[OOC] Battletrek SG-5

[Queen Raidne]

"The series has allegedly performed well on DVD."

Battletrek SG-5, the classic cult hit sci-fi series, is holding its 10th annual in Phoenix, Arizona. Equaling, if not exceeding, most other series at the time, Battletrek is about the adventures of the SG-5, the Earth Republic's finest starship. The actors are gathered in the green room, preparing to go on stage for a Q&A period. Unbeknownst to them, in five minutes time, with an incredibly cheesy sound effect, they'll find themselves on board a fully functional replica of the SG-5. The SG-5 is fully crewed by hundreds of mute clones, each ready to take orders from their bridge crew. To make matters worse, the hapless actors are violating the Aegean Neutral Zone!

~o~0~o~

Okay, yes, this is heavily inspired by Galaxy Quest. It's an awesome movie and you should go watch it. But you don't have to in order to enjoy this RP.

The Show:
Take popular sci-fi series - Babylon 5, Stargate, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica - and spoof them. Spoof them mercilessly. The baseline, however, is Star Trek. The show is about a spaceship (really mostly just its bridge crew) going on adventures-of-the-week, with space aliens and red shirts aplenty. This is a three-season show dropped by Fox before its time. Sci-Fi picked it up, and then cancelled it after a mere two seasons while they transitioned to Syfy. It now only comes on, of all places, BBC America. However, it has allegedly done quite well on DVD, and fans are hopeful for either a sequel or at least a movie. Paramount, who owns the copyright, hasn't budged, however.

The Ship:
The SG-5 that the actors eventually find themselves on is a nearly perfect replica of the one on the show. Is a hallway mysteriously filled with crushy-gnashy-metal things for no clear reason other than to build tension on the show? Well, it's there on the ship. The only exceptions are minor changes to the living quarters (they included bathrooms [extrapolated from the biology that they saw on the show], for instance) and engineering spaces.

There is no information on who built the ship or why they beamed up the actors.

The RP:
We're going to start at the convention, just so characters can get to know one another, and then beaming up will commence. This is a comedic RP, - not that I don't see there being potentially darker or more serious moments, though.

Character Sheet:
|Actor's Name: [if we get enough people, then genre-savvy fans could be okay, too]
|Actor Gender:
|Character's Name:
|Character Gender:
|Appearance: [feel free to include a second section to describe the character]
|Character Race: [if not human, include a short description. Remember, spoof! Spoof like you've never spoofed before!]
|Character Job:
|Character Trope: [what kind of archetype does your character fit into?]
|Actor Personality:
|Actor Bio: [especially what they've been doing since the show ended 10 years ago]

Clean Character Sheet

|Actor's Name:
|Actor Gender:
|Character's Name:
|Character Gender:
|Appearance:
|Character Race:
|Character Job:
|Character Trope:
|Actor Personality:
|Actor Bio:

Example

|Actor's Name: Sam Marrs
|Actor Gender: Male
|Character's Name: Captain Hu Toshiba
|Character Gender: Male
|Appearance:
|Character Race: Human
|Character Job: Captain
|Character Trope: James T. Kirk; The Catchphrase-Spouting, Fearless Hero
|Actor Personality: Self-obsessed, Believes he's great at improvising in any situation, Never thinks he's wrong, Thinks he's MacGyver just because he used duct tape to fix his beat-up BMW's door.
|Actor Bio: [work in progress, but you get the idea]
He's a third generation American citizen, with no traces of his Japanese heritage other than his looks. Originally a night janitor at Paramount studios, he happened to be replacing the right executive's lightbulb at the right time. Thus landing him his first (and only) big break - Captain Hu Toshiba. Pleased at his sudden success, some of his worse personality traits began to make themselves known over the course of filming. He may have come from a relatively humble beginning, but he became anything but humble.

In the years since filming, he's hosted several "reunion" barbecues at his house (which the rest of the cast only showed up to for his ribs), attended every convention he could get his hands on, and generally has been milking all that he can from his fame. At first, he did pretty well for himself, but as the fanbase gradually dissipated, so too did his income. Now, Sam lives in a trailer parked in the middle of nowhere, eating mostly rice and beans.

[The Whacko]

|Actor's Name: James LaRoche
|Actor Gender: Male
|Character's Name: Security Chief "Odie' McCracken
|Character Gender: Male
|Appearance:
Character Race: Human
|Character Job: Security Chief
|Character Trope: Stout Stength, Badass Normal, Lawful Good, Interspecies Romance,
|Actor Personality: James is best described, in the words of People, as a "Pretty cool dude." Still fairly humble, he hasn't let his brief rise to fame and subsiquent fall get the best of him. He manages a friendly personality with most people he meets, though his fanboys/girls can steadily wear at his patience at conventions.
|Actor Bio: There isn't too much to be said about this fellow. Born and raised in the heart of Lousiana, James spent most of his life in a metioric rise to mediocrity. During his brief stint as a stuntman, he was offered a role on Battletrek SG-5 as the young security chief. Since the show's cancelation he's been relegated to low B level stardom, appearing in typical 'Tough Guy' extra roles and in a few straight-to-DVD movies (The highlight of which being a staring role in a low-budget Punisher sequel.) Nowdays he mostly attends conventions and gets by on stuntman jobs, though he still holds out hope for another big role.

[The Whacko]

....yello?

[Queen Raidne]

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