When I was first tricked into buying Dungeons & Dragons way back in 1981/82, I was told I could use it to play Star Trek.  Keep in mind I was a complete novice and the person who was telling me of D&D's great abilities of Star Trek emulation was only barely beyond me.  I bought the Moldvay D&D Basic set, but it turns out my friend had been referring to the AD&D 1e hardcovers.

So, just for fun, does anyone have any ideas of how to run Star Trek with AD&D 1e or D&D B/X?  Keep in mind my friend was acting like I could use RAW without any modification.  So, grafting extensive subsystems on is right out.  For the exercise, assume only minor reskinning is allowed.  How would you do it?

Or, as I've believed for many years, was my old friend full of shit?

Yeah Starships and Spacemen 2nd edition by Goblinoid Games.

http://www.goblinoidgames.com/spacemen.html

Rob Conley

You might also try this place:
http://oldschooltrek.proboards.com/

As the title implies, it's a board to discuss old school (TOS) Star Trek and how it ties into role play and board games. There are some threads on how to combine D&D with Star Trek there as well.

I am seriously considering using 5e DnD to run Star Wars with only a modicum of houserules (and significant changes to SW canon).

For straight up Star Trek with 1e close to RAW:  refluff races to closest Trek equivalents (if any).  Only classes available are fighter and thief (open locks for electronic security).  You will need to make a list of appropriate secondary skills, shich shouldn't be much effort.  Guns are in the DMG, there are your phasers.  Ships refluffed as starships.  

Hommlet refluffed as a space colony, monsters in the Moathouse refluffed with Trek equivalents.  Party is the away team sent by the Federation to assist the colony with its banditry problem.

Look no further: http://www2.abillionmonkeys.com:3389/trek/

Where No Man Has Gone Before, Microlite20 adaption of TOS Star Trek. Best Star Trek RPG ever made.

Eminently doable.  Brew up some races, or copy the traits of some into Trek races that more or less match up, use the Gamma World crossover rules in the Dungeon Masters guide, drop magic, use psionics occasionally, and use the tech introduced in S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, et voila.

Star Trek Online actually bears a fair amount of resemblance to how Starships & Spacemen 2e works.

You have the different branches of Star Fleet being different classes.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;823836Eminently doable.  Brew up some races, or copy the traits of some into Trek races that more or less match up, use the Gamma World crossover rules in the Dungeon Masters guide, drop magic, use psionics occasionally, and use the tech introduced in S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, et voila.

Yeah using plenty of AD&D resources out of the box and chopping magic you can get pretty close.  

The only real issue is healing.  In TOS, it's debatable whether you even need an actual doctor/nurse for most common injuries even critical ones.  Medical tricorders, autohypos etc. can fix a lot.  What you need the Doctor for is analyzing the new space microbe no one has ever seen before and figuring out what it does before the whole crew dies.

But after he's said "He's dead, Jim", at least once.

You could adapt most anything to D&D mechanics if you are so inclined.  Not sure why you'd want to.  Personally I'd just use FASA Trek. You can even download 2nd edition for free online, though illegally. I prefer 1st Ed myself.

Quote from: CRKrueger;823843The only real issue is healing.  In TOS, it's debatable whether you even need an actual doctor/nurse for most common injuries even critical ones.  Medical tricorders, autohypos etc. can fix a lot.  What you need the Doctor for is analyzing the new space microbe no one has ever seen before and figuring out what it does before the whole crew dies.

Uh, who puts Spock's brain back in his body after the space babes steal it?

Quote from: Matt;823853Uh, who puts Spock's brain back in his body after the space babes steal it?

And Spock still had to talk him through it.

Quote from: Gabriel2;823854And Spock still had to talk him through it.

Doesn't negate who did it.  Just like that Charlie's Angels where one of them had to land a plane.

Why not just use Stars Without Number?

(Or Starships and Spacemen......)

Quote from: Matt;823853Uh, who puts Spock's brain back in his body after the space babes steal it?

Pretty sure that one's closer to...

Quote from: CRKrueger;823843analyzing the new space microbe no one has ever seen before and figuring out what it does before the whole crew dies.

Than...

Quote from: CRKrueger;823843most common injuries even critical ones.

D&D uses clerics for combat injuries, TOS probably wouldn't need a full-blown doctor for that, so if he's really only needed for the super-weird stuff, hard to deal with that as an AD&D class, hence that being an issue.

I would go through FASA Trek though, even if it's just for the career-building phase of character generation.