Hi Dark, Don't think that hadn't occurred to me as well. I was thinking of a mission where the Romulans send a warbird with a phase-cloak device over the neutral zone to attack Vulcan and the Enterprise is sent to intercept and destroy it before they can attack Vulcan's capital. That is only one mission I've had in mind for such a game.
In fact, TNG is full of mission ideas, because the show centered around one ship and the shows were balanced so that it was a fair fight. As a result there were plenty of ideas that could be used from the show directly for game missions. For example, in the Wounded the captain of the U.S.S. Phoenix goes rogue and tries to destroy the peace between the Federation and Cardassian Union. The Enterprise is sent by the Federation to stop the Phoenix from breaking the peace treaty. Right there is an excellent mission, back story and all ready to be dropped into a game. It might not be an original idea, but fits nicely into a TNG type game. Another idea that lends itself to a possible game mission is Descent Parts I and II. In those episodes the Enterprise encounters the Borg who had been infected by Hue's individuality and were now under the command of Data's brother Lore. Its one Borg ship, not as powerful as the regular Borg, but falls right in line for a potential game story. Another possible storyline involving the Borg is the episode Q Who. In that episode Q transports the Enterprise directly to Sector J-25 where they encounter the Borg for the first time. As a game mission this works out well, because unlike in Best of Both Worlds, IE the Battle of Wolf 359, there is no fleet engagements to worry about. Its a solo one on one battle between the Enterprise and a Borg ship. Its also realistic because in that conflict the Enterprise does seriously damage the Borg ship, and could have destroyed it if they only understood how the Borg adapt to weapons. They crippled the ship, and chose to board the ship while it was in regeneration. If they would have given up the away team mission and pressed their advantage they would have won. Instead the Enterprise's crew spent too much time studying the Borg and almost got killed for it. As you can see I'm really thinking of a mission based Star Trek game set in the TNG era. To me it seems to be the golden age of Star Trek where it equally balanced exploration with decent plots for military type engagements with hostile races. Its more flexible than Deep Space 9 which almost exclusively focussed on war and conflict once the Defiant became a regular feature of the show. Another advantage of going TNG is that certain alliances hadn't been signed yet making it possible to use races like the Ferengi as enemies. From the first season on in TNG the Ferengi were a regular enemies who showed up to tangle with the Enterprise. As we get into the Deep Space 9 era the Ferengi become allies with the Federation due to the Dominion War. As you pointed out Nog was the first Ferengi Federation officer, and it follows that in future series more Ferengi officers would join the Federation's ranks. Thus effectively writing them off as potential enemies for a game. Another race the Federation made peace with is the Romulans. In TNG they played a triditional roll as frequent enemies, but in the later seasons of Deep Space 9 the Romulans joined the alliance to fight the Dominion. From what I gather from Star Trek Nemesis it was rogue elements of the Romulan Empire that over threw the senate and started the war with the Federation after the Dominion War. Even then two or three Romulan ships loyal to the alliance showed up to pull Enterprise's tail out of the fire. Point being that the Romulans aren't going to play a major roll as enemies in any series following Deep Space 9 unless the new government is hostile to the Federation as previous governments were. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
