The Federation Ship Recognition Manual expands on the ships types seen in the base game Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator, adding new variants for every Federation ship in that product, including new shuttles, starships, freighters, and starbases. As with the base Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator itself, this is ostensibly an "expansion" for the Role Playing game, in that it provides more data than just the combat element requires. 3-dimension views are provided for all craft, along with extensive historical notes and background. The cover of this 42-page product features a cutaway of the Federation 'Remora' escort craft. No counters are provides with this product, however, the last page is a fold-out diagram showing a time line of the service lifetimes of the various ship classes, as well as silhouettes of all ships showing relative sizes.