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I was just promoted to my first command! It got me wondering what other names/id's and ship classes are being used in the TrekRPG world. . .
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Capt. S M Wood, Commanding Officer
USS Nautilus NCC-31910
Miranda-class (F-CL+)
Dedication Plaque: "Man does not fail; he gives up trying."
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Hmmm... Like the one you're using, Nautilus.
My original game of the 80's used Constitution, NCC-1700 (TOS).
My first LUG-Trek game started out on the Galaxy-class Quetzalcoatl, NCC-72249 and moved to her sister ship, the Galaxy-class Icarus, NCC-72248. We had a miniseries on the Defiant-class H.G. Wells, NCC-75890.
Our current TOS game is set on the Constitution-class Icarus, NCC-1071.
[Edited to add hull registries, since you mentioned ID's too]
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U.S.S. Icarus
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Since I'm GMing a Venture Class Scout group based campaign we have several ships, not to mention the multiplicity of NPC vessels that have been encountered, both Federation and Non-Federation:
Initially we had three Venture class scouts:
USS Tiananmen (In honor of Tiananmen Square)
USS Manzanar (In honor of the Japanese Camp located in MidEastern California)
USS San Pasquel (In honor of the only battle fought in California during the Mexican-American War)
However the San Pasquel was destroyed in an encounter with Orion Pirates. Thus was replaced with:
USS Fullerton (I forget why I named her that, but I'm sure there must be a reason. If there is, some one tell me)
In the future they're group is going to supplemented by two Danube Class Runabouts. I'm naming these after local major rivers:
USS Sacramento
USS San Joaquin
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"See Everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little." -Pope John XXIII
Let's see...
In my campaigns so far, we've used
USS Boadicea
USS Montana
USS Saskatchewan
whose classes I forget at the moment... they were all FASA ships, a cutter and two scouts.
USS Serpent, a Deceiver Class covert ops vehicle, assigned to Ops Team Shannon
USS Loki, a Deceiver Class assigned to Ops Team Kathleen
The USS Invictus, Defiant Class,
and on one mission, the IKV Dujni'pu (whose literal translation is 'stolen ship.') http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
Oh cool, you named a ship after my dog, "Loki". http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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Sadly, after last week's game, all that's left of the old Ambassador class USS Santa Maria is the saucer section. The engineering section was remotely piloted on a collision course and rammed a Romulan warbird.
I'm leaning toward a Nebula for the next ship, probably named USS Bonaventure.
What mottos or quotes did everyone have for their ships' plaques? Santa Maria's was "Cruising on the Santa Maria, Searching for a Brave New World". Bonaventure might have "The Wild Winds of Fortune Shall Carry Us Onward, Withersoever They Blow".
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LUGTrek isn't really dead. Not as long as we remember it.
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Who would've guessed that there are rednecks in Palmyra? http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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LUGTrek isn't really dead. Not as long as we remember it.
Characters have been on: Vanguard (Steamrunner); Constitution, NCC-71000 (Galaxy); Yamato, NCC-63550 (Akira); Akira (guess which clas...); Excalibur, NCC-26517 (Ambassador).
Other ships mentioned regularly: Lor'Vela (Ambassador); Eagle, NCC-1719-A&B (Excelsior & Sovereign respectively; traditionally commanded by Andorians)
Victory (Sovereign), Musashi (Akira), Indefatigable (Defiant), Fearless (Defiant), Geronimo (Steamrunner, RRT Fleet), Shenandoah (Enterprise [TMP] & Steamrunner); James Kirk (New Orleans, commanded by Data in our campaign); Athena (Nebula), Ares (Nebula); Andromeda (Galaxy/Andromeda uprate); Bellisarius (Nebula); John Keynes (Deneva merchant marine); Indomitable (Sovereign)
Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, India (Norway)
Some Romulan ships: Marrus (dreadnought), Dividices (D'Deridex)
Forgot the other campaign another GM is running: Courageous, NCC-1865 (Miranda)
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The group that I used to play with had about a half dozen ships over the course of about two years. All of them were destroyed (usually by the crew's stupidity), except for the last two. We finally started to wise up. The survivors were the U.S.S. Argo, a Defiant class ship, and the U.S.S. Khitomer. The Khitomer was originally a New Orleans class, which was destroyed. Later, an Akira class ship was given the name.
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Krawler
In the 80s I was Captain of the USS Athena (Miranada/Reliant FASA) and ran a campaign on the USS Lexington (Constitution Refit/Enterprise FASA)
The first LUGTrek game I played in I was Captain of the USS Exeter, Ambassador class.
My current campaign began on the USS Farscape a Nova class surveyor...then moved on to the USS Endeavour (Nebula class) who dedication is "Leave nothing untried..." In 2 years (game time) if all goes well they will be posted to the USS LExington a Soverign class...wish them luck http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
Other ships that been mentioned are too numerous to mention here, but one of the most important was the USS Saguenay, a Chyenne class...her destruction lead to a series of time travel episodes that are still being felt to this day http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
My crew have pretty much been on canon ships throughout the years we've played.
Of course they are or were all ships doomed to die in some away. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif
The newest ship the Akira class protype is what my boys are running around on now.
Oh and as for that list:-
USS CrazyHorse; Excelsior
USS Hood; Excelsior
USS Horatio; Ambassador
USS Adelphi; Ambassador
USS Kyushu; New Orleans (a future via Q)
USS Bonestell; Oberth
USS Kyushu; New Orleans
USS Saratoga; Miranda
USS Akira; Akira
There's proberbly another ship in there somewhere to http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif
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Hmm. My game is using the following, at current:
USS Grant (PC ship, Saber-class)
Of course then there's stuff in the works for, just ideas, mind you:
USS Little-big Horn (I am going to make this one another Saber.)
USS West Point (Possibly an Akira. Something violent.)
USS Clarke (Galaxy-class)
USS Lake Champlaign (Nebula?)
USS Heartbreak Ridge (heheh)
USS Admiral Boorda (Sovereign-class)
USS Great Lakes (Possibly another Galaxy-class)
USS Mohawk
USS Sioux
USS Navajo
USS Sitting Bull
(I appear to be off on a tangent...)
USS Valiant (Defiant-class)
And let's not forget ships named after famous battles, persons and places of an international nature. At the moment, I can't think of any (I am at work and don't have my notes handy) but you can check out any encyclopedia for some great names...
And Palmyra is not Little Mississippi. I know. I have been to both. Often. =P
Our ship is the USS Galahad, now in it's second incarnation.
First one was an Ulsses-class scout, my own design, basically a smaller Nebula - might post the stats someday (Dedication plaque reads the same as my signature - what a funny coincidence http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif ). Now we are on an Akira-class.
And no, we don't have any letter attached. Just renamed an existing ship, like they did with the Sao Paulo on DS9.
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"To seek, to strive, to find and not to yield" - Alfred Tennyson
For SF-Intelligence: USS Styx, runabout with 'found' Romulan cloaking-device, and energy-sheated Cerberus-squad Tac Fighters.
USS Gemini, modified Galaxy, Multi-Vector assault mode testbed.
USS Reliant, defiant class.
USS Nemesis, Venus, Athena and Artemis Goddess class (future StarFleet battleships)
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'I can still see your... nipulary area...'
Chandler, to Rachel wearing nothing but a thin towel.
Lancer, there's an ancient sailors' superstition that it's bad luck to change a ship's name. Just thought that might come in handy if you ever run a game where you're trying to play with the characters' minds by having "random" bad things happen on the ship. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif
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LUGTrek isn't really dead. Not as long as we remember it.
Well we're currently serving aboard the Intrepid class U.S.S. Intrepid.
Althouh past ships have been the U.S.S. Dathon (after the Tamarian captain from Darmok), U.S.S. Endeavour, U.S.S. Gallant, U.S.S. Perseus. Not to mention the Versallis Station for a brief period.
We've been playing for about 13 years, hence we've been on a lot of postings. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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Captain Daniel Hunter
CO NCC-73602, U.S.S. Intrepid
Star Trek: Intrepid
When we started playing, FASA in TOS era, I was a player onboard the USS Destiny, a Constitution class ship that seemed to make contact with a new species or world every week. Toward the end we counted up 133 new species over a three-years of gaming.
In college I joined a group as an XO in the TNG era. We had a Excellsior class ship, the USS Intrepid, which had been around for more than 50 years. She had been refitted and updated but was always requiring minor repairs. She was a grand old ship which served us well for almost 5 years. Our PC engineer was always coming up new things to improve the ship or at least keep her running.
As DS9 was starting up our GM said Starfleet was selecting our ship as a test bed for new technologies. Which didn't make sense since the GM which shared duties were usually trying to blow us out of the water so to speak.
One thing our engineer established way back in 1991 was warp pylons that would curve up as warp speed increased. She was inspired by an F-14 going supersonic. One of our Ops charaters came up with a cargo shuttle that could be fitted with equipment packages to supplement missions, first a medical suite then a science lab. He was inspired by modern blackhawk and seahawk helicopters which can be used for assualts, rescue, evacuation and recon.
We later joked that Paramount was spying on us because of some other similarities with later shows.
The ship was destroyed on SD 47111.5 (Sept. 1993) successfully defending a colony against a Borg cube. The returning players and I transfered to Deep Space 11, a space station in the Darvan system as far coreward in the Beta Quadrant as Starfleet has explored.
When Voyager was announced and it was known that the ship was an Intrepid class vessel, we had a big celebration to coinside with Voyager's premier. We had a game where I was given my new command, the prototype vessel USS Intrepid. It had just completed her shakedown cruise.
We continued to play on that ship, eventually with me as the GM (still the NPC CO), until last year when I revisted DS11 as a campaign. I've vastly modified the station and expanded the background of the area thanks to notes left by the GM. Hoping to get the campaign up on the internet soon.
The other main ships we've used in our campaign are:
USS Destiny -- Galaxy class
USS Orion -- Defiant class
USS Discovery -- Intrepid class
USS Republic -- Constitution class
F.Y.I
I added the quote from our dedication plaque to the topic start post of this topic (for those who care).
My current group is playing the section chiefs of the Intrepid(modified) class USS Agamemnon "Sic vis pacem para bellum" - "If you want peace, prepare for war". Well, the space bonobos in StarFleet command consider ship and crew a bunch of CroMagnon.
Agis' sistership is the USS Achilles. "Enough of words, let deeds now follow"
I'll try post some more dedications when I got a bunch of them.
Michael
The game I am running at present is set around the end of season three of DS9 onboard the USS Sovereign NCC 1984. After looking at some quotation web sites and discovering that the quote I was after is already on a ship in one of the series or movies I settled on the following:
"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.".
Yes, I know it's from Babylon 5 but it sums up nicely where I'm planning to go with the game.
When I first started running, under FASA's RPG, the characters were on the USS Discovery (Excelsior class). They've since gotten a newer ship also call Discovery, but this one is Ambassador class.
My first FASA game (late 80's) was aboard the USS Boseman (Kiev Class) during the movie era... This was pre 'Cause and Effect'
However we accidentally broke transwarp and bent the ship, so when we came back we redesigned the Bozeman to our own specifications... Oddly the finished design turned out very much like the intrepid class...
I remember that well, I said something along the lines of;
"Its not a starfleet ship unless its got a Connie saucer section." http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif
How little I knew.
Since then I have had characters serve aboard the following two ships in freeform PBEMs;
USS Richelieu (Manta Class)
USS Alliance (Soveriegn Class)
Lastly, my current PBEM (using ICON) is aboard the Galaxy Class USS Venture, to which is assigned,
USS Tempest (Talon Class Scout)
USS Amazon and Hudson (Danube Classes)
and the An'Duris (Romulan Courier)
The Ventures dedication plaque reads;
"Discovery is a journey without a chart."
And my tabletop game will be aboard the USS Journeyman (Intrepid Class).
I am currently looking for some eric clapton lyrics for the Jouneymans dedication...
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Dan.
"A couple of thoughts from a random mind!"
Another good superstition...if there is such a thing as a 'good' one: a vessel launched without a christening or name is considered bad luck, as well.Quote:
Originally posted by Sarge:
Lancer, there's an ancient sailors' superstition that it's bad luck to change a ship's name. Just thought that might come in handy if you ever run a game where you're trying to play with the characters' minds by having "random" bad things happen on the ship. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif
In our campaign, Constitution (Galaxy-class) launched in 2373 for battle in the Dominion War unfinished and unnamed; just her comission code. She got her butt knocked about a lot, lost her saucer in battle, but ultimately came through. In one action, her shield modulation got screwy & actually allowed her to deflect Cardassian shots with no dmage to her or the shields. She picked up the name 'Old Ironsides' and after the war was christened Constitution & given a new dish.
Let's see...
My first Trek ship was the USS Horizon, Excelsior-II class. She had a pretty short life... the tac guy had Vengeful:Cardassians, we came across a Cardassian patrol... with our life support gone, we ran like hell to the nearest evactuated DMZ world and set up a new colony.
My character for the Horizon game was brought back for another series, "A New Beginning". This was one of the best RPG campaigns I've ever played. I came in a little late in the game, just as the USS Galileo (Rigel class) was about to be blown to pieces. The USS Epimethius (Epimethius class) was an attempt to make a fast, long range explorer based on the incredibly crappy Prometheus. Rip out two warp cores and four layers of external hull plating, and you get enough room to have a single, capable, good looking ship.
Aaah, but then we captured -her-. The USS Sutter (Steamrunner class) is listed in one of the LUGTrek books as having been "lost on routine patrol". Well, to us, "lost on routine patrol" meant "transferred to black ops". "Black ops" meant the return of the bug-things from Conspiracy [TNG]. When we recaptured the Sutter, we renamed her the USS Backlash. Ship's motto: "This far, no further!" Damn, that was a great ship. We had the requisite mirror universe episode, we had great one-liners, we did it all.
The next series takes place aboard the USS Valiant (Intrepid class). "We know what we are, but we know not what we may be." The captain is a former engineer at Utopia. He built the Defiant-class Valiant, took it out of dock half-finished to fend off one of the Borg attacks, finished building it, and watched as 'Fleet assigned it to Academy duty. After the Defiant-class Valiant's destruction, he got to oversee construction of the Intrepid-class Valiant. We served on that ship for quite some time before 'Fleet realized that...
a) the Rommies feared us enough to declare our entire ship an enemy of the Empire
b) we were right on the border
c) we needed something better than an Intrepid for flag waving, border guarding, mutually assured destruction, etc.
Hence the Intrepid-class Valiant was renamed to something else, and the Valiant name was moved to an Akira, where we serve today. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
We also had an episode aboard the USS Valorious (Defiant), which remains an active NPC ship. Runabouts we've had have included the Fraser (the Fraser river in British Columbia, Canada) and the Sumida (a river in Japan).
Anybody know Galaxy's registry?
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LUGTrek isn't really dead. Not as long as we remember it.
As in USS Galaxy, Galaxy Class sarge?Quote:
Originally posted by Sarge:
Anybody know Galaxy's registry?
NX-70637
So that would be NCC-70637 these days http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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Wasn't "Bonaventure" the name of John Paul Jones' ship? You could use the "I've not yet begun to fight"Quote:
Originally posted by Sarge:
Sadly, after last week's game, all that's left of the old Ambassador class USS Santa Maria is the saucer section. The engineering section was remotely piloted on a collision course and rammed a Romulan warbird.
I'm leaning toward a Nebula for the next ship, probably named USS Bonaventure.
What mottos or quotes did everyone have for their ships' plaques? Santa Maria's was "Cruising on the Santa Maria, Searching for a Brave New World". Bonaventure might have "The Wild Winds of Fortune Shall Carry Us Onward, Withersoever They Blow".
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"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees..."
Shania Twain
The only ship I remember for John Paul Jones was the 'Bonhomme Richard'. The one he was on against the 'Serapis' where he said "I have not yet began to fight" although his ship was sinking.
My FASATrek campaign used the USS Richtofen, a Larson class destroyer.
My LUGTrek campaign has been a lower-decks series based aboard the USS Endeavor.
Based on the PC's promotions and some exellent 3-D artwork I recently ran across at SCI-FI Art, the PCs will be transfering to USS Pathfinder, NCC-82135... a Nova class light surveyor.
Between transfering PCs and new player/ PCs there are going to be two science officers... so their specialties will determine the ship's mission (astronomical, planetary survey, cultural survey, etc) and what sort of labs it is outfitted with.
I'm going with a torpedo-less version, leaving the phaser types the same, but giving them a good phaser targeting computer.
The PCs will make up most of the "senior" staff... if you can say that a ship commander by a Commander (NPC), with a LCDR as XO, and Lieutenants (SG) as department heads HAS a "senior staff".
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"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees..."
Shania Twain
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Back in Fasa days we had two ships
the first was the USS Arkadelphia, a Loknar class frigate, great little ship
afterwards the characters got promoted and got a Reliant class ship, after a couple episodes they got their impulse engine blown off, and the engineer pulled strings and got them signed up to use the same type Impulse as an Exselsior class, as part of the testing program, BIG mistake on my part
they went looking for a fight, and since I hadnt paid attention when I did up the ships stats they could raise all shields to full , charge all phasers & photons fully and still have plenty of manuvering power
DOH!
I felt stupid, but I didnt have to hold back any more :-)
Dave
Speaking as someone who is thinking about running a Romulan based game...Does your crew have something against Romulans? Hmmm? I want the name and number of the officer, or officers, that have been spreading foul rumours, slurrs and apparently driving parts of their starships into our Warbirds! http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gifQuote:
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Sadly, after last week's game, all that's left of the old Ambassador class USS Santa Maria is the saucer section. The engineering section was remotely piloted on a collision course and rammed a Romulan warbird.
Why fore you go round blowing up Warbirds?
Please join the "Save the Warbird" Association.
In the Praetors Name!
In the '80's, I GM'd a campaign set on the Constitution-Class USS Lexington, NCC-1708 - assigned to the Tholian Border.
I then gamed as the Captain of USS Bristol, NCC-1975, a Northampton-Class Frigate on the Klingon Border.
LUG Trek - Ran a campaign on board USS Bunker Hill, a Constellation-Class ship - "The Truth Is Out There"
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We are cloaked, enemy closing on impulse power, range 5,000 kellicams!
Bonaventure will be NCC-70638, the second Galaxy class contract, and the only one modified into a Nebula class. That way I can use the Nebula pod mission adaptation system, and most of Rick Sternbach's deck plans for the Galaxy class.
Phantom, I'll answer your questions as soon as you tell me what a Warbird and a Scoutship and a modular shipyard were doing in the Sargasso Nebula, which is a week at high warp into the Federation from the Neutral Zone. And don't tell me they were renegades and you had no idea where they had gotten to; I'm getting sick and tired of that old story. :P
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LUGTrek isn't really dead. Not as long as we remember it.
Gee Sarge...Uh, I'll have to get back to you on that. (sound of running feet and a door slamming)
The ships from my campaigns as a Narrator were:
USS Shiva, NCC-62589 (Nebula Class, 2365-2375), go here for the plaque.
USS ShirKahr, NCC-26385 (Ambassador Class. During the end of 2340s)
But I played in several more ships. USS Kalarast, USS Southern Cross, USS Conqueror (Sovereign), USS Huru (Centaur), USS Cheron (New Orleans), USS Furtive and USS Salvo (both Furtive class). I may forget a couple. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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Chakotay: You didn't poison my coffee, did you?
Janeway: Not any more than I usually do.
"The Voyager Conspiracy", Voyager
Who or what is this Shirkhar? I've seem the name in other LUG TNG books.
Shir Kar is the Capital City on Vulcan. Spock and Sarek Maintained homes there