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How would you bring an historical figure from Star Trek canon into the present time?
theyredeadjim
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I'm curious about how the authors here would prefer to bring a character from Star Trek canon history into the (game's) present time. Choose a method of bringing someone back from the dead, and tell us who and why.
How would you bring an historical figure from Star Trek canon into the present time? 10 votes
Time Traveller/Temporal Agent
0%
Clone (a la Kahless)
0%
Freed from the Nexus (2410 is a return year for the ribbon)
10%
1 vote
Cryogenic Suspension (the Popsicle option)
0%
Flint redux (immortality, or similar concept, as in the TOS episode "Requiem for Methuselah"
0%
Import from Alternative Timeline
20%
2 votes
Other (Please elaborate)
70%
7 votes
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and I'm assuming historical characters here means characters who couldn't naturally be alive at this point so for example Picard would not apply as he would be old but there's no reason he still couldn't be alive. where as for example there wouldn't be reason why Johnathan Archer would still be alive seeing as he what late 30s early 40s in 2150s and as far as we know a normal human being.
The old classic characters are great, but, I feel it is dangerous because you could be meddling with forces beyond your control; primarily the head canons of your players.
Look at your story and the part the most important character, the player, needs to play in it. Is this classic character important to their story or just a throwback for the sake of it?
Honestly, look for the third door. Find something unexpected that tweaks with the idea. Decedents. Long ago recordings lost to time speaking across the years. Great heroes of ages past are cool, but sometimes their tombs can be cooler. Play around with the idea, try to find something different and unique. Make something you can have complete control over without fear that anyone else can go "neat" or "I like this, and it doesn't mess with any lore I know because it is so apart from it."
In many ways the Legacy/myth of a historical character can be more intresting then the character itself, since unless poorly writen the character would have flaws and other aspects that might be less then what's expected but with the myth you have much more control as it doesn't have to be realistic and in fact probably won't be rather later generations embelished the myth so that the man seems like demigod rather then a mortal.
Episode Four - Head Of A Needle Episode Five: The Duality of Men Episode Six - Redemption Earned
Episode Seven - Shattered Universe Episode Eight - The Gepetto Condition Episode Nine - One Room, Two Officers
Episode Ten - Beyond The Farthest Star Episode Eleven - It's OK, It Won't Hurt Episode Twelve - A Protracted Officer
Episode Thirteen - Somewhen Episode Fourteen - The Boy Who Lived Episode Fifthteen - Empathy
Ok, now I feel truly stupid for overlooking that one.
BTW, this thread wasn't about a request for plot line assistance; it was intended for a little fun. I should have been more specific in the OP, and I'll make the necessary edit. While I'm at it, I'll add Q.
*edit* Apparently, the poll options can't be modified, so I remain embarassed about the lack of Q.
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A darker alternative - the character was assimilated by the Borg, and was only recently liberated. Years as a drone have changed the character's appearance beyond recognition.
Trouble in Trimble: An illicit Reman colony is under attack by Orion pirates. Will you defend the colony or arrest its only defender?
Paying the Price: You must protect an uncontacted pre-warp civilization from Orion slavers, without violating the Prime Directive.
The Mirror of Infinity: To save your ship, you must convince the descendants of the crew of the long-lost USS Infinity to work with their mortal enemies - their Mirror Universe counterparts. Part of the USS Infinity Foundry Roundtable Challenge.
The Tholian Tempest: A rescue mission on a Y-class world leaves the away team stranded inside a Shakespeare play while under attack by Tholians and Gorn.
The Trafalgar Paradox: A mission to locate a missing Starfleet vessel leads the away team into a mind-bending temporal paradox.
while those could work there's always the question "If you're not gonna make them look like the character, why use that character in the first place?" and most general population players are probably not as familiar with the limits the EULA imposes on our work. Especially seeing how many player characters would not only break EULA if made foundry characters would do so blatantly.
That's why I think if you absolute "must" have that character, an imposter or legacy of said character are the best way to go as the imposter explains away the "why doesn't he look like the character" because he never was the character to begin with and the legacy of a character allows you to explore the personality of the character without having said character never make a physical apprence, also both of these options allow you to explain away any minor mistakes in writing compared to "true" canon or head canon of the player, since you can say the imposter got things wrong or that records were imperfect or mistaken.