Re: Trek/SFB conversions
From: "Mark A. Siefert" <cthulhu@c...>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:09:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Trek/SFB conversions
David Brewer wrote:
>
> > (Can ya' tell I'm a Babylonian at heart?)
>
> Do you really think B5 is any better?
In a word...yes.
>I'm not an expert on B5. I've got a heap of borrowed tapes of season
one. One story >concludes with a space-battle settled, not by tactics,
but by the "player characters" >effecting the destruction of the enemy
fleet by suitably heroic action from a nearby >planet. They even brought
along a sacrificial NPC. Very Trek. I hope that's far too >vague not to
count as a spoiler.
Just wait until you see "Long Twillight Struggle" and "Fall of
Night"
from season 2, or "Severed Dreams" and "Shadow Dancing" from season
three. Massive space combat, with lots of tactical wins. Cpt.
Kirk-like charisma, "heroic action," and
dramatic......................................pauses doesn't save the
crew in these battles.
Later,
Mark