Coolest Star Trek Character Ever?

[Captain Zymmer]

Okay so I ask you, as a narrator, what is the coolest Star Trek character you have ever had the pleasure of refiing?

For me it was a character named Silvalar Kesetraian

When the player first proposed his half Andorian half Vulcan I balked. Then he wrote me a 10 page background.

It delved in Andorian Mysticisim,and Vulcan Logical Genetic science.

I was blown away, but still had reservations about the character.

I mdean half his body was covered in knotwork tatooing, in a desperate attempt at identity, but was another form of exclusion he suffered as the cult he joined didn't finsih the job. Why? To remind him he was only half Andorian.

The players asked me to give it a two sessions, and if I didn't like the character he would make something else.

Well when the campaign wrapped up a year and a half later, Silvalar had saved his crewmates time and time again and was even appointed the Protector of the infant ruler of Andoria. He had prevented his people for leaving the Federation and was the most decorated character in the group.

The other players loved him and they still bug me to do a "5 years later" session to this day

[Perrryyy]

I'm in 3 online games (still no offline ). I don't do the Narrator bit simply due to lack of "real life" practice (ie no gaming group).

Here are my 3 characters at the moment:

A Vulcan medic based on nobody. Just rolled him up for the sake of a character. I need a model or some work or motivation for him. Otherwise, I'll probably drop out of that game.

An Elaysian computer sciences officer who enlisted in SF after years of programming in the real world. He wanted to see the world & do things that no other Elaysian (well, *almost* no other Elaysian) had done. "Played by" me (I was born with a birth defect - spina bifida, and have degrees in CIS & CSS). I've touched a little on ancient Elaysian mysticism, how they used to rely on luck. Nowadays they rely more on self-reliance, and perseverance. The character reflects that by not accepting help well. Your typical "hard-headed" modern "disabled" person (at least from my POV as a disabled person of almost 33 years)


An Andorian administrative assistant on a starship. He has a knack of telling the CO that he'll do things (or that he has things done) before the CO asks. "Played by" Gary Burghoff, aka Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H*. He's also shy around women of the opposite female gender

[ghosty]

Lets see there was the Klingon warrior scarred by the Dominion War who became a pacifist and vegetarian. He was real fun at Klingon get togethers.

Our counselor is a Betazoid-Vulcan halfbreed who has great telepathic powers so much so that she has to wear gloves to prevent accidental contact.

A Betazoid engineer who was more comfortable around machines than people.

The hyper efficient Ops officer with perfect time sense who spent a lot of time reminding the Captain precisely how much time there was (sort of Sarah Mckenzie in JAG).

Our hedonistic Trill CMO who has a "friend" in every port but is perfectly celibate on board ship.

[Perrryyy]

Originally posted by ghosty
Our counselor is a Betazoid-Vulcan halfbreed who has great telepathic powers so much so that she has to wear gloves to prevent accidental contact.

That's B-5-ish cool idea

A Betazoid engineer who was more comfortable around machines than people.

The aforementioned Elaysian I run is almost similar, except with him it's tech & computers.

[qerlin]

Probably, Devinari Grissom -- an Orion girl adopted/rescued by a couple of Starfleet officers when she was in her early teens. She had al sorts of trouble with authority, etc... bu t went on to become a Federation Intelligence Serivce agent on Rigel VII spying on the Orion Syndicate.

She actually managed to bring down a couple of spy ring ths the OS was running and later joined Starfleet as an intelligence officer.

[Michael Barratt]

Back from my horrible weekend Chez Ma Famille...

Best Character I ever had in my game? Hand's down, a human ensign, Ensign Connolley, who was really a Cardassian Agent with that whole genetic mask thing goin on. He was the most trusted "friend" on board the ship, the nightshift pilot, and everyone's good-buddy. Made it, well, absolutely stunning and left the rest of the players dumbstruck when he sabotaged the ship, blew up the sensor module, and killed the Science Officer during his escape.

Boy, do they want revenge.

Had a really good player who just loved the idea: he usually played the similar character type as the Cardassian was pretending to be: happy go lucky, kind, supportive. THe other players never saw it coming.

Of my own characters, I'd have to go with "Michael Barratt," Lt. Commander, CMO of the USS Perseus, and nearly court-martialled out of starfleet in his early career when he never really bothered to flush out his 1/4 betazoid empathic abilities, got overwhelmed by the pain of others during an away-team gone wrong, and ended up easily captured and getting people killed in the process... It's fun to play survivor guilt, and the long, slow, recovery thereof.

The Doc

[Pope]

Well, I also have had trouble running a game, although the USS Fading Sun game I was going to run online had a couple of cool characters in it. Andorian ADF chap, a scientist, but my favorite was created by an old buddy of mine from Scotland.... a Deltan counselor...

I did love the "two" characters I played in the USS Roosevelt/Black Elk game. At first, Codus Briary, a human science officer who fell for the lovely scientist/traitor in one of the Romulan adventures and then got killed when the Captain, 1/2 Klingon Security Officer, and Vulcan Engineer were arguing about who was going to stay behind and blow themselves up with a planet so the Rommies wouldn't get super advanced alien tech (I'm sure some of you know the specific adventure). Anyway, Briary was first into the escape pod but as time ticked on and they couldn't make up their minds he took a phaser rifle on wide beam stun, stopped their bickering with a quick shot, then had to stay behind himself (wrote a log for that one that you can find on the aforementioned website here).

Well, the GM liked the character so much we said the alien tech (when it blew up) turned him into an energy being. Had fun with that one, lemme tell you! There's nothing like a bit of transporter babble to reform you, and there's nothing like being an ethereal energy cloud to mess up the GM's story!

Eventually got sick of Briary so then created Kerrian Iok, a Trill science officer who, when the Roosevelt got blasted into an alternate dimension (following a black hole popping in a Wolf 359 and really messing with canon), got stuck with Briary as one of his past lives. Unfortunatley haven't been able to play that character with the group more than a couple of times as I'm away at school.

[Perrryyy]

Originally posted by qerlin
Probably, Devinari Grissom -- an Orion girl adopted/rescued by a couple of Starfleet officers when she was in her early teens. She had al sorts of trouble with authority, etc... bu t went on to become a Federation Intelligence Serivce agent on Rigel VII spying on the Orion Syndicate.

She actually managed to bring down a couple of spy ring ths the OS was running and later joined Starfleet as an intelligence officer.

Ok, that is just a COOL character idea, Qerlin The Orion girl goes "rogue".

[Perrryyy]

Originally posted by Michael Barratt
Back from my horrible weekend Chez Ma Famille...

Best Character I ever had in my game? Hand's down, a human ensign, Ensign Connolley, who was really a Cardassian Agent with that whole genetic mask thing goin on. He was the most trusted "friend" on board the ship, the nightshift pilot, and everyone's good-buddy. Made it, well, absolutely stunning and left the rest of the players dumbstruck when he sabotaged the ship, blew up the sensor module, and killed the Science Officer during his escape.

Boy, do they want revenge.

I'd want revenge too! That's just diabolical! If I weren't already in your PBEM, I wouldn't play with ya! As it is, I'll just have to watch my back. lol (j/k).

[dimeboy99]

Originally posted by Perrryyy
He's also shy around women of the opposite female gender

ROFL Perrryyy. As a M*A*S*H fan I caught onto "Radar-ism" right away.

Great character concept, too.

[First of Two]

Well...

Has to be Cmdr. Damian Robert Kirk... never-mentioned nephew of the legendary James T. Kirk.

My Kirk had a version of Kirk's legendary 'luck' (which I took to be some kind of bizarre psionic phenomenon, because it's my firm belief that Kirk NEVER should have lived through his 5-year mission with the chances he took, if he were a 'normal' human being), in which disasters regularly happen around him, but he and anybody he's in close contact with comes through unscathed. His cadet cruise ship colided with a cosmic string and blew up, and he rescued the only survivors, etc. He's also extremely powerful psionically (for a human).

He became a security officer, and with his intuitive grasp of tactics and security equipment, became one of the best in Starfleet.

Then he was 'recruited' by Section 31 (although he didn't realize it at the time), and put to work as a covert operations specialist. He used his talents to deal with threats to the Federation (as his supersecret personal log put it, "Ever hear of the Assassination of Sarek? The terrorist nuking of Paris? The Romulan takeover of Andor? No? We're why.)

Then he had a sort of 'falling out' with his 'handlers,' cause d a lot of damaged, changed identities, and left.

And that all was his "backstory."

One of his still-friendly contacts arranged to get him a posting as security chief on this ship ful of misfits, where he's puzzled the crew more than once (especially the Betazed first officer, who tried to scan him and met up with a 'steel wall')

HIs big problem is his guilt over the deaths he caused as an operative or felt he had responsibility for. (he KNOWS about his 'luck', and blames all the deaths that result from the disasters around him on himself)

And now Section 31 wants his head, AND his crewmates are beginning to suspect he's more than he pretends to be... suspicions that will be confirmed soon.

[ghosty]

I forgot to mention our Rastafarian engineer....you'd have to see it to believe it. The player did a good Carribean accent so he had us in stitches usually with off-colour jokes about tossing a spliff into the warp core.

Then lets not forget the old intelligence operative who had been playing the game for so long that no one is sure who's side he's really on. When asked whose side he was really on, he paused for a moment and replied "The winning side."