Hey, everybody. Don't know if this'll be of interest to anyone, but I thought I'd post the episode summaries of my ongoing ICON campaign. Right now, I'm four sessions in, and the group is having a lot of fun. I decided to set the series on the Excelsior-Class USS Fearless in the months following the events of Star Trek Nemesis. I used a modified version of "Shakedown Cruise" from LUG's TNG core book as the pilot episode, and I've set the series in the Arteline Sector (for the moment). Anyway, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts or suggestions for where the series can go from here. I know there's a lot of Trek-rpg experience lurking on this board. I'd love to draw on the wisdom of the Collective.
Anyway, thanks for reading. Here's the synopsis of the first episode, which I re-titled "Judge, Jury Executioner." I bolded the names of the player-characters for their first appearance. To start with, we used the pre-gen characters from the TNG core book.
Episode 1: ‘Judge, Jury, Executioner’
A group of fresh-faced lieutenants arrived on Starbase 39-Sierra near the Romulan Neutral Zone, awaiting long-term assignment to the USS Fearless. While waiting for the Fearless to arrive, Lt. Pus, a Vulcan science officer, met with the starbase’s chief science officer to review some mysterious subspace sensor readings from a nearby black hole known as Collapsar 49.
Pus recognized the sensor readings as artificial transmissions sent from an unknown source into the black hole, which then directed the transmissions into Romulan Space. The Fearless was then directed to investigate the source of those transmissions, a small Harrellian mining facility on a remote moon.
Meanwhile, Counselor Troy MacClure was approached by Commander Matthew Deleo, the chief intelligence officer aboard the starbase. Deleo asked MacClure to give him regular reports on any valuable intelligence the Fearless may encounter.
En route to the mining facility, Tellarite engineering officer Jak vin Karka discovered that Lt. Cmdr. Aliok, the chief engineering officer, had improperly modified the aging vessel’s warp engines. The crew suspected Aliok may actually be a Tal Shiar spy and arranged for Dr. Noxana Vasor, a Betazoid, to surreptitiously scan him with her telepathic powers. Turns out, Aliok was not a spy and his modifications were an honest mistake.
Upon arriving at the moon, the Fearless away team found that the mining operation was actually a front for a Tal Shiar communications post. In addition to illegal Romulan communications technology, the Harellians also harbored a Tal Shiar operative named Tyrion, who appeared to be suffering some sort of psychological distress due to her mental conditioning.
The Harellians managed to erase most of the Tal Shiar communications sent through the facility, but the away team managed to recover a single message from Romulan space. The message directed the Harrellians to transport Tyrion to Psellus III, where she could receive medical help from a Tal Shiar operative referred to only by the code name “Proteus.”
Tyrion, in a brief state of lucidity, told Dr. Vasor that DeLeo is actually a Section 31 agent and would summarily execute her if she were turned over to Starfleet Intelligence. In an effort to buy the crew some time and protect Tyrion from her own insanity, Vasor put Tyrion into a state of suspended animation.
The Fearless then set course for Psellus III to find the Tal Shiar agent Proteus and end the Tal Shiar presence in the Arteline Sector.
