Part of the Star Fleet Battles Captain's Edition line.
From the back of the cover:
The Wars that Shaped a Galaxy...
come alive in Early Years, when alliances (and even Star Fleet) were yet to form.
- Complete history of the Early Years, with maps showing changing borders.
- The Early Starships: More than 50 Early Years cruisers, tugs, destroyers, dreadnoughts, and frigates; the first ships built from scratch to use warp power.
- The Early Bases: 20 SSDs showing the outposts that established ten empires and the stardocks that build the first starships.
- Warp-converted Ironclads: 20 ships that made the conversion from sub-light engines and lasers to warp power and phasers.
- The Federation National Fleets: Rigellian, Andorian, Alpha-Centauran, Vulcan, and even Orion ships of the National Guards!
- Two new races: The Paravians (warrior birds descended from Gorns) and the Carnivons (vicious canines at war with the Kzintis and Lyrans) are introduced.
- Five new scenarios display the wars that began all wars.