The Drifting Ring is a roleplay module for Tsukuda Hobby's Japanese RPG game Enterprise: Role Play Game in Star Trek. Featured in its own book in the boxed set released in 1983, it was the game's only module. In the adventure, the USS Enterprise encountered a massive generation ship in Federation space that was headed for the Klingon Empire.

Summary

Log entries

Captain's log, stardate 3205.6

We are in pursuit of a spectacle beyond compare. The Enterprise discovered it while exploring within UFP territory near the Klingon border. It possessed a remarkable velocity that, in many ways, could not be believed. Spock judged that it must be an artificial satellite powered by some kind of technology.

But the size! It did not seem conceivable to me that this was a ship, dozens of times larger than our own Enterprise. Once it was before our eyes, however, our suspicions were confirmed. Now this enormous torus with a diameter larger than 10 kilometers is before us. Bones calls it "The Drifting Ring".

However, "The Ring" is hurtling toward Klingon territory. This is our pretext, and we have no way of knowing how they’ll react. We must investigate and stop the Ring. And we must do it as quickly as possible..."

References

Characters

Pavel Chekov • Hadama • Hawana • Kaku • Kanikusu • James T. Kirk • Nekon • Nonbu • Periu • Pusuru • Ritomo • Samini • Sario • Hikaru Sulu • Taan • Taminike • Tasslith • Tosumisu • Tosumisu's wife • Touminio • Tsupiu • Tsurisupu

Referenced only

Leonard McCoy • Spock • Teperiu • Toumi

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • raft • The Ring (generation ship)

Locations

Klingon border • the galaxy

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Earth

Shipboard locations

Control Center • Forest • Life Retention Vault • Mountain • Village of Touminio

Races and cultures

Human • Ringer (Clan of Hill People • Clan of Nonbu • Periu Clan) • Vulcan

Referenced only

Klingon

States and organizations

UFP

Science and classification

arrow • ax • biological weapon • biology • bow • communicator • computer • electricity • force field • hibernation • life support • matter-antimatter reaction engine • medical tricorder • medipouch • navigation • phaser • power plant • rifle • stasis • sword • technology • transporter • tricorder • wooden club

Occupations and titles

blacksmith • captain • chief executive • commander • guard • pilot • politician • rebel • ring master • sub-master

Lifeforms

ring beast • ring demon • ring killer • ring monkey

Other references

animal • armory • artificial gravity • bacteria • book • captain's log • Celsius • city • claustrophobia • conference room • crew • culture • fang • farming • fauna • flora • food • forest • government • grass • gravity • gymnasium • history • hour • humanoid • kilometer • kitchen • laboratory • language • library • life • log entry • meteorite • military • mountain • movie • planet • poison • quarters • revolt • space • spaceship • sport • statue • stun • supernova • talon • telepathy • year

Appendices

Related media

• TOS novel: The Galactic Whirlpool – In 2267, the USS Enterprise located Wanderer, a lost Earth generation ship 25 kilometers long and 10 kilometers in diameter that spun to create artificial gravity, in which the inhabitants were unaware they were on a spacecraft.
• TOS comic: "The Savage Within" – In 2274, the USS Enterprise encountered a huge derelict generation ship in which the inhabitants were unaware they were on a spacecraft.

Images

Connections

	Star Trek: The Original Series RPG sourcebooks and adventures
Heritage Models		Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier • The Slaver Ruins
Tsukuda Hobby		Enterprise: Role Play Game in Star Trek • 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 15mm Deck Plans • Klingon 15mm 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
	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
	adventures	The Danurian Factor • Stopping at the Beast
Mōdiphiüs	sourcebooks	IDW Year Five Tie-In • TOS Rules Digest • TAS Supplemental Guide • TOS Player Characters
	adventures	TOS Living Campaign (Adrift • Abyss Station • Fury of the Hive • Bacchus' Irresistible Call • We Came Forth To Contemplate the Stars • Simplicity • Punishment and Crime) • 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

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier	TOS roleplay modules	Next story: Ghosts of Conscience
chronological order
Previous adventure: Art of War Star Trek: The Manga	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Sam

External links

• Enterprise: Role Play Game in Star Trek article at RPG Geek.