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As stated in a previous post, I need a bar and bartender on my Empok Nor station. The problem is that all the ones I come up with are either pale copies of Quark, or boring ones. I mean, the bartender of the place the PCs are supposed to call home should not be someone you forget easily!
Hence the question: what was your best (Star Trek) bartender? (most narrators have had to roleplay a bartender at least once) What made him special? Why did the PCs like/hate him?
Forgot to mention ... there's a lot of latinum to make here, great opportunity http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif.
Maybe not a bartender, but definitely one of the rogues...
HARCOURT FENTON MUDD!!
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Depends on how comfortable you are with religious figures, but aboard Icarus I had the Reverend Patrick Finnegan (a descendent of the Finnegan seen in "Shore Leave"), a Jesuit Priest aboard to learn more about other cultures' spiritual beliefs. He also knew his beverages and took over Ten-Forward aboard Icarus.
How about a former starfleet intelligence officer who acknowledges his past activites nothing in the field of course was more of a "think tank" kind of guy.(Yea right!)
He still has connections to his former work and will pass information both ways. Nothing that would be harmful to the federation, but still is interested in making a bar or buck.
Just a thought.
Someone like Garak would be ideal as far as personality and history.
I think a Tellarite would be funny. It's a great race, but you never see them used too much.
Hope this helps,
Kronok
Mike Callahan first appears in a collection of short stories, "Time Travellers Strictly Cash."Quote:
Originally posted by Phantom:
Never thought of having a bartender in any of my games, but if you want source material for a "different" type of bar I've heard that series of novels by Spider Robertson (Callahan's or something like it)are pretty good.
The stories include a cast of regulars, some 'house rules' and regular events, such as 'Punday Night'
Bob
In my game (which coincidentally is also set on Empok Nor - in my game, it was sold to the Ferengi a couple of months prior to the events of "The Emissary" on DS9 and now the station is the "Nexus One Interstellar Commerce Facility"), there's a bar called In Vino Veritas.
A human woman by the name of Alexa Davies runs it. She's somewhere in her 20's, attractive, with a very breezy and friendly manner. She chatters incessantly, misquotes common sayings and figures of speech, and she changes subjects without warning, sometimes right in mid-sentence.
It's all misdirection. She's extremely smart and she knows exactly what's going on all around her at all times. In reality she works for Starfleet Intelligence, and what better place to pick up information than in a bar? When talking to the PCs, in the midst of her seemingly random streams of babble, she'll let slip a useful clue or other worthwhile information (whether or not the players pick up on it or take her seriously is up to them!).
Her assistant is a member of Morn's species, who she calls Fred, being physiologically unable to pronounce his real name. Fred has the somewhat unnerving habit of knowing exactly what every patron wants to drink, before they order it. Even with first-time patrons to the bar.
I forget the exact episode name, but it was the one with the Ellaisian (Low Grav. Girl). Use a Klingon...he seemed to have been played fairly memorable, the Muppets Swedish Chef like, when he was arguing about the G'ak's Freshness (Not fresh,{tossing plate over shoulder} I shall get you fresh G'ak, Haa Haa HAA). That should give your players something to remember... http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
Phoenix...Humbilly coming up with the most far feched ideas sense 19...um 2000...
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The Bartender aboard the Galaxy Class, USS Venture is Sonny Clemends from the TNG episode 'The Neutral Zone'.
He has also renamed the Bar from 10 Forward to Airforce One
http://www.theventure.freeserve.co.uk/sonny.htm
http://www.theventure.freeserve.co.uk/airforce_one.htm
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Dan.
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I have the complete collection of Callahan novels, and the novels of his wife Lady Sally's exploits (madam of a great brothel), along with the adventures of the next generation (OUCH -- bad pun unintended) bar: Mary's Place. Great stuff -- got me through a month-long hospital stay back in the '90s.Quote:
Originally posted by Robert Lai:
Mike Callahan first appears in a collection of short stories, "Time Travellers Strictly Cash."
The stories include a cast of regulars, some 'house rules' and regular events, such as 'Punday Night'
Best source of inspiration for a bartender character. . .but you can add Bryon Brown's character from the movie "Cocktail" as well.
Never thought of having a bartender in any of my games, but if you want source material for a "different" type of bar I've heard that series of novels by Spider Robertson (Callahan's or something like it)are pretty good.
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In the Praetors Name!
Well, who better to tend bar than the ship/station's counselor? Seriously, most species imbibe to 'get rid of' their troubles, and most bartenders have a rep for being good listeners, so why not mix that with professional training? The counselor's staff could make up the rest of the bar's staff, even.
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Even in this age of technological wonders, the human mind is still the most powerful weapon in the universe.
Why not take either Woody, Coach or Sam from Cheers?
Any or all of them would make for an interesting bartender (it was their jobs, after all...). Woody - young, naieve (sp?), means well, socially clumsy. Coach - older guy, absent-minded, easy-going, eager to please. Sam - middle-aged, bit of a womaniser, runs the bar but tries not to let people know he runs it, care-free.
There are three starters for you right there. And, it's i nkeeping with Morn (whom the DS9 writers admitted was named after the Cheers regular, Norm.)
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Thanks a lot for the input everyone http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif. I Finally decided to make it two bartenders: Morn (he'll go back to DS9 from time to time), and a very attractive Bajoran woman (think Leeta, only with a bit more brains). I wanted her to be a "he" at first, then thought that a "she" would have a much easier time fitting in on a station full of Cardassians. I still need to give her a hidden agenda of some kind, but haven't decided yet.
Anyhoo, noone would imagine them together, I guess that helps making them funny http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif. Well, my PCs seem to like them, so that's fine with me http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif.
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