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A hybrid RPG actual play/audio drama [[http://starshiptempest.libsyn.com/ podcast]] set in the Star Trek universe and using the Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game system that follows the adventures of the USS Tempest, a sister ship to the Enterprise-C first seen in the TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" set in the time period between The Original Series and Next Generation eras. Featuring many established elements of the Star Trek universe through the experiences and adventures of a new ship and crew, though given the RPG nature of the storytelling, events sometimes play out differently than they must've as part of the main franchise.
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!!Starship Tempest contains examples of:
* AdaptationDeviation: The first three missions contain a handful of these, since they come from Star Trek Adventures' first mission compendium book but are adapted to the different era Tempest is set in.
** Entropy's Demise: The context of the Romulans is different, since there has been no official contact with them for about 30 years.
** That Which Is Unknown: Dr. Ja'Brenn and the Takarans become Dr. Toran and the Angosians, changing a species only known minimally by Dr. Crusher late in TNG to a different alien of the week species from TNG.
** Border Dispute: The Nova-class USS Nightingale becomes the Merced-Class USS Ellesmere.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The various supporting characters of the Tempest crew all have conspicuously animal sounding names. There's Douh the deer-like helm officer; Eele the engineer that specializes in electro-plasma systems (read: an electric eel); and K'at, the nurse that happens to be from an established Star Trek species that bears a strong resemblance to Earth cats.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence. She returns to give the players their mission in 2.1 The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars]] and [[spoiler: becomes the head of Starfleet Intelligence after Admiral Hamidi sacrifices herself in 3.5 Mandate of Heaven]]
* ContinuityNod:
** In "That Which Is Unknown" the Angosians know they can't join the Federation until they end their conflict with the Tarsians, a conflict which had only recently ended when the Angosians were introduced in the TNG episode "The Hunted."
** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler: Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
** In "Incident at Ivex" the Klingon bird of prey is named "Tong Vey" after a famous battle in Klingon history that is a plot point from the Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement."
** In the "Tempest Tossed" the main Cardassian ship is the "Kraxon" which is the same ship that takes Thomas Riker into custody in the Deep Space 9 episode "Defiant." And Gul Krim is the name of a Legate mentioned in dialogue in Deep Space 9's "Behind the Lines".
** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Starship Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere."
** Daimon Smeet, first encountered in 2.7 The Butcher's Benevolence, is also the name of the Ferengi Grand Nagus mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode Ferengi Love Songs, [[spoiler: the only Grand Nagus assassinated in office along with his First Clerk.]] [[spoiler: Smeet and Gaxor return in 3.4 In the Long Run as Grand Nagus and First Clerk, having acquired a different replicator after failing to steal the Tempest's and accidentally crashing the Ferengi economy with it, presumably leading to their assassination in the prime timeline, where the Tempest crew did not or could not spare them from that fate.]]
* EverybodyDidIt: [[spoiler: Sabotage on Station 7, as an intentional send up of {{Creator/Agatha Christie}}, ends with a version of this. Turns out everyone was guilty EXCEPT the saboteur. And the sabotage was an indirect way of bringing the guilty parties to justice.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle
** "The Tempest Tossed" is from Emma Lazarus' poem [[{{Art/Statue of Liberty}} The New Colossus]]. The one that goes, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." and which continues, "Send these the homeless, the tempest-tost to me..."
** "Above the Highest Sky" is an adaptation of the Star Trek animated series episode title "Beyond the Farthest Star" and to a lesser extent, the Deep Space 9 episode title "Far Beyond the Stars."
** "Boats Against the Current" is a line from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' which likens the futility of trying to return to an out of reach past with trying to row a boat against the water's current.
** "The Captain in the Arena" is a play on the "It's not the critic who counts..." excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, which includes the line, "The credit belongs to the man actually in the arena." And of course, also the classic TOS episode the mission is built on, "The Arena".
** The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars: is a quote from St. Augustine's "City of God" -- "But, say they, the wise man will wage just wars. As if he would not all the rather lament the necessity of just wars, if he remembers that he is a man; for if they were not just he would not wage them, and would therefore be delivered from all wars. For it is the wrongdoing of the opposing party which compels the wise man to wage just wars." which is the first use of the phrase "just war" in literature and what would go on to be termed "Just War Theory."
** Covenants Without Swords is a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" where he states, 'Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.' Meaning that an orderly and peaceful society cannot function without some sort of authority that has a monopoly on physical force.
** Deserts Nearer Home is an allusion to Robert Frost's "Desert Places" poem whose last line is, "I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."
** Wavelength of Evil comes from the novel "The Most Dangerous Game."
** What We May Be comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, where Ophelia says, "We know what we are but not what we may be."
** Theory and Practice is from Einstein's quote, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice they are not."
** In the Long Run comes from a quippy retort of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression. Classical economists argued against government intervention, claiming that in the long run, the market would sort itself out. Keynes retorted, "In the long run, we are all dead [anyway]."
** Mandate of Heaven is the English translation of a concept in Ancient China that said that an Emperor's license to rule could be revoked by heaven if they proved unworthy of it.
** If Angels Governed Men comes from a quote by James Madison, fourth president of the United States, framer of the US Constitution, and principle author of the Federalist Papers, which argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution. In Federalist 51, Madison wrote: "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."
** If Two Are Dead comes from a quote by Benjamin Franklin on the difficulty of keeping secrets, "Three may keep a secret, if two are dead."
** Deadlier Than Hate comes from a quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky, saying that the only thing deadlier than hate is indifference.
** Ite Inflammate Omnia is the Latin translation of a quote by St. Ignatius extolling others to evangelize the Christian Gospel, which translates as, "Go and set the world on fire."
** Mutinous Winds comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
** Knocking Rashly at Unknown Doors comes from the Havamal, a book of proverbs from Norse mythology.
** Abysm of Time also comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
* {{Meaningful Name}}:
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
* MileLongShip: The Zandaran Ark ship from "Above the Highest Sky" is this. Also apparently a {{Generation Ship}} since [[spoiler: the inhabitants have lived in the ship's main volume for generations and the ship originates from somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.]]
* MythologyGag: One of the Tempest's shuttles [[spoiler: until it's destroyed in "That Which Is Unknown"]] is the shuttlecraft Cristoforetti, who is an Italian astronaut who did a tour of duty on the International Space Station and, while there, took a picture of herself wearing a Star Trek costume in the station's cupola module.
* {{NoodleIncident}}:
** Vulcan diplomat Sapir never goes into detail about what exactly happened between him and the Tholian scientist Gaseev, saying only that sometimes even trying to help with the best of intentions can end up making things worse.
* {{ShakespeareTitle}}:
** What We May Be: From "Hamlet"
** Mutinous Winds: From "The Tempest"
** Abysm of Time: Also from "The Tempest"
* {{Ripped From the Headlines}}:
** Season 3's What We May Be features a plot by a hostile foreign power to throw an election that will weaken the Federation, using preexisting internal tensions [[spoiler: with the help somebody on the inside.]]
* ShoutOut: The name of the Sentry Station 7 commander is Robert Slocum, the name of the narrator from Joseph Heller's ''Literature/SomethingHappened'', who is also a mediocre middle aged man with a lackluster career and a loveless marriage.
* WholePlotReference:
** The premise of Above the Highest Sky is almost a direct lift from {{Series/The Orville}} episode "If the Stars Should Appear".
** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the {{Series/Star Trek The Original Series}} episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
** Flight of the Recreant: Yeah, it's {{Film/The Hunt for Red October}} just {{Recycled In Space}}. The Romulans stand in for the Russians and cloaking technology stands in for Red October's caterpillar stealth drive.
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!!Starship Tempest contains examples of:
* AdaptationDeviation: The first three missions contain a handful of these, since they come from Star Trek Adventures' first mission compendium book but are adapted to the different era Tempest is set in.
** Entropy's Demise: The context of the Romulans is different, since there has been no official contact with them for about 30 years.
** That Which Is Unknown: Dr. Ja'Brenn and the Takarans become Dr. Toran and the Angosians, changing a species only known minimally by Dr. Crusher late in TNG to a different alien of the week species from TNG.
** Border Dispute: The Nova-class USS Nightingale becomes the Merced-Class USS Ellesmere.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The various supporting characters of the Tempest crew all have conspicuously animal sounding names. There's Douh the deer-like helm officer; Eele the engineer that specializes in electro-plasma systems (read: an electric eel); and K'at, the nurse that happens to be from an established Star Trek species that bears a strong resemblance to Earth cats.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence. She returns to give the players their mission in 2.1 The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars]] and [[spoiler: becomes the head of Starfleet Intelligence after Admiral Hamidi sacrifices herself in 3.5 Mandate of Heaven]]
* ContinuityNod:
** In "That Which Is Unknown" the Angosians know they can't join the Federation until they end their conflict with the Tarsians, a conflict which had only recently ended when the Angosians were introduced in the TNG episode "The Hunted."
** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler: Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
** In "Incident at Ivex" the Klingon bird of prey is named "Tong Vey" after a famous battle in Klingon history that is a plot point from the Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement."
** In the "Tempest Tossed" the main Cardassian ship is the "Kraxon" which is the same ship that takes Thomas Riker into custody in the Deep Space 9 episode "Defiant." And Gul Krim is the name of a Legate mentioned in dialogue in Deep Space 9's "Behind the Lines".
** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Starship Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere."
** Daimon Smeet, first encountered in 2.7 The Butcher's Benevolence, is also the name of the Ferengi Grand Nagus mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode Ferengi Love Songs, [[spoiler: the only Grand Nagus assassinated in office along with his First Clerk.]] [[spoiler: Smeet and Gaxor return in 3.4 In the Long Run as Grand Nagus and First Clerk, having acquired a different replicator after failing to steal the Tempest's and accidentally crashing the Ferengi economy with it, presumably leading to their assassination in the prime timeline, where the Tempest crew did not or could not spare them from that fate.]]
* EverybodyDidIt: [[spoiler: Sabotage on Station 7, as an intentional send up of {{Creator/Agatha Christie}}, ends with a version of this. Turns out everyone was guilty EXCEPT the saboteur. And the sabotage was an indirect way of bringing the guilty parties to justice.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle
** "The Tempest Tossed" is from Emma Lazarus' poem [[{{Art/Statue of Liberty}} The New Colossus]]. The one that goes, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." and which continues, "Send these the homeless, the tempest-tost to me..."
** "Above the Highest Sky" is an adaptation of the Star Trek animated series episode title "Beyond the Farthest Star" and to a lesser extent, the Deep Space 9 episode title "Far Beyond the Stars."
** "Boats Against the Current" is a line from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' which likens the futility of trying to return to an out of reach past with trying to row a boat against the water's current.
** "The Captain in the Arena" is a play on the "It's not the critic who counts..." excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, which includes the line, "The credit belongs to the man actually in the arena." And of course, also the classic TOS episode the mission is built on, "The Arena".
** The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars: is a quote from St. Augustine's "City of God" -- "But, say they, the wise man will wage just wars. As if he would not all the rather lament the necessity of just wars, if he remembers that he is a man; for if they were not just he would not wage them, and would therefore be delivered from all wars. For it is the wrongdoing of the opposing party which compels the wise man to wage just wars." which is the first use of the phrase "just war" in literature and what would go on to be termed "Just War Theory."
** Covenants Without Swords is a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" where he states, 'Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.' Meaning that an orderly and peaceful society cannot function without some sort of authority that has a monopoly on physical force.
** Deserts Nearer Home is an allusion to Robert Frost's "Desert Places" poem whose last line is, "I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."
** Wavelength of Evil comes from the novel "The Most Dangerous Game."
** What We May Be comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, where Ophelia says, "We know what we are but not what we may be."
** Theory and Practice is from Einstein's quote, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice they are not."
** In the Long Run comes from a quippy retort of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression. Classical economists argued against government intervention, claiming that in the long run, the market would sort itself out. Keynes retorted, "In the long run, we are all dead [anyway]."
** Mandate of Heaven is the English translation of a concept in Ancient China that said that an Emperor's license to rule could be revoked by heaven if they proved unworthy of it.
** If Angels Governed Men comes from a quote by James Madison, fourth president of the United States, framer of the US Constitution, and principle author of the Federalist Papers, which argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution. In Federalist 51, Madison wrote: "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."
** If Two Are Dead comes from a quote by Benjamin Franklin on the difficulty of keeping secrets, "Three may keep a secret, if two are dead."
** Deadlier Than Hate comes from a quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky, saying that the only thing deadlier than hate is indifference.
** Ite Inflammate Omnia is the Latin translation of a quote by St. Ignatius extolling others to evangelize the Christian Gospel, which translates as, "Go and set the world on fire."
** Mutinous Winds comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
** Knocking Rashly at Unknown Doors comes from the Havamal, a book of proverbs from Norse mythology.
** Abysm of Time also comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
* {{Meaningful Name}}:
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
* MileLongShip: The Zandaran Ark ship from "Above the Highest Sky" is this. Also apparently a {{Generation Ship}} since [[spoiler: the inhabitants have lived in the ship's main volume for generations and the ship originates from somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.]]
* MythologyGag: One of the Tempest's shuttles [[spoiler: until it's destroyed in "That Which Is Unknown"]] is the shuttlecraft Cristoforetti, who is an Italian astronaut who did a tour of duty on the International Space Station and, while there, took a picture of herself wearing a Star Trek costume in the station's cupola module.
* {{NoodleIncident}}:
** Vulcan diplomat Sapir never goes into detail about what exactly happened between him and the Tholian scientist Gaseev, saying only that sometimes even trying to help with the best of intentions can end up making things worse.
* {{ShakespeareTitle}}:
** What We May Be: From "Hamlet"
** Mutinous Winds: From "The Tempest"
** Abysm of Time: Also from "The Tempest"
* {{Ripped From the Headlines}}:
** Season 3's What We May Be features a plot by a hostile foreign power to throw an election that will weaken the Federation, using preexisting internal tensions [[spoiler: with the help somebody on the inside.]]
* ShoutOut: The name of the Sentry Station 7 commander is Robert Slocum, the name of the narrator from Joseph Heller's ''Literature/SomethingHappened'', who is also a mediocre middle aged man with a lackluster career and a loveless marriage.
* WholePlotReference:
** The premise of Above the Highest Sky is almost a direct lift from {{Series/The Orville}} episode "If the Stars Should Appear".
** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the {{Series/Star Trek The Original Series}} episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
** Flight of the Recreant: Yeah, it's {{Film/The Hunt for Red October}} just {{Recycled In Space}}. The Romulans stand in for the Russians and cloaking technology stands in for Red October's caterpillar stealth drive.
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!!Starship Tempest contains examples of:
* AdaptationDeviation: The first three missions contain a handful of these, since they come from Star Trek Adventures' first mission compendium book but are adapted to the different era Tempest is set in.
** Entropy's Demise: The context of the Romulans is different, since there has been no official contact with them for about 30 years.
** That Which Is Unknown: Dr. Ja'Brenn and the Takarans become Dr. Toran and the Angosians, changing a species only known minimally by Dr. Crusher late in TNG to a different alien of the week species from TNG.
** Border Dispute: The Nova-class USS Nightingale becomes the Merced-Class USS Ellesmere.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The various supporting characters of the Tempest crew all have conspicuously animal sounding names. There's Douh the deer-like helm officer; Eele the engineer that specializes in electro-plasma systems (read: an electric eel); and K'at, the nurse that happens to be from an established Star Trek species that bears a strong resemblance to Earth cats.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence. She returns to give the players their mission in 2.1 The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars]] and [[spoiler: becomes the head of Starfleet Intelligence after Admiral Hamidi sacrifices herself in 3.5 Mandate of Heaven]]
* ContinuityNod:
** In "That Which Is Unknown" the Angosians know they can't join the Federation until they end their conflict with the Tarsians, a conflict which had only recently ended when the Angosians were introduced in the TNG episode "The Hunted."
** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler: Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
** In "Incident at Ivex" the Klingon bird of prey is named "Tong Vey" after a famous battle in Klingon history that is a plot point from the Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement."
** In the "Tempest Tossed" the main Cardassian ship is the "Kraxon" which is the same ship that takes Thomas Riker into custody in the Deep Space 9 episode "Defiant." And Gul Krim is the name of a Legate mentioned in dialogue in Deep Space 9's "Behind the Lines".
** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Starship Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere."
** Daimon Smeet, first encountered in 2.7 The Butcher's Benevolence, is also the name of the Ferengi Grand Nagus mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode Ferengi Love Songs, [[spoiler: the only Grand Nagus assassinated in office along with his First Clerk.]] [[spoiler: Smeet and Gaxor return in 3.4 In the Long Run as Grand Nagus and First Clerk, having acquired a different replicator after failing to steal the Tempest's and accidentally crashing the Ferengi economy with it, presumably leading to their assassination in the prime timeline, where the Tempest crew did not or could not spare them from that fate.]]
* EverybodyDidIt: [[spoiler: Sabotage on Station 7, as an intentional send up of {{Creator/Agatha Christie}}, ends with a version of this. Turns out everyone was guilty EXCEPT the saboteur. And the sabotage was an indirect way of bringing the guilty parties to justice.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle
** "The Tempest Tossed" is from Emma Lazarus' poem [[{{Art/Statue of Liberty}} The New Colossus]]. The one that goes, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." and which continues, "Send these the homeless, the tempest-tost to me..."
** "Above the Highest Sky" is an adaptation of the Star Trek animated series episode title "Beyond the Farthest Star" and to a lesser extent, the Deep Space 9 episode title "Far Beyond the Stars."
** "Boats Against the Current" is a line from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' which likens the futility of trying to return to an out of reach past with trying to row a boat against the water's current.
** "The Captain in the Arena" is a play on the "It's not the critic who counts..." excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, which includes the line, "The credit belongs to the man actually in the arena." And of course, also the classic TOS episode the mission is built on, "The Arena".
** The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars: is a quote from St. Augustine's "City of God" -- "But, say they, the wise man will wage just wars. As if he would not all the rather lament the necessity of just wars, if he remembers that he is a man; for if they were not just he would not wage them, and would therefore be delivered from all wars. For it is the wrongdoing of the opposing party which compels the wise man to wage just wars." which is the first use of the phrase "just war" in literature and what would go on to be termed "Just War Theory."
** Covenants Without Swords is a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" where he states, 'Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.' Meaning that an orderly and peaceful society cannot function without some sort of authority that has a monopoly on physical force.
** Deserts Nearer Home is an allusion to Robert Frost's "Desert Places" poem whose last line is, "I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."
** Wavelength of Evil comes from the novel "The Most Dangerous Game."
** What We May Be comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, where Ophelia says, "We know what we are but not what we may be."
** Theory and Practice is from Einstein's quote, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice they are not."
** In the Long Run comes from a quippy retort of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression. Classical economists argued against government intervention, claiming that in the long run, the market would sort itself out. Keynes retorted, "In the long run, we are all dead [anyway]."
** Mandate of Heaven is the English translation of a concept in Ancient China that said that an Emperor's license to rule could be revoked by heaven if they proved unworthy of it.
** If Angels Governed Men comes from a quote by James Madison, fourth president of the United States, framer of the US Constitution, and principle author of the Federalist Papers, which argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution. In Federalist 51, Madison wrote: "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."
** If Two Are Dead comes from a quote by Benjamin Franklin on the difficulty of keeping secrets, "Three may keep a secret, if two are dead."
** Deadlier Than Hate comes from a quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky, saying that the only thing deadlier than hate is indifference.
** Ite Inflammate Omnia is the Latin translation of a quote by St. Ignatius extolling others to evangelize the Christian Gospel, which translates as, "Go and set the world on fire."
** Mutinous Winds comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
** Knocking Rashly at Unknown Doors comes from the Havamal, a book of proverbs from Norse mythology.
** Abysm of Time also comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
* {{Meaningful Name}}:
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
* MileLongShip: The Zandaran Ark ship from "Above the Highest Sky" is this. Also apparently a {{Generation Ship}} since [[spoiler: the inhabitants have lived in the ship's main volume for generations and the ship originates from somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.]]
* MythologyGag: One of the Tempest's shuttles [[spoiler: until it's destroyed in "That Which Is Unknown"]] is the shuttlecraft Cristoforetti, who is an Italian astronaut who did a tour of duty on the International Space Station and, while there, took a picture of herself wearing a Star Trek costume in the station's cupola module.
* {{NoodleIncident}}:
** Vulcan diplomat Sapir never goes into detail about what exactly happened between him and the Tholian scientist Gaseev, saying only that sometimes even trying to help with the best of intentions can end up making things worse.
* {{ShakespeareTitle}}:
** What We May Be: From "Hamlet"
** Mutinous Winds: From "The Tempest"
** Abysm of Time: Also from "The Tempest"
* {{Ripped From the Headlines}}:
** Season 3's What We May Be features a plot by a hostile foreign power to throw an election that will weaken the Federation, using preexisting internal tensions [[spoiler: with the help somebody on the inside.]]
* ShoutOut: The name of the Sentry Station 7 commander is Robert Slocum, the name of the narrator from Joseph Heller's ''Literature/SomethingHappened'', who is also a mediocre middle aged man with a lackluster career and a loveless marriage.
* WholePlotReference:
** The premise of Above the Highest Sky is almost a direct lift from {{Series/The Orville}} episode "If the Stars Should Appear".
** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the {{Series/Star Trek The Original Series}} episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
** Flight of the Recreant: Yeah, it's {{Film/The Hunt for Red October}} just {{Recycled In Space}}. The Romulans stand in for the Russians and cloaking technology stands in for Red October's caterpillar stealth drive.
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** What We May Be: From "Hamlet"
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* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence.]]
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* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence.]] She returns to give the players their mission in 2.1 The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars]] and [[spoiler: becomes the head of Starfleet Intelligence after Admiral Hamidi sacrifices herself in 3.5 Mandate of Heaven]]
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** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler:Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
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** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler:Thanks [[spoiler: Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
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** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Star Trek: Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere."
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** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Star Trek: Starship Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere.""
** Daimon Smeet, first encountered in 2.7 The Butcher's Benevolence, is also the name of the Ferengi Grand Nagus mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode Ferengi Love Songs, [[spoiler: the only Grand Nagus assassinated in office along with his First Clerk.]] [[spoiler: Smeet and Gaxor return in 3.4 In the Long Run as Grand Nagus and First Clerk, having acquired a different replicator after failing to steal the Tempest's and accidentally crashing the Ferengi economy with it, presumably leading to their assassination in the prime timeline, where the Tempest crew did not or could not spare them from that fate.]]
** Daimon Smeet, first encountered in 2.7 The Butcher's Benevolence, is also the name of the Ferengi Grand Nagus mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode Ferengi Love Songs, [[spoiler: the only Grand Nagus assassinated in office along with his First Clerk.]] [[spoiler: Smeet and Gaxor return in 3.4 In the Long Run as Grand Nagus and First Clerk, having acquired a different replicator after failing to steal the Tempest's and accidentally crashing the Ferengi economy with it, presumably leading to their assassination in the prime timeline, where the Tempest crew did not or could not spare them from that fate.]]
** What We May Be comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, where Ophelia says, "We know what we are but not what we may be."
** Theory and Practice is from Einstein's quote, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice they are not."
** In the Long Run comes from a quippy retort of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression. Classical economists argued against government intervention, claiming that in the long run, the market would sort itself out. Keynes retorted, "In the long run, we are all dead [anyway]."
** Mandate of Heaven is the English translation of a concept in Ancient China that said that an Emperor's license to rule could be revoked by heaven if they proved unworthy of it.
** If Angels Governed Men comes from a quote by James Madison, fourth president of the United States, framer of the US Constitution, and principle author of the Federalist Papers, which argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution. In Federalist 51, Madison wrote: "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."
** If Two Are Dead comes from a quote by Benjamin Franklin on the difficulty of keeping secrets, "Three may keep a secret, if two are dead."
** Deadlier Than Hate comes from a quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky, saying that the only thing deadlier than hate is indifference.
** Ite Inflammate Omnia is the Latin translation of a quote by St. Ignatius extolling others to evangelize the Christian Gospel, which translates as, "Go and set the world on fire."
** Mutinous Winds comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
** Theory and Practice is from Einstein's quote, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice they are not."
** In the Long Run comes from a quippy retort of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression. Classical economists argued against government intervention, claiming that in the long run, the market would sort itself out. Keynes retorted, "In the long run, we are all dead [anyway]."
** Mandate of Heaven is the English translation of a concept in Ancient China that said that an Emperor's license to rule could be revoked by heaven if they proved unworthy of it.
** If Angels Governed Men comes from a quote by James Madison, fourth president of the United States, framer of the US Constitution, and principle author of the Federalist Papers, which argued in favor of ratifying the Constitution. In Federalist 51, Madison wrote: "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."
** If Two Are Dead comes from a quote by Benjamin Franklin on the difficulty of keeping secrets, "Three may keep a secret, if two are dead."
** Deadlier Than Hate comes from a quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky, saying that the only thing deadlier than hate is indifference.
** Ite Inflammate Omnia is the Latin translation of a quote by St. Ignatius extolling others to evangelize the Christian Gospel, which translates as, "Go and set the world on fire."
** Mutinous Winds comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
** Abysm of Time also comes from a speech by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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** Flight of the Recreant - Recreant: Yeah, it's {{Film/The Hunt for Red October}} but just {{Recycled In Space}}. The Romulans stand in for the Russians and cloaking technology stands in for Red October's caterpillar stealth drive.
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** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the Star Trek original series episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
** Flight of the Recreant - Yeah, it's {{Film/The Hunt for the Red October} but [[Recycled In Space: in space]]. The Romulans stand in for the Russians and cloaking technology stands in for Red October's caterpillar stealth drive.
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** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the Star {{Series/Star Trek original series The Original Series}} episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
** Flight of the Recreant - Yeah, it's{{Film/The Hunt for the Red October} {{Film/TheHuntForRedOctober} but [[Recycled In Space: in space]].{{RecycledInSpace}}. The Romulans stand in for the Russians and cloaking technology stands in for Red October's caterpillar stealth drive.
** Flight of the Recreant - Yeah, it's
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** Wavelength of Evil comes from the novel "The Most Dangerous Game."
** Knocking Rashly at Unknown Doors comes from the Havamal, a book of proverbs from Norse mythology.
** Knocking Rashly at Unknown Doors comes from the Havamal, a book of proverbs from Norse mythology.
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** Vulcan diplomat Sapir never goes into detail about what exactly happened between him and the Tholian scientist Gaseev, saying only that sometimes even trying to help with the best of intentions can end up making things worse.
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** Mutinous Winds: From "The Tempest"
** Abysm of Time: Also from "The Tempest"
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** Season 3's What We May Be features a plot by a hostile foreign power to throw an election that will weaken the Federation, using preexisting internal tensions [[spoiler: with the help somebody on the inside.]]
** Vulcan diplomat Sapir never goes into detail about what exactly happened between him and the Tholian scientist Gaseev, saying only that sometimes even trying to help with the best of intentions can end up making things worse.
* Shakespeare Title:
** Mutinous Winds: From "The Tempest"
** Abysm of Time: Also from "The Tempest"
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** Season 3's What We May Be features a plot by a hostile foreign power to throw an election that will weaken the Federation, using preexisting internal tensions [[spoiler: with the help somebody on the inside.]]
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* {{Meaningful Name}}:
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
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** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
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** The Wise Man Will Wage Just Wars: is a quote from St. Augustine's "City of God" -- "But, say they, the wise man will wage just wars. As if he would not all the rather lament the necessity of just wars, if he remembers that he is a man; for if they were not just he would not wage them, and would therefore be delivered from all wars. For it is the wrongdoing of the opposing party which compels the wise man to wage just wars." which is the first use of the phrase "just war" in literature and what would go on to be termed "Just War Theory."
** Covenants Without Swords is a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" where he states, 'Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.' Meaning that an orderly and peaceful society cannot function without some sort of authority that has a monopoly on physical force.
** Deserts Nearer Home is an allusion to Robert Frost's "Desert Places" poem whose last line is, "I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."
** Covenants Without Swords is a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" where he states, 'Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.' Meaning that an orderly and peaceful society cannot function without some sort of authority that has a monopoly on physical force.
** Deserts Nearer Home is an allusion to Robert Frost's "Desert Places" poem whose last line is, "I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."
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** "Boats Against the Current" is a line from {{Literature/The Great Gatsby}} which likens the futility of trying to return to an out of reach past with trying to row a boat against the water's current.
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* ShoutOut: The name of the Sentry Station 7 commander is Robert Slocum, the name of the narrator from Joseph Heller's Literature/SomethingHappened, ''Literature/SomethingHappened'', who is also a mediocre middle aged man with a lackluster career and a loveless marriage.
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* TheWikiRule: [[https://star-trek-tempest.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Tempest_Wiki Wiki]]
** Well before the podcast even started releasing, which started as a way for the GM to keep his own continuity straight and make sure it conformed to both main on screen {{Franchise/Star Trek}} continuity and [[{{Literature/Star Trek Novelverse}} licensed works]] as tightly as possible.
** Well before the podcast even started releasing, which started as a way for the GM to keep his own continuity straight and make sure it conformed to both main on screen {{Franchise/Star Trek}} continuity and [[{{Literature/Star Trek Novelverse}} licensed works]] as tightly as possible.
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A hybrid RPG actual play/audio drama [[http://starshiptempest.libsyn.com/ podcast]] set in the Star Trek universe and using the Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game system that follows the adventures of the USS Tempest, a sister ship to the Enterprise-C first seen in the TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" set in the time period between The Original Series and Next Generation eras. Featuring many established elements of the Star Trek universe through the experiences and adventures of a new ship and crew, though given the RPG nature of the storytelling, events sometimes play out differently than they must've as part of the main franchise.
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* AdaptationDeviation: The first three missions contain a handful of these, since they come from Star Trek Adventures' first mission compendium book but are adapted to the different era Tempest is set in.
** Entropy's Demise: The context of the Romulans is different, since there has been no official contact with them for about 30 years.
** That Which Is Unknown: Dr. Ja'Brenn and the Takarans become Dr. Toran and the Angosians, changing a species only known minimally by Dr. Crusher late in TNG to a different alien of the week species from TNG.
** Border Dispute: The Nova-class USS Nightingale becomes the Merced-Class USS Ellesmere.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The various supporting characters of the Tempest crew all have conspicuously animal sounding names. There's Douh the deer-like helm officer; Eele the engineer that specializes in electro-plasma systems (read: an electric eel); and K'at, the nurse that happens to be from an established Star Trek species that bears a strong resemblance to Earth cats.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** In "That Which Is Unknown" the Angosians know they can't join the Federation until they end their conflict with the Tarsians, a conflict which had only recently ended when the Angosians were introduced in the TNG episode "The Hunted."
** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler:Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
** In "Incident at Ivex" the Klingon bird of prey is named "Tong Vey" after a famous battle in Klingon history that is a plot point from the Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement."
** In the "Tempest Tossed" the main Cardassian ship is the "Kraxon" which is the same ship that takes Thomas Riker into custody in the Deep Space 9 episode "Defiant." And Gul Krim is the name of a Legate mentioned in dialogue in Deep Space 9's "Behind the Lines".
** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Star Trek: Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere."
* EverybodyDidIt: [[spoiler: Sabotage on Station 7, as an intentional send up of {{Creator/Agatha Christie}}, ends with a version of this. Turns out everyone was guilty EXCEPT the saboteur. And the sabotage was an indirect way of bringing the guilty parties to justice.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle
** "The Tempest Tossed" is from Emma Lazarus' poem [[{{Art/Statue of Liberty}} The New Colossus]]. The one that goes, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." and which continues, "Send these the homeless, the tempest-tost to me..."
** "Above the Highest Sky" is an adaptation of the Star Trek animated series episode title "Beyond the Farthest Star" and to a lesser extent, the Deep Space 9 episode title "Far Beyond the Stars."
** "Boats Against the Current" is a line from {{Literature/The Great Gatsby}} which likens the futility of trying to return to an out of reach past with trying to row a boat against the water's current.
** "The Captain in the Arena" is a play on the "It's not the critic who counts..." excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, which includes the line, "The credit belongs to the man actually in the arena." And of course, also the classic TOS episode the mission is built on, "The Arena".
* {{Meaningful Name}}:
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
* MileLongShip: The Zandaran Ark ship from "Above the Highest Sky" is this. Also apparently a {{Generation Ship}} since [[spoiler: the inhabitants have lived in the ship's main volume for generations and the ship originates from somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.]]
* MythologyGag: One of the Tempest's shuttles [[spoiler: until it's destroyed in "That Which Is Unknown"]] is the shuttlecraft Cristoforetti, who is an Italian astronaut who did a tour of duty on the International Space Station and, while there, took a picture of herself wearing a Star Trek costume in the station's cupola module.
* ShoutOut: The name of the Sentry Station 7 commander is Robert Slocum, the name of the narrator from Joseph Heller's Literature/SomethingHappened, who is also a mediocre middle aged man with a lackluster career and a loveless marriage.
* WholePlotReference:
** The premise of Above the Highest Sky is almost a direct lift from {{Series/The Orville}} episode "If the Stars Should Appear".
** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the Star Trek original series episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
* TheWikiRule: [[https://star-trek-tempest.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Tempest_Wiki Wiki]]
** Well before the podcast even started releasing, which started as a way for the GM to keep his own continuity straight and make sure it conformed to both main on screen {{Franchise/Star Trek}} continuity and [[{{Literature/Star Trek Novelverse}} licensed works]] as tightly as possible.
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* AdaptationDeviation: The first three missions contain a handful of these, since they come from Star Trek Adventures' first mission compendium book but are adapted to the different era Tempest is set in.
** Entropy's Demise: The context of the Romulans is different, since there has been no official contact with them for about 30 years.
** That Which Is Unknown: Dr. Ja'Brenn and the Takarans become Dr. Toran and the Angosians, changing a species only known minimally by Dr. Crusher late in TNG to a different alien of the week species from TNG.
** Border Dispute: The Nova-class USS Nightingale becomes the Merced-Class USS Ellesmere.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The various supporting characters of the Tempest crew all have conspicuously animal sounding names. There's Douh the deer-like helm officer; Eele the engineer that specializes in electro-plasma systems (read: an electric eel); and K'at, the nurse that happens to be from an established Star Trek species that bears a strong resemblance to Earth cats.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: In "Sabotage on Station 7" both Milder's and Garcia's case officer at Starfleet Intelligence is Marta Batanides, one of Picard's Academy friends we see in the TNG episode "Tapestry" and who according to beta canon worked in Starfleet Intelligence.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** In "That Which Is Unknown" the Angosians know they can't join the Federation until they end their conflict with the Tarsians, a conflict which had only recently ended when the Angosians were introduced in the TNG episode "The Hunted."
** In the TNG episode "The Chase", set in 2369, it's been 30 years since Galen and Picard have seen each other, meaning they last saw each other in 2339...at the end of Boats Against the Current. [[spoiler:Thanks to Maddox's intervention, that 30 year gap will be averted.]]
** In "Incident at Ivex" the Klingon bird of prey is named "Tong Vey" after a famous battle in Klingon history that is a plot point from the Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement."
** In the "Tempest Tossed" the main Cardassian ship is the "Kraxon" which is the same ship that takes Thomas Riker into custody in the Deep Space 9 episode "Defiant." And Gul Krim is the name of a Legate mentioned in dialogue in Deep Space 9's "Behind the Lines".
** In "Primum Non Nocere" the medical mission the Tempest is diverted from is delivering antiviral medicines to the plague ravaged colony of Arvada III. In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom", Dr. Crusher tells a story about how a plague broke out on the colony where she was living with her grandmother. Traditional medical supplies ran out and her grandmother used local plants and herbs as a stop gap before help could arrive. The reason such a stopgap was necessary, according to Star Trek: Tempest, is because the ship carrying the necessary relief was diverted by a different mission - the circumstances of "Primum Non Nocere."
* EverybodyDidIt: [[spoiler: Sabotage on Station 7, as an intentional send up of {{Creator/Agatha Christie}}, ends with a version of this. Turns out everyone was guilty EXCEPT the saboteur. And the sabotage was an indirect way of bringing the guilty parties to justice.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle
** "The Tempest Tossed" is from Emma Lazarus' poem [[{{Art/Statue of Liberty}} The New Colossus]]. The one that goes, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." and which continues, "Send these the homeless, the tempest-tost to me..."
** "Above the Highest Sky" is an adaptation of the Star Trek animated series episode title "Beyond the Farthest Star" and to a lesser extent, the Deep Space 9 episode title "Far Beyond the Stars."
** "Boats Against the Current" is a line from {{Literature/The Great Gatsby}} which likens the futility of trying to return to an out of reach past with trying to row a boat against the water's current.
** "The Captain in the Arena" is a play on the "It's not the critic who counts..." excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, which includes the line, "The credit belongs to the man actually in the arena." And of course, also the classic TOS episode the mission is built on, "The Arena".
* {{Meaningful Name}}:
** Primum Non Nocere: [[spoiler: the research outpost is named for the Dr. Frankenstein like character C.A. Rotwang from the landmark science fiction film {{Films/Metropolis}}.]] Also, [[spoiler: Budala is the word for 'fool' in several Eastern European languages.]]
* MileLongShip: The Zandaran Ark ship from "Above the Highest Sky" is this. Also apparently a {{Generation Ship}} since [[spoiler: the inhabitants have lived in the ship's main volume for generations and the ship originates from somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.]]
* MythologyGag: One of the Tempest's shuttles [[spoiler: until it's destroyed in "That Which Is Unknown"]] is the shuttlecraft Cristoforetti, who is an Italian astronaut who did a tour of duty on the International Space Station and, while there, took a picture of herself wearing a Star Trek costume in the station's cupola module.
* ShoutOut: The name of the Sentry Station 7 commander is Robert Slocum, the name of the narrator from Joseph Heller's Literature/SomethingHappened, who is also a mediocre middle aged man with a lackluster career and a loveless marriage.
* WholePlotReference:
** The premise of Above the Highest Sky is almost a direct lift from {{Series/The Orville}} episode "If the Stars Should Appear".
** Captain in the Arena is an in-universe deliberate reference to the Star Trek original series episode "The Arena" - [[spoiler: Intentional on the part of the Gorn, who have decided to model their diplomatic contact with the Federation on the circumstances surrounding first contact...which are the events of "The Arena" episode.]]
* TheWikiRule: [[https://star-trek-tempest.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Tempest_Wiki Wiki]]
** Well before the podcast even started releasing, which started as a way for the GM to keep his own continuity straight and make sure it conformed to both main on screen {{Franchise/Star Trek}} continuity and [[{{Literature/Star Trek Novelverse}} licensed works]] as tightly as possible.
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