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This reminds me of a campaign idea I had but never went through with. It involved Star Fleet inventing/re-discovering the idea of interstellar travell by jump-gate or some such device (a la B5).
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To me the ship is as important a character as the PC's. Each should retain a uniqueness and individuality. To have the players walk straight of the old one and on to a new one with nothing more than...

I'm a bit leery about 6 man squads in this type of environment. I had ginned up a marine complement for the old Chandley class frigates under the FASA rules and stuck to 10 man squads.

The...

Don't ask. Just ... accept.

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"Killin' is my business, and business has been gooood!!!" - Commander Benson Winiford Payne, 373rd RRT, just prior to the end of the Dominion War....

A good idea might be to have the safety inspector be someone not from Starfleet. You know, some civilian "expert" whose never been in a ship under fire and had to make an emergency or jury-rigged...

That's my point. Surley at some point it must become unproductive to replicate certain types/amounts of materials and settle for more traditional methods of construction. Building starships would, I...

From the guys who put the terror back into in-terror-gation!!!

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"Killin' is my business, and business has been gooood!!!" - Commander Benson Winiford Payne, 373rd RRT, just...

God, please, don't get HIM started again!

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"Killin' is my business, and business has been gooood!!!" - Commander Benson Winiford Payne, 373rd RRT, just prior to the end of the...

I have some questions to float past you all ...

Replicators construct matter out of energy, or so I'm led to believe. Without getting too technical I understand that starships have stocks of...

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts so far. It's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping for.

My special thanks to Michael from Germany and his reference to Type XXI U-boats produced during...

Sorry, EricR, it looks like we were both composing our posts at the same time. I didn't see yours when I sent mine or this part would have been part of the last one.

For starship construction, I...

Arithon, I'm certainly not slamming anybody for expressing their creativity in designing ships. Forums like this and the large number of designs posted here are a great way to exchange ideas and get...

Imagine, for a moment, that you are the Chief of Starfleet in a post Dominion-war universe. You've got a bucket load of starships (in various states of repair), more starship designs than you can...

Could just be me, but wasn't "Play it again, Sam" said by the female lead, not Bogart?

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"You couldn't even SPELL Prime Directive!"
"Not true. It's spelt P-H-A-S-E-R."

My first reading of the "Challenger" reference made me think that Penta narrated a game where the ship USS Challenger may have been destroyed in combat through not raising it's shields, hence the "I...

I vaguely remember (though of course I could be wrong) that when Wesley Crusher first applied for the Academy and failed that it was mentioned that each member planet only had one or possibly two...

I think we need a definition of these War Crimes. Do they solely relate to things on a grand scale, such as genetic experimentation on an occupied planet, or the use of weapons of mass desctruction?...

Buddy, I think I'm going to have to stop you there.

Firstly an average of 6 Billion people per member world is WAY to many. From memory I think Earth is quoted as having a population of 10...

Another interesting idea would be those people NOT being considered for war crimes. How would the players re-act if the Butcher of Harlequin III (fictitious) was granted amnesty in exchange for...

I have to agree with Old Soldier here, though I think that hitting and killing someone at 825 metres with an M-16 (A2 or otherwise is just a TAD optimistic!). At 900 meters the old darling will have...

I remember reading a very old Star Trek novel where a Horta was used for intelligence gathering. According to the story he was dropped from orbit, survived re-entry and impact and reported back on a...