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<blockquote data-quote="jaerdaph" data-source="post: 5114416" data-attributes="member: 3398">In the Star Trek games I've run, I always liked to pull material that was touched on once or twice, or only tangentially touched upon, as inspiration, and expand upon it or take it down new paths. It gave the players something to relate to and connect with without them feeling they were duplicating the stories already told on the show (as was often the case in ST:TNG's first season - virus that makes you act drunk &amp; stupid I'm looking at you!). For example, there was a Voyager episode (Nothing Human) that featured a holodeck recreation of an infamous Cardassian doctor named Dr. Crell Moset who was basically a Joseph Mengele figure that the EMH Doctor created to help him solve a problem, and all sorts of ethical issues arose from his doing this. I introduced the real Crell Moset as an NPC in a TNG era campaign where the crew was supposed to escort Crell and several other famous physicians to an intergalactic medical conference. I had the Bajoran Chief of Security PC contacted by his old Bajoran resistance cell requesting he assassinate Moset. From there, we explored our own ethical issues. Of course, with the vast amount of Star Trek screen time out there compared to 12 episodes of Firefly and one feature film, it's a little easier to do this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jaerdaph, post: 5114416, member: 3398"] In the [I]Star Trek[/I] games I've run, I always liked to pull material that was touched on once or twice, or only tangentially touched upon, as inspiration, and expand upon it or take it down new paths. It gave the players something to relate to and connect with without them feeling they were duplicating the stories already told on the show (as was often the case in ST:TNG's first season - virus that makes you act drunk & stupid I'm looking at you!). For example, there was a [I]Voyager[/I] episode (Nothing Human) that featured a holodeck recreation of an infamous Cardassian doctor named Dr. Crell Moset who was basically a Joseph Mengele figure that the EMH Doctor created to help him solve a problem, and all sorts of ethical issues arose from his doing this. I introduced the real Crell Moset as an NPC in a TNG era campaign where the crew was supposed to escort Crell and several other famous physicians to an intergalactic medical conference. I had the Bajoran Chief of Security PC contacted by his old Bajoran resistance cell requesting he assassinate Moset. From there, we explored our own ethical issues. Of course, with the vast amount of Star Trek screen time out there compared to 12 episodes of Firefly and one feature film, it's a little easier to do this. [/QUOTE]

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