[OT]Star Trek rules?

> The best way to deal with SFB is play Y160, way before all the
> other stuff
> appears and weighs you down ;)

Naahhh...

The best way is to start in about year 150-155 as a campaign (though
IIRC an
"Early years" tech supplement came out) and run a full-fledged campaign
interlocked with Fed and Empire *and* expanded economic rules...

This will of course drive even me insane, so any rational gamer (!?!)
will
go nuts even trying to set it up...

Just play FT for combat and steal some old campaign type game like
Imperium
for strategic movement maps and economics and be done with it.

It's a steep slope in campaign games. <g>