Using S&S for Old School Trek

[Atomic Ray]

How about: (roll 4D6 best 3D6, place where you want them...STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA LUCK)

(vulcan/terran hybrid...a blend of the two, seen as an outcast by both at times, could favor either side)


vulcan/terran.....partial telepathic/mind meld(touch), nerve pinch/death grip, empathic, +1 STR/INT/WIS/CHA/LUCK

(pick three)
vulcan/terran.....will not lie, will not eat meat, stickler for rules, no recreation, curious, excessive humor, intolerant

The vulcan/terran hybrid is certainly not common, though when the two races began working together the vulcan council felt that living with and experiencing terran lifestyle would best be measured by establishing relationships with some terrans...hybrid children were the result. It is discouraged by the council at this time due to the difficulty experienced by those hybrids raised in the terran community. Hybrids favor one of the parents more than the other, but emotions run hot with hybrids who do not possess the same self control as a standard vulcan. If not kept in check these hot emotions can result in rages or melancholy.

On the surface the hybrid seems to match some of what both races have to offer, but upon further review it is also clear that there are significant issues much like mixing oil and water.

These hybrids tend to favor one or the other parent to the core (determine at character creation), but struggle with the blend due to what the vulcans refer to as the M'Fafing or the misalignment.

The terran favoring hydrids tend to be bi-polar in their routines...strong work ethics with excesses in recreation to the point of getting into trouble...the joke is that these types act like klingons.

The vulcan favoring hybrids tend to be loners, always struggling with their emotions and thus avoiding over stimulation and excesses.

Certainly there have been some successful hybrids within and outside of Star Fleet, though the average hybrid experiences a great deal of struggle with the battling emotions which run far hotter than the standard terran's range.

[kipper]

OK, here's a character concept for you. I've seen most of TOS, and TNG, but that was years and years ago. So I'll stick with Human as I have no clue what the other races are other than Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons .

Name: Marcus Jones
Race: Human
Sex: Male
primary career: Security
secondary career: Engineering

Marcus' dream was always to join Starfleet, preferably in Engineering as he prefers hands-on work over theory. However he was frustrated by his own lack of focus at the Academy where his grades suffered due to the same prediliction. He is also a practical joker, which did not endear his professors towards him. Still, he managed to get into Starfleet as a Security specialist, where enthusiasm, loyalty, and tenacity are as important as grades. He is satisfied that he made it in, if not truly happy. An inveterate tinkerer, he loves trying to improve hardware (not always successfully).

(*Note: I'm too busy to join in this game, just throwing a character concept out there )

[Atomic Ray]

Thanks dude...a welcome addition!

[kjc]

Nickoli Robards
Human male
Navigation/Helm

Raised as an only child on a research station or very hostile environment colony world. Parents were brilliant scientists who left young Nick to be educated by computer disks and entertained by holo-vids. The boy wanted to escape his solitary existance at the earliest opportunity so he studied dilligently and applied and was accepted to StarFleet. One might expect him to be socially backward and bookish, but rather he is bold and extremely outgoing as he wants to experience it all! He believes that the bridge of a starship is "where the action is" and that is where he wants to be!

Alright 'Ray let's tweak him a bit...thoughts?

[Atomic Ray]

Nickoli Robards
Human male
Navigation/Helm

Raised as an only child on a research station or very hostile environment colony world. Parents were brilliant scientists who left young Nick to be educated by computer disks and entertained by holo-vids. The boy wanted to escape his solitary existance at the earliest opportunity so he studied dilligently and applied and was accepted to StarFleet. One might expect him to be socially backward and bookish, but rather he is bold and extremely outgoing as he wants to experience it all! He believes that the bridge of a starship is "where the action is" and that is where he wants to be!

Alright 'Ray let's tweak him a bit...thoughts?

Sounds like a quality starter for sure.

I would think to add an element of the unusual as well as an anchor, both in regards to the fringe location upbringing.

A hostile colony world...due environmental extremes perhaps...with the colony resting on the axis between blistering exposed surface and deep freezing cold...the majority of the station remaining safely underground...the why of being there of course.

Perhaps the rewards of the potential that the world offers out weighs the risks?

A very deep location that makes shift transfers of personnel lengthy and there for extended time away from families, so the micro colony program was used...the idea that the families would stay and the next generation would inherit the wealth as well as the position/career?

So that would be the expected aspect...you were born, raised, and expected to stay on this remote colony.

The unexpected? I would consider something that the mundanes of the colony would find, odd...perhaps raising a strange animal as a pet or food source...or perhaps something art related like theater or opera, but from another culture like Romulan or Klingon?

[kjc]

I would think to add an element of the unusual as well as an anchor, both in regards to the fringe location upbringing.

A hostile colony world...due environmental extremes perhaps...with the colony resting on the axis between blistering exposed surface and deep freezing cold...the majority of the station remaining safely underground...the why of being there of course.

Ok...I like that...

[kjc]

...the idea that the families would stay and the next generation would inherit the wealth as well as the position/career?

Old school TREK was pretty enlightened and utopian don't you think? Not sure this fits

[kjc]

The unexpected? I would consider something that the mundanes of the colony would find, odd...perhaps raising a strange animal as a pet or food source...or perhaps something art related like theater or opera, but from another culture like Romulan or Klingon?

Insight into the Romulan culture would be fun...of course maybe his parents were not just scientists, but were spying/observing the Romulans or were excavating an old Romulan colony...maybe discovered some lost tech or secret. Of course we don't want to stray to far from the TREK vibe and become all dark and conspiracy bent.

[gentleman john]

...the idea that the families would stay and the next generation would inherit the wealth as well as the position/career?

Old school TREK was pretty enlightened and utopian don't you think? Not sure this fits

IIRC, there were plenty of colony worlds within the Federation where the citizens were free to pursue their own society, provided they didn't break the laws of the Federation. Such a situation would not be impossible.

[gentleman john]

The unexpected? I would consider something that the mundanes of the colony would find, odd...perhaps raising a strange animal as a pet or food source...or perhaps something art related like theater or opera, but from another culture like Romulan or Klingon?

Insight into the Romulan culture would be fun...of course maybe his parents were not just scientists, but were spying/observing the Romulans or were excavating an old Romulan colony...maybe discovered some lost tech or secret. Of course we don't want to stray to far from the TREK vibe and become all dark and conspiracy bent.

I don't know if Ray is taking the SFB universe as having any canon. However, in the SFBU the Romulans were a group who left Vulcan at some time during its long period of warfare. As the proto-Roumlans made their way across the quadrant towards Romulus, they settled a number of colonies along the way. This was due to the fact that they only had primitive warp-powered vessels, and needed an infrastructure of some kind to support their exploration. Contact was lost with a number of these colonies, and certainly as far as Y200 (SFBU timeline) they were still looking for some of them.