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Star Trek Short Story Competition

The following is information about a short story competition ran by the STF roleplaying community: (more…)...

Independence Fleet: Star Trek Play-by-Post roleplaying

As David wrote a few months back in his advertising piece, Ongoing Worlds is open to publishing articles promoting the different clubs and groups out there.  A few examples are here, here, and here.  So why not shamelessly plug my own group? I ended my term as President of UCIP last...

Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary: Your Favorite Trek

[caption id="attachment_612222" align="alignright" width="300"] The first episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap," aired on NBC on September 8, 1966.  While it was the sixth episode filmed, the studio elected to show it first because of its horror-based plot.[/caption] Fifty years ago...

New Star Trek series has a name familiar to roleplayers

A trailer has been released for the new Star Trek series, which now has a name "Discovery". And if you think that name sounds familiar, there's a Star Trek roleplaying game called Discovery as part of the Star Trek Borderlands community. Here's what their Discovery looks like: (more…)...

12 tips for writing Star Trek fanfiction & roleplaying

Star Trek fanfiction is as old as Star Trek itself, and heavily dominates the world of online roleplaying. There's many giant Star Trek roleplay clubs, like Starbase 118 and Star Trek: Borderlands. We've even got Star Trek games running on OngoingWorlds (see here). Here's some tips for anyone who...

I’ve always been fascinated by Star Trek’s vision of the future

This article was written for us by A.S. Williamson, about the new Star Trek Victory game which launches soon. We don't normally post articles that are adverts for games, but I thought this showed an insight on roleplaying which was quite interesting. - Onion I've always been fascinated by...

Star Trek Trivia: March 2012

1) The actor who played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager previously played a guest in another Star Trek show, besides the actor, what else did these characters have in common? A. Both were pilots B. Both fought the Borg C. They were both members of the Maquis D. Nothing 2) In Star Trek: The Final...

Starbase 118 – serious Star Trek simming

Star Trek is one of the most popular genres of play-by-post games, some having been played way back since the 80's when PBEM games really started. If you want to roleplay in the same universe as Captain Kirk, and Captain Picard, you've got plenty of choice of games to join. Many of these Star Trek...

The importance of community in Star Trek Freedom

Some roleplaying games have the staying power to stay around for many years, while some lose their members and close just after a few weeks. A roleplaying game isn't just about roleplaying, it's also a community. To find out how important a sense of community is to a roleplaying group I asked...

Interview with a Star Trek author

[caption id="attachment_816" align="alignright" width="301" caption="Zero Sum Game is one of Mack's novels in the Star Trek: Typhon Pact series"][/caption] I was recently told by Miles Unam from the PBEM group Starbase 118 that he'd managed to get an interview with Star Trek author David...