G:STAR TREK , Need 'Trek-specific' Disadvantages and Quirks...

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Whitestreak

Has anyone mentioned:

Afraid of using a transporter? You could even up it to require the need for sedation to be able to go through a transporter.

Unless it was a recent phobia/ideology, I imagine they would never have joined Starfleet to begin with.

[Qoltar]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Then there are main characters that always have some obsession with an easily identified, to us, period of earth history from the later series.

Thats not actually 'odd' when compared to current day folks who love going to Rennaissance festivals asnd SCA events or those who are involvced in Civil War re-enacting events.

Thats called having a hobby or a semblance of a life.

- Ed C.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Qoltar

Thats not actually 'odd' when compared to current day folks who love going to Rennaissance festivals asnd SCA events or those who are involvced in Civil War re-enacting events.

Thats called having a hobby or a semblance of a life.

- Ed C.

Ah, but Renaissance and SCA are very inaccurate historically. I'll give you Civil War re-enactors, but they are weird in general. :)
Hobby was Paris' love of B&W adventure serials.
Too often their very specific interest only popped out when it just happened to have relation to the day's plot.

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Hobby was Paris' love of B&W adventure serials.
Too often their very specific interest only popped out when it just happened to have relation to the day's plot.

Oh sure, as a hobby lots of Starfleet characters have been shown to have a strong interest in a specific historical period. We take it a step farther in my Trek game: Our PCs are practically required to be familiar with one, because we spend a lot of time undercover on lower tech worlds (mine's an Age of Sail buff).

[Alden Loveshade]

Originally Posted by Ashtagon

Nope That's just Kirk.

Although I would make Racism towards other species a taboo trait for ST humans. It may exist within humanity, but such individuals wouldn't make it to Star Fleet anyway.

I'm not so sure about that. Please forgive me for speaking in ignorance, for while I'm enough of a Trekker to know Spock's blood type and what Earth juice Worf prefers, I haven't seen Abrams' movie.

Perhaps we can ignore Spock's racist comments against humans and Dr. McCoy's against vulcans as mutual teasing.

But in ToS and the movies from it there was definite racism in Star Fleet, especially against the "bad guy race" Klingons. Some from ST VI as listed at
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/quotes

Captain Kirk: "I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy." If we substituted "blacks" or "Jews" for Klingon, I think we'd definitely consider that racist.

[on whether to help the Klingons]
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Captain Spock: They're dying.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!


In TNG I remember Commander Riker making disparaging remarks about other sapient races more than once. I don't remember the exact quote, but one time he compared an intelligent race to fish--and not in a good way.

[Alden Loveshade]

Originally Posted by Gold & Appel Inc

There's a pretty distinct difference between Broad-Minded [-1] and Xenophilia [-10*]. IMHO, Kirk has the former + Lecherousness. Xenophilia is when you're more interested because they're alien, not just blind to green skin as long as T&A are present...

I certainly agree with the Broad-Minded vs. Xenophilia part. I consider myself broad-minded, but if I saw a 10-foot tall spider on my front porch I would be rather hesitant to open the door and say, "Howdy!"

But I disagree with Kirk having Lecherousness. Maybe he does at a Quirk level because he seemed in control of when he flirted and when he didn't.

[quarkstomper]

Hey, he can't help it if all these gorgeous space babes keep falling into his lap!

(Hm... how many points would "Space Babe Magnet" be worth...?)

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by quarkstomper

Hey, he can't help it if all these gorgeous space babes keep falling into his lap!

(Hm... how many points would "Space Babe Magnet" be worth...?)

Its' a themed Serendipity with the appropriate limitations.

[Lemn0c]

Late to this thread, but I would expect every Federation officer would have the Code Against Killing Disad, the Prime Directive Disad, Politically Correct Disad, and the Reliant Dependent Disad for every officer / crewman under his / her command.

Played right, those ought to be considerable, constraining types of disadvantages. Enforce the genre.

EDIT: Probably you could construct a Starfleet Officer package worth 1XX+ points of Disadvantages that is a standard package that comes with commission.

[fredtheobviouspseudonym]

Originally Posted by malloyd

. . . Always trying to build a paper trail to defend myself at the "inevitable" court martial I'm sure the department head is trying to set me up for (quirk level Paranoia). . .

IIRC almost all records, even in TOS, were on computer -- hence the near-conviction of Kirk in "Court Martial." Says a lot about the 1960s that it took a long time for anyone to think that the "infallible" computer had been hacked. Suspect any 1985+ lawyer would immediately wonder and demand a computer forensics exam thereon. So a character who insists on "Dead Tree" records (even if on plastic) would appear as nutty as a 2012 bureaucrat who wants all his personnel records on baked clay tablets. Might draw a psychiatric evaluation.

Mildly allergic to the standard laundry detergent - hand washes his own clothes, when absolutely necessary. When does the Federation start replicating uniforms anyway?

In "The Making of Star Trek," Roddenberry (quoted, not author) explained that he thought all uniforms in his milieu would be one-use items -- they'd be worn, tossed into the material recycling bin, and new ones produced by machine. TOS didn't refer to this. However, Roddenberry insisted to Gerrold (in the latter's book on the making of "The Trouble with Tribbles" that no Star Fleet uniform would ever have pockets -- if you needed to hold things you'd wear an equipment belt with attachable pouches.

Possible quirk -- doesn't trust replicator to remove all production chemicals and hand-washes all uniforms before donning them.