17: Star Trek
Inevitably after Star Wars and Doctor Who, and with the 17th of January being 17/01:
One of the appealing aspects of the Star Trek future is how much time Starfleet crews have for hobbies. In between adventures they’re painting, putting on plays, LARPing on the Holodeck, and playing music.
And there would also be career creatives in the Federation. What kind of adventures could they get up to?
I’d expect a post-scarcity utopia to have really good support for arts and humanities, so the five kids’ space van wouldn’t be a beat-up clunker. See Aeon for another setting working to get there, so that’s a possible model, a group travelling with a cultural outreach program.
Klingon Opera companies would be easier here as they’d get up to the same kinds of adventures as D&D parties and backstabbing Vampire courts.
Star Trek Adventures needs some work to support PCs who aren’t highly capable starship crew, to the extent that the skill list is the Starfleet departments, so maybe use a different system.
(Hmm, a system for bands where the stats are things like Lead and Bass with the instruments’ personality stereotypes you roll Bass to keep your cool in trouble...)
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| Star Trek Gibson Flying V guitars. Nerds. |
Drift
In the stars
We embark
And keep us together as the lights go dark”
A travelling band collecting songs and stories from planets isolated after a quadrant-wide war or some other disaster.
I think this would be an interesting hook for a lot of settings, like Ashen Stars or various Traveller eras, and the American folk song collectors during the 1920s and 30s might fit something like Firefly as well as Call Of Cthulhu.
