Star Trek: The Next Deep Voyage

(yeah, I don't know what to call my series...and for the love of all that's holy, if you're in my game and reading this - STOP!)

I have FINALLY started my ST game, using a Decipher/homebrew fusion. Finished up characters and started up the first ep Tuesday night. Here's the run-down, if'n ya care:

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B
2295 (Harriman was quickly and quietly shuffled off to a desk job)

Captain Jorge D. Overholster – human; from the planet New Texas; more of a loose cannon than Kirk ever was.

Commander Grant Grange – human Chief Helm Officer; court-martialed Kirk-like former starship captain whose luck ran out one day and cost him a rank.

Lt. Commander Tokata – from Gamma Trianguli VI (“The Apple”); Chief Science Officer...from a world where until a generation ago there WAS no science, unless you count the subterranean supercomputer/planetary defense system!

Commander Sulla – female Vulcan Chief Communication & Operations (OPCOMM) Officer. Oh, and she's actually a Romulan spy.

Lt. Commander Slinge – Andorian Chief Tactical Officer

NPCs:

“Lt. Commander” Khranhk – Klingon exchange officer Chief Medical Officer (“You call THAT an injury! Get out of my sickbay!!”)

Commander Amitabh Rapuri – human Chief Engineer, and a Sikh.
Apu-like accent!

Admiral R.T. Vorhees, recurring character. Saw the "captain material" in Overholster

episode 1
“TRUE, I TALK OF DREAMS…”
The Enterprise is ordered to the Mauvais Terre Cluster (a region of space unusually dense with stellar phenomena and space hazards) in the Gourami Sector to investigate the disappearance of the USS Brahe, an Oberth-class science vessel sent to map and analyze the cluster. Lt. Cmdr. Tokata is currently combining information from the Federation database, a smuggler’s map of the region obtained by Capt. Overholster from an acquaintance from his own sordid past, and the data provided by a Denebian astronomer peer of Tokata’s specializing in the centuries of knowledge learned about the region by the nearby civilizations.

I guess I have to do some more bonin’ up on space hazards before our next session! They’re gonna expect more detail than I had ready. Lucky for me 10pm had rolled around by then.

Actually, much of the Cluster has been artificially created by the Odian civilization, initially as a protection from aggressive aliens in ages past, now serving as a means by which the Odians can passively “explore” the galaxy. Aliens come to check out the cluster, get lured in or trapped, and the Odians get to observe other people under stressful and unusual situations. There is a planet within the Cluster peopled by survivors (and their descendents) of the wrecked vessels of dozens of species. Local economies there are based on the needs/wants of newly-arrived trapped aliens.
Basically, the Odians have become a lazy people who watch the giant “reality show” that is life on the aforementioned world of survivors. Naturally, the senior officers of the E-B will get stuck there! I’ll get into details as the game progresses. If anyone has questions or ideas, I’m game!


"True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."

(Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.)

Sort of a comment on television, reality shows…and gaming, I guess
;)