Hello all! I've got a pretty simple idea I wanna pitch. A Star Trek RP set during the Original Series era(this is flexible) in which the player characters play Starfleet Academy officer cadets on their training voyage acting as the department officers, overseen by a commissioned captain and enlisted crew.

The basic jist is that it would start as a standard training shakedown before escalating into a long form mission covering all sorts of different semi-episodic stories.

Biggest thing is that I'd like to at least somewhat pace it out a bit like a tabletop campaign in terms of me taking more of a traditional "GM" role, reacting to the actions of the PCs and presenting new information and encounters.

So yeah, that's the pitch. Let me know what you think!

@Beesechurger

A Star Trek RP, consider me interested. It's gonna be fun fighting a guy in a rubber suit Gorn. I assume we're gonna do a sort of episode of the week kind of structure?

Also curious

Did someone say Star Trek?

Because I'm down for that. I already have a character idea involving someone with a crazy ESP rating. Got swept up by Starfleet one day and was taken in to be studied under dubious circumstances. And winds up here through some circumstances. No one really knows where they came from or how they manifested an ESP that high, but they have it and naturally Starfleet wouldn't let the opportunity to study something pass by. Biologically, they're 100% human but that only makes it weirder. Scientists won't leave 'em the hell alone.

@Eviledd1984 that's the plan. There'd be reoccurring plot points and characters, and the occasional extended arc, but the general idea is going from mission to mission.

@EmiliaBaiYue Happy to have you around, if you've got any questions or comments throw em at me!

@Blizz Definitely an interesting idea! If this ends up getting off the ground it'd be fun to mess with this with ya.

@Beesechurger

I know you kinda put a queation mark when it would be set. If is is taking place somewhere around TOS, would it take place during the series,before, or after? Or even in between,after, or before the TOS movies?

@Eviledd1984 The initial plan is between the original series and the first movie, most likely near the end of or directly after the Enterprise's five-year mission. So enough time to follow up on TOS plot points and characters for cameos and such, but without having to address the idea of the movies happening off-screen.

This is absolutely negotiable, of course. If the majority of people prefer another era, we can do that too.

I’m not familiar with the TOS movies. Mostly I’ve only just seen parts of TOS and TNG is the one I’m most familiar with, if that counts for anything.

Also, because I’m the hyperactive type of writer… Woe, infodump be upon ye.

Diana Morro, resident scientific oddity and certified Fucking Enigma of a kid. Found in the wreckage of a terrestrial starbase wandering the place with a phaser and a broken arm. Refused to elaborate on why she was there, but states she had nothing to do with the starbase being destroyed. This isn’t a total lie but it was an accident that she was a witness to as she’s a lab rat. Some deranged scientist was obsessed with ESP and was secretly experimenting on people to bring it out in them. Diana was one of these people and the only one “lucky” enough to survive the procedures. She absolutely refuses to disclose this with anyone and there’s no way to find evidence of it since she went nuclear and destroyed something that exploded and took the starbase with it.

The personnel who oversee her training (which is probably not voluntary in her case) note that she doesn’t connect with her peers very well, and that her best subjects are science, tactical exercises and survival courses like camping or foraging. Diana is known by the higher-ups she takes direct orders from as being very stubborn. She’s the type of person to set herself on fire to prevent someone from tackling her… And as her writer I will neither confirm nor deny if such a thing is on the record.

@Beesechurger

Okay so would we be running into V'ger later on in the RP? I have a few ideas for what species/job my character would have.

@Eviledd1984 Probably not, though I might introduce us to that era and have it be happening in the background if we go long enough.

I love Star Trek one of my favorite table top RP is Star Trek by Last Unicorn Games

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I'd love to play woman whose race is sometimes mistaken for Vulcans

They are mostly a Space born race having fled the destruction of their home system which was lased by a neutron star 3743 years ago

Boomers her people are more at home in space than on any world

@EmiliaBaiYue Interesting! Definitely something we can work out if this gets a bit more traction. Eager to see what we can come up with.

I'd try for a bit less chaotic TOS version of Below Decks

Running classes in classrooms is dull

@EmiliaBaiYue well that's why the plan is for this to be the academy training cruise, essentially the "final test" for Starfleet Academy officers. You'll be going on proper Starfleet missions, just as cadets acting in the role of officers overseen by a commissioned captain and trained technical staff.

The idea is on top of standard Star Trek plot shenanigans, the captain will be arranging various "tests" to see how you perform, to mix things up a bit.

Hmm, I might be interested in this. I've never played a Star Trek RP, despite being a fan of the franchise for... well, all my life. I've been especially enjoying Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks lately, and SNW has really given me a new appreciation for the TOS-era, with the way it's modernised the look of things while keeping it somewhat faithful (those new versions of the uniforms look a lot better than the old pyjamas, imo!)

Room for a female Caitian tactical officer in the roster?

@Silverwind Blade Definitely happy to have one more around!

@Beesechurger

What are your thoughts on a Trill crew member?

@Eviledd1984 that's more than fine with me!

@Beesechurger

Do you think we got enough people to start?

Race : Sha tal (Vulcanoid)
Sex : Female
Age : 35
Height : 1.81
Weight : 46.75
Eyes : 2/Violet
Hair : Red

Department : OPS Helm/Navigation
Rank : Ensign

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They are classed as Vulcanoid even though they are not from Vulcan but share a lot of physical traits with the Vulcans/Romulans/Rigelians. Born on a Space Craft her people lack the strength of other Vulcanoids making up for it with being adapted to the hardships that came with living on starships an stations for nearly 4,000 standard years.