SRM Now Available!

[Don Mappin]

Not much more to say, but if you're not sloshed from bringing in the New Year, you got some mighty fine readin' to do!

Available off the main TrekRPGNet welcome page.

Don
Now I may sleep...

[Owen E Oulton]

Already DLed it before this message got posted! The DL finished just as the Millennium hit Ottawa.

Thank you Don & Steve!

[Pete]

I'm downloading a bit after the Millenium hit the Alaska time zone. Ooh boy! I'm excited!

Don and Steve,

Thank you, thank you, thank you... thank you!

[Greg Davis]

Don and Steve,

Once again, a great job! Thanks!


Greg

[Capt.Hunter]

Fantastic work guys!! I've just been looking through and the ships are incredible! Nice to see the SU cost problems for the Defiant and Galaxy-Classes worked out too.

My only (and it's very small) niggle is...

Shouldn't the Ambassador-Class have Type IX phasers? Even the Excelsior does (OK, I know those are the 2375 upgrade stats) which is over fifty years older. I looked at the SU totals and noticed the design is a bit pushed for space, so maybe it isn't possible to squeeze the phasers in.

Other than that: Damn fine piece of work. Hell, if I could write like that I'd be God!!

Suddenly draws logical conclusion of last sentence and bows down in homage to the Great Gods Steve Long and Don Mappin

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"I just had the most terrible news. I have to attend the Annual Admirals' Dinner.
I've faced Borg, Romulans and battle-crazed Jem'Hadar, but nothing compares to this."

Captain Matt Hunter, USS Tempest

[Greg Smith]

What with the Starfleet SRM and the Cradssian SRM to test read...

Steve, you've rreally outdone yourself... again. But doesn't it concern you that you're working poor old Don into an early grave ?

The cover for the SRM is excellent. I'm sure the stuff inside is too, but I haven't got around to reading that yet.

Tooo....muuch...iinfoormaation.... BOOM !!

Greg (who's head has just exploded)

[SIR SIG]

Sorry gotta nitpick!

The history of vessels for the Akira class, there a 3 of them rescuing the Prometheus and in 2375 no less.

As canonified by the Voyager episode 'Message in a Bottle' it is 2374 and 1 Akira and 2 Defiant class vessels.
So unless Prometheus got lost again, then a double/triple entry was made.

Besides that, a kick arse job Steve and Don!

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SIR SIG a Aussie TREK Narrator

[Steve Long]

Steve, you've rreally outdone yourself... again. But doesn't it concern you that you're working poor old Don into an early grave ?

Well, yeah, but everytime I say to him, "Do you want me to get someone else to do this next book?" he says, "No way! Bring it on, baybee!"

And that's just one of many reasons why Don is The Man.

Steve Long

[Steve Long]

Originally posted by Capt. Hunter:
Shouldn't the Ambassador-Class have Type IX phasers? Even the Excelsior does (OK, I know those are the 2375 upgrade stats) which is over fifty years older. I looked at the SU totals and noticed the design is a bit pushed for space, so maybe it isn't possible to squeeze the phasers in.

I was working on the following hypothesis:

We continue to see Excelsiors all the time -- they were all over the battlefields of the Dominion War. Starfleet must keep maintaining and upgrading them. So, Type IX phasers seem reasonable.

OTOH, we almost never see any Ambassadors -- I don't recall ever seeing one outside of TNG, "Yesterday's Enterprise" (though I could be wrong). They're just not that common. It seems to me that Starfleet has decided to retire 'em and not bother with upgrading 'em. So, they keep their Type VIII phasers.

I see no reason why you couldn't change this for your campaign, or for a specific ship, if you wanted to, though.

Steve Long

[Steve Long]

Originally posted by Sir SIG:
The history of vessels for the Akira class, there a 3 of them rescuing the Prometheus and in 2375 no less.

As canonified by the Voyager episode 'Message in a Bottle' it is 2374 and 1 Akira and 2 Defiant class vessels.
So unless Prometheus got lost again, then a double/triple entry was made.

I will freely acknowledge the error in dating. That was my bad.

Otherwise, I've gotta disagree with you. The names and registries of all three of those Akiras come straight out of the Star Trek Fact Files, which as you may know is a publication in the U.K. by the same folx who do ST: The Magazine here in the U.S. (not sure if either is available in Australia). Unlike LUG, the STFF/TM people aren't allowed to make anything up; all they can do is repeat canon information and information from quasi-canon sources like the Tech Manuals. Therefore, I have no reason to doubt their information, and I stand by the "Noteworthy Ships" entry you're questioning, except for the date matter.

Steve Long

[Dan Gurden]

Love it, love it, love it.

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"A couple of thoughts froma random mind!"

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[Liquidator Queeg]

Whoopie! Huzzah! Woo Hoo!

The Ship Recognition Manual and Points in Space... within the span of 24 hours!

*Queeg swoons*

Thanks so much Steve and Don! And S. John too! We Trek gamers are truly blessed!

I love you guys!

LQ

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[odoital]

Originally posted by SIR SIG:
Sorry gotta nitpick!

As canonified by the Voyager episode 'Message in a Bottle' it is 2374 and 1 Akira and 2 Defiant class vessels.
So unless Prometheus got lost again, then a double/triple entry was made.

That's what they WANT you to think... Those feddies are tricky you know... Besides I will stick with whatever Steve says... You know that Voy never follows the "true" continuity!

[odoital]

Oh yeah, I forgot to say...

THANKS YOU GUYS!!! Woo hoo! 2 presents in the month of december!

You folks are the best...

[Aldaron]

*slaver slaver, drool drool*

Downloading as we (well, I) speak, and, as Frankenfurter would say: "Trembling with antici.........pation!"

Thanks Steve, Don and anyone else involved - I haven't seen it yet, but I know that even if it's only half as good as Spacedock, it'll still have pride-of-place on my gaming shelves!

Happy New (Real) Millenium all (especially those of you "over there" - I didn't quite get off a message in time to say: "When are you guys going to enter the 21st Century?", but never mind! )



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