[TML] OT: Remastered ST

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>< Is there anyone here who hasn't seen my speech on Star Trek  and 
>Traveller?>
> LKW
>
>Hate to admit it, but I haven't:.(
>
>Alan Hume

I'll make it short. I wrote the original for a presentation to George Takei 
at a Gen-Con in the early 1990s (post TNE). We had done up a character sheet 
for Sulu as Captain and printed it out on parchment, got everyone at GDW to 
autograph the book, etc. I had a summer cold when the time rolled around, so Dave 
Nilsen ended up actually giving the speech.

Basically, Star Trek and Traveller are similar in one rather important way. 
Star Trek was not the first SF TV series, but it became the standard against 
which all others were judged. Traveller was not the first SF RPG, but it 
likewise became the standard against which others were compared. When TSR's Star 
Frontiers appeared, the review in Dragon mentioned Traveller . . . several times 
(we at GDW considered this a great compliment). Many games still compare 
themselves to Traveller, and GDW and others (including Steve Jackson) still refer to 
it as "the premiere SF RPG" rather than the first or the original SF RPG. 

It went on for about five minutes and had more to say about Star Trek's 
contributions to Traveller, but I lost the actual text in a hard drive crash about 
1995. One of these days, I'll try to reconstruct it as best I can and post it 
on www.lorenwiseman.com


BTW, when I say "Star Trek" I refer to ST-The Original Series. I almst never 
add TOS to it. Likewise, Star Wars without further adornment refers to 
"Episode IV: A New Hope. To me, movies 4-6 are Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, 
and Revenge of the Jedi. 

LKW


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