Going through my various Trek RPGs and collecting various ideas that may, or may not fit in with my BlackStar campaign.
Star Trek: Mercy
This idea came about by watching the hospital ships come into New York, and Beverly Crusher-Picars's ship the USS Pasteur in "All Good Things." I was going through my new FASA Star Trek boxed set and was thinking about my first Trek character, Dr. Scott Elders, the CMO of the USS Andromeda.
I thought a good Post-Enterprise (2151), Pre-TOS (2265) era game might focus on the USS Mercy, a Federation Hospital Ship. It has the authorization to go into other parts of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants to provide medical assistance. I was also thinking it could doctors of dozens of different species. If I set it between 2151 and 2265 it gives me an excuse to use a character that has been mentioned in my games, but never actually seen, Fleet Admiral Lucille Ball, Commander of Starfleet Operations.
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I am partial to a Daedalus or Olympic-class style ship, with the extra space in the "saucer" section dedicated to hospital beds and medical care facilities. Maybe I would have something a little more advanced than the Daedalus-class (2196), but not quite the Olympic-class (2395).
It is tempting to split the difference and set it in 2295. That would put it firmly into the Enterprise-B time. Again, appealing for just for the newness of it. Among other things, it gives me a Captain Nyota Uhura, a Cmdr. Chekov is part of Starfleet Intelligence and an Admiral McCoy.
I might also get a Captain Demora Sulu.
This is also a good time because this is the time period I set my original Ghost Ship adventure.
Maybe I could do a Mercy one-shot to set up Ghost Ship later on!
Star Trek: Federation News Network
This came from a couple of different places. First, going back to the Star Trek Generations and the new Picard series, both featured news reporters in the Trek universe. I really liked that idea and thought it might be fun to have some other points of view than just Starfleet officers.
Secondly, I am working as a mentor for a high school senior. She is writing her own Trek story and the central character is a reporter.
That is all I have at the moment, but it could be something I could add to any game.
Thought you might get a chuckle out of this. I ran an adventure a year or so ago in which one of the players chose a photo of Lucille Ball for her character portrait, and named her "Lucy Baller." ;-)
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