Nu-Trek and The Final Frontier

[BouncyCaitian]

Okay, what do we know from watching the Movie

1) Starfleet is badly understaffed after the Narada rolled through Earth Space and probably blew SpaceDock 1 to dust along with any defensive fleet to rubbish....that and a nasty hole drilled into San Fran bay is going to cause all sorts of geological instability in California, causing problems at Stafleet Academy Prime.

2) The Klingons got smoked hard by the romulans and are probably looking to pay Romulans back.

3) Vulcan is GONE, and the Rest Of the Federation is probably looking outside the federation for a Target. or at the very least a severe shoring up of Defenses.

4) Romulus is probably going "Oh @#$%" after intelligence filters back home.

5) And the orions have to be grinning at the potential for profit.


So...with all this. What sort of scenarios for roleplaying can we scare up?

[JALU3]

Although some of the details may have changed, one can always go to the basics, IMHO.
Discovery/Exploration, Defense (internal/external), Diplomacy.

Although the Squid and Spock Prime a chocked full of information, that doesn't mean that one need not go to these places in order fully understand the locations. Although new technologies may be brought from the prime universe, knowing about an idea, and actually applying it are two diferent things.
There will always be threats whether external or internal that will needed to be defended against, mitigated, or monitered.
In the end the stories are about the interaction of the PCs and the world around them, which includes NPCs, how they deal with that world is full of socialization/diplomacy/persuasion.

[RaconteurX]

NuTrek = latest battle in the Temporal Cold War. 'Nuff said.

[Tobian]

Well one thing that's different is they have transwarp beaming... Scotty knows how to do it, and since they never had that (working) until the DS9 era (presumably because Scotty invented it after the Dyson sphere incident...) That could change things.. a lot, but being Trek, they can presumably forget it again

I doubt Spacedock 1 has been destroyed, they didn't really have any need, as it's never been established they have defences on it.

As a side note it's amusing the new ST online game carries on the timeline as if the Nerada and jellyfish had disappeared in the singularity, which stopped the supernova.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

As a side note it's amusing the new ST online game carries on the timeline as if the Nerada and jellyfish had disappeared in the singularity, which stopped the supernova.

Yeah, this was apparently all part of K&O's plan–they disappear into the past, the timeline branches, and the prime timeline continues apace?

[Dan Gurden]

Although the Squid and Spock Prime a chocked full of information...

By squid, I assume you mean the Jellyfish (Vulcan science ship). In which case remember it was destroyed and so removes access to its data-banks, leaving only Spocks personal knowledge (which is particularly good in any case just not all-encopasing)

[Tobian]

Yeah the Jellyfish, the Nerada and all the Romulans are gone.. That leaves only a few possible left-overs...

Alternate time-line technology which happened because of the Kelvin/Vulcan incidents. The Enterprise is sure different!

Information the Klingons got out of the Nerrada crew/Nerrada: While we know what happened to the crew, it's not clear what happened to the actual ship during that time, and it's hard to imagine they didn't access/take anything. It's also hard to imagine after 20 years of imprisonment that none of them blabbed... and we have no idea if any were left behind.

Spocks brain

Kirks brain - he mind-melded with Spock.. now it was used by Spock as a narration tool, but mind melds often involve a certain amount of transfer of knowledge and personality. Kirk might remember how Red matter works, or the specs of the Jellyfish etc, all of which is is WELL above their tech level and knowledge, but then Spock new how it worked...

The transwarp beaming formula, which Scotty then subsequently used.. could alter technology and warp drive physics for years to come...