What happened to the show characters...

...in your games?

In our campaign:

Picard: promoted to RADM in 2376, made head of Fleet Operations (hell, he secretly ran the Federation from his ready room, it seemed...)

Riker: married Troi, military attache to Betazed. Never got a ship, but did get his captaincy thanks to his space daddy, Picard. You don't turn down 4 promotions in a row and get your own ship.

Troi: now Federation ambassador to Betazed; she's replacing her aging mum. Retired from Starfleet.

Data: promoted (finally) to CDR in 2376 & given a Steamrunner. In 2378, promoted CPT and given USS James Kirk, an aging Ambassador.

LaForge: chief development engineer, Galaxy upgrade project at SESS (Galor IV). Captain rank.

Crusher: Starfleet Medical comandant. Captain rank

Wesley: who cares...?

Sisko: lost in the wormhole.

Jake Sisko: annoying Arnett-like reporter on GNN.

Odo: didn't watch the show, so don't know what they did with him. Still security chief on DS9 in our campaign.

Bashir: teaching at Starfleet Academy, medical.

Kira: General and head of Bajoran military integration into Starfleet.

Dax: hadn't even thought about it...

Worf: still ambassador to Qo'nos. Full CDR.

The entire crew of Voyager: dead in the first season.

MInor characters that have become important:

CPT Elizabeth Shelby: after the Borg thing was a big shot at the Joint Chiefs and PLanning. Had her own command in the war, and now commands Enterprise.

VADM Ed Jellico: CinC, 16th Fleet, Mobile. Flagship is Enterprise, most of the time.

CPT Bruce Maddox: finally cracked the android problem in 2374. First Daystrom android prototype Isis finished in 2376. 2378 saw new rights trials for androids in Federation Council subcommittee; revealed Maddox had 'inappropriate relations' with Isis while in socialization phase. Quietly retired.

Please Note this is for a game that will occur in the beginning of 2379:

Jean-Luc Picard: Still Captain of the Enterprise-E
William Riker: Promoted to Captain, late 2378. CO of the USS Mariner
Data: Dead, 2378
Geordi LaForge: Chief of Starship development (Utopia Planitia) (Captain)
Beverly Crusher: Starfleet Medical Commendant (Captain)
Worf: Promoted to Commander, First Officer of the Solstice
Deanna Troi: Happily married, counselor USS Mariner.

Kathryn Janeway: Given command of Starbase 155
Chakotay: Retired from Starfleet 2378
B'Ellanna Torres (Paris): Married Tom Parris and reinstated to Full Lieutenant. CEO USS Sussex
Tom Parris: Promoted to Lieutenant (2378), Helmsmen, USS Sussex.
Harry Kim: Promoted to Full Lieutenant (2378), Chief of Operations, USS Enterprise-E
Tuvok: Promoted to Commander (2378). First Officer Starbase 155

Well as of March 1st, 2373 there all right where they're suspost to be...Ent-E, DS9/Defiant, Lost in the Delta Quad.

I've been following the way things turned out for the DS9 characters as per the new novel relaunch, and enjoying the fun that creates with my own plotlines.

As per "Nemesis," (Spoiler!) I moved them about accordingly, so that Riker has his ship, Data is currently 'dead/duped', and the Trois are happily married.

Others, I played with - we know Janeway is an admiral, but I did promote Harry Kim and have him do a quick 'fly-by' cameo as a sensor technician/upgrade specialist, who, with Seven of Nine, visited the Perseus for some massive sensor upgrades. Seven still wasn't in Starfleet, but gosh people did so enjoy her visit. ;)

So, for the most part, I didn't do anything with the folks from the show...

Michael Barratt

I've never used the main shows' characters in my game. I try to avoid mentioning them whenever possible; I don't know why, I just don't like using them very much.

FWIW, qerlin, Odo left to rejoin the "Great Link" and help his people after Bashir "discovered" the cure for the illness inflicted upon them by operatives of Section 31. He is no longer in the Alpha Quadrant. This happened near the end of the series, obviously. Odo hopes to guide his people away from their extreme xenophobia.

Thanks, Fes...it actually hadn't come up, but now I have an answer for the players, should they ask...

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Originally posted by erhershman
I've never used the main shows' characters in my game. I try to avoid mentioning them whenever possible; I don't know why, I just don't like using them very much.

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Right there with you, erhershman. I usually don't mention other characters in my campaigns. Maybe once in a great while the crew will hear about the Enterprise or visit DS9, but I try to keep the focus on the campaign's characters; it's their story after all.

Okay, hopefully this comment won't kill the thread.
I have used the TV characters from time to time as a plot device, but they were there to help the PCs, never the other way around. I prefer to leave them to their adventures and my PCs to theire. Besides, since Nothing is canon anymore, why bother following what the movie and TV characters are doing?

Back when I use to have a table top game, 2000-2001, the closest they got to meeting any major onscreen characters was the widow of the late LTCMDR Edington.

She was given a commission of CMDR, and was given the command of a LUG version of a Niagra (sp) Class Fast Cruiser Light. The crew was all FMR Marquis who decided to come back to the Federation, as now 'Free Marqui' State was created post DW. The Squadron that the PCs were a part of piggy backed inside the Main Shuttle Bay, saving them several months worth of travel, not to mention meeting alot of undesirables in multiple games.

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Originally posted by Ineti
Right there with you, erhershman. I usually don't mention other characters in my campaigns. Maybe once in a great while the crew will hear about the Enterprise or visit DS9, but I try to keep the focus on the campaign's characters; it's their story after all.

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Although I hope this thread continues (love reading the 'alternate universe' possibilities), I, too, try to ignore the characters from all the TV series.

Why ? I like staying consistent with the canonical TREK universe and making any decision regarding the canonical characters runs the risk of being contradicted somewhere down the line.

By ignoring the lives of the series' regulars, you reduce (but not eliminate) the risk of being majorly contradicted somewhere down the line.

Almost never use the characters, but they are mentioned; after all, every dang admiral was on a first name basis with Picard, 'cause he secretly ran the Federation from his ready room.

Well, my game is Starfleet Academy based, and the characters are finishing up their first semester as the incoming class of 2367, with the first aniversary of Wolf 359 and the end of the Klingon Civil War coming up pretty quick, though they're a lot more worried about their Planetary Survival final than anything else.

So the TNG crew are all aboard the Ent-D, with the exception of Wesley, who's taken up his sophomore year at the Academy.

The DS9 crew have a year to get their affairs in order before their series starts, though Bashir is leading the Academy racquetball team right about now...

The Voyager crew have a couple members starting at the Academy at this time; one Harry Kim and B'Ellana Torres. They have made incidental appearances as part of the background.

I tend to make mention of stuff from the series as they come about, because it helps my players feel a sense of connection to the Star Trek universe at large, and a sense of their characters' place in it (which will of course grow as they do). And since I'm only in the 4th season of TNG, I've got plenty of established canon that I don't have to worry about being contradicted by later.;)

-Chris Landmark