I've had an idea for awhile now, and wanted to float it past the site, since I've been here for like two days now, so we're all good friends.
The idea is for a Star Trek game where, instead of playing a character aboard a ship, each player plays an entire ship's worth of characters. It would be a reboot of "Voyager," with the ships all appearing in a sort of starship graveyard, brought by the Caretaker Array. The ships band together to explore the Delta Quadrant and search for a way home (unless they're already from the Delta Quadrant, in which case, you decide what you're in it for). To maintain game balance, each ship would be the default "best" at something, whether it be science, engineering, communications, firepower, etc. It would be agreed OOC that this is the setup. If your Nausicaan pirate vessal is best at scavenging, then my Intrepid-class Starfleet ship is not, period.
The fleet would only be as fast as its slowest ship. If my NX-class can't move past Warp 5.2, then the fleet can't move past Warp 5.2. And you can't leave me behind, because my ship has the best bontanical garden, let's say, and the fleet needs that for food and medicinal herbs.
Thoughts? Ideas? Interest in playing if I were to start it up?