Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game is a role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 set in the fictional Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

universe, designed by Last Unicorn Games

Last Unicorn Games

Last Unicorn Games was a games publisher that was eventually absorbed by Wizards of the Coast.Last Unicorn developed the collectible card games Dune and Heresy: Kingdom Come as well as the 2000 role-playing game Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium...

 (LUG). Due to licensing issues, LUG did not release the game as a single core rulebook and setting supplements for the various series, but instead intended to release a corebook for every series. The Star Trek license was lost to Decipher

Decipher, Inc.

Decipher, Inc. is an American gaming company based in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. They began with three puzzles called "Decipher" then moved on to party games and Pente sets, but since 1994 produced collectible card and role-playing games. Their longest-running offering is the How to Host a Murder...

 before a Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...

rulebook could be released.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game received the 1998 Origins Award

Origins Award

The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...

 for Best Role-playing Game.

The Next Generation (TNG)

• 25000 - Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game (hardcover)
• 25001 - TNG Narrator's Toolkit (book & screen)
• 25002 - TNG Player's Guide (hardcover)
• 25100 - The Price of Freedom: The United Federation of Planets Sourcebook (hardcover)
• 25101 - The First Line: Starfleet Intelligence Handbook
• 25102 - Planets of the UFP: A Guide to Federation Worlds
• 25103 - The Way of Kolinahr: The Vulcans
• 25300 - A Fragile Peace: The Neutral Zone Campaign Volume 1
• 25301 - Planetary Adventures Volume 1: Federation Space
• 25303 - Holodeck Adventures
• 25500 - The Way of D'era: The Romulan Star Empire (Boxed Set)
• 25501 - Starfleet Academy (Boxed Set)

Deep Space Nine (DS9)

• 35000 - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Role-playing Game (hardcover)
• 35001 - DS9 Narrator's Toolkit (book & screen)
• 35100 - Raiders, Renegades & Rogues

The Original Series (TOS)

• 45000 - Star Trek: The Original Series Role-playing Game (hardcover)
• 45001 - TOS Narrator's Toolkit (book & screen)
• 45101 - Among the Clans: The Andorians

The Expanded Universe (Non-specific setting)

• 15002 - All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook

Web Enhancements

Last Unicorn Games was one of the first roleplaying companies to utilise the concept of releasing additional pages for published books via the web. LUG dubbed these "Icon Links," in reference to their overall "Icon System" game mechanics (the term Web Enhancement hadn't been invented yet). Unlike current web enhancements, which are simply additions that can be added to the end of a book, LUG took a unique approach, by planning the enhancements ahead of time, and printing a small Icon symbol at various points in a given book, informing the reader that additional material on the subject-at-hand was available on the company's website to read or
download and print. These enhancements are now being stored online, and can be downloaded from Memory Icon, under the Icon Links section.

Unpublished Materials

Many additional books and supplements were planned, and quite a few had various chapters already written, in varying degrees of completion. LUG's former writing pool has been extremely generous and supportive of the fan-movement to keep the game alive and expand on it. In support of this, much of the unpublished material has been released for the fans.

S. John Ross has posted his unfinished manuscripts on the
Untaken Treks pages of his website.

Steve Kenson

Steve Kenson

Steve Kenson is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games and related fiction.His most notable creation is the d20 System superhero roleplaying game Mutants & Masterminds for Green Ronin Publishing, which won multiple ENnie awards. He also designed True20 Adventure Roleplaying and the...

has posted his unfinished manuscripts on the Star Trek: The Lost Episodes pages of his website.

Of all the LUG writers, Steven S. Long has been the most active amongst the fan movement. Not only did he dust-off his unfinished materials for the fans, he opted to finish them on his own time, for no pay. Even more, he continued this work beyond the originally envisioned volumes, to ultimately present the fans with a whopping seven new books, absolutely free.

• The Fires of Armageddon: The Dominion War Sourcebook (For DS9)

And the Spacedock Series:

• The Advanced Starship And Construction Manual
• Ship Recognition Manual 1: The Ships of Starfleet
• Ship Recognition Manual 2: The Cardassian Union
• Ship Recognition Manual 3: The Klingon Empire
• Ship Recognition Manual 4: The Original Series Era
• Ship Recognition Manual 5: The Romulan Star Empire

They can be downloaded in PDF form from Memory Icon, under the Spacedock section, and are suitable for printing. (Please note: Adobe's Acrobat Reader is required to view the books. The popular alternative reader from Foxit does not display the fonts correctly.)