Seeing the new format has 2 prompts and an episode re-write, we actually don't loose anything. We just essentially get 2 set off at the same time. So in essence, is this LC:TNG really needed now? When I thought it was going to be 1 prompt a month, I thought yes. But since we have 2 a month, nothing has really changed. We just have to set the deadlines for ourselves, remembering to end the first prompt two weeks later and start on the next one.
And we get the episode re-wrtie for an extra bonus.
You have a point, but...
The re-write is just uninteresting, especially to me. I have no reason to presume myself better than the TNG screenwriters, who, "A Matter of Honor" and "Rascals" aside, did a damn fine job. Anything that I write can only be a bad approximation of the actual scripts.
It's a nice idea, don't get me wrong. But in practice, it's just...
Uninteresting. That's the best word I could come up with.
As I said, the re-write thing is just a bonus. I can't see myself doing that one, unless I put my crew into it. But that's why I said it's a bonus. We're still getting 2 LC prompts a month.
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On the rewrite there is an outside chance I could tackle it someday IF the right episode came up and really struck me, but I would be less likely to do so than not.
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I got one. Nothing to do with cosmic events. No threat to the universe or the timeline. It's got nothing to do with dying in battle or courageously saving someone from being seconds away from death. No getting lost in space or system failure too far out from the nearest star base.
Here's a story idea. An executive officer has been discovered fancying one of the crew members. It hasn't gotten serious yet but its been noticed and Starfleet/KDF wants the captain to put the squash to it before things get any deeper.
I got one. Nothing to do with cosmic events. No threat to the universe or the timeline. It's got nothing to do with dying in battle or courageously saving someone from being seconds away from death. No getting lost in space or system failure too far out from the nearest star base.
Here's a story idea. An executive officer has been discovered fancying one of the crew members. It hasn't gotten serious yet but its been noticed and Starfleet/KDF wants the captain to put the squash to it before things get any deeper.
Dude, we're not Jedi. Starfleet and KDF don't care if officers have romantic liaisons, just as long as their duties come first.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
Dude, we're not Jedi. Starfleet and KDF don't care if officers have romantic liaisons, just as long as their duties come first.
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That's actually a pretty big thing. There was a TNG episode about this; Picard and this scientist were into each other, but they decided to cut it off because Picard realized that he couldn't make command decisions well if she was in danger.
But I'd do that challenge anyway, if only to see Command's reaction to Three's excuse for TRIBBLE her XO ("alien mind control").
Quinn: Well, this seems to all be in order...
Janeway: Yeah, right. She's TRIBBLE her XO, and she's obviously lying about the mind control, so...
Quinn: Yes, but her need for Commander Shran's safety is no stronger than her need for the safety of her other imprints. Also, Kathryn, need I remind you of that time when you took a lone science vessel in hostile space straight into a Borg fleet to retrieve a crew member who to this day you persist in claiming no emotional attachment to?
Janeway: *death stare*
Random Admiral: Look, let's just admit that the woman's a nut, let Jorel take the flak if she screws up, and go argue about something that doesn't creep me out? Like, the Breen's unethical medical experiments on Deferi prisoners?
Dude, we're not Jedi. Starfleet and KDF don't care if officers have romantic liaisons, just as long as their duties come first.
I'm going to respond by saying, I did what this thread was made for. Suggesting a challenge. That's all.
Besides, it's a completely realistic outlook. In the real world people wouldn't adhere so easily to the "Needs of the Many vs the needs of the One. That is the way the human race is.
I'll grant one argument for your case though. Maybe on a science vessel, where it should be more about exploration and lab work maybe it would matter a lot less. MAYBE.
As you may have noticed I included the KDF, I feel would be for different reasons to put the squash to an onboard romance. Star Trek 3 for example Kruug (Not sure of spelling) obviously had a mate as part of his crew. However two apposing houses would certainly not want two Klingons sharing bunks. Doubt they'd want an Orion/Klingon relationship either.
I'm going to respond by saying, I did what this thread was made for. Suggesting a challenge. That's all.
Besides, it's a completely realistic outlook. In the real world people wouldn't adhere so easily to the "Needs of the Many vs the needs of the One. That is the way the human race is.
I'll grant one argument for your case though. Maybe on a science vessel, where it should be more about exploration and lab work maybe it would matter a lot less. MAYBE.
As you may have noticed I included the KDF, I feel would be for different reasons to put the squash to an onboard romance. Star Trek 3 for example Kruug (Not sure of spelling) obviously had a mate as part of his crew. However two apposing houses would certainly not want two Klingons sharing bunks. Doubt they'd want an Orion/Klingon relationship either.
The Needs of the Many doesn't really apply to that sort of situation. Unless one of the parties was fated to stop some alien invasion by sacrificing themselves or something and being in a relationship prevented that.
Also I doubt Klingons would ever have any sort of "Romero & Juliet" style romance to brew between opposing houses. If two of the children mate, there's not much the House can say or do. Unless one of the lovers does an egregious dishonor, of course. And in that case, the relationship ends and that's it. No residual feelings or anything. Just a chest thump and a forearm grip. Klingon break ups are surprisingly amicable.
We've seen that Starfleet doesn't care on multiple occasions. Troi and Riker, Troi and Worf, O'Brian and Kiko, Worf and K'Ehleyr, Worf and Jadzia, Ezri and Bashir, Bashir and Jadzia, Paris and Be'lanna, Spock and Uhura as well as who knows how many other relationships. As long as people do their jobs when they're supposed to, it's fair play all aboard.
Plus, without some element of disaster or some big bad threat, the story is just...boring. Your captain just says "You two can't date. Starfleet/Klingon rules." and then....what? They keep hooking up and get discharged or they break up and it ends. You need a hook to keep the stories interesting.
Plus, none of the captains in the LC canon can actively discourage inter-ship relationships. Nearly all of them are either in relationships with crew members or have never been specifically explained about their personal life.
You want your prompt to be better, substitute the Starfleet and KDF with rival factions of planets or make them Kazon sects who want your captain to break up two lovers for their own goals and desires. Gives the story a nice hook and, if you choose rival factions, allows us to break the Prime Directive. Everyone just LOVES to break that Prime Directive.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
The Needs of the Many doesn't really apply to that sort of situation. Unless one of the parties was fated to stop some alien invasion by sacrificing themselves or something and being in a relationship prevented that.
Also I doubt Klingons would ever have any sort of "Romero & Juliet" style romance to brew between opposing houses. If two of the children mate, there's not much the House can say or do. Unless one of the lovers does an egregious dishonor, of course. And in that case, the relationship ends and that's it. No residual feelings or anything. Just a chest thump and a forearm grip. Klingon break ups are surprisingly amicable.
We've seen that Starfleet doesn't care on multiple occasions. Troi and Riker, Troi and Worf, O'Brian and Kiko, Worf and K'Ehleyr, Worf and Jadzia, Ezri and Bashir, Bashir and Jadzia, Paris and Be'lanna, Spock and Uhura as well as who knows how many other relationships. As long as people do their jobs when they're supposed to, it's fair play all aboard.
Plus, without some element of disaster or some big bad threat, the story is just...boring. Your captain just says "You two can't date. Starfleet/Klingon rules." and then....what? They keep hooking up and get discharged or they break up and it ends. You need a hook to keep the stories interesting.
Plus, none of the captains in the LC canon can actively discourage inter-ship relationships. Nearly all of them are either in relationships with crew members or have never been specifically explained about their personal life.
You want your prompt to be better, substitute the Starfleet and KDF with rival factions of planets or make them Kazon sects who want your captain to break up two lovers for their own goals and desires. Gives the story a nice hook and, if you choose rival factions, allows us to break the Prime Directive. Everyone just LOVES to break that Prime Directive.
Are you seriously picking at a suggestion? I posted it because of the tension it would create in a story and because I thought it would be fun to interact for a change on the forums after going on three years of playing. You know just because you think my idea is stupid doesn't mean you have to get condescending about it. If you don't like the idea don't use it, now or if it ever were to turn up as a literary challenge.
I can take critique because in the end, I really don't care what anyone thinks. What I'm not going to do is while in the public online domain is just sit here without responding when someone gets all trek-nerd on me for no reason. I'm quite familiar with the examples you presented, thank you very much.
You want a better scenario, here ya go. It involves the same concept.
A Literary challenge that begins with an executive officer who DOES let his feelings get in the way and a bunch of crew members die as a result of his own personal feelings towards a subordinate, who was chosen over dozens of people instead during a disaster that had nothing to do with fate.
Does that satisfy you? Is that more to your liking? OR does that not sound reasonable?
Thank you for taking the fun out of my original post in this thread. I hope this is not an example of what I'm going to face on the forums.
While inspecting a civilian freighter for contraband or on an away mission surveying a planet, you come across something unusual. It is a sentient, amorphous blob of carbosilicate material that looks like a mobile pile of TRIBBLE with eyes. While not a Changeling, it can alter its shape in order to fit through small spaces, and it can eat just about anything - though the interior space it can generate to use as a 'stomach' is also used as a storage space for anything it intends to use, like weapons, and can even be used to carry a person inside, if said person needs to avoid detection. And it's also more bloodthirsty and trigger-happy than just about any other race known to exist.
Write a story detailing your encounter with this strange creature.
...Sergeant Schlock?
Sounds awesome, but I'm not sure about Howard Tayler's fanfic policy.
I think Schlock and Three would be best of friends, especially once he heard about her policy toward anything that threatens her imprints. And she'd probably want to get a replicator pattern for the BH-209.
Sounds awesome, but I'm not sure about Howard Tayler's fanfic policy.
Either Schlock or another similar Amorph - I mean, I doubt they only exist in the Schlock-verse - they have to exist in other universes, too, even if they are rather rare. :cool:
As for his Fanfic policy, I'll ask him - there is an option to send fan mail.
I think Schlock and Three would be best of friends, especially once he heard about her policy toward anything that threatens her imprints. And she'd probably want to get a replicator pattern for the BH-209.
...
YES.
SO MUCH YES.
SO MUCH WIN.
And let's just imagine the two of them versus a room of generic bad guys...
While inspecting a civilian freighter for contraband or on an away mission surveying a planet, you come across something unusual. It is a sentient, amorphous blob of carbosilicate material that looks like a mobile pile of TRIBBLE with eyes. While not a Changeling, it can alter its shape in order to fit through small spaces, and it can eat just about anything - though the interior space it can generate to use as a 'stomach' is also used as a storage space for anything it intends to use, like weapons, and can even be used to carry a person inside, if said person needs to avoid detection. And it's also more bloodthirsty and trigger-happy than just about any other race known to exist.
Write a story detailing your encounter with this strange creature.
It must be a Proto-Tribble!
:eek:
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
I got one. Nothing to do with cosmic events. No threat to the universe or the timeline. It's got nothing to do with dying in battle or courageously saving someone from being seconds away from death. No getting lost in space or system failure too far out from the nearest star base.
Here's a story idea. An executive officer has been discovered fancying one of the crew members. It hasn't gotten serious yet but its been noticed and Starfleet/KDF wants the captain to put the squash to it before things get any deeper.
A character piece. I like that, would be a nice break from all the action and apocalyptic end of universe type stuff. I could work with this prompt, given the small sizze of the Viper and it's current situation. Do they become a generational ship? Could they afford the supplies and space? A defiant class ship 2 galaxies over probably isnt the best suited. But could they go on with their journey trying to clamp down on such behaviour, in order to avoid problems that may arise from it? What would that do to crew morale in the long term? Oh I could have a field day with this!
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I got one. Nothing to do with cosmic events. No threat to the universe or the timeline. It's got nothing to do with dying in battle or courageously saving someone from being seconds away from death. No getting lost in space or system failure too far out from the nearest star base.
Here's a story idea. An executive officer has been discovered fancying one of the crew members. It hasn't gotten serious yet but its been noticed and Starfleet/KDF wants the captain to put the squash to it before things get any deeper.
Honestly Starfleet doesn't seem to have a problem with fraternization. The closest they've ever come is when Sisko reprimanded Worf for sacrificing a covert mission to save Jadzia from bleeding out.
However, all the blue-on-blue* romances we've seen in the series have been between people in different divisions. O'Brien and Keiko? Ops and science. Paris and Torres? Tactical and engineering. Worf and Jadzia? Command and science. Ezri and Julian? Well, okay, that one's medical/medical, but they're in different fields (psychology versus surgery) and they don't report to each other.
My personal solution, given how Starfleet ships are often out for months or years at a time, is that the rules are basically limited to "don't date your direct superior" and "don't let it impede ship functioning" (the latter of which is more or less straight out of real-life US military fraternization regs, albeit loosely interpreted). It's the solution I used with Eleya and Gaarra in Bait and Switch: I basically admitted that them having a relationship violates the letter of the rules, but then had Tess, Eleya's XO, say that she's fine with it as long as it doesn't threaten the Bajor.
If I ever think for a minute that your relationship, should you choose to pursue one, is endangering the ship or the crew, Ill write you both up myself.
So, that prompt could be made to work.
* Air Force slang for both a friendly-fire incident and for Academy cadet romances. Make of that what you will.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
A character piece. I like that, would be a nice break from all the action and apocalyptic end of universe type stuff. I could work with this prompt, given the small sizze of the Viper and it's current situation. Do they become a generational ship? Could they afford the supplies and space? A defiant class ship 2 galaxies over probably isnt the best suited. But could they go on with their journey trying to clamp down on such behaviour, in order to avoid problems that may arise from it? What would that do to crew morale in the long term? Oh I could have a field day with this!
Exactly! A character piece instead of an action story. THANK YOU. Someone gets it. Oh my goodness I spent this time feeling like why bother because of the prior response and a following one sounding much the same in tone.
As for your questions I don't really know how to answer them. I just meant it as a broad suggestion for the ones in charge of the challenges. I figured the outline was for them to sort out. That is why I left it as is.
Anyway, since I'm more new to the forums than the game itself, for the most part, I am not aware enough of your crew's situation.
I'll tell you what I would do were I to use my idea. For my current main crew, I have looked at the captain and his first officer, an andorian women (please spare me the andorian stuff everyone I already read the extended lore) Were it a show the captain and her would make a cute couple but, things being what they are and the critical times of the path to 2409A.D. doesn't work so well. They look forward to each others company a lot with a lot of fascination. Well things are noticed and people start grumbling about favoritism, which does begin to happen a little. So, as it become very aware to everyone else including his own superior, before the favoritism continues they tells the, both, cut it short things aren't as leisurely as they once were because now more than ever. Threats along the Klingon Border. Threats along the Romulan border. The Borgare still out there trying to infect wherever they can and of coarse the shapeshifting Undine. So getting to cozy among the ranks is to be discouraged and dealt with, case by case when need be. I must say you raised some interesting questions and conditions that could apply that hadn't occurred to me. I probably won't ever write it, least with this crew I refer to because I don't know what to do to create a caitian captain's backround honestly. Not enough lore.
Anyway, would love to hear your input. I'll discuss anything when I'm not being talked down to. Have a good day.
Writing a romance piece might be hard, with an asexual captain (he IS male, not just faking it--but he cannot feel attraction to humanoids and despises his own species)...and just generally not my cup of tea anyway.
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Writing a romance piece might be hard, with an asexual captain (he IS male, not just faking it--but he cannot feel attraction to humanoids and despises his own species)...and just generally not my cup of tea anyway.
And D'trel won't so much as LOOK at anyone since her fiancee got tortured to death by the Tal Shiar...
Yeah. It's a good idea, but I'm going to go ahead and hope for a different one.
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to push the idea onto anyone. It is just that I look at the challenges and its huge anomaly type stuff. While conflict against a foe or natural force is interesting, the interest in internal conflict can be just as good. Anyway, I think I've said enough. I'd like to read what others post related and unrelated for a little bit.
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to push the idea onto anyone. It is just that I look at the challenges and its huge anomaly type stuff. While conflict against a foe or natural force is interesting, the interest in internal conflict can be just as good. Anyway, I think I've said enough. I'd like to read what others post related and unrelated for a little bit.
Like I said, not a bad idea at all. I'd definitely give it a shot if it came up, just...
Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to push the idea onto anyone. It is just that I look at the challenges and its huge anomaly type stuff. While conflict against a foe or natural force is interesting, the interest in internal conflict can be just as good. Anyway, I think I've said enough. I'd like to read what others post related and unrelated for a little bit.
And I think you and I were thinking along the same lines...this isn't a slam at all. The zhian'tara idea also lends to a more internal conflict type of story.
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On suggestion by gulberat, I made a slight modification to my 'Amorph' idea, changing one word to hopefully make it more liable to be accepted by Smirk.
And I think you and I were thinking along the same lines...this isn't a slam at all. The zhian'tara idea also lends to a more internal conflict type of story.
I did like that one, and I do have a joined Trill on Eleya's command crew: The science officer, Lt. Cdr. Birail Riyannis. Or maybe I could do one set further in the past, starring Amnell Kree (an OC who's a four-star admiral in STO's present and was a Peregrine pilot in the Dominion War).
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
On suggestion by gulberat, I made a slight modification to my 'Amorph' idea, changing one word to hopefully make it more liable to be accepted by Smirk.
Sludge. I like that word.
Suh-lu-guh.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
Your ship is in orbit of an ice world, and you've been ordered to investigate. Two crew members beam down to set up a base for surveys.
Then a trio of enemy starships drops out of warp and forces your ship out of transporter range, leaving two of your crew on the planet with night closing in.
How do they survive? How does the experience affect them? And what hazards lurk in the icy night?
GET OVER HE-
Oh wait...THAT kind of Sub Zero....my bad.
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
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You have a point, but...
The re-write is just uninteresting, especially to me. I have no reason to presume myself better than the TNG screenwriters, who, "A Matter of Honor" and "Rascals" aside, did a damn fine job. Anything that I write can only be a bad approximation of the actual scripts.
It's a nice idea, don't get me wrong. But in practice, it's just...
Uninteresting. That's the best word I could come up with.
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Exactly.
:cool:
Glad you caught the in-joke there; spelling it out would've been too obvious. You are good at this!
Here's a story idea. An executive officer has been discovered fancying one of the crew members. It hasn't gotten serious yet but its been noticed and Starfleet/KDF wants the captain to put the squash to it before things get any deeper.
Dude, we're not Jedi. Starfleet and KDF don't care if officers have romantic liaisons, just as long as their duties come first.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
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That's actually a pretty big thing. There was a TNG episode about this; Picard and this scientist were into each other, but they decided to cut it off because Picard realized that he couldn't make command decisions well if she was in danger.
But I'd do that challenge anyway, if only to see Command's reaction to Three's excuse for TRIBBLE her XO ("alien mind control").
Quinn: Well, this seems to all be in order...
Janeway: Yeah, right. She's TRIBBLE her XO, and she's obviously lying about the mind control, so...
Quinn: Yes, but her need for Commander Shran's safety is no stronger than her need for the safety of her other imprints. Also, Kathryn, need I remind you of that time when you took a lone science vessel in hostile space straight into a Borg fleet to retrieve a crew member who to this day you persist in claiming no emotional attachment to?
Janeway: *death stare*
Random Admiral: Look, let's just admit that the woman's a nut, let Jorel take the flak if she screws up, and go argue about something that doesn't creep me out? Like, the Breen's unethical medical experiments on Deferi prisoners?
I'm going to respond by saying, I did what this thread was made for. Suggesting a challenge. That's all.
Besides, it's a completely realistic outlook. In the real world people wouldn't adhere so easily to the "Needs of the Many vs the needs of the One. That is the way the human race is.
I'll grant one argument for your case though. Maybe on a science vessel, where it should be more about exploration and lab work maybe it would matter a lot less. MAYBE.
As you may have noticed I included the KDF, I feel would be for different reasons to put the squash to an onboard romance. Star Trek 3 for example Kruug (Not sure of spelling) obviously had a mate as part of his crew. However two apposing houses would certainly not want two Klingons sharing bunks. Doubt they'd want an Orion/Klingon relationship either.
The Needs of the Many doesn't really apply to that sort of situation. Unless one of the parties was fated to stop some alien invasion by sacrificing themselves or something and being in a relationship prevented that.
Also I doubt Klingons would ever have any sort of "Romero & Juliet" style romance to brew between opposing houses. If two of the children mate, there's not much the House can say or do. Unless one of the lovers does an egregious dishonor, of course. And in that case, the relationship ends and that's it. No residual feelings or anything. Just a chest thump and a forearm grip. Klingon break ups are surprisingly amicable.
We've seen that Starfleet doesn't care on multiple occasions. Troi and Riker, Troi and Worf, O'Brian and Kiko, Worf and K'Ehleyr, Worf and Jadzia, Ezri and Bashir, Bashir and Jadzia, Paris and Be'lanna, Spock and Uhura as well as who knows how many other relationships. As long as people do their jobs when they're supposed to, it's fair play all aboard.
Plus, without some element of disaster or some big bad threat, the story is just...boring. Your captain just says "You two can't date. Starfleet/Klingon rules." and then....what? They keep hooking up and get discharged or they break up and it ends. You need a hook to keep the stories interesting.
Plus, none of the captains in the LC canon can actively discourage inter-ship relationships. Nearly all of them are either in relationships with crew members or have never been specifically explained about their personal life.
You want your prompt to be better, substitute the Starfleet and KDF with rival factions of planets or make them Kazon sects who want your captain to break up two lovers for their own goals and desires. Gives the story a nice hook and, if you choose rival factions, allows us to break the Prime Directive. Everyone just LOVES to break that Prime Directive.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
Are you seriously picking at a suggestion? I posted it because of the tension it would create in a story and because I thought it would be fun to interact for a change on the forums after going on three years of playing. You know just because you think my idea is stupid doesn't mean you have to get condescending about it. If you don't like the idea don't use it, now or if it ever were to turn up as a literary challenge.
I can take critique because in the end, I really don't care what anyone thinks. What I'm not going to do is while in the public online domain is just sit here without responding when someone gets all trek-nerd on me for no reason. I'm quite familiar with the examples you presented, thank you very much.
You want a better scenario, here ya go. It involves the same concept.
A Literary challenge that begins with an executive officer who DOES let his feelings get in the way and a bunch of crew members die as a result of his own personal feelings towards a subordinate, who was chosen over dozens of people instead during a disaster that had nothing to do with fate.
Does that satisfy you? Is that more to your liking? OR does that not sound reasonable?
Thank you for taking the fun out of my original post in this thread. I hope this is not an example of what I'm going to face on the forums.
Moonshadowdark, there was no need to pick at trojanborg's idea. Trojanborg, there was no need to get so upset.
Now. Let's stop and get back to brainstorming ideas.
...Sergeant Schlock?
Sounds awesome, but I'm not sure about Howard Tayler's fanfic policy.
Either Schlock or another similar Amorph - I mean, I doubt they only exist in the Schlock-verse - they have to exist in other universes, too, even if they are rather rare. :cool:
As for his Fanfic policy, I'll ask him - there is an option to send fan mail.
...
YES.
SO MUCH YES.
SO MUCH WIN.
And let's just imagine the two of them versus a room of generic bad guys...
It must be a Proto-Tribble!
:eek:
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
A character piece. I like that, would be a nice break from all the action and apocalyptic end of universe type stuff. I could work with this prompt, given the small sizze of the Viper and it's current situation. Do they become a generational ship? Could they afford the supplies and space? A defiant class ship 2 galaxies over probably isnt the best suited. But could they go on with their journey trying to clamp down on such behaviour, in order to avoid problems that may arise from it? What would that do to crew morale in the long term? Oh I could have a field day with this!
A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
Honestly Starfleet doesn't seem to have a problem with fraternization. The closest they've ever come is when Sisko reprimanded Worf for sacrificing a covert mission to save Jadzia from bleeding out.
However, all the blue-on-blue* romances we've seen in the series have been between people in different divisions. O'Brien and Keiko? Ops and science. Paris and Torres? Tactical and engineering. Worf and Jadzia? Command and science. Ezri and Julian? Well, okay, that one's medical/medical, but they're in different fields (psychology versus surgery) and they don't report to each other.
My personal solution, given how Starfleet ships are often out for months or years at a time, is that the rules are basically limited to "don't date your direct superior" and "don't let it impede ship functioning" (the latter of which is more or less straight out of real-life US military fraternization regs, albeit loosely interpreted). It's the solution I used with Eleya and Gaarra in Bait and Switch: I basically admitted that them having a relationship violates the letter of the rules, but then had Tess, Eleya's XO, say that she's fine with it as long as it doesn't threaten the Bajor.
So, that prompt could be made to work.
* Air Force slang for both a friendly-fire incident and for Academy cadet romances. Make of that what you will.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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Exactly! A character piece instead of an action story. THANK YOU. Someone gets it. Oh my goodness I spent this time feeling like why bother because of the prior response and a following one sounding much the same in tone.
As for your questions I don't really know how to answer them. I just meant it as a broad suggestion for the ones in charge of the challenges. I figured the outline was for them to sort out. That is why I left it as is.
Anyway, since I'm more new to the forums than the game itself, for the most part, I am not aware enough of your crew's situation.
I'll tell you what I would do were I to use my idea. For my current main crew, I have looked at the captain and his first officer, an andorian women (please spare me the andorian stuff everyone I already read the extended lore) Were it a show the captain and her would make a cute couple but, things being what they are and the critical times of the path to 2409A.D. doesn't work so well. They look forward to each others company a lot with a lot of fascination. Well things are noticed and people start grumbling about favoritism, which does begin to happen a little. So, as it become very aware to everyone else including his own superior, before the favoritism continues they tells the, both, cut it short things aren't as leisurely as they once were because now more than ever. Threats along the Klingon Border. Threats along the Romulan border. The Borgare still out there trying to infect wherever they can and of coarse the shapeshifting Undine. So getting to cozy among the ranks is to be discouraged and dealt with, case by case when need be. I must say you raised some interesting questions and conditions that could apply that hadn't occurred to me. I probably won't ever write it, least with this crew I refer to because I don't know what to do to create a caitian captain's backround honestly. Not enough lore.
Anyway, would love to hear your input. I'll discuss anything when I'm not being talked down to. Have a good day.
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And D'trel won't so much as LOOK at anyone since her fiancee got tortured to death by the Tal Shiar...
Yeah. It's a good idea, but I'm going to go ahead and hope for a different one.
Such as my 'Amorph' idea? :cool:
Like I said, not a bad idea at all. I'd definitely give it a shot if it came up, just...
Not with D'trel.
And I think you and I were thinking along the same lines...this isn't a slam at all.
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I did like that one, and I do have a joined Trill on Eleya's command crew: The science officer, Lt. Cdr. Birail Riyannis. Or maybe I could do one set further in the past, starring Amnell Kree (an OC who's a four-star admiral in STO's present and was a Peregrine pilot in the Dominion War).
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Sludge. I like that word.
Suh-lu-guh.
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GET OVER HE-
Oh wait...THAT kind of Sub Zero....my bad.
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