Adventure Seeds

Title: "Sufficiently Advanced"
Era: TNG
Setting: Exploration of a planet

The crew, exploring a planet with a mythology much like the Klingon's (ie: we overthrew and killed/drove off our Gods), stumble into the "last battle temple" and then - whoosh - they're on another planet, having accidentally stumbled through a gate! Once there, they find the Gods are alive and well, lording it over a different race (though some of the race that was on the planet of origin is also there, and much interspecies mixing has occurred). Though it shouldn't take the crew long to realize these "Gods" are just people with high technology, using the Iconian gate to get back home is another story...

Who the 'Gods' are I leave to you - remnants of Iconians, perhaps - people like either of the races, with a slight DNA trace of something different that could be Iconian DNA - the ancestors of a long-ago Iconian outpost, perhaps, who stayed behind on this planet as one of the few places where the inhabitants weren't rebellious enough, and no one came and blasted them from space...

The Doc

Title: "Missing, presumed Destroyed"
Setting: Starship
Era: TNG onward

In testing a new impulse drive that could theoretically garner the Federation a bit of an advantage in combat, an impulse drive that actually uses a fraction of a power injection from the warp engines, the ship that the crew are on (the testbed ship) apparently explodes in a subspace fire and is gone, all hands lost.

Actually, a cloaked pseudo-Fed ship built by the Romulans was specifically made, got nearby, beamed the Rommies over to the testbed ship, and disrupted the engines in a way they figured would shoot the Fed testbed ship off at high warp to a location where they could meet up with other Rommies and reverse engineer the new engines. The pseudo-Fed ship was set to self-destruct at that moment: to look like the Fed ship just blew up.

Alas, the Rommie tampering has had a rather unfortunate effect: the warp/impulse mix got a little shaky, and the warp-sling effect the Romulans were going for didn't work out right, and now they're behind enemy lines in a really bad way: they're in the Taurhai Unity. Oops. First the Fed have to take their ship back, but with some Romulans aboard, and they're the only ones who've been where they are now...

The Doc

Title: "The ENgines of God," (Stolen from the Jack McDevitt novel, which is a great read BTW)
Era: Any
Setting: Exploration Starship

The ship arrives in an area where living civilizations have been wiped out in many systems, and in systems that are low-tech, been left untouched. Borg? No, not their style, and the planets that have been hit were hit in a strange way, destruction of geometric shapes that are unnatural to the environment (ie: a tree left alive, a skyscraper blown to bits). On some of these worlds' moons, there are large geometric "stonehenges" set up - a lure for whatever seemed to come along and destroy the systems?

Just as the crew are about to give up, they find records on a planet whose inhabitants lived inside mountains as a holy tradition - the mountainous habitats were safe during the "Firing of the Engines of God," and some survived: they noticed, over the generations, that there was a cycle to the destruction: say, every 138 years or something. And from the various ruins' bits and pieces of sculpture and records, there's a place in the sky from which the destruction comes: a black nebula. And gosh, it's coming up right about... now.

Too bad the ship is a geometric shape.

The Doc

Title: "Searching through the Ruins..."
Era: Any TNG or later
Setting: Exploration, Defense, Starship

After a Metagenic weapon goes off on a colony world, the place is left dead, and the metagenic effect leaves sensors nearly useless. The crew go down in a shuttle to investigate the attack: to find out who attacked, and what it is they took from the planet after the attack ended. Unfortunately, whatever the thing was the planet was attacked for, the colonists hid it well, and the bad guys are still here looking for it: they're not going to play nice, either.

This'd be a really creepy adventure: sort of a ruins under dark metagenic-affected rainclouds, colony empty, no power running, like exploring a dark, cold, damp giant city/mall with the vague feeling that someone is following you.

The Doc

Nathan, where in the heck do you get your ideas from? I can write 'half-ideas', but I'm amazed at some of the stuff you & others come up with! I guess it'd be different if I had a gaming group & the proper Narrator's guides... *sigh*

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Originally posted by Michael Barratt
Title: "The ENgines of God," (Stolen from the Jack McDevitt novel, which is a great read BTW)
Era: Any
Setting: Exploration Starship

The ship arrives in an area where living civilizations have been wiped out in many systems, and in systems that are low-tech, been left untouched. Borg? No, not their style,

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A valid idea... But this statement is not 'technically' correct... this is exactly the Borgs style, take the technology but not bother about Low Tech... Always had been from TNG through to Voyager... At least not without ulterior motive ie; low tech earth was as a result of high tech earth, etc.

Of course that simply throws in a red herring to scare the players before they hit the real plot... (and get scared again).

OK, its been a while since I added a plot to this thread. So.

Title: Return to Reunification
Era: Post DS9/Guest Appearance.
Setting: Starship, probably a Romulan One.

In the warm post war alliance between the Romulans and Federation the moderates have taken hold in the Romulan Empire, and while they are unwilling to return to Vulcan themselves they are far more open to exploring their cu;tural hisory and allowing the dissidents to re-unify... Cutting the dead wood so to speak...

And so Ambassador Spock finds himself rendevousing along the neutral zone in a Romulan transport with the players.

The players are assigned to take the ship to Vulcan, replacing the Star Navy crew at the border. The freighter is old and no secrets can be had from it, but would be good for some Romulan 'Culture Shock'... As would Spock for the old 'Cowboy Fleet' way of doing things...

The players also have a secondary mission. To vet the dissidents and Romulan cultural exchange scientists for potential spies and infiltrators (just because theres an alliance trust is not total)... Play up the Paranoia...

Complications...
- Maybe theres an extremist dissident among the group on the run from crimes commited in the name of freedom, maybe an undercover Tal Shiar guy trying to find him...
- The obligitary agent trying to find a nice easy way into the Federation.
- For a change. How about 'Federation First' a political movement within the Federation steeled by war andfirm in the belief that the Romulans are using and abusing the good relationships... Maybe they have extremists of their own who have access to a starship and want to stop the influx...

Or any others... Enjoy.

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Originally posted by Dan Gurden
A valid idea... But this statement is not 'technically' correct... this is exactly the Borgs style, take the technology but not bother about Low Tech... Always had been from TNG through to Voyager... At least not without ulterior motive ie; low tech earth was as a result of high tech earth, etc.

Of course that simply throws in a red herring to scare the players before they hit the real plot... (and get scared again).

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Oops, that's my error: I meant that the total destruction of the planets isn't Borg-like in style: it's more scorch-the-planet than assimilate and steal: no big square scoops out of the planet, just crumbling ruins. Nothing was *taken*. But the order of the sentences I put should have left the "low-tech" sentence until after I said "nada" on the Borg Style. Oops.

The Doc

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Originally posted by Perrryyy
Nathan, where in the heck do you get your ideas from? I can write 'half-ideas', but I'm amazed at some of the stuff you & others come up with! I guess it'd be different if I had a gaming group & the proper Narrator's guides... *sigh*

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:o I read a lot. That sounds stupid, now that I say it, but. A lot of my ideas come from books I've read, SF or otherwise. I try my best to point out when the adventure seed is taken from a book I read, so I hope no authors hate me right now.

I also have really, really vivid dreams (when I was a kid, I was a mess, I had nightmares nearly every night, woke up screaming, etc). I learned lucid dreaming (dream control) and some of the places my nightly visits go are fodder for adventures or short stories.

Basically, I just "borrow" (ie: steal) from other sources. The newspaper, television, books mostly. Usually that gives me the basic conflict, then I try to find a way to mask the conflict as something else (and give the players something to uncover). And that's about it...

Working in a bookstore is also a biggie. I can read the back "Teasers" on SF novels, and come up with an entire adventure, and then read the book and find out I went in the opposite direction than the author did. :)

'Nathan / The Doc

Title: ?
Era: Post TNG/Guest Appearance.
Type: Starship Hunt

The Enterprise-E is stolen (shock, horror) and the PC's ship plays host to Picard et al in a massive hunt for the perps (probably Rommies or very well funded mercs). The trick is to play the "established" characters in such a way that they rub your crew the wrong way, and then give your crew the better clues so they end up saving the day.

I had this idea a while ago as an "intro" adventure that would be loads of fun as an investigative hunt. However it also makes a great "guest appearance" and in the end allows the PC's to believe they're just as good if not better than the "Enterprise" crew.

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Originally posted by Pope
Title: ?
Era: Post TNG/Guest Appearance.
Type: Starship Hunt

The Enterprise-E is stolen (shock, horror) and the PC's ship plays host to Picard et al in a massive hunt for the perps (probably Rommies or very well funded mercs). The trick is to play the "established" characters in such a way that they rub your crew the wrong way, and then give your crew the better clues so they end up saving the day.

I had this idea a while ago as an "intro" adventure that would be loads of fun as an investigative hunt. However it also makes a great "guest appearance" and in the end allows the PC's to believe they're just as good if not better than the "Enterprise" crew.

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*grins* I like that. I can't imagine introducing Riker into any of my gaming groups without him being found abrasive by at least half the crew. ;) On a similar note, a series of adventures with "guest-starring" the crews of TNG, DS9, and VOY might be interesting: I wonder if we could craft an adventure around each of the major characters... anyone up for playing that challenge? :)

The Doc

Title: Holo Hell
Era: Post VOY
Setting: Ship Hunt

I got this idea while looking at the prometheus ship(I'm not fond of it, but I like it more than I used to). Since VOY return many more have been built as experimental ships, now one vanishes mysteriously near the Romulan Border. The crew's ship is sent on a rescue mission to find this very valuable craft.

They discover the ship inside a nebula, heading slowly towards the Romulan border. Inside the nebula the sensors cease to function but visual confirmation is possible. When they contact it the NPC crew responds and excuses themselves for having not reported back to SC. When the PC's beam aboard, everything seems ok and their failure to report to SC seems unusual.

What is actually happening is the original crew has replaced by holograms. The exact reason is up to the narrator; a Romulan attack? Holodeck goes nuts? or maybe an experiment gone wrong?

Either way, the holograms like what they've become and refuse to be deactivated when confronted with this information. Instead they wish to enter the RNZ and confront the Romulans on certain dubious charges.(coulb be anything as long as they cross the line)

It boils down to a confrontation with both ships and possibly the Romulans involved. This is obviously meant for a more militant crew and a good ship. You can either have a ship to ship combat OR a technobabble de-activation of the holodecks (they are photonic):rolleyes: .

PC's could take part in the ship battle or be on the Prometheus and duke it out with crazed holo crewmen. A virtual hell...
Enjoy:D

Title: Differnce of Opinion
Era: TOS
Setting: Planetary

In regards with the Organia treaty, Harridan's World is ready to decide if it wants to join either the UFP or he Klingon Empire. A team from both sides has been sent in to present their case.

But Harridan's Wolrd has an ancient secret, one which the Romulans don't want either side to learn about.

Can both sides come together to expose the Romulan Tal'Shiar agent and dsicvoer what the secret of Harridan's world really is?

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Title: Do you see what I see?
Era: Pre-Dominion War, TNG/DS9 era
Setting: Starship, near Neutral Zone

The Romulans contact the Federation and ask for help, and once the stun effect passes, the Federation sends the crew to help the Romulans look for a trading ship that has stolen something of value (make something up) from the Romulans, and is also, by happenstance, someone who has a criminal record in the Federation as well. They're playing it as a "clean up your own mess, then hand him over," since he entered Romulan space from Federation space in an area they claim to patrol and keep safe.

While the investigation is underway, some of the crew start to see someone, always vague and in shadows, asking for help. What's going on? The trader hasn't stolen something valuable, he stole someone valuable, a telepathic Romulan, someone the Romulans don't want out of their sphere of influence, and someone they're willing to kill if necessary. The crew need to uncover it, make contact, rescue the telepathic Romulan, and somehow decide if the criminal-trader should still be turned over to the Romulans, as they were asked and accepted in the original deal.

The Doc

Ohhhh I like that one...I like that one very much.

But given the Romulans wouldnd't ask for help if they could aoid it, have the guy be in Federation space, and a "team: of Romulans sent to work on the PCs ship to fidn the "criminal".

Of course following their every move is a cloaked Warbird :)

Ohhhh...I have to bump something from season 2 to make room for this one now :) Yummy.

Thanks Mike!

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Ohhhh I like that one...I like that one very much.

But given the Romulans wouldnd't ask for help if they could aoid it, have the guy be in Federation space, and a "team: of Romulans sent to work on the PCs ship to fidn the "criminal".

Of course following their every move is a cloaked Warbird :)

Ohhhh...I have to bump something from season 2 to make room for this one now :) Yummy.

Thanks Mike!

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(in best Doctor Michael Barratt character london accent):
Why do you Colonials insist on shortening names down to childish affectations?
(end of said accent, and dropping out of character)

Danke. That's a very slimmed down version, with an alternate twist, of an adventure I did with Romulan psychic defectors. That went over really well with the group, end they ended up picking up a young Romulan telepath who stayed on board the ship from that point on. :) She's a favourite NPC Civvie.

Good call on putting the criminal/defector in the Fed space, though - just having the Romulans willing to come across the border should put the crew on "Yellow Alert" suspicious mode...

'Nathan / The Doc

Title: Pages
Era: Any
Setting: Any, though easiest on a Colony or Starbase setting where baddies come and go often and easily.

Someone is murdered, and the investigating crew have one major clue to go through: the individual was an avid writer, published holonovelist, and.. get this.. kept an interactive holographic diary. So the crew gets to walk through the victim's life diary: where they learn he was having an affair with a Klingon's wife, was blackmailing the local Ferengi, and might just have plaigerized his latest novel from a quiet, shy, unjoined Trill before dumping her for the Klingon's wife. Oh dear. Who killed the author? The Trill, the Klingon, or the Ferengi? Answer: the Klingon's wife - the author was going through round two of stealing a novel, hers, a romance set on Qonos.

The Doc

I do my best sir.

I am curious as to what kind of mental power you gave the Romulan...Just projective telepahty, or was there more?

Title: A wormhole ago...
Era: Post-VOY
Setting: Barzan wormhole, Barzans and crew's ship

After I ran my fourth season premiere I thought I'd put it up on the boards so other narrators could use it.

The Barzans have finally created wormhole stabilizing technology and have invited the Federation to see their new creation at work. The PC's ship is sent, a Klingon vessel and a Romulan vessel also arrive (each invited by the Barzans; who intend to sell it to the highest bidder).

The Barzan freighters fly about the wormhole shot some technobabble waves at it and it seems to stabilize. The opening on the other side is in unknown space and probes reveal very little information.

Suddenly a Borg Cube(yes a cube) exits the wormhole, heavily damaged and trailing debris. It fires on everyone outside, when the ships receive a proper trashing it suddenly stops tractors the Barzans and heads back.

Why they do this you ask? Well after Mrs.Janeway's actions the Borg aren't feeling to well and their arrival is purely accidental. The tech accidentally intercepted a transwarp conduit so it "fell out", the Borg do not know why but realize that the Barzans may know.

The PC's will realize that the Borg cannot be allowed to assimilate this tech so they must follow, maybe with some help from the Romulans and Klingons if they are still alive. Once on the other side, the Borg ship will stop for no reason.(They are again having trouble connecting to the hive). This gives the crew time to extract the tech, the Barzans and head back to their side to close the wormhole.

For those narrators who believe that the TNG Borg should be used, I recommend against it. It would be suicide for you PC crews. The only explanation you need to give on what the Borg drones are doing aboard the ship is that they stare blankly in front and sometimes move forward.(They get a busy signal back home and must do a technobabble redial:D )

Enjoy!

If you are searching ideas for adventures,why don´t you take a look at the SFB scenarios?some of them are truly works of art(they almost seem more fit for a roleplaying game than for a strategy one).

Umm,and sorry for my english.I´m only good at reading it…
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I do my best sir.

I am curious as to what kind of mental power you gave the Romulan...Just projective telepahty, or was there more?

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She was a projective and receptive telepath, and that's all, but she had a high PSI rating, and began with a Focus -2 and Range +2 - she had a lot of raw power, but no control. She was born on Romulus, after all, and had had no training.

Since then she's shown signs of Mind-Meld ability, empathic abilities, and keeps on growing. Methinks she'll eventually make some big mistakes from being too free with her power, and that'll pave the way to some introspective episodes. :)

The Doc

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Title: Pages
Era: Any
Setting: Any, though easiest on a Colony or Starbase setting where baddies come and go often and easily.

Someone is murdered, and the investigating crew have one major clue to go through: the individual was an avid writer, published holonovelist, and.. get this.. kept an interactive holographic diary. So the crew gets to walk through the victim's life diary: where they learn he was having an affair with a Klingon's wife, was blackmailing the local Ferengi, and might just have plaigerized his latest novel from a quiet, shy, unjoined Trill before dumping her for the Klingon's wife. Oh dear. Who killed the author? The Trill, the Klingon, or the Ferengi? Answer: the Klingon's wife - the author was going through round two of stealing a novel, hers, a romance set on Qonos.

The Doc

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So the killer was Mrs Klingon in the mess hall with a batleth? :D

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So the killer was Mrs Klingon in the mess hall with a batleth? :D

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Thbbt! :)

Just for that, no Elaysian cameos on Copernicus! ;) I kid. None are aboard. :(

But, yeah, basically.

The Doc

Title: Duped.
Era: Any
Setting: Any, tho a Starbase would likely work best

This one plays a little on the player's likely thinking the Narrator has ripped off an idea from Will/Tom Riker.

Have a transporter get hit by some wonky interference whilst someone with a Sworn Enemy is trying to transport. The original signal is lost, and a re-initialized signal occurs, and the beam-out works. Cries of Phew! all around. La de da.

About fifteen minutes later, duplicate beams in. Looks like the character, talks like the character, acts like the character, and says, "Phew, I can't believe I survived all that time in a transport buffer... why are you all staring at me like that?"

Now, as a bit of set up: make sure some ruffians in an earlier episode break into the Infirmary and steal an item or two. Just a segue moment, or as a plot device in an earlier episode: the break-in maybe distracted the crew from something they needed to pay attention to, or it was really bad timing, they need the supplies that were stolen, etc.

So, because of this break in - which allowed the Sworn Enemy to play with the medical scanners - the "duplicate" scans as the original character did, right down to brainwave patterns. In fact, since he was in the transport buffer from the beginning, he has a legal claim that he could very well be the "first/original." Eep. In reality, he's the sworn enemy, medically disguised, and with a little chip inside him that sends out a signal that confuses the previously hacked infirmary computers to spit out the same readings as the original crewman.

This gives the "duplicate" access to the crewman's life. Wreck it at will, including, of course, switching with the original, trying to screw up his career, etc etc etc. What would be hardest would be keeping up the appearance of the crewman's knowledge...

The Doc

Title: Rainmaker.
Era: Post / During Voyager's last few years on screen, or just at the moment of the finale.
Setting: Starship.

Kes returned to her planet, and found that the Ocampa city was running out of time: the energy that the Caretaker stored there is running low, the security shields are failing, and the Kazon are swarming around like little sharks waiting to strike the raw underbelly of so soft and gentle a species.

Her solution? Bring friends to help. By studying the Ocompan city's technology (and files that appeared in the Ocompan computers post-Caretaker's death), Kes has learned a way to use her temporal/spacial abilities - and most of the reserves of the Ocompan planet, to create a kind of wormhole slingshot effect like the one she used while evolving. She reaches out with her mind, and reaches for the Starship Voyager, which has just entered orbit of Earth with a convoy of ships sent to stop the Borg, and then... slips and grabs the wrong ship.

So, the player crew and their ship end up in the Delta Quadrant, in orbit of Ocompa, sensing that whatever spacial anomoly snagged them here, it's currently "rubber banding" backwards, and will create and equal and opposte effect in the other direction in, oh, say, 3 days.

They are hailed from the surface, people calling for Voyager. Oops. Crew then has to help the poor Ocompa - including a semi-lucid, exhausted Kes - in restoring their world in a very significant way: bringing back rain. The reintroduction of whatever it was that the Caretaker accidentally wiped from the planet will be tough enough, let alone with the resources of one ship, Kazon aggression, and a 3-day time limit... :)

The Doc

Title: Smoke & Mirrors
Location: Starship
Era: Post Dominion War

OKay so the player's ship is asked to try out a new holographic modual that can fill any roll of any crewman on the ship.

The module is very arrogant and superior in attitude (think the Doctor before he was humanized.)

The idea is that through simulations they will test the usefullness of the program.

But there is a catch. The program is sentient and has been making copies of itself in the holodeck buffer.

During a warp core breech simulation, the hologram will trigger a real response, forcing the live crew to evacuate the vessel and then activate its copies and take the ship to the Delta Quadrant to aid it's holoprgich brother and sisters there in making a holographic homeworld.

Okay this is a rough idea.

Any specific Voyager episode that they might be responding to?

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Title: Smoke & Mirrors
Location: Starship
Era: Post Dominion War

Okay this is a rough idea.

Any specific Voyager episode that they might be responding to?

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Well, the one that leaps to mind is the Holographic rebellion - there's the Cardie hologram and the Hirogen Engineer trying to find a way to co-exist.

The Doc

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Well, the one that leaps to mind is the Holographic rebellion - there's the Cardie hologram and the Hirogen Engineer trying to find a way to co-exist.

The Doc

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You could somehow work Unimatrix Zero in there too.

That's the holographic one I was thinking of, but I forget how it ended.

HOw would Unimatrix Zero tie in? That's a Borg thin isn't it?

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That's the holographic one I was thinking of, but I forget how it ended.

HOw would Unimatrix Zero tie in? That's a Borg thin isn't it?

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You're right. For some reason I had it in my mind that UZ was a holographic world. Sorry! :p

:rolleyes:

No worries Perrryyy.

An honest mistake :)

Now then, let's say that the hologram has learned about all the msi treatment of holograms in the Delta Qudrant and plans totake the players ship to be used as a battleship int heir liberation?

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No worries Perrryyy.

An honest mistake :)

Now then, let's say that the hologram has learned about all the msi treatment of holograms in the Delta Qudrant and plans totake the players ship to be used as a battleship int heir liberation?

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And a template for planet-based hologenerators, so the holocrew have a "home." :)

If I remember correctly, the end of the holo-rebellion had the holo-Cardassian and the Hirogen engineer working together to find a way to fix their problem. I wonder if they succeeded...

The Doc

Planet based holoemitters? I love this idea :)

Though I think I will skip the Delta Quadrant idea, and go in another direction. A nebula with a plent inside it and a waiting holographer :)

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Planet based holoemitters? I love this idea :)

Though I think I will skip the Delta Quadrant idea, and go in another direction. A nebula with a plent inside it and a waiting holographer :)

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Hrm. Perhaps a lab where Section-31 was testing an EMH or an EEH that had a few "tweaks" to it to make them useful tools of Section-31 on ships where assigning a full-time agent isn't a viable option. Complete with auto-decompile failsafes. :)

The lab itself ended up abandoned when testing one of the EEH's put the thing off its nut and it loosed a radiation toxic to biological lifeforms - which also makes it now a little slice of heaven for photonic life...

:)

The Doc

And while we are on a holographic theme...

Do Holograms Dream of Electric People
Type; Break from Standard/Comedy
Location; Anywhere with a holodeck...

Preparation Required; assign everyone a character sheet. Its the same name/physique as their standards but are all based around various Emergency Hologram concepts of their traditional roles... This will mean that superflous skills outside of their function will be absent temporarily.

The players come online and almost immediatly are ordered into a dangerous situation and time after time are ordered about or treated like lesser beings by crew and friends... The stuation gets repetative and degrades rapidly from there... Until the players are all either decompiled for malfunctioning too much, or until they begin to question their existence and sanity...


Whats going on; The photonic beings from 'Bride of Chaotica' have analysed their data and it appears that the weird aliens (Starfleet) were right, that a world of matter populated by many species exists out there. So they find ways to scan the 'real world' finding that not only are material beings populous, but holographic beings too, although the latter seem to be kept in 'cages' (holodecks)...

The few they have managed to contact have seemed less than intelligent, rather like Dr Chaotica, but less violent, so they have developed an experiment. The players ship has been caught in a 'crossover area' and the characters are put into a soined hallucination of life as an Emergency Hologram, to test responses and capabilities? Will they try to develop outside their 'program'? will they blindly follow orders? and any other sociological question you might want to apply. Simply put they have realised that the vast majority of holodeck characters are simply that - characters. Now they are attempting to find out if that is a universal norm or whatever...

At the end, its no harm, no foul, but if the players make good they could end up making contact with some very interesting people indeed...

Note; play it up for what you can, go Matrix style with agents everywhere if you like or camp it up for comedy value...

Title: Cadet Cruise
Era: Any
Setting: Smaller starship

A mission of a "one-shot" nature, the crew are temporarily assigned to a smaller ship (Merced, Oberth, Nova, etc) and given a crew of mostly Cadets - ie: the senior staff is officers, the rest are Cadets just finishing their last year before being assigned. Their mission is a routine patrol of some Federation Space, but a somewhat backward area, nowhere near anything of real importance.

Which is, of course, where the trouble starts. The ship is attacked by someone who seems to have a real vengeance goin on for someone on the ship: one of the cadets is the son or daughter of a Starfleet Officer who wiped out the attacker's son or daughter in battle a while back.

Confounding issues include being in a little ship, having a mostly untested crew, and the cadet deciding on his own to sacrifice himself into the custody of the attackers to save the rest of the ship (he can quote Spock, even!).

Can the crew recover the Cadet, beat the baddies, and get the hell out of there before the baddies blow them out of the sky?

The Doc

Title: Missions of Mercy
Era: During or Post-Dominion War, or other major battle era
Setting: Medical Ship

For whatever reason your twisted little narrator head comes up with, the crew are being ferried/passengered on an Olympic Class ship, the USS Galen. A character-driven plot, with a shadow of what Nog went through in "It's Only a Paper Moon," the player crew would be interacting with officers and enlisted who are convalescing or recovering (or trying to) from their various wounds, traumas, and psychological pains and scars. Ideally, including some people the crew have previously served with is a good idea.

The idea here is to drive home the effects of war: perhaps a soldier deciding he can't - absolutely cannot - go back to the front and trying to steal a shuttle and go AWOL - taking a player crew hostage to boot to do this.

Meanwhile, an apparently pretty well-recovered engineer who was one of the few survivors of his ship that was blown out of space is spiralling down towards suicide, but keeping it hidden. He feels he should have done more, shouldn't have run to the escape pods when the order to abandon ship was given, etc etc.

Finally, we have a tortured betazoid doctor on board who is over loading on the pain and suffering of all the people on the ship, and who is unwittingly starting to project some of his own stress on others, at random...

The Doc

Title: The Opaka
Era: Post-Dominion War
Setting: Starship

There are two ways to play this, at least: but I figure you could come up with more. First is that Bajor has entered the federation, second that it isn't a full member, but has really allied with the Federation since the Dominion War's end, and is working with the Federation as a Protectorate Status world?

Either way: we've seen that many ships have crews of mostly one race (I think Geordi's mom was on a mostly Vulcan ship, as was that Captain that Sisko didn't like, and I imagine Andorian ships, etc). The Federation, in a move symbolic for the people of Bajor, comission the USS Opaka: a ship that is to be mostly Bajoran in staff, with the possible exception of the Captain, as there were no Bajoran Captains about (I know there are quite a few Bajorans in Starfleet, and I imagine more joined up once the Dominion War was over, but I can't picture, yet, a Bajoran captain having made it up through the ranks... I dunno, just me, your mileage may vary).

The episode here is the commissioning of said ship, and it's first mission: since the launch happens out of DS9 (in a very symbolic way, like I said), it's taking supplies and relief efforts to Cardassia (even more symbolic a mission). En route, they're attacked by unknown assailants, who want the supplies for themselves... The ship is Breen, but the crew is mostly renegade Jem'Hadar - they disagree with the Founders' peace treaty (they were raised and told to fight this war to the death, the change of mind of the Founders has them very confused) want the supplies to set up a White Factory of their own... Defeat the Jem'Hadar, get the supplies to Cardassia, and be the first in a long happy series, perhaps, on the Bajoran ship.

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Title: Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Era: Any
Setting: Any

Perhaps best as a solo episode where you can run the other normal players as NPCs, say one night where not enough people show up... Exposed to a field via sabotage, one of your crew loses consciousness, and wakes up X days later. Everyone else seems to think it has been business as normal, and routine medical scans show that there is memory loss alright, but no real permanent damage seems to have happened.

It's unfortunate, though, because the crewman affected learned something valuable shortly after the act of sabotage, and the intelligence agent that was on board working with him has just been killed, and under Starfleet Regs, the crewman hadn't told anyone else who the saboteur was - because the agent was undercover, and there was a sting going on to find out the bigger picture about the saboteur and who was supplying him/her.

So: day 1 has the crewman being found with the dead agent, and likely framed for it, investigation long into the day, and being tossed in the brig. But whe he wakes up... it's the day before this, and he wakes up in his quarters...

Moving backwards, the intelligence agent is killed again, until the crewman figures out that (a) it's an intelligence agent, and (b) the crewman has been working with him to figure out who did the sabotage. From the backwards information, the crewman, each day, will get a little closer to uncovering the act of sabotage, and who the saboteur is, and then, waking up the day of the actual incident, stopping it from happening in the first place, which ends the cycle, and leaves only him the wiser, the agent with his man, and the saboteur in gaol with the greater organization exposed.

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