GURPS Fourth Edition Star Trek 2 Starfleet By Captain Joy CONTENTS KIRK: Then we're dealing with more than one creature, expedition. Maintain a constant reading on the creature. despite your tricorder readings, or we have a creature If we have to, we'll use phasers to cut our own tunnels. with an extremely long life span. We'll try to surround it. I'm sorry, Mister Spock, but I'm SPOCK: Or it is the last of a race of creatures which made afraid the creature must die. these tunnels. If so, if it is the only survivor of a dead SPOCK: I see no alternative myself, Captain. It merely race, to kill it would be a crime against science. seems a pity. KIRK: Mister Spock, our mission is to protect this colony, –"The Devil in the Dark", TOS episode 1x26. to get the pergium moving again. This is not a zoological Contents................................. 2 Officer Template........................ 5 Medical Doctors........................ 7 Medical Doctors........................ 5 Introduction.......................... 3 Buying Off Officer Template 2. Promotion.......................... 9 Campaign Assumptions............. 3 Disadvantages........................... 6 Rank Expectations................... 10 Using This Book........................ 3 Degree Lens.............................. 6 3. Gear................................. 11 About Captain Joy..................... 3 Medical Doctors........................ 6 Disclaimers................................ 3 Extracurricular Activities.......... 6 Appendix............................. 12 1. Officer Template............... 4 Double Major or Minor............ 7 GURPS Character Sheet Medical Doctors........................ 7 Random Department................. 5 Program................................... 12 First Department Certification... 7 Last updated Sunday, May 17, 2020 Contents 2 of 12 INTRODUCTION Captain Joy's Star Trek is a GURPS (4th ed.) science start with your species template and background lens. fiction campaign set in the original series era of Star Trek. Alternatively, start with this book and determine your Starfleet niche first, then use Star Trek 1: Species and choose a species template and background lens that CAMPAIGN ASSUMPTIONS supports it. Changes from the TV show have been introduced to A Character Creation Worksheet is also available to help make Star Trek more suitable for a role-playing game. you track information generated as you create a Starfleet • You will begin as an officer fresh out of The Academy. officer character. • Senior bridge officers delegate difficult and important I recommend using either the GURPS Character Sheet missions to “prime teams" of less experienced officers. (free) or GURPS Character Assistant ($14.99 as of 24 • Counselors/psychiatrists/social scientists play an March 2018, Windows only) program to build and maintain important role (like in The Next Generation). your character. Should you prefer to go old school pen and • Phaser stun is not automatic; everyone gets a HT roll to paper, there are official and fan made blank character resist. Setting your phaser to disrupt or disintegrate will sheets that you can print out and fill in. not cause things to neatly vanish; it blows them up messily or bores a neat hole right through them, respectively. ABOUT CAPTAIN JOY • Starfleet grudgingly issues body armor. Captain Joy has been running GURPS Star Trek games, This campaign uses the GURPS rules system. If you're off and on, since 2007. not familiar with GURPS (the Generic Universal Roleplaying System by Steve Jackson games), you should learn about GURPS first (at least a little bit) before you DISCLAIMERS begin creating your character. The material presented here is my original creation, intended for use with the GURPS system from Steve Jackson Games. This material is not official and is not USING THIS BOOK endorsed by Steve Jackson Games. Star Trek 2: Officers directs you to Captain Joy's GURPS GURPS is a trademark of Steve Jackson Games, and its Star Trek website as it walks you through adding a Starfleet rules and art are copyrighted by Steve Jackson Games. All officers template to your character sheet. It is impossible to rights are reserved by Steve Jackson Games. This game aid make your Star Trek character without access to that is the original creation of Captain Joy and is released for website. free distribution, and not for resale, under the permissions A companion book, Star Trek 1: Species, walks you granted in the Steve Jackson Games Online Policy. through the details of your species and pre-Starfleet Neither is this official Star Trek material, nor is it background. endorsed by CBS or Paramount. If you want to experience the events of your character’s life as they did, then begin with Star Trek 1: Species and http://www.stdimension.org/int/Cartography/federation.htm Last updated Sunday, May 17, 2020 Introduction 3 of 12 CHAPTER ONE 1. OFFICER TEMPLATE M5: Categorisation of life form readings recorded. DAYSTROM: Aren't you really more interested in why M-5 Recommendations for general survey party: Science did not select you and Doctor McCoy? Well, let's find out officer Spock, Astrobiologist Phillips, Geologist anyway. M-5 tie-in. Carstairs. M5: M-5. KRIK: Well, the only difference in reports and DAYSTROM: Explanation for landing party recommendations is the landing party personnel. That's recommendation. only a matter of judgment. M5: General survey party requires direction of science DAYSTROM: Judgment, Captain? officer. Astrobiologist Phillips has surveyed twenty nine SPOCK: Captain, the computer does not judge. It makes biologically similar planets. Geologist Carstairs served logical selections. on merchant marine freighters in this area. Once visited KRIK: Why pick Carstairs instead of Rawlins? Carstairs is planet on geology survey for mining company. an ensign, no experience. This is his first tour of duty. DAYSTROM: Why were the Captain and the Chief Medical Rawlins is chief geologist. Officer not included in recommendation? M5: Non-essential personnel. –"The Ultimate Computer", TOS episode 2x24 At the most basic level, you are defined by your species : Engineering, Operator, Security. Check out the Starfleet Human, Andorian, Tellarite, Vulcan, etc., and your Divisions section of the library computer, research the department: Command, Academics, Counseling, Medical, seven departments, and choose a department you will enjoy 4 of 12 Officer Templates Last updated Thursday, June 20, 2019 playing and that your prime team needs. If you haven’t already, check with any active players and your GM to get OFFICER TEMPLATE an idea what departments are already accounted for. No department is more vital than any other and a good prime team draws from disparate departments. Do not proceed with character creation until your GM has approved your department choice. Prime Team: The Best of the Best You are the elite of Starfleet, a Prime Team, a small band of multitasking experts who are the best that the Federation can send on various special missions. A Prime Team is a combination of a commando team, gang of spies, hostage rescue squad, and special missions force. GURPS 3rd ed. Prime Directive, p. 20 http://hotgirlhdwallpaper.com/pantyhose/pantyhose-short-skirts- and-boots.html Your Starfleet Officer template represents your first two ANDOM EPARTMENT years of course-work and training at Starfleet Academy, as R D well as your rank and responsibilities as a commissioned For those who prefer to let fate make these officer. Go to the Starfleet Divisions section of the library decisions, the following table is provided. computer, access your Department, and add its Officer Template to your character sheet. Die #1 Die #2 Department The points in the Officer Template must be spent as 1 * Command stipulated. E.g. you must put one point into Vacc Suit/TL11 2 * Academics skill even if you already have one point in Vacc Suit/TL11 3 * Counseling from a Personal Background lens. I.e. your training at The 4 * Medical Academy results in you putting an additional character 5 * Engineering point into your Vacc Suit/TL11 skill. (You could go back 6 * Operators and revisit your Personal Background lens and reassign that initial point in Vacc Suit/TL11 to something else in that * If you roll doubles, i.e. if Die #2 = Die #1, then lens if you wanted to.) you are a Security officer. MEDICAL DOCTORS Adding an Officer Template Medical doctors are an exception. They graduate An Officer template represents your experience at from Starfleet Medical Academy with rank lieutenant Starfleet Academy. It includes the base Officer template, a junior grade; they should change their rank from Starfleet Academy Degree lens, a few Extracurricular Ensign to Lt. JG on their character sheet; this cost no Activity Modules, and your first Department Certification. character points. CAMPAIGN DISADVANTAGE LIMIT Where the Officer Template requires you to choose a Disadvantages in your Officer Template and its subset of skills from a broader list, do so. Note that some of associated lenses and modules do count against the your “choices” may be forced: if you don’t already have at campaign's disadvantage limit. least one point in Computer Operation, then you must choose Computer Operation; if your Swimming skill level is <10, then you must put one point into Swimming; etc. The Survival skill (should you choose it) requires you to choose a specialty; a switch/tab at the bottom of the library computer monitor should allow you make an informed choice. All tech skills are tech level 11 (TL11), except for First Aid which is tech level 9 (TL9). Last updated Sunday, May 17, 2020 Officer Templates 5 of 12 that point on Electronics Operation (Scientific), even UYING FF FFICER though the Starfleet Academy Template already requires B O O you to put 1 point into Electronics Operation (Scientific). TEMPLATE DISADVANTAGES I.e. your degree requires you to put an additional point into Disadvantages in an Officer template can be bought your Electronics Operation (Scientific) skill. In this off normally. (B291-2) These will naturally have in- example, make sure you actually add the point to your game effects.