RE: klingons
Evil beatnicks > space orcs.

Quote from: Koltar;267492FASA-Trek is now EXTREMELY 'non-canon' these days.

No duh, Ed.  That's why I said so.  But, as so many of us are fond of saying about historical RPGs, the second you start playing, it becomes alt-history.  So, the FASA stuff is fine fodder for an individual's roleplaying campaign as a jumping-off point into alt-Trek.

Besides, I was somewhat satisfied to see that the FASA explanation of why there was a difference between bumpy Klingons and smooth ones ended up matching the canon explanation somewhat.

!i!

Quote from: Ian Absentia;267510Besides, I was somewhat satisfied to see that the FASA explanation of why there was a difference between bumpy Klingons and smooth ones ended up matching the canon explanation somewhat.

!i!

I can agree with you sort of on that one.

 It does fall in the "somewhat" category.

...just the proper nouns are different , but its still mostly the same concept.

 After being in Klingon fandom since 1992 - thats a topic sure to get me cranky. Mainly because of I've heard all the intellectual fan-wank on all sides of explaining that one. (The 'bumpy' vs. 'smooth' story/ and how are they all the same race stuff)

Alsoi, one of the main designers of the FASA TREk game stopped into the store one day and chatted with me for close to an hour & half about stuff. I finally heard the 'real' story about some things FASA-related.  (Which I  will only talk about in PM communication)

David R., I still like your orginal concept for the campaign.

- Ed C.

Quote from: Koltar;267518David R., I still like your orginal concept for the campaign.

Oh, it still on Ed. I've roughly planned out the "first season" where the PCs have to babysit a group of settlers and tangle with an enigmatic group of Reman "drug dealers" working for an unknown Mr. Big.

Regards,
David R

Quote from: RockViper;267504As are all of the novels, which is too bad because some of the TOS novels were decent reads.

Especially The Final Reflection, byt the late John M. Ford, who also wrote the Klingon supplement for FASA.

Quote from: Engine;267326That said, the Klingons were able to pull embryos from the wreckage of Cold Station 12...

Duh. No, they pulled them from the wreckage of the bird-of-prey, stupid.

Quote from: Ian Absentia;267442Not really canon, but the FASA Klingon supplement described the Klingons as being totally amenable to creating genetically-fused hybrids specifically to act as interfaces with other significant threats to the Empire.  Thus, there are not only smooth-foreheaded Klingon-Human hybrids, but there are also just-slightly-crinkly-foreheaded, pointy-eared Klingon-Romulan hybrids.

Final Reflection talks a bit about this, not surprisingly [same writer]. One of the main characters [Gelly; Kelly once her name is ennobled] is an un-named fusion, and several others pop up during the book. Ford is one of the many post-ST:TMP novel authors to talk about the Imperial Race as being something distinct from the Klingons we saw in the original series; this comes up in both Final Reflection and How Much For Just the Planet?

Quote from: andar;267557Especially The Final Reflection, byt the late John M. Ford, who also wrote the Klingon supplement for FASA.

In my opinion, the best Trek novel, although most avid readers of the novels don't agree. John M Ford is one of my favorite authors, though, so it's understandable I'd favor his works.

Favorite stupid trivia: in FASA's version of the Galaxy-class starship, the controls weren't anything so mundane as touch-sensitive, they were actually photosensitive and detected the shadow of a finger [or other manipulating digit] when cast on them by a "press." This sounds suitably future-like, I guess, but fails to explain how the controls work in the dark. Just got to thinking about that this weekend, for no apparent reason; I've never played the FASA Star Trek game, so it's not like it ever came up.