Drones?

[Banichi]

To be honest, I have never played any of the various star trek games out there, so my only real trek knowledge comes from the TV shows. (Old trek, new trek, spacestation trek, and lost the way the hell out in the middle of nowhere trek)

What the heck are drones. I remember phasers and torps from the shows, but nowhere do I remember seeing anything about drones.

Those models look beautiful by the way. I'm having to use every ounce of self control I have to not order a Klingon fleet.

 

[Da Boss]

I did see a pic of one of the old drawings ( I think for the show) and it mentions target drones which may be where they are from

 

[GalagaGalaxian]

Drones are missiles basically.

 

[Rambler]

Back in the 70s when SVC developed SFB he used a variety of cannon sources. One of the sources was a set of blueprints for the D7 Battlecruiser. Those deckplaned had missiles on them even though they were never seen on TV. So now we have drones

 

[scoutdad]

Back in the 70s when SVC developed SFB he used a variety of cannon sources. One of the sources was a set of blueprints for the D7 Battlecruiser. Those deckplaned had missiles on them even though they were never seen on TV. So now we have drones

The same blueprints sowed a Klignon D7 that practically bristled with phasers. And from this came the Phaser-3, or defensive phaser.
And the Kzinti were placed adjacent to the Klignons and became a drone heavy empire. The large number of drones the Kzinti could throw each turn was what necessitated the design/development/deployment of the massed phaser-3 shown on the original source drawings.

See, unlike some supposedly "canon" versions of Trek - the Star FLeet universe has remained internally consistent through 30+ years of development and expansion.

 

[Asguard101]

There is a argument that in Star Trek II, Khan fired a drone at the Enterprise. It's when Kirk asked for all power to phasers. On the screen it looks like the Reliant is firing a Photon, but there would no reason to fire phasers at a Photon, but a drone.....

 

[Banichi]

Back in the 70s when SVC developed SFB he used a variety of cannon sources. One of the sources was a set of blueprints for the D7 Battlecruiser. Those deckplaned had missiles on them even though they were never seen on TV. So now we have drones

Cool, so they were not just made up for the game then.

 

[scoutdad]

That depends on what "made up" is.
They were never defined in the series but appeared on the drawings.

so in that respect, ADB defined or made-up the drones.

The thing about that has kept my interest in the SFU for the last 30 years is that internal consistency.
I purchased SFB in the pocket box vrsion in 1979. The rules I use today are larger, but still the same as those. Nothing has been changed, i.e., deleted or changed... just expanded upon.

 

[Greg Smith]

Which blueprints were they?

 

[Nerroth]

A set done in 1975 for the D7, created by Michael McMaster.

 

[locarno24]

Also:

In many ways, the most SFB-like combat seen on screen is the newest film - you can quite clearly see the Kelvin packing different calibres of phasers, including several on fast-tracking point defence mounts that try (and fail) to ward off a hail of slow-moving missiles.

Paramount license-ninjas aside, that's almost them doing in reverse what ADB are prevented from doing, reaching into SFB and taking bits of it into 'star trek proper'.