Starfleet Operations Manual: What's Broken?

[PGoodman13]

This will be the next book I start working on errata for, so I may as well start now and begin canvassing for opinions and ideas. Anything you don't like about this book, this is the thread to discuss it.

[black campbellq]

Well the obvious fix is change the racial templates to match the Aliens ones (for the races in both.) Same for the ships in the back.

[PGoodman13]

Yeah, the ships are all being completely redone. There are so many issues there with the ships that it's easier to just make them anew.

As for the races...I've toyed with that. Most of them are pretty close, but the Tellarites in particular (a personal favorite of mine) really need to be fixed for the sake of consistency.

ANybody have any preferences for anything like this?

[Doug Burke]

Yeah, the ships are all being completely redone. There are so many issues there with the ships that it's easier to just make them anew.

As for the races...I've toyed with that. Most of them are pretty close, but the Tellarites in particular (a personal favorite of mine) really need to be fixed for the sake of consistency.

ANybody have any preferences for anything like this?

I prefer the Tellarites as presented in the Aliens book. They're a little bit different than the "Trek Dwarves" of ICON and the SOM...

[Street]

I like the version of the Tellarites in the SOM better, they have a sense of purpose to them while the version in the Aliens book just seem to be a pain in the ***. The ones in the SOM are also more in line with those of previous Star Trek games and Series, while the ones from Aliens seem to be drawn only from a few episodes of Enterprise, which most people agree was the worst ST series that aired.

[Doug Burke]

I like the version of the Tellarites in the SOM better, they have a sense of purpose to them while the version in the Aliens book just seem to be a pain in the ***. The ones in the SOM are also more in line with those of previous Star Trek games and Series, while the ones from Aliens seem to be drawn only from a few episodes of Enterprise, which most people agree was the worst ST series that aired.

*shrug* Considering that fully half of all onscreen appearances of Tellarites were on Enterprise, I'm not terribly surprised. Especially considering they held much more substantial information than any of the other appearances.

I mean, seriously. Prior to Enterprise, the sum total information we had about Tellarites (from onscreen sources) was "They look like pigs, they're stubborn and they like to argue."

[The Tatterdemalion King]

I like the version of the Tellarites in the SOM better, they have a sense of purpose to them while the version in the Aliens book just seem to be a pain in the ***. The ones in the SOM are also more in line with those of previous Star Trek games and Series, while the ones from Aliens seem to be drawn only from a few episodes of Enterprise, which most people agree was the worst ST series that aired.

Nah, Enterprise at least had their 4th season. Voyager only had about four good episodes, and writers with no balls.

I prefer the Tellarite TOS ICON writeup, myself.

EDIT: So, should we drop the Centaurans? We could rename them Argelians or Risans or 'Generic Enlightened Federation Humanoids.'