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Post by geoffrey on Apr 4, 2020 17:17:47 GMT -6
Popped over here to talk about something else, and spotted this thread. The "Rand Canon" is probably my favorite "restricted list" POV for Star Trek. I blogged about it last year: themichlinguide.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/yeoman-rand-female-lead-of-star-trek/The show has a very different feel in those early episodes that I miss and would like to emulate in a campaign. I don't know that I'd write out the existence of some other aspects of TOS such as (smooth-headed) Klingons and Romulans as enemies, though. To each their own. Thanks for the link to that article! It is indeed a melancholy thing that Rand was jettisoned and Star Trek shifted course.
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Post by Baron on Apr 4, 2020 17:20:18 GMT -6
It's funny, but in playing licensed games we always generated our own characters. Never once did we consider playing the classic cast in our FASA games. Nowadays I think I'd like to give it a try.
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Post by Piper on Apr 4, 2020 18:35:39 GMT -6
And from there one could add in (or not add in) what they like (or dislike) At the risk of sounding like a schnickelfritz I'd have to say I really like the paper printout (we jokingly called it the Captain's fax machine) on the bridge for Starfleet's orders.
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Post by talysman on Apr 4, 2020 18:50:16 GMT -6
just skimmed this thread in re-read because it's been a while since I thought much about this, but I was curious if anyone has taken this concept and run with it. It would be fun to make a "what we know" list of information just from these 11 episodes to see what we wind up with. About a year or so ago, I was watching all the broadcast-era Star Trek series in order. Original Series, Animated Series, Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise. They were being aired six nights a week on the Heroes & Icons channel, one of those digital broadcast channels like MeTV or CometTV. (They still are, except for the Animated series.) I swear I posted something somewhere about what we can glean from the pilots and early episodes. It may have been on Twitter, though. So far, I've only been able to track down this nigh-incomprehensible chart I made: ST:TOS focus and scale shifts (Twitter)(Tried embedding the pic link directly, but that didn't work.) But some of my quick notes: * No mention of the Federation at first, lots of references to "Earth colonies" * Enterprise referred to as a "United Earth Ship" * References to "space central" ("Miri",) "Earth forces" ("Conscience of the King",) "Space Service" ("Balance of Terror") * Colonies and outposts can be pretty isolated, even along standard ship routes. "Charlie X" was lost on a planet for 14 years. Delta Vega ("Where No Man Has Gone Before") is an automated dilithium processing station near the galactic boundary 1,000 to 2,000 light years from Earth and is only visited once every 20 years. M-113 ("Man Trap") is suspected of being Regulus, which would only be 79 light years. Humans are traveling very far, but even space close to home is not completely charted. * Aliens are pretty rare and in some cases more like legends. Even Vulcans don't seem to be well understood by humans working alongside a Vulcan. Romulans weren't encountered face-to-face; contrary to later shows like Enterprise, I get the feeling the Romulan conflicts were a lot like the Gorn conflicts shown later in "Arena". Vulcans, Orions, Rigellians, and Romulans are the only commonly-known nonhuman species encountered in the first 20 episodes, with the Enterprise being the first to discover or confirm a few other aliens in this time span (a couple of these were rumored or known as "dead" civilizations before this, though.)
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Post by Falconer on Apr 4, 2020 19:16:01 GMT -6
I definitely enforce an almost-all-human ship in my current game. I told them only one or maybe two non-humans among the PCs. Well, currently we have 5 humans and 2 aliens (a Vulcan and an Argelian).
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Apr 4, 2020 19:41:22 GMT -6
Aliens are pretty rare and in some cases more like legends. Even Vulcans don't seem to be well understood by humans working alongside a Vulcan. Romulans weren't encountered face-to-face; contrary to later shows like Enterprise, I get the feeling the Romulan conflicts were a lot like the Gorn conflicts shown later in "Arena". Vulcans, Orions, Rigellians, and Romulans are the only commonly-known nonhuman species encountered in the first 20 episodes, with the Enterprise being the first to discover or confirm a few other aliens in this time span (a couple of these were rumored or known as "dead" civilizations before this, though.) We don't even see the other Federation member species until the second season... as well as the Rigellians, who also don't make an appearance until Tower of Babel. Outside of The Cage we also don't see Orions until Tower of Babel. Which really leaves Vulcans and Romulans as the known aliens. Everything else is pretty much a first contact. Now, if we include The Cage even though it outside the episode sequence (which, btw, I certainly think we ought to) we are still limited to three know alien species, with the rest being one-offs like the Talosians and the Gorn. I find the idea of a Star Trek without Klingons and the rest to be somehow odd, yet intriguing. And ties nicely back to Forbidden Planet.
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Post by Falconer on Apr 4, 2020 21:23:51 GMT -6
Help me out, here. I think you’re talking about “Journey to Babel”. And I think when you say Rigelians, you are talking about the Vulcanoid inhabitants of Rigel V that they mention in that episode. Or do you mean something else (Tellarites, perhaps)?
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Post by talysman on Apr 4, 2020 22:27:43 GMT -6
"The Cage", remember, is incorporated into "The Menagerie", which is not in Geoffrey's list, but is in the first 20 episodes. That episode includes both the Orions and Rigellians (or at least, some kind of ogre-knight on Rigel.) That's how I assembled my list of common aliens.
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Post by Falconer on Apr 5, 2020 5:40:23 GMT -6
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