Fandom Star Trek: Vigilance (OOC)

[Epiphany]

What does 'off-the-rails' mean?

On the rails would be Star Trek largely resembling Star Trek. Crews of educated, highly motivated people working cooperatively (for the most part) to accomplish mutual goals under difficult circumstances.

Off the rails is significant deviation from that model (i.e. off the train track if you will). Crews who fight each other, or who disagree where that disagreement is a focal point instead of a "Sir I suggest x" "No, I think we should do y" "Yes sir" situation, characters who aren't highly motivated enthusiastic people doing exactly what they're happiest doing, all of that is off-script for Star Trek. The Vigilance is very much an outlier in Star Trek, as far as the shows are concerned. The reaction of Deep Space Nine characters to the atmosphere and environment of the Vigilance is a nice reminder that they are an outlier in your game as well.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Epiphany
Well I think Savir is gonna be very motivated from now on! The Captain is doing something right.
However I still intend to proclaim Bradfield unfit for duty, that should lighten up the funeral atmosphere! *grins*

 

[Error 420]

Well the medical officer is the supreme authority on Starfleet vessels, and the counselor has similar powers, so I mean with reasonable cause you could order them unfit for duty. You could probably get overthrown by the captain, but still.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Well the medical officer is the supreme authority on Starfleet vessels, and the counselor has similar powers, so I mean with reasonable cause you could order them unfit for duty. You could probably get overthrown by the captain, but still.

I want to see what the lollipop loving doctor thinks first. Perhaps we could team up.

 

[Darkraven]

On the rails would be Star Trek largely resembling Star Trek. Crews of educated, highly motivated people working cooperatively (for the most part) to accomplish mutual goals under difficult circumstances.

Off the rails is significant deviation from that model (i.e. off the train track if you will). Crews who fight each other, or who disagree where that disagreement is a focal point instead of a "Sir I suggest x" "No, I think we should do y" "Yes sir" situation, characters who aren't highly motivated enthusiastic people doing exactly what they're happiest doing, all of that is off-script for Star Trek. The Vigilance is very much an outlier in Star Trek, as far as the shows are concerned. The reaction of Deep Space Nine characters to the atmosphere and environment of the Vigilance is a nice reminder that they are an outlier in your game as well.

Oh, I see. Yeah well, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of ships in Starfleet, and not all of them are under the command of legendary captains and/or has outstanding crew serving under them. When there are top students in Starfleet, there's bound to be the lower percentile, the drop-outs (like B'lenna Torres), and there's bound to be the poor performers and the scarred. I've just decided to show the other side of Starfleet.

Well the medical officer is the supreme authority on Starfleet vessels, and the counselor has similar powers, so I mean with reasonable cause you could order them unfit for duty. You could probably get overthrown by the captain, but still.

Well, yeah... At least conventionally, that could happen But then again, we'll see how the briefing goes...

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Darkraven So, do you mean this ship is full of underachievers and war veterans? That sure explains a lot. (Including how we got there. )

 

[Error 420]

I don't know, something about Star Trek that I also think has the scariest implications is that we don't have the lower-percentile. We assume that poverty is gone on places like Earth and Vulcan because of the "post-scarcity society" and all that, but we don't see very many outsiders from the very best of Starfleet. Kirk is a rare exception, and others appear to be rare exceptions as well. Nobody with deformities, disabilities, or something else that would make somebody not be as efficient as a good soldier. We don't get a lot of information about life outside of Starfleet, but thinking about it always gets me super fucked up. Certain specific races are forbidden from technology to put them at humanity's level, wars start and stop for seemingly no reason, galaxy-wide threats are kept hidden from the public, it's all like a little freaky.

 

[Darkraven]

Darkraven So, do you mean this ship is full of underachievers and war veterans? That sure explains a lot. (Including how we got there. )

Well, they did put together a crew at the last minute. The idea is that the Vigilance was delayed at drydock, and its original crew was snapped up by opportunistic captains. With the wars and skirmishes coming on, and more ships being commissioned, it wouldn't be a stretch for a manpower problem to surface, resulting in the admiralty scrapping at the bottom of the barrel to crew some ships.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I don't know, something about Star Trek that I also think has the scariest implications is that we don't have the lower-percentile. We assume that poverty is gone on places like Earth and Vulcan because of the "post-scarcity society" and all that, but we don't see very many outsiders from the very best of Starfleet. Kirk is a rare exception, and others appear to be rare exceptions as well. Nobody with deformities, disabilities, or something else that would make somebody not be as efficient as a good soldier. We don't get a lot of information about life outside of Starfleet, but thinking about it always gets me super fucked up. Certain specific races are forbidden from technology to put them at humanity's level, wars start and stop for seemingly no reason, galaxy-wide threats are kept hidden from the public, it's all like a little freaky.

I have to admit that I always thought 98% of the lower percentile of population never gets into Starfleet, because the entry tests and all are so damn difficult. Of course you have some who go a bit crazy after seeing horrible wars and accidents and being in space for years and years. You have some who seemed promising at the beginning, but never lived up to the expectations. You have the one odd case of a mass murderer (yay Voyager). And the one odd case of enemy in disguise. (Yay Discovery). And the one odd case of "disability" (Mellora). However, the absolute majority would still be the absolute top of the gallaxy.

 

[Error 420]

I've never watched Discovery, and I don't really plan to until it becomes easier for me to watch.

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

Hello there! I am delighted to see the DS9 crew as well! Too bad Taris cannot ask for autographs!

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I've never watched Discovery, and I don't really plan to until it becomes easier for me to watch.

How do you mean easier, as in more accessible, or easier on the eyes? DD

I had to watch it, because I was paid to translate subtitles into my language.

 

[Error 420]

How do you mean easier, as in more accessible, or easier on the eyes? DD

I had to watch it, because I was paid to translate subtitles into my language.

I need a cable TV account to watch it on CBS, right? I can't afford cable.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

RPLongAndProsper I swear every time I see your signature, I plan romantic plots with Taris in my head.

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

I need a cable TV account to watch it on CBS, right? I can't afford cable.

I don't even have a TV. I watched it online for free. You can find it on pirate sites easily, just like almost everything.

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

RPLongAndProsper I swear every time I see your signature, I plan romantic plots with Taris in my head.

Please do! Taris is decidedly bisexual.

 

[Error 420]

I don't even have a TV. I watched it online for free. You can find it on pirate sites easily, just like almost everything.

I don't pirate.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I don't pirate.

Man if I didn't pirate, I'd never see ANYTHING. I live in the Czech republic, we don't have this stuff even on cable.

 

[Error 420]

Man if I didn't pirate, I'd never see ANYTHING. I live in the Czech republic, we don't have this stuff even on cable.

Good point, but here in the US, you can see everything, even illegal stuff.

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

Pirating is my life. I live in a hellhole too, and I'm poor. I have no remorse. What I do have are two external hard drives full of music.

 

[Darkraven]

So here's how it's going to be. I'm going to advance the Captain and Savir as soon and often as I can, which means next post is coming 10 hours.

I'll advance the conference room only after everyone else have posted.

 

[Epiphany]

Best post yet.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Best post yet.

Right?? I just love the Captain.

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

So Inactive User 002 and Error 420 , when do you think you could post? Not stressing you or anything!

 

[Darkraven]

Best post yet.

Right?? I just love the Captain.