Adventure Seeds

Title: "The Farseekers."
Setting: Any, really
Era: Any

The crew starts to feel semi-paranoid - like someone is following them, or someone is watching them, and even some of the NPC crews start to feel that way. The telepathic crew, however, note nothing, sense no one otehr than other crewmembers, and have nothing to report that is out of the ordinary.

The paranoia gets worse, to the point where people can't sleep, can't function, and it soon becomes clear that something is up. Telepathic aliens who use a form of projective psionic travel are visiting, and they're riding the perceptions of the telepathic crewmembers - but not intruding. Unfortunately, there's telepathic leakage, and contact with the visiting aliens must be established before the paranoia gets totally out of hand...

Would likely be more interesting on a starbase setting, where you can have many cultures getting more paranoid about the others...

The Doc

Name: Captain X and the Pirate Princess
Setting: Starship
Era: Any

Idea: The adventure starts with the players responing to a distress call from a merchant ship besiged by pirates. Arriving on the scene, Orion pirates are hard at work. A warning shot should send them scurrying, but not before the Pirate Captain has one communication with the Captain.

The Pirate Captain is a liberated Green Orion Woman, she is taken by the dashing Starfleet Captain and has developes a bit of a crush on him.

She is captured byt he crew and taken into custody for tansfer to a local Starbase. While on the way she will do everything she can to spend tiem with the Captain, seducing him as best she can.

The hook is that her former Lieutenant has taken over now as Pirate Lord and needs to get her back, before the dreaded Starfleet Vulcans pilfer her mind and learn all their secrets. A daring plan has been concocted, involving an attack by two obviously ships, while one pirate vessel with a cloak (old style TOS romulan Cloak if in TNG) slips inbehind the ship and beams a boarding party on board.

How it goes from there is up to you. But could be loads of fun.

She should escape, despite her feelings for the Captain and return to cameo another day in your campaign :)

Just thinking out loud as I go, so feel free to modify as needed :)

I've greatly enjoyed reading all the posts on this topic. I was looking for 2 days before I found this and boy I'm glad I did. I'm trying to write my first Trek adventure and this has helped me get my ideas together SOOOO much. I now have a fully formed plan in my head... Now I just have to put it all on paper. I'll be sure to post it back once I've formalized it so you can all share the fun. Thanks much!!! :D :D :D

This is a 5 star thread after all ;)

It has helped my campaign immensly as well :)

On behalf of all the posters on this thread I thank you.

But Zymmer's right, we've all benefited from the thread.

They like us! They really really like us!

Couldn't resist. ;) Some of the best ideas I've played came from this thread. Just dont tell my players. They think it's all me. (Ha. Right).

The Doc

EPISODE TITLE: The Light of Prometheus
ERA: Any
TYPE: Exploration

Not the starship you shmuck...this is a adventure based on the legend of Prometheus.

The PCs encounter a Godlike being who gives them a technology which would advance the tech base of the Federation expotentially. Unlike Q and other Godlike beings this one is a sincere good guy who actually wants the Federation to advance.

However, fellows of his race aren't so keen and they come down on him in full force intent on punishing him for disclosing the secrets to "undeserving" inferior beings. The also wish to punish the PCs by releasing a virus into their ship which begins to shut down the whole ship bit by bit. The PCs have to convince the other "gods" that they are peaceful and worthy of the advancement that is offered.

Unlike Q thes "gods" are ultimately not capricious so they will listen and will give the PCs a fair hearing but they are also determined to make sure that the don't make the same mistake they did several mellenia before when they did help a race to advance only to have that race challenge them for power instead of peaceful co-existence.

EPISODE TITLE: The Great Game
ERA: TOS

Between the Federation and the Klingon Empire lies a planet which is strategically placed cluster of planets which are ruled by a loose confederation of tribal leaders each of whom control one planet or another.

The PCs have been ordered to make contact with the most powerful of the chiefs who controls the tribal council and get him to allow the Federation to use the cluster as a strategic location for a possible war with the Klingons.

The Klingons are also on the diplomatic offensive and their ambassadors arrive at the same time as the PCs. So its a game of political and diplomatic manuvering and to the winner goes the prize of the cluster. Just remember the Klingons are not above assissnations to get their way.

Title: "Dead Inside"
Setting: Planetary
Era: Any

The crew are out to rescue a Napean ship that for some reason violated traffic regulations and went near a restricted planet that was known to be, a generation ago, dabbling with warp-drives, but suddenly dropped into anarchy. It's a planet of tribes/gangs, urban ruins, and rough disposition, and for some unknown reason the Napean ship got near - and then got shot out of the sky by one of the more technologically advanged gangs. Hence, rescue.

The thing that dropped the race into anarchy? They were a telepathic people who thought they could "Evolve" their minds to a new plane of existance - and it worked - but it left their bodies behind. Those people, now neurologically damaged from the "evolution," are psi-blank (unreadable), have no telepathic capablities, and feel their very souls have left their bodies. New children born have the same lack of soul, no new people have developed the gift, and the place is a mess.

The truth is that the "Evolution" separated the telepathic consciousness of the race, which exists in a presence form only of telepathic energy, able to watch, but since the physical race is now psi-blank, they can't communicate. They've been "pulling" the telepathic consciousness out of newborns to raise them instead of leaving them behind in this horrible world. The telepathic beings sent out a telepathic "help!" to the Napean ship, and when it was shot down, some of the aliens possessed the Napean survivors and have since been trying to make things right...

(This was born out of another thread I started on new racial templates, and there's more infor at: http://forum.trekrpg.net/showthread....&threadid=2794 )

The Doc

TITLE: Captain for a Day
ERA: Any

This one's suited for a comedic lower decks adventure. Its Boxing Day and since the ship is not performing any vital missions, the Captain decides to honour an ancient tradition and the senior staff switches places with a group of junior officers.

Thrust into the job of Captain as a day the young command officer has to handle all the emergencies that crop up and well some of them border on the downright ridiculous and to teach the junior officers a lesson in responsibliity the senior officers act as if they were junior officers forcing the young officers to take the decisions.

Well of course everything goes well until the ship encounters a "natural disaster" which leaves the junior officers in charge of the ship and the senior staff in precarious positions which require quick thinking by the junior officers to save the CO and the ship.

M*A*S*H did an episode like this. It was hilarious! If I had a group local to me I'd take this and run with it!

Ok, idea.

NOTE: controversial religious topic to follow.

Title: Embrace Diversity
Era: any

The crew on a planetary exploration mission encounters the Xichians, a race modeled after Christianity. After suffering persecution in their long ago past at the hands of the Magna Romans (or any other race you care to mention), they manage to escape find an M-class planet to inhabit. Problem: their system neighbors the Pagali, a race modeled after Paganism.

The crew's mission: find a way to help one, the other, or possibly both planets peacefully co-exist, despite intolerance on the part of one party (either the Xichians or the Pagali, Narrator's choice) and help both civilizations move toward UFP membership. (As I type this, I realize it might fit better into the "series" thread

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M*A*S*H did an episode like this. It was hilarious! If I had a group local to me I'd take this and run with it!

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I remember that episode, it was when they made Klinger Colonel wasn't it. I have to confess it was the source of the adventure seed. I haven't played it because my PCs are all senior officers...if someone runs with it, let me know how it turned out.

TITLE: Event Horizon (no relation to the movie of the same name)
ERA: Any

The ship while hurrying to bring relief supplies to a devestated colony world accidently pass through the event horizon of a black hole (it was a navigational error caused by the the black hole's interference with the navigational instruments).

Damaged the ship is being dragged into the black hole and due to the time dilation associated with black holes, different parts of the ship are running at different passages of time with the forward section running at several times faster than the rear section with gradations in between. The PCs are split up and as they pass from point to point on the ship find themselves at different time periods its as if the ship has been turned into multiple time zones. Messages to Starfleet and other ships are also running at a different rate so its not very clear when a rescue ship will arrive to save them.

You folks are incredible I just went through and copied all the seeds from this topic onto one huge text file and will mine it heavily for ideas for the new Star Trek game I plan to run (I may start it with Icon and convert it to DecTrek later as I'm getting
antsy to run some Trek again.)

Here's a seed based on an adventure I actually ran...

TITLE: Return To the Cage
ERA; Next Generation
TYPE: Exploration/Counter-Espionage

Starfleet has decided to send a ship and crew to Talos IV, since all signs of intelligent life on the planet seem to have ceased; if there is no need to maintain General Order 7, they will rescind it, as the ships used to maintain the Talos Blockade can be used elsewhere. When they arrive, however, they find they are not alone on the world after all...Romulans are already there, seeking any remnant technology they can use to battle the Federation..and they also are greeted by Captain Christopher Pike..looking healthy and young!

Allen

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You folks are incredible I just went through and copied all the seeds from this topic onto one huge text file and will mine it heavily for ideas for the new Star Trek game I plan to run (I may start it with Icon and convert it to DecTrek later as I'm getting
antsy to run some Trek again.)
Allen

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Welcome to the best repository of Trek adventure ideas for light years around. As I mentioned earlier, we've all benefited greatly from this thread, several thousand (maybe even million) of manhours must have been put into the total work here and I think we're all proud of what we have done.:)

Title: "Miracle Strain" (idea outright stolen from book of same name)
Setting: Any, really
Timeframe: Any

A "faith healer" is murdered, and upon autopsy by the crew's CMO, it seems he had a strange genetic quirk. Even stranger, the faith healer seems to have done real good while he was alive, including healing two or three people with otherwise incurable illnesses - until they start being murdered, too. The only connection is that they were all treated by the faith healer, and as the crew investigates, they learn that one of the ones being murdered had the strange genetic quirk - a quirk that hadn't been there before they were healed, and developed after.

Truth? If someone is healed by a powerful enough person with this genetic quirk, there's a small chance that you develop the same ability (ie: PSI 1, Range -2, Psionic Healing skill) over a period of the next few weeks/months. The murderer is one of the faith healer's previous patients, who developed this ability, who wants this gift all for himself - a member of Section 31 who feels that these abilties belong only in the Federation - and the Faith healer was healing anyone who truly needed it. To make absolute sure, he's embarked on a "scorched earth" campaign against previous patients of the faith healer. There's a potentially interesting twist here if you have the faith healer having cured one of the crew - and later give that crewmember a latent healing ability.

The Doc

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You folks are incredible I just went through and copied all the seeds from this topic onto one huge text file and will mine it heavily for ideas for the new Star Trek game I plan to run (I may start it with Icon and convert it to DecTrek later as I'm getting
antsy to run some Trek again.)

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My pleasure to have been a part of this as well :) This has helped me plan out season 2 of my campaign. :)

I hope to see it surge back to life soon as we all get reinspired one more time :)

Title: Choices
Setting: Bajor, DS9
Timeframe: Post Dominion War

I'm paraphrasing this one from the "Bajoran Orbs" thread in the ICON stats forum...

The players head on over to a meeting with First Minister Shakaar Edon and learn that he is consulting the Orb of Choice. It is apparently capable of showing someone a life that they would have lived had they made different choices, and in historical context, was rarely used, most often by leaders of Bajor, to remind them that there are worlds of decisions, and to remain humble, etc.

As the crew walks into the room where Shakaar is looking at the orb - there is a flash and they have a sense of falling - and the world around them changes. Shakaar regretted not pursuing a relationship with Kira, and the orb showed him a life with her, married to her, and he chose that world over the real one. The crew, close enough to the orb, have come along with him, re-writing everything from that point onward. Only they are aware of the changes, everyone else believes this to be the way it always was:

Kira and Shakaar married, and as such, Odo fell to the sway of the female changeling, and it was only the Section-31 disease that finally won the war for the Federation - with a few more months of hostilities before the Founders died, but with a horrible fallout: the Jem'Hadar, Founderless, went rogue, slaying many of the Vorta that controlled them, and while most went insane, some secured White factories of their own. The raids, battles, disasters and destruction was grand, in both sides of the wormhole. But this is the world Shakaar prefers. The crew would have to convince him that this isn't right, and then use the orb to set things right.

As an added twist, bring someone the PCs cared about deeply, but died in the regular timeline, and have them alive and well due to some glitch (the new security officer of DS9 knew emergency first aid or something), and role-play out that particular pain: what if they like this world, too?

The Doc

Title: A Clone of One's Own
Setting: Any
Timeframe: Any

A "sworn enemy" of one of the crew manages to get a genetic sample from the crewmember somehow (maybe by hiring someone to pick a fight with the crewmember and stab them nonlethally), and from that point on, people the crewmember cares about deeply keep finding his dead body - killed in ruthless ways. The enemy is cloning the character, not really bothering to implant memories or personality, just slaughtering the clones and leaving them behind as a way to mess with the minds of those the crewmember cares about (this is especially horrible and cruel if said crewmember has young people in his life who could discover the bodies).

Chasing down the villain in this one could be difficult, and involve backtracking from the barfight, and then upon breaking into the villain's bad-guy hideout, having the crewmember trigger a genetically coded sensor and having him beamed away - leaving the other crewmembers to chase after him, and find him among other clones who have been given personalities/memories like the crewmembers - a veritable torture chamber, with clones - and the original - all strung out on display. The inevitable "which one is he?" moment.

What might also be of interest is what to do with any surviving clones - under Federation law, as we saw in that one ep where the guy tried to frame Odo for murder by killing his own clone, clones are considered sentient beings.

The Doc

Now that's just mean!

I love it! :)

May have to use it in Season 3 :D

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My pleasure to have been a part of this as well :) This has helped me plan out season 2 of my campaign. :)

I hope to see it surge back to life soon as we all get reinspired one more time :)

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I think my creative juices have been diverted into the Mirror Dominion and War of the Gods threads. I'm also working on one or two major story arcs which is taking up quite a bit of my time.:)

TITLE: Code of Silence
ERA: Any
TYPE: Exploration

A routine away team is left on planet while their ship is ordered to take part in a rescue mission. Left alone the away team finds a strange machine. When they touch it they release an ancient weapon which knocks out their tricorders and phasers and neural feedback strikes them dumb.

As they ponder how to get out the pickle, a group of (insert enemy race) arrive on planet and begins to hunt down the away team. They have to survive without their weapons, tricorders and the ability to communicate except in sign langauge for as long as it will take the ship to return to dig them out of the mess.

TITLE: All My Tomorrows

The PC is confronted one night by his future self, a darker version of himself who suffered some great tragedy which changed his life forever.

The future self tells the PC that he has a chance to change his own destiny...all he has to do is...at this point agents of the DTI arrive to take the future self into custody.They are DTI operatives from the future and they're here to prevent the timeline from being polluted. As the future self is taken away, he shouts out a coded phrase that gives the PC an idea of the destiny he must change. The phrase is obscurely worded and could mean a dozen different things (hey its an adventure seed, you figure it out:) ) and its up to the PC to find out what he has to change or can he actually change it...can you change your own destiny?

I just cut & pasted these ideas to notpad files. I'll put them together in word & convert to PDF. I might pass around to someone who has more knowledge of Acrobat than I do.

Thanks for some awesome ideas by the way, folks! :)

Okay this one is going to be a season three two parter for me, but here goes.

Name: Warpin' With the Doctor
Style: Starship
Era: Any

Okay so this adventure involves a crossover between Dr. Who and Star Trek. For me I use the most current Doctor (the 8th?) Paul McGann.

A pair of 29th Century Timefleet Agents show up on the player's ship, claiming that a rogue time-traveller is going to try and shang-hi the player's ship. With them is another man, all dressed in Black, who claims to be a time cop from the far future (post 30th). He has enlsited the help of these two agents, and now want the help of the crew to detain this man and his allies.

It seems he is going to stop a warp drive test on the planet Skaro. By doing so he will prevent them from becoming a major threat to him in the future.

Despite the 29th Century guys being nice, they are thick headed and constantly tell the players that they (the players) are over their heads and let them handle things. The time cop (who has a nice beard BTW) is cold and slightly dark around his edges, play this up.

Then the Police Call Box arrives in the Engine Room or Cargo Bay of the Player's Ship. Out steps the elborate man, with two companions. Say one is a version of one of the PCs, or a dead crewmate from the apst, who knows nothing about Starfleet or the other players. As the players confront him, they learn that his name is The Doctor, and he is from another time and dimension and is following the Master (time cop). The Master should dispatch of the 29th Century Time guys and steal their ship. Something really clever here, worthy of the Master.

Now the Doctor can let them in that the Master has taken control of a sect of Daleks (explain daleks to players as well) and that they are going to try and used the warp test to rip open a dimensional portal. Then the Master's Daleks will invade Skaro and take it over. From there the rest of the Galaxy awaits.

Also the daleks will be the enhanced Spider Dalek kind (anyone have stats on these guys?)

Okay then, that's all I have so far...anyone want to kick the can around a bit?

I have been somewhat out of the Dr. Who loop for, ohhhhh, the PAST 10 YEARS!! They don't show it anywhere in my area, except Space, and the last time I checked it was re runs...Not that I have a problem with that. So, Capt. Zymmer my question is Spider Daleks...Never heard of them could you give a run down? I suppose all the races have changed since I last saw a "new" episode.


I really miss the good Doctor.:(

I cannot remember where the Spider Daleks were supposed to show up, but they haven't yet made their official Dr. Who debut (IIRC)

Diamond, care to comment on this one?

If I can remember the new Daleks were supposedly designed for use in the planned Dr Who TV movies but after the lukewarm reception of the first one (with the Master as the villain) the BBC put the project on hold...so we may never see any of the new Daleks. Actually I was wondering what would happen if the Daleks met the Borg.

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EPISODE: Out of Time or Out of Mind?
ERA: TNG

The PCs wake up on what appears to be an advanced starship. They are met by a familiar face, a junior officer on their last ship, but who is now older and an Admiral. He informs them that they had just been recovered after been listed as missing more than twenty years ago.

The last thing the PCs remember is being on a runabout going to an important meeting with the Romulans to settle a long standing border dispute. The Admiral tells them that their mission had failed but they had dissapeared before they could report back on the meeting. The admiral questions them about how they negotiated the dispute to find out why the meeting went awry.

The truth is that the PCs are the prisoners of the Tal'Shiar who are trying to find out the PCs position in advance of the meeting in the hope of gaining an advantage. Sort of a Mission Impossible sting operation in reverse.

Reminds me of that TNG ep with Riker, where it was really cool until they revealed it to be the space child, who looked lame when revealed.

I always thought that episode worked best as a Romulan plot :) Showed them to be very insideous :)

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Reminds me of that TNG ep with Riker, where it was really cool until they revealed it to be the space child, who looked lame when revealed.

I always thought that episode worked best as a Romulan plot :) Showed them to be very insideous :)

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I know...Future Imperfect was the basis of the idea along with the Stargate SG-1 episode Out of Mind (plagarised the title there) where the Gau'old actually did try the "sting" operation with the members of SG-1.

EPISODE TITLE: The Constructs
ERA: Any
EPISODE TYPE: Exploration

The PCs receive an SOS signal from a cruise ship (or other civilian type ship). The arrive to find most of the hull had been eaten away and the crew and passengers are trapped in a forward section beseiged by metalic spider like "things" which are using the ship's hull and other parts to replicate themselves. The manage to get the civilians off but unbeknown to them, one of the constructs has attached itslef to the hull of the ship and begins replicating itself using hull material.

The problem is that energy weapons have no effect on the constructs and in fact only makes them stronger. They do not seem to have any form of sentience just an "urge" to replicate by absorbing the technology around them.

The PCs mission...survive and prevent similiar infenstation of ships, planets, starbases etc...

EPISODE: An Error of Judgment
ERA: Any
SCENARIO TYPE: Prime Directive

The CO decides to violate the Prime Directive in a situation where it seems like a good idea. However, once the PD is broken, things go completely to hell and the situation on the planet gets worst than before.

The CO is arrested and charged with violating the PD. The scenario is actually set up as a PD scenario but ends with the CO's court martial.:)

Title: Terror in a small world
Era: Any, but works better Post-TOS (thought you could include Mudd's Androids)

Type: Horror

Mudd or Soong create an android that unfortunately has an unstable personality subroutine or positronic matrix. Said Android escapes his creator, boards a shuttle. Unfortunately, due to his instability, he navigates into an ion storm and is forced to crash land on a mideval-level tech world. The crew is called in to retrieve the android & ease the fears of the locals, who've never seen an android, let alone a crazed one.

Frankenstein, in short.

Well, I've wanted to post here for a while, but forgot most of my good ideas as they are saved on another computer. Anyway, brain fart over, here's a few.

EPISODE: The Leash
ERA: Post TNG
SCENARIO TYPE: Adventure(?)

The PC's encounter a damaged Borg scout that, while easily defeated, manages to transport some tech onboard the PC's ship that begins to assimilate systems. There are no drones, just a hardware virus of sorts. The assimilated vessel begins to travel towards a dangerous phenomenon/wormhole that probably damaged the scout, but may also lead to more Borg. Time for the PC's to figure out how to "flush" the system."

EPISODE: Duplicant
ERA: Any
SCENARIO TYPE: Phenomenon

Upon the discovery of a rogue comet the PC's scan a ship buried beneath the surface. They begin to cut it out (ala TNG's "Masks") even though they are drawing dangerously near a temporal phenomenon. To the PC's horror they discover that the ship is their ship with a few million years of history (the comet head kept it somewhat "preserved"). They find themselves trapped in said phenomenon and their only hope of escape seems to be canabalizing parts from their current ship to fix up the duplicant (surprisingly missing those parts), transport everyone on board, and get outa there. (this scenario needs a bit of work, such as why the duplicant can escape and not the original, but I really like the idea).

EPISODE: Dark City
ERA: Any
SCENARIO TYPE: Away Team

Based loosely on the movie of the same name, the PC's ship discovers an apparently uninhabited city on an otherwise barren world. An away team gets stuck inside a holographic "experiment" in the city that slowly degrades their memory. Finding the source/"scientists" that started the experiement would be their primary concern, but messing with their memories will make it very difficult (perhaps even start the session off already in the Dark City with "generic" characters without personalities for the PC's to play. They would later discover that they are just playing each others' characters without any personality). Anyone still on the ship has to try and get them out with a nasty forcefield in the way.

EPISODE: Plague
ERA: Any
SCENARIO TYPE: Prime Directive

Sorta based on other ideas I've seen on the boards, but this one deals with a Cardassian crash on a pre-warp world. Biochemicals spill from the site infecting the locals, and as the world falls within Federation space, Starfleet decides to pick up the pieces and try and fix the deadly infection (ebola on steroids? with medieval tech? nasty!).

EPISODE TITLE: Gunboat Diplomacy
ERA: Any

A newly admitted Federation member has a somewhat militant culture and maintains a fairly big standing navy...while no match for Starfleet vessels these ships are relatively powerful.

A neighbouring world is a non-Federation member, due to the anarchy in its government, it can't even apply. Anyway, in one incident merchants from the new member are killed.

Invoking the right to protect its own citizens, the new member deploys a small squadron of ships to the non-member world and threatens retaliatory strikes if the perpetrators are not handed over.

The Federation reacts and sends to PCs to mediate. They have to prevent a possible war but may have to fight against a member world to do so.

EPISODE TITLE: The Sleeper
ERA: Post Dominion War

After the end of the Dominion War, the Cardassians and Federation conduct an exhcange of prisoners. One of hte prisoners is a Starfleet officer listed as MIA from the days of the Cardassian Wars. Apparently he was not exhcanged after the War due to a "bureaucratic oversight". EVIL GRIN.

Anyway, after being debriefed by Starfleet Intelligence he is cleared to return to duty. However he is really a Odsidian Order sleeper agent. During a delicate mission to negotiate the return of occupied Cardassian worlds back to the Union he is activated by the Obsidian Order to disrupt the talks. He begins acting strangely and his crewmates have to find out why and stop him...