Oh yeah, wanna be jedi are everywhere. I actually prefer original series or Kirk era movies timelines but can run anything. I prefer last unicorn trek and have all the books for it, but can run decipher (have all the books for it also, but like it less.) What I am suggesting is... The scenario involves a virus that gets aboard ship. Old school star trek, they had the crew get sick and rely on McCoy and spock who were both sick to solve it. Next generation they say oh we got anti-virus shields. So a scenario like that goes, okay we're aboard Enterprise-D. The enemy has a bioweapon that is very scary..." Capt: "Prepare and deploy the anti-virus shielding modulation protocols. Be sure to interlock them with the biophasing microbial bypass nanofilters. Engage." Crewman: "Shields in place, 100% effective." First Officer "Very Cunning, captain. Not so scary virus, eh?" What I want to do is much more the flavor of Original Star Trek, and definitely not Voyager. Warping through time is very dangerous, not "Release the chroniton particles to generate a time warp on command, to fix that mistake we made with the Drikosians, three episodes ago." Instead, fly to Drikosia, apologize and still undergo a "trial of sufferring" in the arena, to see if your crew of puny humans are worthy allies. When a combat happens, raise shields and blast away and use the ships maneuvering for tactics. The picard super short speed burst up close faster than light should work ONCE because that "specific plot problem" demands it, not "6 Klingons off the port bow!" "Oh, yeah um enemy... okay picard meanuever variation four, fire pattern riker 6-alpha .. P.S. double overloaded photon torpedoes, and rig the dish phaser to fire directly from the anti-matter matrix, because well screw it, I feel like it today...okay. yeah, um, let's go... okay. fire." "Oh...I forgot! Okay, while the torpedoes are flying, you know we shouldn't even worry, we'll hit them and so prepare to board and take over the enemy ship, because well, this always works perfectly every time, and is our single best go to tactic." No. no, and no. People taking action, getting in there and doing, not using invented made up techie stuff to solve invented made up problems in an invented made up scenario. If it's like that, what are we playing? I like: McCoy faces a wounded horta. He says, damn it's made out of silicon. Silicon is rock, so bring down some cement mix... The horta is healed and doesn't die and can raise her kids. they are natural drills, everyone is happy. Boom. I love that stuff. Kirk and crew go back in time (yeah, I know what I said earlier) but knowing edith keeler must die. And so, forced to watch her die to save untold billions unborn Kirk at the last second arranges it. McCoy says, DO you know what you just did? Spock: He Knows, Doctor. He knows. Pathos, and tragedy. Human feelings. Characters, motivations, theme, plot and boldly going. There is physics and chemistry, and ecology and archaeology, but not let's make up X Y and Z tech terms to become the instant solution to everything, and when they do that it works perfectly every time and solves everything neatly. There might be new particles, unknown to federation science There might be a strange signal from outer space but the comms officers listens to it and interprets it, or if it is off frequency, slows it down or speeds it up, or can figure it out, but it takes time and computer resources, and might not be perfect...but it ultimately conveys information, that helps the crew later on, but won't solve the complete problem directly. It is not that canon is bad, it is those tricks that are used over and over and over, because in "That one scenario when" becomes Every scenario, every time. After a while there are no plots left that aren't covered by a trick, and If I am writing these, I am actually writing them and I don't weant the game to get harder and harder to write as we go, because there are instant solutions to everything. If a crew member is wounded, beam them up and work on them in sickbay. If the enemy is attacking, raise shields in defense and hail them. If the bomb at the core of the planet is set to go off when it's outer casing melts at 5,000 degrees, use physics plus math and maybe planetology or geology to calculate that, as a team with the computer. If the alien life form attacks and leaves tracks, but nobody has ever seen it use biology and or xenobiology to determine, hell, could this thing be invisible? Use a Tricorder to detect it in infrared, but it's still difficult. That's my intention, If I ultimately become the person to run this.
