Your obligatory Out of Character thread. Talk it up.

Hi everyone! I'm the alt for Memory Alpha, this will eventually be my character & ship. Looking forward to taking these rules for a spin!

If you've already got an idea for your ship, post it! Let's get to going!

Note: You don't have to be Starfleet! Want a Klingon, Romulan, Orion, or any other type of ship? Go for it, as long as you agree that you're going to work with everyone, and not be a dick about it (see Rule 1)!
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:59, Thu 21 Sept 2023.

I do want to be a Starfleet character, though what era are we setting this in?

I say we roll for it, but we're all in this together, so let me know what YOU think!

I personally prefer the TNG era. I can't stand Kirk, mostly because of Shatner, and Picard and the Enterprise-D crew were my favorite.

Which would cover DS9 and Voyager as well, since there's overlap.

True that. I am good with that, but what do the others think?

Fine by me!

Hi guys!

Im looking to play something non-starfleet to round out the group...Got a few ideas but that's what im shooting for

Hey there, good to see ya. I look forward to gaming with you both.

Outside the Federation eh? Sounds interesting. You thinking a bad guy turned good kind of thing?

In reply to Player Three (msg # 11):

Perhaps - one idea i have is an Orion but not a green one (its a character i have from an old ST game from the 80s)...Ill redo him for this game if allowed (its non-canon).

Another is a Romulan Captain but from the TMP era.

My 3rd idea is a Linnik - also known as a Fesarian from the TOS episode, "The Corbomite Manuver"

Plus another 2-3 in my head that i havent fleshed out yet...

Interesting. I'm going to be boring and go with a Bajoran or maybe a Trill. Those are my two favorite races in Star Trek.

In reply to Player Two (msg # 12):

If you can create it using the rules as they exist, run with it. You may want to consider sticking closer to Trek canon, or at least Memory Alpha/ Memory Beta canon, to make it easier on yourself given your unfamiliarity with the rules, but you do you.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

Please also indicate what role you're thinking of excelling in. Security? Piloting? Diplomacy? Science? Medicine? Engineering? Command skills? Other? As a reminder, we'll each be the best at something, and will defer to that ship when that specialty is needed!

Found them on Memory Beta and even have the old RPG books where they came from!

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Ruddy_Orion

Ill get to work creating him with an emphasis on Trade, Barter & Salvage (pay no attention to the past Smuggling, Piracy or other illicit activities).

It will give me a chance to introduce the Orions in this game as multifaceted beings with their own laws & customs but he will be a cooperative individual - he's not brutish or crass as a Green!

We have a fourth ship! And I think that's plenty for now. Let's see what kind of damage we can do how much fun we can have with this group. If anyone needs to drop out I'll start recruiting again.

I had a few ideas, but I don't really call dibs on their roles- if someone else wants them, I'm willing to do something else:

-I was interested in doing a non-Federation ship that somehow got swiped up by the same phenomenon as everyone else, but Two's got that covered. Go for it! :)

-The other two ideas I had were:

-Initial Survey-Team specialist. Not soldiers, not "magic" engineers, and only rated in first-contact enough to not screw it up for later sociologists or diplomats, these guys would be on a ship specialized in first-in planetary surveys.  Long-distance 'radio' astronomy can tell you a lot, but (even in this century) it can't tell you everything. This bunch is responsible for going in, confirming initial readings up-close, and for being the first "shoes on the ground" surveyors.

They're missing a lot of their 'support team', out here, but otherwise it's still how it works. (Their ship is decked out with all sorts of non-standard instruments, but light on tactical gear.) My character for this one would be a field-researcher.

-"Diplomatic SWAT-Team". Sometimes things go bad. A minor misunderstanding escalated to a crisis, or something is just screwed up from the word "Go". That's where these guys come in. They have security, but they're not ground-forces. They have a science officer, but don't do full survey-stuff. Their medical officer is emergency-oriented, not general Sickbay personnel.

They specialize in FUBARs like "Diplomatic Incidents", hostage situations, avoiding wars, making-good on damage caused by previous contact, and so on. Diagnosing the problem, and stabilizing it.They're not exactly UFP Diplomatic Corps, but they work with them- their job is to "EMT" situations so the regular diplos can do "Long-term Care". (They wouldn't do whole peace conferences- they'd make things normal enough that they can HAVE the peace conference.) They are NOT Section 31.

 My character for this one would be the officer in charge of the group. (They may have been temporarily embedded in a ship for the length of an assignment and got taken away like everyone else.)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:16, Fri 22 Sept 2023.

I will be playing a Bajoran Lieutenant in a Federation Medical ship. It's small, maneuverable and hard to hit. But it can't take that much damage.

So are we using that site you showed us earlier to make characters Memory Alpha?

That's a convenience, you're welcome to use it, because it provides step by step instructions, helps with the math, and you can export a PDF of your character/ship sheet when your done. If you'd rather work yours out using the book, feel free, just please double check your math!

I don't mind using it, I just wanted to confirm we were going to use it.

I've got my character done, just need to make my ship now. My character is Lieutenant Sati Megen, CMO of her ship...which I still need to come up with a name for.

Cool, I've updated your character name for the game.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:13, Fri 22 Sept 2023.

Thank you, thank you.

Sense I'm going with a medical focus, I've decided my ship's name will be the USS Hippocrates. They named the Hippocratic Oath after him, why not a starship? Right?
This message was last edited by the player at 19:15, Fri 22 Sept 2023.

You might like this Starfleet Medical patch then:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324992208515