Star Trek Adventures BRIEFS Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek Adventures Missions by Modiphius Entertainment

What should have been a simple trip from Vulcan to Earth in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home became an epic Human adventure, in perhaps the most unlikely of settings: San Francisco in the 1980s.

Maybe it wasn’t that unlikely. Time travel was a Star Trek staple even then, but it hadn’t been done so audaciously before due to the lower budgets of the original series. While the film itself was an environmentalist allegory meant to illustrate humanity’s shortsightedness in the face of looming disaster, the primary story was about friendship. Kirk and Spock’s friendship was front and center, of course, but the interconnected relationships of all the characters was explored.

As with Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the lengths each of them was willing to go to in order to do the right thing was evident. Their very mission, going back in time to save the planet Earth, even though they knew they were returning there to face the ends of their careers in Starfleet, was emblematic of them doing the right thing for the right reason.

Perhaps most impressive, though, was the growth and evolution of Spock. After decades on screen struggling to overcome his Human half, his death and resurrection gave him the chance to do things differently this time. His mother took the opportunity of his rebirth to introduce him to the idea that his Human half was as much a source of his strength as his Vulcan half. She was able to show him that, paradoxically, sometimes it’s logical to eschew cold logic for the sake of saving a friend. That was, after all, what his friends had done.

This packet provides four detailed mission briefs set in and around the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Each brief can be modified for use as adventures in your Star Trek Adventures campaigns set in the movie era (2273-2300) or any other era of play with minor modifications. Each mission is designed to stand alone, though they could easily be strung together into a story arc or added to an existing campaign.

These mission briefs are suitable for use with any edition of Star Trek Adventures and with the Captain’s Log Solo RPG.

Star Trek Adventures BRIEFS Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.

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