The Official Trek Draft Rules

If you've enjoyed our latest Special Episode and are wondering how you can play along at home, you are in the right place! Presented below are the official Trek Draft rules. Use them wisely.

TREK DRAFT RULES

• This will be a snake draft.

• You will draft a crew of 7 officers to helm your Starship

• Your crew must fill the following roles: Captain, Executive Officer/Security Officer, Science Officer, Ship’s Doctor, Chief Engineer, a ‘soft skills’ officer (Guinan, Neelix, Uhura), and a Wildcard (Wesley, Nog, someone else from another role).

• These roles may be drafted in any order, but failure to draft each of these positions will result in an invalid draft slate and immediate ejection from the draft.

• Babylon Who? Battlestar Galacti-what? Only characters from Star Trek series and films are eligible for this draft. Firefly is in the jar! Han Solo? A no-no!

• The JJ Decree: Eligible series and movies for this draft must take place in what is commonly understood as the main Star Trek universe. The JJ Abrams versions of characters are not eligible.

• For each slot, the character must reasonably be able to serve in that role. For example: Beverly Crusher could conceivably serve as your Captain, but Jean-Luc Picard could not be your Doctor.

  • Quark’s on the bridge? Trek characters who are not Federation officers but could serve in these roles are eligible. These characters are also eligible to be wildcards.

• Distribution: Your crew cannot come exclusively from one series.

• Draft Exclusivity: Once you draft a character, no other player may draft that character to their crew. This includes time travel/Mirror Universe/alternate future counterparts.

  • Sulu’s Rule: If a character has multiple jobs over the course of their Starfleet career, that does not mean they are eligible multiple times. If Player A drafts Sulu as their helmsman, Player B cannot draft movie Sulu as their Captain, etc.

  • Combs’s Bylaw: Different characters played by the same actor are eligible to be drafted alongside each other or by different players. Player A could draft Weyoun and Brunt (both played by Jeffrey Combs) if they so choose.

  • Uhura’s Corollary: When a single character is played by different actors, those different performances are considered one (1) character. If TOS Uhura is drafted, Strange New Worlds Uhura is ineligible.

  • The Riker Exception: Because William Riker gets split into two people in that one episode and his double, Thomas Riker goes on to live a separate, individual life from the point of that split, for the purposes of this Draft both Rikers are eligible.

• You are allowed to name your ship.