Conflict of Interests

Conflict of Interests is an RPG sourcebook, an adventure module for FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game. It was one of seven TOS packages released by FASA Corporation in 1986. The Klingon Intelligence Briefing, a reference on Klingon history and culture, accompanied the module.

Description[]

This adventure pits two groups of players against one another as diplomatic teams from the Federation and the Klingon Empire. The objective is to convince the population of Sheridan's World to join either the Federation or the Empire. The only problem is that this planet was settled by the Organians right after the Organian Incident by 100 colonists from the UFP and by 100 colonists from the Klingon Empire. Having kept the planet in isolation for 15 years, the Organians have decided that now is the time for the colonists to decide whether they will become Klingon, Federation, or independent. Each diplomatic team must do its best both publicly and privately to convince the colonists to join their side.

Summary[]

Teams from the Federation and the Klingon Empire are sent at the behest of the Organians to make contact with a hidden jointly-founded colony.

References[]

Characters[]

Starfleet liaison team[]

Sean Sheridan • Alan Michael Fox • Irenna Suparov • Damiano Troyat

Klingon liaison team[]

Molodar vestai-Hurric • Kinot vestai-Juriss • Kemoc vestai-Reshtarc • Kilara vestai-Subaiesh

Locations[]

Planetary locations[]

Sheridan's World: Continuity (The Bloody Fist Bar • The Home Away From Home Bar • Kexor Grotto • Medark Palace • Sheridan's World Hall of Records)
Terra: Buenos Aires • Devonshire • England • Montreal • New Leningrad • New York • North America • United States of America
Mars: Leandrail • Martian Colony 3

Stations and outposts[]

Starbase 12

Planets and planetoids[]

Sheridan's World
Referenced only: Earth • Ganarra III • Kannaga • Klinzhai • Korvaline • Lantos • Organia • Rashile • Ribald Quest • Taamar Colony XI • Zannaduu IV • Zwaalan

Stars and systems[]

Sheridan
Referenced only: Sol system • Organian system • Zannaduu

Stellar regions[]

Organian Treaty Zone

Races and cultures[]

Klingon (Imperial Race, Klingon/Human fusion, Klingon/Romulan fusion) • Human • Organian • Orion

States and organizations[]

Federation • Intersystems Extraction, Inc. • Klingon Defense Force • Klingon Diplomatic Corps • Klingon Empire • Starfleet

Klingon lines[]

Amerex • Amexar • Drexa • Fulmori • Gomorrac • Huron • Hurric • Issarra • Jarov • Juriss • Lorexen • Messesh • Mrith • Nivalli • Pallara • Reshtarc • Simparri • Solazarn • Subaiesh • Tharaxes • Urussig • Vallic

Science and classification[]

Technology and weapons[]

warp drive • starship • shuttlecraft • subspace radio • communicator • computer • phaser • hand phaser • disruptor • blade • mêlée weapon • transporter

Substances and energies[]

mineral • dilithium • food • drink • metal • crystal • gemstone • radioactive element • element • water

Foods and beverages[]

fruit • vegetable

Lifeforms[]

humanoid • plant • animal • reptile • monitor lizard • lizard • jendrall • mammal • zandan horse • horse • ox • tuballoy • nyops • bird • peregrine falcon • rodent • sherrin

Occupations and titles[]

commander • lieutenant • liaison • king • administrator • prefect • emperor • security • security chief • Secretary of Starfleet Command • captain • commanding officer • first officer • science officer

Other references[]

space • planet • lifeform • rank • title • uniform • Starfleet uniform • Federation Starfleet ranks (2270s-2350s) • insignia • rank insignia • races and cultures • government • colony • monarchy • politics • diplomacy • treaty • Organian Peace Treaty • subspace • communications • space • class M planet • war • Federation-Klingon War of 2267 • third planets • fourth planets • moon • kilometer • quintotriticale • agriculture • technology • energy • klingonaase

Appendices[]

Related media[]

TOS episode & Star Trek 2 novelization: Errand of Mercy
FASA RPG module: Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update

Background[]

FASA retroactively changed key dates related to this adventure. The introduction of Conflict of Interests explicitly sets the plebiscite 15 years after 2267's "Errand of Mercy", which would be 2282. However, a timeline in the Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update cited three key events and assigned reference stardates to them, with the Organian Peace Treaty being imposed on 2/0801.09, the Sheridan's World project conceived by the Organians a year later, on 2/0902, and the 200 colonists arriving to settle the planet on 2/0906. That being the case, as it correlates to the standard timeline, this sets the colonization in 2268 and the plebiscite in 2283, 16 years after "Errand of Mercy". The sourcebook also assigned the plebiscite to reference stardate 2/2104.

Other contributors[]

Editor-in-chief: L. Ross Babcock III
Senior editor: Donna Ippolito
Production managers: Karen Vander May • Jordan Weisman
Typesetting, layout & pasteup: Tara Gallagher

Images[]

Chronology[]

reference stardate 1/86: Adam Brintone born.
reference stardate 1/92: Harper Abermarle born.
reference stardate 1/94: Laura Barton born.
reference stardate 2/04: Between the Klingon Empire and the Federation, post-war border skirmishes continue along new frontiers of disputed territory claimed by both sides.
reference stardate 2/05: Starfleet Commander Sean Sheridan leads a survey team that discovers a habitable planet that will be named Sheridan's World.
reference stardate 2/06: The Klingon Empire sends a team to examine the colonization potential of Sheridan's World.
reference stardate 2/07: Armed conflict erupts between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Both sides suffer casualties and prepare for full-scale war.
reference stardate 2/08: Representatives of the Federation and the Klingon Empire fail to reach peaceful resolution of their differences. Warships of the Klingon Empire invade space claimed by the UFP. Klingons invade Organia, and a Federation task force counters. The Organian Peace Treaty is imposed by the Organians, with further negotiations during the following months establishing the Organian Treaty Zone between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. The establishment of the Zone means new territory for both sides.
reference stardate 2/12: Kravax Huron born.
reference stardate 2/14: Judy Brintone born.
reference stardate 2/17: Thomas Brintone born.

Connections[]

	Star Trek: The Original Series RPG sourcebooks and adventures
Heritage Models	sourcebook	Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier
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Tsukuda Hobby	sourcebook	Enterprise: Role Play Game in Star Trek
Tsukuda Hobby	adventure	The Drifting Ring
FASA	sourcebooks	The Role Playing Game (Star Fleet Officer's Manual • Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook • Game Operations Manual) • The Klingons (The Klingons: Star Fleet Intelligence Manual • The Klingons: Game Operation Manual) • Star Trek II: Starship Combat Simulator • Starship Tactical Combat Simulator • The Romulans: Starfleet Intelligence Manual • The Romulan Way: Game Operations Manual • Star Trek III: Starship Combat Game • Star Trek III: Starship Update • The Triangle • The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge • The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge • The Federation • Star Fleet Intelligence Manual • Star Fleet Intelligence Manual: Agent's Orientation Sourcebook • USS Enterprise Deck Plans • Klingon D-7 Deck Plans • Trader Captains and Merchant Princes (2nd edition) • Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade • Ship Construction Manual • Star Trek III Sourcebook Update • The Four Years War • The Romulan War • Klingon Intelligence Briefing • Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update • Regula-1 Orbital Station Deckplans • Ship Recognition Manual: The Klingon Empire/Klingon Ship Recognition Manual • Ship Recognition Manual: The Federation/Federation Ship Recognition Manual • Ship Recognition Manual: Romulans
FASA	adventures	Adventure Book (Ghosts of Conscience • Again, Troublesome Tribbles • In the Presence of My Enemies) • The Vanished • Witness for the Defense • Denial of Destiny • Intrusion • The Natural Order • Termination: 1456 • Demand of Honor • Orion Ruse • Margin of Profit • The Outcasts • A Matter of Priorities • A Doomsday Like Any Other • The Mines of Selka • Lost and Presumed Dead • The Triangle Campaign • Graduation Exercise • Where Has All the Glory Gone? • Return to Axanar • Decision at Midnight • An Imbalance of Power • Old Soldiers Never Die • Conflict of Interests • The Dixie Gambit • The White Flame Starship Combat Scenario Pack • The Strider Incident • Stardate Magazine (The Serpent Factor • Deneva Deception • Safari in Violet • Continuing the Line • Operation Shadowfall • The Barrier of Essai • Orion Rising • The Hottest Blood of All • Operation Kingmaker • Operation Starling) • StarDrive (Another Piece of the Action)
LUG	sourcebooks	Core Game Book • Narrator's Toolkit • The Andorians: Among the Clans
LUG	adventures	The Danurian Factor • Stopping at the Beast
Mōdiphiüs	sourcebooks	IDW Year Five Tie-In • TOS Rules Digest • The Animated Series Supplemental Guide
	adventures	These are the Voyages: Mission Compendium Vol. 1 (A World With a Bluer Sun) • Remnants • A Forest Apart • Hard Rock Catastrophe • Strange New Worlds: Mission Compendium Vol. 2 (Pluto's Cave • Drawing Deeply From the Well • No Good Deed) • The Burning • Kobayashi Maru • The Keyhole of Eternity • Mission Briefs: First Contacts • Mission Briefs: Spacewrecks • Mission Briefs: Mysteries • Mission Briefs: Ancient Civilizations • Mission Briefs: Cold War • Mission Briefs: Khitomer Accords • Ghosts in the Machine • Conflict of Values • Alternative Truths • Mission Briefs: The Alpha Quadrant
	misc	TOS Player Characters

External link[]

Conflict of Interests article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.