GURPS Prime Directive
Star Trek
So, where does Star Trek fit into the GPD/SFB Universe?
Hollywood has a way of taking true stories and actual events and making creative changes to make them
more interesting to audiences. A character may be a fusion of two or more people, events that happened to
one person are shifted to another, and other dramatic elements are added. Some examples include the
movie Good Morning Vietnam and the TV series Ba Ba Black Sheep.
Applying this standard to Star Trek helps explain a lot of the inconsistencies in the series. Not every
adventure directly involved the major characters; sometimes junior officers or enlisted personnel were the
ones that got their shuttle lost in a nebula. Some events (such as the Federation-Klingon War) were
compressed to fit into the show’s format.
Rather than going through all of the episodes and trying to rationalize the show with the GPD/SFB
Universe, just assume that most of the events did happen, but not exactly the way it was depicted. In my
version of the GPD/SFB Universe, the Enterprise had an historic mission, James Kirk was her captain, and
the future version of Hollywood wrote its own version of those events.
So, where does Star Trek fit into the GPD/SFB Universe?
Hollywood has a way of taking true stories and actual events and making creative changes to make them
more interesting to audiences. A character may be a fusion of two or more people, events that happened to
one person are shifted to another, and other dramatic elements are added. Some examples include the
movie Good Morning Vietnam and the TV series Ba Ba Black Sheep.
Applying this standard to Star Trek helps explain a lot of the inconsistencies in the series. Not every
adventure directly involved the major characters; sometimes junior officers or enlisted personnel were the
ones that got their shuttle lost in a nebula. Some events (such as the Federation-Klingon War) were
compressed to fit into the show’s format.
Rather than going through all of the episodes and trying to rationalize the show with the GPD/SFB
Universe, just assume that most of the events did happen, but not exactly the way it was depicted. In my
version of the GPD/SFB Universe, the Enterprise had an historic mission, James Kirk was her captain, and
the future version of Hollywood wrote its own version of those events.
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