Larp Trek archive
Larp Trek is a comic strip I wrote from late 2012 to early 2014. The premise: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was actually a tabletop roleplaying game played by the crew of The Next Generation when the holodecks had gone down. It was born out of a deep if also critical love for both the Star Trek franchise and the messy goofiness of friends struggling to goof off together in an organized way, and an excuse to look at some of the contrasts and commonalities between TNG and DS9 from an in-universe perspective.
I really enjoyed making it at the time, until I ran out of steam; its web presence decayed over the following years. I've been meaning to bring the archives back in some form for years now, and now I am finally getting under way on that! I won't be restoring the old archive exactly as it was, but I'll be slowly getting all the strips back up and most of their surrounding context (plus some contemporary commentary), so that Larp Trek's archives can have a reliable, stable home on the web again.
You can start reading the comic at episode 1; if you're new to it, give it a few strips to figure out what its doing. I haven't gone back and rewritten anything so it takes a little bit to find its feet just like it did back in 2012.
all strips
- What’s a pirate’s favorite cast member to kill off in the first season?
- In Soviet wormhole, orb scans YOU!
- Riker’s still waiting to land that HBO standup special
- Lookin’ for orbs in all the wrong places
- Stop the kid before he says something about “watersports”
- Next, we shoot at the replicators until they can make rainbows.
- She Quarks Hard For The Money
- The Hamburglar is actually Ferengi, was saying “Dabo Dabo!” all along
- LET’S FIGHT THEM for any given value of “them”
- Not to be confused with Roy Orbison
- The Dukat is out of the bag
- more like miles o’beamin
- ...was how to pistol-hands somebody who outdrew ya, hallelujah
- Let Sleeping Jakes Lie
- Fellowship of the ring-shaped space station
- Women do a lot of things, Wes.
- If I had my little way / I’d dream beaches every day
- Wes then attempts to take a swim in the holopond.
- Opaka’s a real audiophile IYKWIM
- The spirit is willing, but the flesh is kind of a lazy jerk
- You don’t have to beam home but you can’t stay here
- WE’LL BE GREETED AS LIBERATORS
- Major Kira if you’re nasty
- When a mace flies at your face / you must shift it
- Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself…
- No, Geordi, you’re not conveying noble frustration quite right.
- O’Brien vs. O’Brien, Picard vs. Picard
- Captain Picard, of the OOC Enterprise
- Comet Comet Comet Comet Comet Chameleon
- pecking order more like holodecking order amirite
- Secular Winter Holiday Extravaganza
- Miles and Keiko IN - A Double Date with Destiny!
- My girlfriend lives in the Canada sector…
- Big Book of Idioms + Thesaurus = Data joke generator
- People associate my character name with being both top AND bottom…
- He assimilates entire background characters and I fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here!
- Today is a good day to (roll a twenty-sided) die
- Anagrams include ‘I shun bra jail’ and ‘Uh, sir? Anal jib.’
- Oedipal underwear
- Picard will spend a whole session at some point just making Sisko brush his hair ad nauseum
- Riker proceeds to chat up the computer for fifteen minutes
- Seriously, the Enterprise crew go through datapads like toiletpaper
- So my character doesn’t have to have Dopterian herpes, either?
- “Occupy Bajor” involved very few Guy Fawkes masks
- The space station contains potassium benzoate
- Bill Striker laughs in the face of condoms
- It’s like holograms in your BRAIN
- First Officer’s log -- I never thought it’d happen to me, but…
- I heard your dad went into a holodeck and he played all the detective scenarios in the holodeck and they had to close the holodeck.
- You were dead the minute you fired on that holo-emitter.