Series seeds

And now for one of the odder ideas on this thread, a little campaign idea I call 'Voyager Redux' that I'll never be able to use..

This campaign is, essentially, Star Trek Voyager - the USS Voyager, on it's first mission, gets transported deep into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, and is forced to return home the long way. The difference from the TV show is that the major characters are replaced.. by the PCs of your choice. Alternate between episodes of your own design and modified versions of the actual episodes, and you've got an interesting campaign with an immediate connection to the TV shows.

Either a good idea, or a really really horrible one, depending on your group and your tastes. As always, your mileage may vary.

(I would imagine that a similar idea could work set on the NX-01, and possibly, if you loosen up the plotlines a little, DS9, though both TOS and TNG were probably too episodic for such a concept to work to full effect)

This idea would work well IMHO with players who haven't watched much the series. You could use every plotline from the show with no problem ;)

Star Trek: To Boldly Go
Era: TNG or later would probably work best
Partially inspired by the Star Trek: New Worlds computer game

The Great Void was a large region of space, completely devoid of anything except subspace anomalies.. until about three weeks ago, when - in the span of an hour - the subspace anomalies vanished and the Void was turned into what seemed to be a completely normal region of space - nebulae, stars, planets.. even subspace emissions characteristic of warp-capable civilizations.

Understandably, Starfleet Command is more than a little worried at the sudden change in the status quo and sends in the nearest starship - that'd be the one with our intrepid PCs on it - to explore this unorthodox new frontier, make contact with the locals (as far as is permitted by the Prime Directive), and solve the mystery of just what happened to this area of space.

Star Trek: Wanderer
Era: Post-DS9
Inspired largely by Wikipedia and Voyager

This one is much like Voyager - a starship gets drawn into a spatial anomaly and deposited far away. It winds up closer to Earth than Voyager did... but, in a sense, much, much farther away - specifically, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, twenty-five thousand light years from Earth. The ship, unable to travel thousands of light years in the near-complete absence of stars - and, further, risk crossing the Galactic Barrier- is forced to begin exploring it's new surroundings, hoping to find somebody or something able to help them return home.

Star Trek: Aurora
Era: Any would work
Inspired by the Star Fleet Universe

Borrowing a page from the former, this one is also similar to Voyager, in that a group of people get stuck a long way from home. Unlike Voyager (and the Wanderer), this isn't just a single starship, or even a small fleet, but an inhabited star system, complete with a SF outpost (or full-fledged Starbase), torn from its normal position in space by a massive anomaly (in the Star Fleet Universe, it was an incredibly strong, system-wide, ion storm) and tossed deep into unexplored space. Unable to do what Voyager did, and set a course for home, the colony and those elements of Starfleet brought along with it are forced to make a home in this new region, cut off from logistical support, and surrounded by unknown elements.

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Originally Posted by TorItara

This campaign is, essentially, Star Trek Voyager - the USS Voyager, on it's first mission, gets transported deep into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker, and is forced to return home the long way. The difference from the TV show is that the major characters are replaced.. by the PCs of your choice.

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Or each one gets the Voyager character they hated the most, and get to redefine their characters as they see fit...

I like the Aurora idea; even more than Voyager, you could see how FED citizens react to non-FED situations: Do they hold fast to the PD, at the risk of making enemies of the new locals and/or running out of resources? Depending on their new situation they might even need to hide themselves from said locals, to avoid being attacked.

A neat series hook would be an older model ship, used for something mundane (transport, system defense, or maybe even a training ship) pressed back into service to support this lost colony. It's crew a mix of SF officers and civillian specialists trying to figure out what's happened, search for materials to help run the colony and check up on the locals.

As for an enemy in this new region, you could go several ways: DQ style fragmented territory with no real major powers, a TOS with a couple of major powers and some smaller ones vieing for favor, or have one monolitic culture that holds sway over everything in the area (this would be bad for new arrivals...).

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Star Trek: Aurora
Era: Any would work
Inspired by the Star Fleet Universe

Borrowing a page from the former, this one is also similar to Voyager, in that a group of people get stuck a long way from home. Unlike Voyager (and the Wanderer), this isn't just a single starship, or even a small fleet, but an inhabited star system, complete with a SF outpost (or full-fledged Starbase), torn from its normal position in space by a massive anomaly (in the Star Fleet Universe, it was an incredibly strong, system-wide, ion storm) and tossed deep into unexplored space. Unable to do what Voyager did, and set a course for home, the colony and those elements of Starfleet brought along with it are forced to make a home in this new region, cut off from logistical support, and surrounded by unknown elements.

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Space Trek: 1999?

Intergalactic Space Ship.
Time: Post Dominion War
Concept: Exploration of Outer and Inner space.

Following the Dominion War, the Federation makes a proposal to the governments of the Klingon Empire, Romulan Empire, Ferengi Alliance and the Cardassian Union. The proposal? Now that the war has ended, a joint venture to explore the Gamma quadrant unhindered by the Dominion. Star Fleet offers up a starship, (I'm thinking Intrepid class) re-christened USS Unity. The ship was scheduled for a severe overhaul following damage sustained during the war and thus is still being reassembled, but now, each of the governments offer equipment that they specialize in to be installed aboard ship. Since this is a joint venture, for example, the Romluans agree to nullify the Treaty of Algeron for this one vessel (as they did with the Defiant) and install a cloaking device. (I'm not certain of the other races' contributions yet. I'm open to suggestions.) The crew is also an amalgamation of members of the different governments. The concept is that of the international space station done in Star Trek style...

The Klingons contribute the replicators. The Cardassians do the interior decoration. And the Ferengi install pay toilets in waste extraction.

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The Klingons contribute the replicators. The Cardassians do the interior decoration. And the Ferengi install pay toilets in waste extraction.

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Klingons would probably be involved in weapons and defensive systems. Maybe a combination Phaser/Disruptor, with some advanced randomised modulations (just in case of any random borg activity in the Gamma quadrant direction??? Large numbers of the Security/Tactical detachment would be Klingon's.

The Cardassians will probably supply advanced sensors and data taken during their membership in the Dominion, which should sort out star charts, local political information and relevant technical data. Their input would likely be crew based, say some 'diplomatic' specialists, perhaps even a real diplomat too. Their ability to provide input is very limited here after the war with few materials and few personnel to spare.

Romulans would likely be Cloaking device, maybe additional weapons. Its likely that they will want the XO role on the ship as well as their own engineering team/tactical specialists, as well as a diplomatic aide. They may even supply a cloaked Theta class diplomatic runabout for the shuttle contingent.

The Ferengi. Would probably not be interested, even under Grand Nagus Rom. So its possible that there would be a limited precence, but most likely it would be personel only, maybe a barkeep to run the rec facilities (try to catch him out now the holodecks are free, apart from certain 'specialist' programs, and a trader representative/diplomatic aide.

Basically such a mission would probably need a larger ship, I think that an intrepid may be a bit too small when you get down to it, possibly a larger vessel, maybe an older Ambassador class... Although there is no real reason that the ship has to be Starfleet? Or that it has to be the only mission out there in the Gamma Quadrant, what if all the governments capable of doing so sent a ship each (Federation, Romulan and Klingon), each with a combined crew from the 5 groups and upgraded with similar technologies...

My thought on the Star Fleet vessel is that the Federation would want top of the line stuff to best serve the mission and the other races would be wary of letting the other races get hands on experience with their most sophisticated equipment. Although now that you mention it, perhaps a Galaxy class vessel would be more appropriate to accomodate the mission. Also, I'm actually thinking that the Klingons would provide personal combat weapons (d'ktaghs, bat'leths, etc.) to the mission, as Star Fleet phasers are more versatile than disruptors and I don't believe Klingon torpedoes could compete with quantum torpedoes. Conversely, the Cardassion spiral wave disrupters might be of use, as they can punch through shielding more easily (I think I read that somewhere). The department heads I envision would be as follows: Captain: Star Fleet. XO: Romulan. Chief Tactical Officer: Klingon. Chief Engineer: Star Fleet. Chief Medical: Ferengi. Operations Manager: Cardassian. Flight Control: Star Fleet.

Heh. USS Nimbus.

An Intrepid class ship is not designed for long-term deep space exploration. Go back to your Voyager season 1 disks. No, they'd need to use a Galaxy class starship which is designed for long-term deep space exploration. The hodge-podge fleet idea isn't bad either. But the biggest road block to this series working is, why are the other governments even interested in doing this? You are sending out a joint mission to do something that only Starfleet has ever shown interest in doing in all the different series. Before this idea will take off, you need to provide strong motivation for each of the involved parties.

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Chief Medical: Ferengi.

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Private healthcare.

Sure its a stereotype, but hardly my first choice. I would still go down the route of Ambassadorial Aide/Trader mission specialist...

Maybe as Accountant/assessor attached to Quartermaster, seeing as they will need some trading capabilities and monetary skills out in the Gamma Quadrant, and in this there are many Ferengi who might excell.

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An Intrepid class ship is not designed for long-term deep space exploration. Go back to your Voyager season 1 disks. No, they'd need to use a Galaxy class starship which is designed for long-term deep space exploration. The hodge-podge fleet idea isn't bad either. But the biggest road block to this series working is, why are the other governments even interested in doing this? You are sending out a joint mission to do something that only Starfleet has ever shown interest in doing in all the different series. Before this idea will take off, you need to provide strong motivation for each of the involved parties.

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The deal is simple, and one I have used myself.

Starfleet motivation is as simple as you say, to spread peace and love around the universe one female alien at a time, of course the captain needs the crew to take him out on his dates and map the route.

Klingons. Have a long-standing alliance with Starfleet, and now Martok is in charge with Worf as his right-hand man, this alliance has an opportunity to grow closer. The Klingons are the easiest fit in here.

Ferengi. Its a 2 edged sword, while Nog is very pro-Federation, I cannot see the changes being overnight. I imagine that Ferengi input would be very limited, small numbers of personnel, but mostly data/intelligence. The reason that I see an 'Ambassador/Trader' here is mostly because I cannot see then claiming affiliation, when neutrality is far more profitable, but neutrality with protection and free transportation, better still, and likely to be supported by Starfleet with only a few caveats.

Romulans. This is the best one of all. The pro-federation group supported by Spock are all for it, a chance to work together towards unification, a chance to prove their peaceful intentions, built upon the foundations of the War Alliance. Those in favour of isolation however are vastly weakened thanks to Shinzon, and so they are likely to bid their time and go quiet, and collect intelligence and see where it will take them. This of course means that the Romulans on the crew might be entirely on-side or only following up-to a point and no further...

The Cardassians are massively weakened, bordering on crippled, they need the Federation/Starfleet to help rebuild and to stop Klingon/Romulan occupation from becoming permanent, of course they don't want Starfleet either. So they would go along with this to keep Starfleet sweet, and like the Romulans will be borderline allies of convenience, with some of the crew being more in favour of the joint op than others.

The result is a ship with lots of internal politics, as each side tries to keep its own secrets, police its own crew and somehow STILL work together towards a common goal, although each group is likely to have its own priorities.

You know that whats left of the Obsidian Order and Section 31 will have put people aboard, as will the Tal Shiar and Starfleet Intelligence. Its possible that the main intelligence people from Starfleet, Tal Shiar and an Obsidian Order will be open representatives and working together, but secretly supporting their small network amongst the crew too, monitoring each other as well.

You do of course realise that this is just B5 with warp engines. ;) And with so much internal politics that nobody will ever get bored on long duration missions, overly paranoid, yes, but never bored.

OMG Dan, I hadn't thought of the B5 angle at all... I don't know how I missed it. But, to elaborate on what you've said, I wanted to remind everyone how many members of other races that have strong stereotypes have had examples that stand those stereotypes on their head. Scientists in particular are portrayed as always willing to fly in the face of their peoples' conventional wisdom.

Here's my current series. Most of its either orginal species I created or my version of a crossover.

Star Trek: Shattered Empires (Not to be excues with Star Trek Shattered Empire which has already been mentioned. :) )

Its 2380, and the Federation is still not fully recovered from the Dominion War. Ship wise, the Federation has been reduced to using species militia as support for Starfleet. Public Relation are also on a low point thanks to the attack on Earth, and the invasion of Batzeid, which were thought to be the best defended systems in Federation. My crew is on the U.S.S. Qey'Nos a Qey'Nos-class carrier that was designed to not only be a fighter carrier, but also a mobal outpost. Cammanded by Captain Coats (Inside running joke with this series, all the major characters are either named after me, my familly, or look like me as in the case when Q showed up, :) ), the Qey'Nos must not only explore the edge of Federation space looking for more allies and more resources, but also must battle some new threats.

The first episode introduced the crew to my first new threat, the "Primes" (I know its not the most orginal name, but it was all I could come up with within a few weeks of thinking.), a race of replicated mass produced bodies that each have an unique "brain wave" that is in its self replicated at random from thier own database of their founders. What make them so dangerous is not only do they accully feed off Phased energy, but they are immune to most phaser fire. Thier ships are organic, and they also drain phaser fire. Thier first encvounter was on the resupply base of Gamma Theta IV, which is now called the Massicure of Gamma Theata IV, only two survived. (I had only two players at the time.) This added some fear within the crew as they still have yet to turn their phasers down from max ;) One big thing is that the Prime are a race without any culture. They only take ideas from othere species and make it work within their own society. Infact the one ship the crew has borded, was desiged identical to the Intripid class, only organic.

The second new threat was an old one, but with a new twist, with Grand Nagus Rom killed in an "accident" the Ferngi Alliance is back to their old trick, but this time they really do have allies. With the help of the Naucicans, Yradians, Suliban, (Hensar, they are a race I created for this series as a species that was a mamber of the Federation, but left to join the Ferengi Alliance when they "bribed" their rulling counsil. They developed their own cloacking device, but they never shared it with the Federation"), Orians, and the Wadi to name a few. They now want more then just trade and commerce, but power and territory, which is easer then ever since the Dominion War. I have been trying to prove that the Ferengi can be a threat, but in truth, I have had some issues with this.

The Thrird major threat is a Peacekeeper Corps. Like a clone of the Federation this intergalatic empire has only recently made contact with the Federation. While both empires share a love for science, exploration, and have a large number of member species all working together for the great glory of the galaxy. What differs is that the Peacekeeps never developed the Prime Directive, a fact that the Peacekeepers have great pride in. One big twist is that they use Organic ships kinna like the Primes, but they are different. They play very much like another Federation, but they think the Prime Directive is a waste of time, and consider it savage to "let" fate decide the future of the newer species.

The last plot twist that will be revieled soon, will revielved soon to the crew, but you all get a sneak peak..... they will find a machine that was designed to create wormholes, but only oneway wormholes. In order to get back they must find another wormhole machine. Not sure where the first one goes, but I'm thinking the Pegsous galaxy, but not really sure yet. They can go anywhere, but they are impossable to replicate, which makes them very important.....


This is all for now, let me know what you think, by the way the theme song to this series was voted on by the crew, and we decied on "Through the Flame and Fire" by Dragonforce, which lucky for the crew is my favorite song. I think they have been playing to much Munchickin, :)

Wrong thread, see following post.

*Wrong thread, this post has been moved to adventure seeds.*

Apologies. :(

An idea I'm playing with if I get the chance.

Star Trek: Poseidon.
Era: Post destruction of Romulus.
Ship: USS Poseidon (Intrepid class).
A classic TOS era format with mixture of exploration past the top of the Romulan Empire towards the Delta Quadrant using data from USS Voyager. The ship and crew will get called back to known space to aid where necessary against a rogue faction of Romulans, the Alpha Dominion (what's left of it) and dealings with established races and planets. Plus they'll have the chance to encounter new worlds and new civilisations as they progress to the Delta Quadrant.

I have a potential three players for this, so I'm pondering captain, first officer and either science or medical positions.

Now with opening credits and season 1 trailer.

Star Trek: F.S.O

Era: Enterprise
Ship: FSO Cavalier; various ports of call allied to Earth
Concept: Blackwater in space
Freelance Security Opperatives help protect Earth's merchant ships from pirates and rogue elements of various galactic cultures. With Starfleet just getting itself off the ground, and the reputation of Humanity not yet set, the owners of various merchant vessels and cargo ships hire FSO's to protect their ships, cargo and crews.
While not as powerful as a "ship of the line", they do have the best weapons and equipment available. Crewed by a diverse bunch of characters, mostly from starfaring/military backgrounds, they act as escorts and defenders of their client's ships. They have, in the past, investigated theft and recovered stolen items/persons. While holding no "offical" military or law enforcement standing, they are allowed to opperate in the best interests of their clients and their employer. (however, many people back on Earth don't like the idea of 'hired guns' doing what their own Starfleet should be doing) In the empty edges of the space lanes, an FSO ship is a welcome sight for many "Space boomers", but in the halls of the Earth Senate, their days are numbered.

Got this idea catching the "space boomer" episode of ENT, after having a discussion about how things in our world would never be like Treks. So, after watching a freighter take on a pirate ship, I thought that if that happened to some company today, they'd hire a 'private security firm' to protect their investment. Maybe it would be mall cops, or maybe it would be Blackwater, depending on the company and/or the investment. So the wheels turned, and in my brain, a offically sanctioned "necessary evil" came out.

Tricky, I recently viewed that same episode of ENT, and it bugged me as much as it did the first time it was on. When you catch pirates in the act, you don't just let them go to do the same thing to the next passing freighter, you destroy their ships and their bases! Whoever wrote that one really needs to relearn the history of the Barbary corsairs and the birth of the US Navy. "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!"

Anyway, you've got an interesting idea for a campaign. I'd play in that one.

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Here's my current series. Most of its either orginal species I created or my version of a crossover.

Star Trek: Shattered Empires (Not to be excues with Star Trek Shattered Empire which has already been mentioned. :) )

Its 2380, and the Federation is still not fully recovered from the Dominion War.

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I really like a lot of what you've done here, Gispert! My series also takes place in 2380, though it's quite different (as it takes place in and around the Romulan Neutral Zone).

I especially like the Primes; I just may have to use a similar concept (with immunity to phaser fire), as I think it would be a fun way to challenge my crew (plus encourage pulling out weapons like the bat'leth!). :)

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An idea I'm playing with if I get the chance.

Star Trek: Poseidon.
Era: Post destruction of Romulus.
Ship: USS Poseidon (Intrepid class).
A classic TOS era format with mixture of exploration past the top of the Romulan Empire towards the Delta Quadrant using data from USS Voyager. The ship and crew will get called back to known space to aid where necessary against a rogue faction of Romulans, the Alpha Dominion (what's left of it) and dealings with established races and planets. Plus they'll have the chance to encounter new worlds and new civilisations as they progress to the Delta Quadrant.

I have a potential three players for this, so I'm pondering captain, first officer and either science or medical positions.

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Love the trailer, Eryx! With our series I've found it tough to keep the Chief Medical Officer busy enough; other good options include Security Chief, Ops Officer, and Flight Control. Best of luck with your series! :)

Title: Starfleet Academy and beyond

Hello guys, my first post on this site is this one.

So, I want to start up an old campain that centered around Starfleet cadets in the early days of the UFP. Now, I want to move towards the new version of the TOS era instead, having the characters in starfleet academy during the time om star trek 11.


So, I want to start up during the academy days due to the fact that my team of players are not that in to star trek. I need to focus on character development.

In the background is of course the last unicorn supplement Starfleet academy, I use that as a base for the setting but I´m doing it the TOS way instead of TNG.

I want the characters to be able to buy off their flaws and gain edges during the adventures... they need to get their flaws under control to be able to graduate.

I also want to make adventures focused on character relations to academy instructors, general adventure and relations with their families and friends in an outside of starfleet.

In episode one they faced some trials that were a part of being accepted in to starfleet. It continued with some courses and some competition about girls and becoming the best in the class.
Other ideas (i am asking for more from you guys, any input would be helpful)
1. One character trains for the first olympics with partidicpants from all over the UFP. During the olympics the characters need to keep the terrorists Terra Prime from setting off a bomb at the arena.

2. An archeological find brings an energy being to campus. It feeds on fear. Investigation feeling

3. Survival training. The class stumble upon smugglers and have a chance to do good. Or is it just a test set up by starfleet...?

4. Summer job. Enlisting on a freighter to do some "space booming". They end up in tense negotiations and criminals trying to steal their cargo.

5. Piloting training that goes bad when klingon marauders capture them all and forces them to fight for their lives in a gladiator arena somewhere close to rigel.

After graduation they have different shakedown cruises but they end up on the same ship after the shakedown year.


So, what do you guys think of the set up of the campaign or series?

Welcome to the forums, Orville. Things are generally pretty slow here, but there's a few of us who still stop by from time to time.

Sounds like you've got a lot of things happening at SFA. Some people might think it's too much for a believable story, but if you and your players enjoy it, that's what matters. It's all make believe anyway, and there wouldn't be much point in making it up if there weren't any interesting incidents going on every year at Hogwart's -- I mean, at Starfleet Academy.

I'm wondering about the shakedown cruises, do you intend to play through each one individually before bringing the players back together, or just narrate that a year has passed and the classmates are reuniting with a new assignment?

Hogwarts... well I guess you could call it that. Thanks for welcoming me.

So, perhaps I am squeezing to much in to the academy story, then I´ll just delete a few storylines and go on to a regular series.

I intend to create a story for each character to have as shakedown cruise. Perhaps if I come up with a reason as to why they´d end up on the same ship it could be narrated and made to an adventure on it´s own.

The focus on the academy episodes is to develop the characters beyond the stats on the paper.

BTW, any good character background stuff out there? I found something once that was for a d6 game of some sort but I lost it...

Sounds like a fun series, Orville, and welcome to these boards!

I especially like your Klingon adventure seed, though a lot of them sound fun. I wouldn't worry too much about packing lots of adventure in. Think about TOS, and how in three years they had nearly 80 adventures worthy of an episode on TV, plus a bunch more animated ones (not to mention all of the other stories from books, comics, etc.).

Another idea that I think would be fun would be doing something similar to what we saw with Wesley Crusher for his TNG Academy adventure. A good moral dilemma where cadets have to choose between the rules and loyalty to their friends.

Best of luck with your series! :)

They sound like great adventure threads. I would run with any of them, except maybe number 5 - I am not sure how they would find their way out of that one. Gladiator pits are none to friendly to the young and inexperienced.

Serge. Tomcat and Doug Taylor. Thank you for your input on my series seed (quoted below). It was kind of fun to get completely seperate views on episode 5 plot with the klingons. To develop that I intend to have the pc:s try to beat the klingons outside the pit. Somehow, find a way to contact starfleet or similar. The challenge will be to outsmart the klingons, not outmuscle them despite the fact they, or at least some of them will have to fight.

Another thing. I am right now involved in a burning wheel game and that game focuses a lot on charcacter traits and a system of beliefs. I want to incorporate that part in to my star trek game. So I would have every character write a belief about them being on the academy. What is their short term goal? Something like: Cadet Julie is so hot I want to ask her out but I don´t have the guts. I need to win a "INSERT SPORTS GAME HERE" to gain the confidence to ask her out. The other belief should center on something outside the academy. The characters friends, family or a business relation or similar. The third will center on their goal after graduation. OR the best way to achieve graduation. Like i need to work on my arrogance, It will get me kicked out of the academy before I graduate.

I also want to introduce relationships that complicate the series. Like:
Dark secret: the cadet has failed a physical examination and would have been kicked out from the academy but the cadet discovered that the doctor leading the exam. was a drug addict and now they have a deal. The cadet says nothing adn the doc. stays quiet. Then the doctor starts to fail treating paitents and so on... what will the cadet do?

Do you guys have any similar stories I could introduce to further develop NPC and PC interaction in the academy part of the series?

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Title: Starfleet Academy and beyond


So, I want to start up an old campain that centered around Starfleet cadets in the early days of the UFP. Now, I want to move towards the new version of the TOS era instead, having the characters in starfleet academy during the time om star trek 11.


So, I want to start up during the academy days due to the fact that my team of players are not that in to star trek. I need to focus on character development.

In the background is of course the last unicorn supplement Starfleet academy, I use that as a base for the setting but I´m doing it the TOS way instead of TNG.

I want the characters to be able to buy off their flaws and gain edges during the adventures... they need to get their flaws under control to be able to graduate.

I also want to make adventures focused on character relations to academy instructors, general adventure and relations with their families and friends in an outside of starfleet.

In episode one they faced some trials that were a part of being accepted in to starfleet. It continued with some courses and some competition about girls and becoming the best in the class.
Other ideas (i am asking for more from you guys, any input would be helpful)
1. One character trains for the first olympics with partidicpants from all over the UFP. During the olympics the characters need to keep the terrorists Terra Prime from setting off a bomb at the arena.

2. An archeological find brings an energy being to campus. It feeds on fear. Investigation feeling

3. Survival training. The class stumble upon smugglers and have a chance to do good. Or is it just a test set up by starfleet...?

4. Summer job. Enlisting on a freighter to do some "space booming". They end up in tense negotiations and criminals trying to steal their cargo.

5. Piloting training that goes bad when klingon marauders capture them all and forces them to fight for their lives in a gladiator arena somewhere close to rigel.

After graduation they have different shakedown cruises but they end up on the same ship after the shakedown year.


So, what do you guys think of the set up of the campaign or series?

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Do you guys have any similar stories I could introduce to further develop NPC and PC interaction in the academy part of the series?

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Hello,

I planned to introduce those kinds of relationship too on my serie.

One of the relation will be with a character of the command branch. Second officer on a small starship, stationned on a starbase (mostly like the defiant and DS9)

The captain of the starship is the mentor or the idol (not sure of the word, english is not my first language) of the character...But alas, after the Dominion war, this captain was very impacted. I wanted to made him an alcoolic, or an hyper aggressive, wanting to remember the war and fight feelings...So he will do more and more transgression to the starfleet code, or several mistake like being asleep in his office instead of managing the bridge.

I hope the character involved will, at the beginning, clean up the mess...but will after hesitate and try to find a solution.


Second idea. One of the character play a ferengi (but i presume it can be used with any other non federation species). As he didn't know any high ranked officer to write him a recommendation to be able to enter starfleet, he bribed one.
Of course this will be a dark secret flaw.
This can be discovered, or someone can discover this and blackmail the ferengi.

Hope this can help you and give you some ideas.

Thanks Rosswell

I´ll try to use your suggestions. Ok, so now I am well on the way to GM ing my first game in ages.

So the episode that I want to run will need to present the academy feeling of the campaign and an adventure.

I am thinking about using the survival training course as the rim of the game. Perhaps some party at the end where the characters celebrate. I will need to get further input on how to challenge each player individually: Here are some individual themes

1. Characters father used to be a part of section 31 that was affiliated with Terra prime (the xenofobic human organisation): Terra prime are lead by a federation envoy and a political dissident who went on a mission to Ekos to study their civilisation (but we all know what happened there). His father fell in love with a woman who is 1/4 denobulan and then he left the organisation and hid on earth and left starfleet and section 31. The idea to involve this is to have the character see his father in the company of some odd looking fellows (starfleet security undercover) but then he needs to go to the survival mission.

Can the survival mission on a remote planet get involved in a starfleet security operation to find smugglers? Perhaps this certain transport of parts were bound for Section 31/terra prime and the characters father was forced to help starfleet security to help flush terra prime out in to the open and put them in jail?

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...j/ncc1701j.htm

Based on CBS's abortive animated series. I hated the ship, but since it's in the same time-frame, I swapped it out for the E-J

Enterprise-J size and class are based on Doug Drexler's comments.

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Originally Posted by Owen E Oulton

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...j/ncc1701j.htm

Based on CBS's abortive animated series. I hated the ship, but since it's in the same time-frame, I swapped it out for the E-J

Enterprise-J size and class are based on Doug Drexler's comments.

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Very nice. I don't remember ever seeing the ship in what little we saw of that would-be animated series. is there a link so that i may hate it, too? :)

http://zeroroom.squarespace.com/zeroroom/

Design shows the ship in various stages of development. Gallery shows storyboards for the whole series.

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Originally Posted by Owen E Oulton

http://zeroroom.squarespace.com/zeroroom/

Design shows the ship in various stages of development. Gallery shows storyboards for the whole series.

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I see your point. The boxy "saucer" section just doesn't do it for me.

Hmmmmm. Nice resource; pity it didn't go forward, my feelings on the ship aside. And I don't know that I'd go so far as to say, "I hate it," but it doesn't really do a lot for me.

Thanks for the link.

The USS Icarus, a Daedalus Class Light Cruiser. Follows the adventures of the afore-mentioned ship in the early days of the federation. With a rename, could be used for the Archon, Horizon, or Essex.

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...rus/icarus.htm

The USS Sagan NCC-93500 is a Stargazer class Heavy Cruiser in the year 2405.

http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/s...agan/sagan.htm

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation


-Federation founded in 2161

-dignitaries from18 planets were at the signing
Denobulans
Rigilians
Coridanites
Xyrillians
Xindi
Suliban

-formally signed by Earth, Tellar, Vulcan, and Andoria (founding members)

-NX class deecommissioned in 2161

-Introduction of the warp 7 starship.

-The federations first joint spacecraft is the Enterprise class based on the NX frame. The NX frame was earths contribution to the project. Vulcan supplied the warp 7 engine along with sensor enhancements. Andoria supplied tractor beams and improved weapons technology. Tellar supplied subspace communications improvements along with improved transporters. Included holographic technology acquired from the Xyrillians. (Cuuld just as easily say the Daedalus is the frame supplied by earth)

-Earth decided to keep building older Daedalus class ships for their home fleet which they had started during the earth-romulan war due to the cost and complicated nature of the NX class.

-Threat species
Klingons (some isolated klingons will have their head ridges)
Romulans (With reman shock troops)
Tholians
Suliban (Temporal cold war remnants)

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Originally Posted by IceGiant

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation


-Federation founded in 2161

-dignitaries from18 planets were at the signing
Denobulans
Rigilians
Coridanites
Xyrillians
Xindi
Suliban

-formally signed by Earth, Tellar, Vulcan, and Andoria (founding members)

-NX class deecommissioned in 2161

-Introduction of the warp 7 starship.

-The federations first joint spacecraft is the Enterprise class based on the NX frame. The NX frame was earths contribution to the project. Vulcan supplied the warp 7 engine along with sensor enhancements. Andoria supplied tractor beams and improved weapons technology. Tellar supplied subspace communications improvements along with improved transporters. Included holographic technology acquired from the Xyrillians. (Cuuld just as easily say the Daedalus is the frame supplied by earth)

-Earth decided to keep building older Daedalus class ships for their home fleet which they had started during the earth-romulan war due to the cost and complicated nature of the NX class.

-Threat species
Klingons (some isolated klingons will have their head ridges)
Romulans (With reman shock troops)
Tholians
Suliban (Temporal cold war remnants)

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You could also add some threats from Terra prime and similar xenophobic organisations.
What about the Xindi?