Wand'ring In Star-Flight - A Star Trek Adventures Campaign

Wand'ring In Star-Flight

In real-life, I am about to start a Star Trek Adventures RPG campaign.  And any notes for the game are most of blogging them.  So why not post them for others to use?

It is for the other players to detail the player character's ship but I can do the rest of the universe.

So I will call the campaign Wand'ring in Star-Flight after the never-heard lyrics to the original Star Trek theme music.*

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand’ring in star-flight
I know
He’ll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

There is a YouTube video of these lyrics sung aloud for the fans by Tenacious D (and you would have to be a true fan, the lyrics are quite grating with the song).

The game is set in the Prime Timeline which has much more material and happens during the end of the Next Generation Era which allows elements to be easily taken from the whole continuity of mainstream Trek.

"The Star-Crossed"

Once, in a watering-hole on the edge of the Federation, a barfly remarked that there were some souls and ships that always seemed to find each other in the same trouble.   It was as if they had all been called by some strange siren.  The meme took in the ways that some do and there was a group of stations, ships and crews colloquially named the Star-Crossed.

*My conscience demands that I mention that the reason the Star Trek theme has unsung lyrics was that Gene Roddenberry, the creator and producer of Star Trek, wanted some extra royalties from Trek.  By writing those lyrics, even if unused, he was considered a co-writer of the iconic Original Series theme.  This meant that Alexander Courage, the composer of the theme music, had his royalties halved with the other half going to Roddenberry for his worthless contribution.  It was a cynical and soulless move by Roddenberry whose legacy has become quite tarnished as the years march on.  I try to dwell on the man's one unquestionably heroic action to help leaven his falling star...