Well, it has been a while since I have posted here in the forums, but the main reason was lack of playing. While "officially" I have four campaigns running in the Trek universe ( two of which I am narrating ), the truth is I have not played a Trek session for almost a year.
After analyzing this, I came to the conclusion that I probably suffer from the same problems as the current series, yeah I know there is none.
I think it is primarily a "been there, done that"-thing. It is hard to come up with a new exiting setting the players do not know already ( besides the fact that I play RPGs only every six weeks or so, due to lack of time ).
After reading some novels, watching some Bond-movies and playing a some sessions of Splinter Cell, I was wondering if that concept would be adoptable to Trek. I think I would stick to Starfleet ( like Bond ) and not a "civilian" branch, meaning it should be a Starfleet Intelligenec Series and not a Federation Intelligence Service thing. Now I am wondering how that should work. Like Splinter Cell I would like the campaign to have a subplot that unfolds during play, but I am totally lacking an enemy. The ordinary stuff is all known already, meaning Romulans, Klingons, what do I know have already been dealt with, so I would have the same problem as before. More exotics like Tholians do not work, because it would be impossible to infiltrate, con etc. But it should be a species that could really pose a threat to the UFP...
the basic idea was this: There is an attack on the UFP, one of the core-worlds, I thought about the destruction of the sky-elevator on Tellar or something comparable. The threat is investigated and revealed to be a set-up. More is investigated and in fact there is a conspiracy within the UFP to become a more military organization ( like I layed out in my UFP sourcebook, vol II ). The characters would have to reveal that and bring it to public attention to stop the conspirators. I am not yet sure if the result would destroy the UFP or not.
However I am completely lost on actual adventure ideas and the threat that is used to attack the UFP. Any ideas? Well I hope you could read all that rumbling... Thanks!