>I love it. I'm getting a really weird vibe from it, though; kinda like
>if the backstory to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was played for laughs.
>All these completely disparate personalities held together by a
>long-suffering but still vaguely sane captain.

Well, you know, making wildly incompatible diversity work is kind of a Federation thing. :

Mind you, I will own that there are certain exercises in deliberate wackiness here. I never like Star Trek when it tries to take itself too seriously. In particular, you will note that Cosmonaut's Former Borg officer is dressed - in fact, she's wearing a boiler suit; I believe this bucks a trend. Also, if there were a way for me to depict Dr. K'Eyra with blood up to her elbows, I would totally go there. :)

Given the way that Cosmonaut acquired his command and started accumulating his crew, I believe the two options he and his officers had were "try too hard" or "develop a certain devotion to eccentricity", and plainly they've gone for the latter. In earlier eras this would probably not have been tolerated by the brass, but they do usually get the job on, and (as the game's setting is constantly reminding us to justify the rather extravagant amount of combat happening) there is a war on.

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