Where is this Federation space map sourced from?

[Space Socialist]

This is a screengrab from an old, unlicensed freeware Star Trek game, released circa 1989. The game is seemingly set just after TVH, and stars the Enterprise-A. It’s quite highly detailed in its presentation – presumably this space map of the Federation is from an existing piece of Trek media rather than being created by the game’s programmer/designer?

 

[Tomalak]

Blast from the past! It’s this old Amiga game.

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The map is probably based on the FJ or FASA maps of 80s fandom, but that’s not my wheelhouse.

 

[Shawnster]

It appears to be based on the works of Franz Joseph. The Star Trek Technical Manual.

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sftm.php

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/OriginalCover.jpg

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/02-07-02.jpg

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/02-07-01.jpg

 

[Tomalak]

Ah yeah, that’s it. I thought it was probably the TM abut don’t have my copy to hand.

 

[F. King Daniel]

That game was made by Tobias Richer, who has since done CG art for Star Trek: Picard. I spent HOURS playing it as a kid, and made lists of the ships (many from FASA), their classes and NCC numbers. I was a lonely kid

 

[FredH]

Blast from the past! It’s this old Amiga game.

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Good grief! I’ve never heard of this game, but if someone made an iPhone app version of it I would be futzing around on it all day.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Good grief! I’ve never heard of this game, but if someone made an iPhone app version of it I would be futzing around on it all day.

It does work on Amiga emulators for the PC, I've no idea if there are iPhone emulators out there, though.

 

[Space Socialist]

It appears to be based on the works of Franz Joseph. The Star Trek Technical Manual.

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sftm.php

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/OriginalCover.jpg

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/02-07-02.jpg

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/02-07-01.jpg

Thanks, the star map is from there (if simplified), including the pre-TMP/TWOK/TSFS concept of Starfleet HQ being a saucer shaped station deep in Federation space rather than the Shroomdock base orbiting Earth.

I tried the game again on a MiSTer FPGA device the other day, and noticed the other Starfleet ships encountered in-game are also in the Franz Joseph manual, albeit modified to resemble the design style of the TMP Enterprise and TWOK Reliant.

 

[Forbin]

Amiga!
I miss mine.