Wrath Of Kahn Ripoff: "Hell Hath No Fury..."

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Robbert Raets]

Ooh boy...

Well, they'll need to track down the unfaithful husband and offer to flog him, I'd say....

[Ergi]

Hmm...

How did Styro get this idea about a mad wife?


I was just joking. Please don't hurt me!

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Cptn. Taggart]

Interesting, but where in the plot do you see the unfaithful husband working into things? The Players have to find him before the madwoman gives some poor planet a new matrix or is he on the players ship and she is just pounding them down so that she can go all Genesis/Mutara nebual on them?

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Liz Not Beth]

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[Dan Gurden]

Liz. calm down and stop shouting.

A please wouldn't go amiss either.

However. To contribute.

If the husband is the Captain, then you have the pronlem of trust. It would help to set this up well in advance so that the captain comes aboard, earns the players trust and is defended by them volentarily. This will take some serious background work... But the payoff will be the lengths the players go to to ensure their sides survival...

Alternatively have the players sent to guard the scientist. maybe he is working on something else, something new and improved. then the story can be a 2-parter as the players try to race the Galaxy to the scientist with minimal head-start.

The only real problem seems to be her motivation. Taking over a Galaxy using techno-babble is one thing, mass murder, possibly genocide is quite another. Perhaps the players begin by an alert from a councelor over her increasing erratic behavious and once en-route to pick-up and guard the husband, giving them a barest head-start.

But I would still have difficulty swalling the concept that a Galaxy was that easy pickings. Besides. Theres not many of them, and the Genesis does half her work for her. Why would she want to pick a clear and identifiable target when she could sneak in far easier in another ship.

More problematic would be to switch the ships. With your players on a Galaxy and she on a Miranda. They might well outgun her 10-1, but they have their hands tied by the hostages and the genesis device and could not use that advantage anyway... Giving her effectively 100% offensive superiority while the players are only able to defend. The original configuration would cause me to blow up the players ship... After all, they cannot fight back...

As a side note, this would be best set in the early 24th century as the work of Genesis has already been continued in canon. the DS9 episode Second Sight clearly states that protomatter was to be used as part of Gideon Seyetik's terraforming plan. And that the matrix was stabilised since Kirks time.

Oddly if the time period is suitable, so is Seyetik. While he may be no Starship captain he is seriously important to canon and the Federation for them to want to keep him alive... And he did claim to be married several times and that his wives simply could not take his ego-mania...

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

I'm working on my own version of this based upon Styro and my own discussion that spawned this on IRC.

Sidenote: Yes Trek does get discussed there and we had a great brainstorming session around this idea.

Depending on your take of things, the Galaxy's crew could be stranded on a planet somewhere. The civilians could be held hostage in the saucer section. The PCs would have to rescue them as well.

The Mad-woman would likely have accomplisses. Perhaps she changed fields and became something of a specialist in subdual techniques particularly mass techniques for defense of a base or starship. She comes aboard on the pretense of installing a new security system for testing and in the process gasses the crew.

Stranding the majority of the crew on the planet, she takes a few as hostages and has them sealed off in the saucer section after disabling it. Then using a holomatrix and the ship itself she goes in and steals said device...it just so happens that the storage/science facility gets off a distress call and the PC's ship, the command of her ex-husband's is the nearest available vessel to investigate why Captain So-and-so of that Galaxy-class starship just stole Project Sector Boom!

But that is all I will say for now...must get back to work on my own version. *egrin*

Regards,
CKV.

[StyroFoam Man]

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[Capt. K. Vaughn]

*grin* It seemed an appropriate title for such. Glad to be of humor for you Styro and thanks for the initial brainstorm the other day.

Regards,
CKV.