Crew personal relationships...

[Polanski]

Greetings,

Being a narrator for a start trek campaign (composed of seven seasons) it is my intention to allow players to develop their characters to the limits designed by them and not by me... certainy the amount of seasons (each lasting about 6 months) and general story arc allows for that.

Saying that, there is a lot of personal and character development that takes place in certain moments of the campaign...

As it is now, we are playing second season and are seven sessions into it (on average the session is 4-6 hours long) the crew have been posted on a new vessel and we are about 8 months into a shake down cruise.

Some players have expressed an interest in developing personal relationship with their crewmate (going beyond being friends).

Of course, as a Narrator I have no problem with that, as a person playing the captain ... I just might

The ship is a fast frigate intelligence vessel posted along the neutral zone (yes that neutral zone) and the captain is a veteran of dominion war and many previous SI engagements. She is a soldier and does have a view on officers becoming involved with their crewmates...

and with the crew of about 80 or so, rumours get around...

Ok, so now that you know a basic background. Here are some points that I would like to hear your opinions of.

* I have a player, a head of department, who wants to get involved with his department's second in command (NPC).
* I have a player who is heading for a probably one night stand relationship with an collegue on the ship (NPC)
* One of the player characters is married to a civilian who is about to become ensign and graduate from SFA (NPC)

Now space is a lonely place, especially during the long tour of duties, however personal relationships, might be considered non professional and of course they have a tendencies of districting the officers.

Of course we have seen them in every star trek show there was, and it would appear that the Starfleet in general has no issues with it, or does it? (What is Starfleet's view on this matter?)

Those are some points to begin with, I have my own opinions (as a Narrator) the captain has her own views (as a character I play) and now I would like to hear yours.

Kind Regards
Daniel

[Silverthorne]

Personally, I would allow the relations with certian previsions.

* I have a player, a head of department, who wants to get involved with his department's second in command (NPC).
>>No, no.. No messing around here. if the second in command is on a different ship section I can understand, but a work relationship may be to difficult for them.(or the npc)

There will always be relationships between men and women, especially on ships in space. Think Kirk.. as Captian he was morally not allowed to have a serious relationship with any of the crew. It did not stop him from noticing them. Or Picard, who was interested in Crusher.. there are many on screen references to relation ships. Ten Forward.. I wont go there. Let the players have thier relationships, unless you as the gm decide to use them as a plot device.

[Ineti]

As a narrator, I highly encourage the players to pursue relationships.

Gives me another hook to torture them with.

Heh heh heh!

[KillerWhale]

Argh? Two threads for the same subject? Whyyy?

[Don Mappin]

http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...&threadid=5764