Siskoid has only ever run one of the tabletop Star Trek RPGs, so he calls in Ryan Blake, who's played the rest, for a good honest talk about each one's positives and negatives, and about the Trek role-playing experience. It's not your garden variety space opera, you know! And the game must reflect that.
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Credits:
"Star Trek Theme" by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: "Deep Space Nine Theme" by Dennis McCarthy.
Bonus clips from: Star Trek The Next Generation's "The Big Goodbye", starring Patrick Stewart; "Star Trek: Generations" by David Carson, starring William Shatner.
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Much like Hero Points, I didn’t know half of what you were talking about, but still was able to follow and enjoy the show nontheless. I did know a lot of “filler” Trek history came from these games, and DC’s Who’s Who seemed to be full of it.
A more bloodthirsty, militaristic Trek makes sense during the Harve Bennet years. And it also makes sense the game got cancelled as the touchy feely humanist era of TNG began.
Fascinating!
Chris
Excellent show as always. I’ve played all the Star Trek RPG’s and for me it’s STA all the way.
Another great episode, gentlemen. I’m not terribly familiar with Star Trek RPGs, so I appreciated the overview of the different versions that are out there. I did have a childhood friend, who owned the FASA game, and I would flip through the game books from time to time.
I have to say that I love games that incorporate some sort of life path system. The one with which I’m most familiar is another FASA game, MechWarrior 3rd edition. I can spend hours experimenting with different life path choices when trying to develop a character concept. Since I don’t really play any of the RPGs I own, having a fun character creation mechanic is a big plus for me.
Fun Fact – The Decipher game was what we used to create our characters for Tales of the Seventh Fleet. Being role-players by nature, we needed to know what each character was good/bad at and what weaknesses they might have. That’s how my character, Lupia, ended up being from Sherman’s Planet. He knew how to use Klingon weapons but hated Klingons, so that back story just fit.
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