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[[folder: USS Pathfinder Player Characters]]
'''Captain Thomas Marrone'''
-> Played by: Thomas Marrone
The Captain of the starship Pathfinder, and a former engineer on Memory Alpha. Captain Marrone, made his mark by designing the new LCARS UI seen throughout Star Trek Online, before being promoted to Captain. Even after the Iconian War, probably one of the most idealistic people in Starfleet.
* {{Ambadassador}}: Thomas proves himself to be one, preferring diplomacy over violent solutions. That being said, when it comes to fighting, he's a proven leader. He also manages to manipulate the leader of the Kalkrit with with subterfuge.
* BadassBookworm: He used to be an engineer.
* BoringButPractical: As a former Engineer, this is preferred style.
* TheCaptain
* CurseCutShort: He tries to do this, not that he always succeeds.
** PrecisionFStrike: A few times.
* TheDanza: Captain Marrone is Thomas' in-game persona after all.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most famously, his "Belay that Sass, Lt." line, but in general, Thomas has enough one-liners to make the others burst out laughing, question their choices, or just shut up.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* ThePollyanna: Thomas never loses his idealistic streak at all despite seeing some of the worst of the galaxy, including the [[TheGreatOffscreenWar Iconian War]], and a collection of space fascists in the Kalkrit. He also hoped sincerely that the rogue VI on Kylexis was genuinely a self-aware being and even lamented its loss even though it wasn't sentient and had killed 4 billion people.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Diplomatic, peace-preferring, but willing to fight in self-defense. He's also willing to hear out both sides of an argument before making a decision, and tries to keep an open mind. And if it turns out that someone is completely unreasonable (such as the space fascist species the Kalkrit), he still would prefer an option that would result in a HeelFaceTurn rather than a solution involving phasers.
* RenaissanceMan: An engineer, diplomat, student of military history, an artist...
* ScienceHero: He's out here to explore and study strange new worlds, after all.
* ScientistVsSoldier: An internalized version. Captain Marrone is an engineer but also a military history buff and now the Captain. Also present in his player (since Captain Marrone is just Thomas Marrone in Star Trek), who is someone with an arts background, but also a lover of military history.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Believes in this strongly. He was the staunchest defender of the rogue VI on Kylexis, and later when a crew proposed using an adaptive holoprogram he wouldn't approve the plan unless they made sure it was done ethically and without becoming a self-aware being.
'''Commander Kyona'''
-> Played by: Paul Reed
Formerly the head of the security of the *Enterprise*-F, Kyona was promoted to XO of the *Pathfinder*. At least in this campaign setting.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
* CatPeople: Being Caitian, its also PlayedForLaughs as Kyona frequently gets distracted by shiny objects and at one point nearly chases several bird people around who came on board.
** Reached a DudeNotFunny moment in the Second Life stream where Kyona was straight up turned into a house cat for Q's version of Literature/TheWizardOfOz as the {{Expy}} of Toto, which she did *not* enjoy.
* CommandingCoolness
* {{Crossplayer}}
* GamerChick: Her favorite hobby is playing Captain Proton on the holodeck. She also participates in the in-game weekly ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign the crew partakes in.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Much like her Captain, Kyona prefers diplomacy over violence, a cultural trait of being Caitian. That doesn't stop her from kicking ass.
'''Lieutenant Commander Thox'''
-> Played by: Mike Fatum
The Pathfinder's science officer, who also happens to be a Klingon. Despite this, he has no actual competency as a Warrior for the most part, but he is a very good astrophysicist.
* ButtMonkey: If someone's going to be the victim of a hillarious physical attack, its Thox.
--> Mike Fatum: "Best. Klingon. Ever."
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted!]] Thox does has several scientific specialties and he does man the general science station on the ''Pathfinder'' but he is a specialist in Astrophysics (with Warp Dynamics and Fields as a subfocus), Xenoanthropology and Xenoarcheaology, and computer technology. However, he has the lowest possible Engineering score of a science officer (1), and has issues with biology [[EpicFail (such as being confused by Romulan sexual dimorphism, and thinking the Trill doctor is a human.)]]
* ThePollyanna: He's surprisingly optimistic for a Klingon.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], he is by his own admission a terrible warrior. He was also once beaten up by a Janitor Bot.
* ScienceHero: Expert hacker, analyst, and generally good at smart guy things.
'''Centurion Tellon Myrrai'''
-> Played by: Ryon Levitt
The Pathfinder's AcePilot and an exchange officer from the Romulan Republic. Largely optimistic but a bit too keen on violence and puns.
* AcePilot
* AttackAttackAttack: Her preferred way of dealing with things.
* {{Crossplayer}}
* GamerChick: A regular feature at the Pathfinder's D&D game
* PostTraumaticStressSyndrome: Developed it in the unaired pilot after being kidnapped and nearly killed and replaced with a robot duplicate.
* PungeonMaster: A staple feature of Ryon's that eventually rubbed off on everyone else.
-> Mike Fatum: "You realize this is because [[DugTooDeep we've spent too long in the same room with him.]]"
-> Ryon Levitt: "We've already established that I'm not adulting."
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Her way of dealing with any kind of threat.
-> Myrrai: "We should do what we're supposed to do and shoot them!"
-> Captain Marrone: "No. We don't do **that**."
'''Doctor Lera Jennan'''
-> Played by: Tiffany Chu
The ship's doctor, a Trill who was nearly joined to an injured symbiont, but the symbiont died before the joining could finish. Joining Starfleet she's become the Pathfinder's CMO.
* ActionGirl: And *how*. Dr. Jenan is generally considered the most badass of the crew, with a surprisingly high non-lethal body count.
* BadassBoast: Gives one to Kelkrit Supreme after he has one of his own men commit suicide, she tells him off and saves the man's life.
* BadassBookworm: Fantastic Doctor, also fantastic at self defense.
* GamerChick: Both Tiffany Chu and her character apply for this. Dr. Jenan is a regular the Pathfinder's D&D game.
* ShoutOut: To LeeroyJenkins.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In episode 2, she wide angle stuns all the Kalkrit boarders who just teleported into her sickbay.
** Subverted in Episode 1, where instead of shooting the robot in close range, she stuns it with a headbutt to the face, since she's in an EV suit with a metal helmet.
'''Lieutenant Ethan Yeager'''
-> Played by: Mike Menard
A rarity in Starfleet, an openly genetically augmented human who genuinely wants to better himself. Despite an insanely meta build, its only makes up barely for the fact that his player has stage 2 [[BornUnlucky Wheaton Syndrome]].
* BornUnlucky: If he wasn't genetically engineered, he'd probably be dead.
* ButtMonkey: The genetically engineered superman who has terrible luck. So that results in both discimination against him and terrible dice rolls.
* FantasticRacsim: Was the victim of it. Augments aren't allowed in Starfleet due to the Eugenics Wars. Somehow, Ethan managed to get enrolled despite that (probably due to the many wars going on in the STO-era), and overcame it.
* GeniusBruiser: Tactical officer first. But that's an emphasis on ''tactical''. Having come up with some pretty smart strategies including prolific uses of holographic tech, and even once calculating in his head the gravitational displacement of a Phaser's particle beam in a high-G environment.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A major part of his character's beliefs. As an augment, he has those aggressive tendencies Khan has. But his #1 value is that he is '''NOT''' Khan Noonien Singh.
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[[folder: Other USS Pathfinder Characters]]
'''Ensign Ricky'''
The crew's recurring {{Redshirt}} NPC who doubles as a ShoutOut to WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.
* {{Expy}}: Has several others on the crew such as Ensigns Nikki, Vicky, Schlicky, and Sticky.
* {{Redshirt}}
* RunningGag: Something bad either happens to Ensign Ricky or they've named another character after him.
'''Lieutenant Tardigrade'''
Originally a fan NPC in the Twitch stream chat created by Stream Moderator Duncan Idaho, was mentioned a few times on stream before getting a plot relevant appearance in Episode 4. As his name suggest, he is a Mycelial Tardigrade like the one seen in Star Trek Discovery, but without any jump capability.
* AscendedFanboy: The Character at least.
* NiceGuy: Officially he's one of the nicest characters on the crew.
** ThePollyanna
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Lt. Tardigrade has been depicted as a Security Officer and a Science Officer. He does have a specialty in [[LiveActionTelevision/StarTrekDiscovery Mycelial Biology]], however.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Once cracked all three pairs of knuckles he has. However, it was all bluster as Lt. Tardigrade is very peace loving.
'''Nurse Dillon Kennedy'''
-> Played by: Tiffany Chu
Tiffany Chu's secondary character, Nurse Kennedy is a human woman with a really nasty mean right hook, but also a healer at heart.
* BadassBookworm: She's considered really scary by the rest of the cast and crew, but she's also a very good nurse and scientist.
* CombatMedic
* TheIntern
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->''"Belay that sass, Lieutenant!"''
-->-- '''Captain Thomas Marrone'''
What happens when you give the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' devs access to a Star Trek Tabletop RPG? Well, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a pretty good look at what they'd rather be making if they weren't held up by a the constraints of a video game!]] Star Trek Online: Pathfinder is the Official Star Trek Online dev team's ''TabletopGame/StarTrekAdventures'' rpg game, centered around the U.S.S. ''Pathfinder'', the lead ship of the ''Pathfinder''-class exploratory vessel.
The origins of the Pathfinder campaign go way back to the launch era of the game when a fan named Thomas Marrone got noticed by Creator/CrypticStudios and sold a number of minigame concepts to the studio. [[AscendedFanboy One of his payments was to get an NPC in game. Then they hired him.]] At the time of their Delta Rising expansion, they had Thomas design an update to the ''Intrepid''-class he named the ''Pathfinder'' and then-Lead Writer, Christine "Kestral" Thompson made his in-game NPC the Captain of ''Pathfinder''. Captain Marrone and the ''Pathfinder'' made a handful of appearances in the game afterwards including in the finale of the Iconian War plotline and had been a subject of some fan discussion over the next few years until the RPG show ''WebVideo/ShieldOfTomorrow'' came out using the ''Star Trek Adventures'' system. Community Manager Mike "Ambassador Kael" Fatum proposed doing a one shot on stream to tie into ''Shield'' and to help crosspromote STA. Under the stewardship of Game Master [[{{Fallout1}} Jesse Heinig]], and with Thomas playing his own in-game NPC Captain, the campaign was born.
The first game, was surprisingly successful and the campaign was agreed to become a regular feature of the STO weekly livestreams, with the hopes of being a monthly campaign, [[ScheduleSlip which didn't quite happen]] due to the intense workload of launching both the ''Victory Is Life'' expansion and suddenly needing to tie in and stay consistent with a new Star Trek TV series in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''. They still stream when the staff isn't overworked or exhausted and are still considered some of the better content set in the STO timeframe, with a better look at the 25th Century with more focus on diplomacy and other content that works better in a non-video game format.
You can watch the recordings of most of the STO:Pathfinder streams on the official Star Trek Online [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPTvHq7oS8flZUA37Fu1zWA youtube page.]]
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-->-- '''Captain Thomas Marrone'''
What happens when you give the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' devs access to a Star Trek Tabletop RPG? Well, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a pretty good look at what they'd rather be making if they weren't held up by a the constraints of a video game!]] Star Trek Online: Pathfinder is the Official Star Trek Online dev team's ''TabletopGame/StarTrekAdventures'' rpg game, centered around the U.S.S. ''Pathfinder'', the lead ship of the ''Pathfinder''-class exploratory vessel.
The origins of the Pathfinder campaign go way back to the launch era of the game when a fan named Thomas Marrone got noticed by Creator/CrypticStudios and sold a number of minigame concepts to the studio. [[AscendedFanboy One of his payments was to get an NPC in game. Then they hired him.]] At the time of their Delta Rising expansion, they had Thomas design an update to the ''Intrepid''-class he named the ''Pathfinder'' and then-Lead Writer, Christine "Kestral" Thompson made his in-game NPC the Captain of ''Pathfinder''. Captain Marrone and the ''Pathfinder'' made a handful of appearances in the game afterwards including in the finale of the Iconian War plotline and had been a subject of some fan discussion over the next few years until the RPG show ''WebVideo/ShieldOfTomorrow'' came out using the ''Star Trek Adventures'' system. Community Manager Mike "Ambassador Kael" Fatum proposed doing a one shot on stream to tie into ''Shield'' and to help crosspromote STA. Under the stewardship of Game Master [[{{Fallout1}} Jesse Heinig]], and with Thomas playing his own in-game NPC Captain, the campaign was born.
The first game, was surprisingly successful and the campaign was agreed to become a regular feature of the STO weekly livestreams, with the hopes of being a monthly campaign, [[ScheduleSlip which didn't quite happen]] due to the intense workload of launching both the ''Victory Is Life'' expansion and suddenly needing to tie in and stay consistent with a new Star Trek TV series in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''. They still stream when the staff isn't overworked or exhausted and are still considered some of the better content set in the STO timeframe, with a better look at the 25th Century with more focus on diplomacy and other content that works better in a non-video game format.
You can watch the recordings of most of the STO:Pathfinder streams on the official Star Trek Online [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPTvHq7oS8flZUA37Fu1zWA youtube page.]]
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