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Post by Falconer on Dec 30, 2009 13:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by Falconer on Dec 30, 2009 13:43:09 GMT -5
Here I have compiled a list of the (in my opinion) more memorable characters who have served aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) as shown through the run of TOS, with a few added from TAS and even one from TWOK.
Some of the oldest RPG materials for Star Trek presume that you will want to play the cast of the show and thus record further adventures of the Enterprise. I think that would actually be kind of neat, but even more so if it were opened up to all the known personnel. In a way, I am indirectly inspired by Star Trek XI, the movie that came out this year, to present a campaign that is not necessarily the continuing adventures but rather the alternative adventures. So presenting the players with such a diversity of character options would (hopefully) yield an interesting mix of characters, with a very strong “Star Trek feel” while at the same time being original.
Finally, in some way I feel like it would make it somehow more possible to play a character as a character rather than numbers on a sheet. I don’t really know how to explain that, other than I like the idea of sitting down and saying “What if our command staff consists of Number One, Gary Mitchell, Marlena Moreau, Thelin, and M'Benga?”
Well, it’s one idea!
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Post by thedungeondelver on Dec 30, 2009 17:06:54 GMT -5
Matt Decker was one of the best "guest captains" of any of the original Trek episodes, despite what went down. I imagine serving with him would have been a lot like serving with Kirk. I think the flawed-but-well-meaning Star Fleet glitterati were some of the best; Daystrom in "The Ultimate Computer", the aforementioned Decker, and to a lesser extent John Gill from Patterns of Force.
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Post by rflowers on Dec 30, 2009 21:59:15 GMT -5
 Allow me to just say... hotter than an overloaded phaser. |
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Post by Grendelwulf on Jan 7, 2010 11:36:47 GMT -5
 The Enterprise's very own sex-kitten runs a close second... ...OMG, I feel like such an anime-fanboy now...  Ciao! Grendelwulf |
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Post by aslanc on Jan 7, 2010 15:10:24 GMT -5
Nice selection and thank you for including Saavikk!
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Post by Falconer on Feb 14, 2010 18:04:27 GMT -5
This is still one of my favorite threads.  What do people think of playing “TV characters” instead of original characters? |
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Post by Falconer on Feb 14, 2010 18:36:04 GMT -5
I guess the other question would be: what do you think about playing in an alternate timeline rather than playing in the “canonical” universe? Not an alternate timeline in the sense that there was necessarily a time-travel event that changed the timeline or whatever.
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Post by finarvyn on Feb 14, 2010 22:24:02 GMT -5
what do you think about playing in an alternate timeline rather than playing in the “canonical” universe? If I understand your question correctly ... wouldn't most Trek novel and RPG settings classify as an alternate timeline? I'm assuming that the point wouldn't be to follow the exact sequence of the series but instead to take these characters and go off in new directions. |
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Post by Falconer on Feb 14, 2010 22:56:56 GMT -5
Yeah, basically. One approach is to pick a point of divergence, say the end of TOS Season 3, and continue the story in a direction in which “anything can happen”. For example, Kirk could die, and “TMP” never “happens”. What I have in mind is going back even further and saying my point of divergence is somewhere in the middle of The Cage. Pike leaves Starfleet and goes off to become the Warlord of Orion; Number One becomes Captain for Enterprise Five Year Mission—which means Kirk never does; she never enters the galactic barrier, so Mitchell never mutates... Something like that. But that’s just an example. It would be up to the players to pick their characters and recast them in new roles.
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Post by aramis on Feb 15, 2010 3:35:23 GMT -5
My players always rejected playing the series' characters, but have interacted with a few, so I've had to play them as NPC's. Specifically, Kirk and McCoy after the conclusion of the 5YM, with Kirk at SFHQ as Home Fleet's Commanding Admiral.
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Post by finarvyn on Jul 13, 2011 6:26:16 GMT -5
By the way, Falconer, I never gave you an EXALT for that initial post. Really cool! |
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Post by Falconer on Jul 13, 2011 10:24:42 GMT -5
Thanks! I still think it’s a fun one!
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Post by Falconer on Feb 11, 2020 17:33:15 GMT -5
I’ve got to fix a lot of those image links…
So hey, I found the following list in Geoffrey Mandel’s Star Fleet Handbook, Vol. 12 (1978):
OFFICERS
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE PERSONNEL
COMMAND
CAPT. KIRK COMMANDING OFFICER SC 937-0176 CEC
CMDR. DECKER EXECUTIVE OFFICER EC 948-885
LT. SULU HELMSMAN HC 173-950
LT. RYAN HELMSMAN HC 174-199
LT. LESLIE HELMSMAN HC 205-787
LT. HANSEN HELMSMAN HC 433-089
LT. RHADA HELMSMAN HC 493-595
LT. ILIA HELMSMAN HC 987-879
LT. CMDR RILEY CHIEF NAVIGATOR CNC 146-892
LT. FARREL NAVIGATION OFFICER NC 195-058
LT. DePAUL NAVIGATION OFFICER NC 255-288
LT. AREX NAVIGATION OFFICER NC 887-657
LT. CLAYTON CHIEF PILOT CPC 980-711
LT. BRENT ORDNANCE OFFICER OC 247-276
LT. STILES ORDNANCE OFFICER OC 251-709
LT. JOHNSON ORDNANCE OFFICER OC 978-497
LT. ROMAINE RECORDS OFFICER RC 507-142
SCIENCES
CMDR. SPOCK SCIENCE OFFICER S 179-276 SP
LT. XON ASS'T SCIENCE OFFICER AS 409-671
LT. HADLEY CHIEF SCIENTIST CSS 985-089
LT. JAEGER SCIENTIST (GEOLOGIST/METEOROLOGIST/
GEOPHYSICIST) SS 066-783
LT. NOEL SCIENTIST (CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST) SS 113-414
LT. BOMA SCIENTIST (CHIEF ASTROPHYSICIST) SS 163-024
LT. RODRIGUEZ SCIENTIST (CHIEF BOTANIST) SS 245-487
LT. PALAMAS SCIENTIST (ARCHAEOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGIST) SS 608-560
LT. MOREAU SCIENTIST (CHIEF CHEMIST) SS 622-241
LT. RAWLINS SCIENTIST (CHIEF GEOLOGIST) SS 646-718
LT. PHILLIPS SCIENTIST (ASTROBIOLOGIST) SS 686-956
LT. MULHALL SCIENTIST (CHIEF ASTROBIOLOGIST) SS 942-952
LT. CMDR. MCCOY CHIEF SURGEON SM 357-977
LT. CMDR. HARRISON DOCTOR (PATHOLOGIST) M 255-375
LT. CMDR. M'BENGA DOCTOR (SURGEON) M 324-004
LT. CMDR. SANCHEZ DOCTOR (SURGEON) M 968-671
LT. CHAPEL HEAD NURSE MN 286-198
ENGINEERING & SHIP'S SERVICES
LT. CMDR. SCOTT CHIEF ENGINEER SE 197-514
LT. DeSALLE ASS'T CHIEF ENGINEER AE 244-596
LT. MASTERS ENGINEERING OFFICER E 123-320
LT. SINGH ENGINEERING OFFICER E 342-413
LT. ELLIOTT ENGINEERING OFFICER E 846-018
LT. WASHBURN ENGINEERING OFFICER E 934-851
LT. KYLE TRANSPORTER CHIEF CTE 818-617
LT. O'NEIL TRANSPORTER OFFICER TE 897-632
LT. BRIEL CHIEF MESS OFFICER CME 013-461
LT. CMDR. ALDEN CHIEF OF COMMUNICATIONS CCE 830-868
LT. UHURA COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER CE 540-621
LT. JOSEPHS COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER CE 605-760
LT. PALMER COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER CE 873-155
LT. MARTINE-TELLER COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER CE 974-276
LT. M'RESS COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER CE 988-813
LT. CMDR. GIOTTO CHIEF OF SECURITY CSE 514-293
LT. CMDR. KELOWITZ SECURITY OFFICER SYE 086-887
LT. OSBORNE SECURITY OFFICER SYE 113-222
LT. ROWE SECURITY OFFICER SYE 136-116
LT. SHEA SECURITY OFFICER SYE 205-090
LT. LEMLI SECURITY OFFICER SYE 298-047
LT. NORED SECURITY OFFICER SYE 316-180
LT. DICKERSON SECURITY OFFICER SYE 596-872
LT. RAND HEAD YEOMAN CY 080-495
So he’s obviously speculating about the Enterprise’s “current” (in 1978) personnel: It’s only people who are alive at the end of TAS; plus some people who have obviously left the crew (Riley, Alden, Rand) have returned with promotions; plus obviously he has added the new Phase II characters (Decker, Ilia, Xon). Interestingly, he seems to assume Chekov has moved on for good. It’s an unrealistically maximalistic list (in terms of who exactly it includes still/together all serving on board); still, it is useful because it paints a pretty good picture of what a ship’s complement ought to include (eg., a ship should have all those different kinds of scientists).
I noticed that the “Beyond the Final Frontier” table of departments (classes) is based on this. See for yourself:
01 Command
02-03 Helm
04-05 Navigation
06-13 Ordnance
14-32 Sciences
33-45 Medical
46-76 Engineering
77-79 Communications
80-00 Security
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Post by Jack Photon on Aug 21, 2023 9:44:08 GMT -5
That list of names and positions is a very nice piece of research. Maybe not quite-complete, but exceptionally dense. Hadley sat in the Nav chair more often than science (and as much as Chekov swapped between the two positions). And Hadley never wore blue. Giotto does wear full commander stripes. (There's an unnamed navigator with full cmdr stripes and I've recently noticed a few other cuffs. There's a surprising amount of commanders on board with McCoy and Scott being two obvious exceptions for their importance. Odd.) Whether the following site was around 13.5yrs ago when this thread was last updated, it is a list with photos & episodes of every background face seen on 1701. It skips TAS, but includes the STI-VI. I should note that it appears to yave recently become contaminated with its first modern tv entry. I hope the site is able delineate classic from alternate new stuff. I'm going back now to save the page as is for my own reference. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)_personnel |
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What do people think of playing “TV characters” instead of original characters?
