplements[]
To cite these sources, use {{LUG}} when linking to the published and unfinished works; the citation will link to the local or Memory Beta article, as appropriate. Use {{ICON}} or {{netbook}} when citing fan-created material.
Official publications[]
- LUG: TNG Core Book
- LUG: TNG Narrator's Toolkit
- LUG: TNG Player's Guide
- LUG: The Price of Freedom
- LUG: The First Line: Starfleet Intelligence Handbook
- LUG: Planets of the UFP
- LUG: The Way of Kolinahr: The Vulcans
- LUG: A Fragile Peace: The Neutral Zone Campaign, Volume 1
- LUG: Planetary Adventures
- LUG: Holodeck Adventures
- LUG: The Way of D'era: The Romulan Star Empire
- LUG: Starfleet Academy
- LUG: A Cadet's Guide to Sector 001
- LUG: DS9 Core Book
- LUG: DS9 Narrator's Toolkit
- LUG: Raiders, Renegades & Rogues
- LUG: TOS Core Book
- LUG: TOS Narrator's Toolkit
- LUG: The Andorians: Among the Clans
- LUG: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook
Unpublished and unfinished works[]
- LUG: The Dominion War Sourcebook: The Fires of Armageddon (completed, released by Steve Long)
- LUG: Spacedock: The Advanced Starship and Construction Manual (completed, released by Steve Long)
- Blood & Honor: The Klingons (completed, but unreleased)
- Ash & Iron: The Cardassians
- Merchants & Traders
- The Starfleet Security Handbook
- Through a Glass Darkly: The Mirror Universe
- Sky Pirates of Orion, the Rigel system sourcebook
- Final Frontiers, the movie era sourcebook
- To Boldly Go, the TNG-branded exploration sourcebook
Netbooks and fan creations[]
The following netbooks can be found at Memory Icon, along with many other fan-created resources for the LUG ICON system.
- Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 1: The Ships of Starfleet by Steve Long
- Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 2: Starships of the Cardassian Union by Steve Long
- Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 3: Ships of the Klingon Empire by Steve Long
- Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 4: Starships of the Original Series Era by Steve Long
- Spacedock Ship Recognition Manual, Vol. 5: Ships of the Romulan Star Empire by Steve Long
- Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Enterprise Sourcebook by Volker Maiwald[1]
- No Fear from the Wind: The Enterprise Sourcebook, Volume 2 by Volker Maiwald[2]
- Once More Unto the Breach: The Movie Era Sourcebook by Volker Maiwald[3]
- Star Trek: Voyager: The Role-Playing Game by Volker Maiwald[4]
- Eternal Vigilance: The United Federation of Planets Sourcebook, Volume 2 by Volker Maiwald[5]
- A Time to Stand: The Maquis Sourcebook by Dan Gurden[6]
- The Artificial Lifeforms Sourcebook by mactavish[7]
- The Cardassian Sourcebook, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Kevin Thomas[8]
- A Time for Heroes: A Sourcebook for the Pre-TOS era, Volumes 1 and 2 by Richard Tongue[9]
- The LUGTrek Netbook by Patrick Murphy[10]
- The Dulcais Sector Sourcebook: A Post-Dominion War Setting by Kevin Thomas[11]
- Painted Ladies of the Stars: Prostitution in Star Trek by Owen E. Oulton[12]
- USS Venture Sourcebook by Dan Gurden[13]
- Nova Class Technical Manual by Lawrence J. Cohen[14]
External links[]
- Last Unicorn Games article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.
- Last Unicorn Games article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
- Last Unicorn Games article at Star Trek Expanded Universe, the fanon and fanworks Star Trek wiki.
- Last Unicorn Games article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Memory Icon, the LUG fan resource site
- Memory Icon (Wayback Machine backup)
- Star Trek: The Lost Episodes by Steve Kenson (Wayback Machine)
- Untaken Treks by S. John Ross (Wayback Machine)
- Cobalt Blue Star Trek by S. John Ross (Wayback Machine)
- Star Trek Relic campaign by Owen Oulton (Wayback Machine)