I’m assuming that Star Trek : Picard is also a no go area for official stuff (damn paramount is throwing their IP everywhere. Abrams, Netflix and now Amazon Prime)
As licensing is done on a show-by-show basis, it’s safe to assume that we won’t have anything to tie into the new shows unless there’s an announcement saying otherwise.
Technically, that’s Paramount throwing their IP at Abrams and CBS throwing their IP at CBS All Access, then licensing foreign access to Netflix and Amazon…
I can’t give “official”, but the designers are on record as to its size in a number of interviews - and careful viewing of the movies supports it - Vengeance is huge (1.6 km IIRC - but that is the same length as a d’deridex)! Ex Astris Scientia has (I believe) some discussion on the subject.
Notably, a similar issue applies to the Discovery version of Enterprise, which has grown to around 440 meters in length (as opposed to the original 299). Discovery is supposedly 750m long - although much of that is engine.
Memory Beta btw, works on the same basis as Memory Alpha and Wikipedia. It’s not official, but it is based on information given in published sources. The difference between it and Alpha is that Alpha restricts itself to material seen on screen - Beta includes material from books, games and official online sources. (STA-originated material appears in Beta). The measurements for the AU vessels given there are likely from the Star Trek Starship Collection publications, which means it’s what TV Tropes would call “word of god” - not canon, but from the creators.
Star Trek Encyclopedia 2016 lists the Kelvin timeline Enterprise at 725 meters.
Need Romulan ship tiles
And Borg , haven’t found anything suitable for them online yet
Going through DriveThru RPG, I found these which make for decent stand ins for Borg tiles.
When you reference them from an official Modiphius account, it implies they are affecting the official product. It gives the appearance of canonicity for the game.
The Books might not reference them but DM’s can is what I think Nathan is saying
When you reference them from an official Modiphius account, it implies they are affecting the official product. It gives the appearance of canonicity for the game.
Hence Nathan’s “Personally speaking” clarifier.
Discovery is part of Star Trek canon because CBS says it’s part of Star Trek canon. Whether it’s any one person’s idea of canon or not, it is canon.
The way I see it, personally, is each GM has their own dimension. Like Discovery? Include it. Like JJverse? Include it. Don’t like either one? Don’t include them. Do what you want, it’s your game. In a universe of infinite dimensions, there’s room for everything.
Official material, however, must stay within the CBS/Paramount verse comprised currently of TOS, DS9, Next Gen, Voyager, Enterprise, and the Animated Series. There’s a ton of stuff there.
I don’t usually weigh in, but I want to outline the reality of the situation.
Our license agreement is based on properties, not “universes” or “canons”. Our properties include:
Star Trek films 1 through Nemesis (no Abrams)
TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT
That means we can include and create material from those television shows or films, not necessarily the canonical time period or place.
CBS (and us) are running a business at the end of the day, and businesses work on stuff like books, shows, movies, etc. Not fictional universes.
Whether we include material outside this in our personal games is up to us and does not infer anything about the official products we make. Personally, I’ve used stuff from Star Trek Online in private games! But I can’t produce supplements or missions with that stuff in.
Hope that figures things out for some folks.
At the risk of derailing further, I think a pirate crew in Trek could be pretty fun, though I am curious as to how pirates would handle encounters with some of the more…esoteric problems that can be found in space.
Sure, when you’re raiding Pakled conveys, consorting with the Orion syndicate, and outrunning Andorian patrol boats, it’s all a grand adventure. However, what happens when pirates encounter a giant green space hand? Or fall into a time-loop? Do pirate ships need to have pirate scientists to avoid having a multiphasic lifeform drain all their energy reserves and leave them stranded every other week?
With respect, although this sounds fun, it is not Star Trek. Not in any sense I understand it. Call me a purist, and I happily don the mantle and wear it proudly!