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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9828459" data-attributes="member: 93670">It depends on where/when the game takes place and others have already pointed out some of it.  If you are genz younger millennial or somehow never really watched trek prior to tng it's easy to think how easy it might be to bring in a Klingon, but that simply was not true until  worf served under Picard because earlier trek leaned pretty hard on some cold war travel restrictions∆ that resulted in the Klingon and romulan empires not allowing their people to come to federation space and vice versa by treaty level. That was so true back in 87 when star trek tng came out that it was almost scandalous with how trek fans and entertainment tabloids talked about a Klingon like word son of mogh* serving on the flagship of the federation as a star fleet officer in charge of security.  At the time it was viewed pretty much as the equivalent of a Soviet general's son being trusted with launch keys on a us nuclear sub. Because of that trek history it would be an enormous disruption to the federation if you were to play a Klingon in a star trek game set during the kirk TOS era.  Klingons and romulans served a particular role in the trek and it doesn't matter if that's because the trek ttrpg being played is one that licensed and was set in the TOS era or gm choice because simply having a Klingon on board during such a game would very seriously undermine that role in ways that transform the game into something very different where the gm needs to constantly curate the ripple effects of your Klingon's actions out across stellar empires rather than just being kinda local.If the game was set during the Archer first contact era, you can't play a Klingon because they haven't been met yet and that meeting has already been established as not having gone well.Then if course you can't play a Klingon because Klingons aren't blue and spiney∆ westerners  and East Germany Soviet Union etc.</blockquote>

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