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Showing posts with label Star Trek Adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Trek Adventures. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2021

USS Endeavour (NCC-1895) Constitution-class

 Star Trek:  Wand'ring in Star-Flight

Constitution-class

As this game is set during the Next Generation Era, the old Constitution-class ships of the Original Series are considered lost legends to live up to rather than present resources.

There are three Constitution-class ships I am interested in.

  • One is the original inspiration for a similarly-named legacy Galaxy-class ship in the current game year.
  • One is a Constitution-class ship that mysteriously disappeared and, no doubt, will return for a adventure involving the PCs.
  • And the last is the one remaining active Constitution-class ship, part of the Remembrance Fleet.

I will start with the first example:


USS Endeavour
NCC-1895
Comissioned: 2250
Shuttlecraft Theme:  Shuttles are named after souls encountered on the travels of all previous Endeavours.
Dedication Plaque:

"And I read the moral A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth."

— James J. Roche, Sir Hugo's Choice.

Division Insignia:  Stylized ship's sail in gold with black trim, large enough to display specific division insignia.

Timeline:

2250:  USS Endeavour commissioned.
2265:  Endeavour loses half her crew in battle.  She is towed back to Earth to spend time in drydock.
2266:  Endeavour is given 'celebration' duty, crewed with species discovered during the other Constitution-class vessel's explorations (particularly the Enterprise). 
2271:  Endeavour undergoes major refit (essentially entering the era of the movies)

This is the Endeavour in the year 2270, one year before her major refit (after the events of the Original and the Animated Series).  Link to PDF.


I can't find who made this beautiful work of art and I would love to give them credit.

Update:  Found it! 😍 Seekers 2 Final by RobCaswell on DeviantArt




Wednesday, March 31, 2021

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.