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On one of my ships I have an Emergency Holographic Parrot and an Emergency Holographic Mariachi Band. You never know when you might need them!!

I'd chalk that up to YATI - Yet Another Trek Inconsistancy.

Seriously, though, it's always been my understanding (thanks to Diane Duane) that the Romulans weren't really interested in colonization...

According to the map in The Way of D'Era (which I never remember what gets capitalized... oh well) there really isn't an unlimited border between the Romulans and the Federation. The Romulans occupy...

In my group, for all the games we run, whoever runs the game has been asked to put together 2 or 3 well-rounded "stock" characters in case someone really doesn't understand how the system is supposed...

If I understand the Romulan psyche correctly, (and I believe I do or else I wouldn't be posting this :D ) service in the Imperial military is both a duty and a privilege. It is a duty because every...

After picking up the Way of D'era box set several months ago, I decided I really, really, really wanted to run a Tal Shiar campaign. The basic premise is this: it's post-Dominion war and things are...

It does lead to intriguing possibilities, though. In my Tal Shiar campaign, I explicitly forbade anyone from being anything but pure Romulan. OTOH, I can totally see a few elements being utterly...

I have to hand it to you, that's a pretty good way of going about doing things. That Section 31 bit can come back to bite him in the wazoo (and, if you're clever about it, it will come back at the...

I've never played GURPS, but I stand by my original opinion: universal systems just aren't as fulfilling as game-specific ones :)

Having said that, I'm not above borrowing elements from other...

If I understand the licensing correctly, anyone can write an original game for the d20 system. WOTC put it in the public domain. What you may not do without permission is publish an adventure for...

Everybody makes d20 products for the same reason most of the software written is for Windows: it's what the industry giant has thrown its weight behind, and like in the computer industry, the...

In that case, we're all doomed. I can't stand the D20 system.

On the other hand, I'm one of those guys who can calculate THAC0 in his head ;)

It's probably misspelled, but IIRC, there was a historical British warship of the same name, thus making it "legal."

As an aside, the ship on DS9 was the "Defiant." That's almost as bad :)

I beg to differ. There are a lot of people who do not like the d20 system, and for whom not using d20 is a feature rather than a failing.

I'm a firm believer that the system should match the...

GURPS is the Generic Universal Role-Playing System. I've never used it myself (my group doesn't like it,) but it's supposedly pretty flexible. It is NOT the same as FASA's system. It's just...

I just spoke with our group's "DM of Death" and asked him for his opinion. (I should mention as an aside that he does not narrate Trek, he runs D&D, Cyberpunk, Dark Conspiracy and Call of Cthulhu,...

This may sound extreme, but if this were real life, the person involved would most likely get something along the lines of 3-5 years, full loss of rank, loss of commission and a dishonorable...

Canon would dictate that a viewscreen Empathy roll should be quite possible if the character is an accomplished psion. It really depends on what the character wants to accomplish. I would say that...

Just started running the Tal Shiar campaign... the guy playing the Psion had a real good time with it, I think. Seems pretty good and not too terribly unbalanced.

I think it would depend on how it's played out and how recently the un-assimilation happened. Obviously Borg technology will remain to a certain degree, so that will be a factor. Also, consider...

I've always treated it as "one of those questions you're not supposed to ask."

When Worf said "It is NOT something Klingons like to discuss" (or words to that effect) I always took it to mean that...

Listen to your players. You should be the expert with the system and you should know the material better than the others (which can be difficult to do in Trek, but...) but I've found it to be...

In all fairness to the rest of your players, I'm not sure this player should be promoted. Lt. Commander is a pretty demanding rank with a lot of authority (department head level on a Galaxy class,...

It all boils down to the same thing, it's just a question of wording. There's a big difference between "We don't like you any more. Go away." and "A lot of the people in the group have been...

What are we supposed to do with items we've written? Do we post ideas here to the boards or do you want them emailed? And in what format? Since we're talking about potentially dozens or hundreds...