The big opening battle sequence of Star Trek: First Contact is now a mission card. Located near Earth (and therefore in the Sector 001 Region), you can amass your fleet and fight off the invading Borg cube. All you need to solve is a ship with 6 [EE] personnel, like Jean-Luc Picard brought in the film to turn the tide.
All you need, you say? That's a large investment of [EE] folks, and it's as many as were initially released in the First Contact expansion. (There are only nine now, with one universal.) And for that, I get ... let's see ... only 25 points?
Well, you need the 6 [EE] to solve (no wonder Admiral Hayes couldn't get through this in the beginning!). But it really helps if you have the fleet at your back as well. If you also have enough ships to total over 24 WEAPONS, the mission increases to a very worthwhile 50 points.
And that Borg cube I mentioned? Suppose that you do encounter it during the game. The opponent places it on the spaceline, and usually (since its errata) it starts at the far end of the spaceline. But this location is where it actually got found, and consequently, your opponent (if you seeded this mission and encountered the dilemma) has the option to start it here instead.
Now, note that your opponent can indeed steal the mission. They pay attention to what their side of it says, and their side says it's 40 points. They'll need 6 OFFICER to solve it, which can't be mustered by every deck that isn't expecting mission requirements like these. Probably most of those that can are battle decks, and most of those aren't Federation. Perhaps the main threat will be . But that shouldn't worry you, when you brought a fleet capable of defeating the Borg!
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Mission (6) | ||||
Mission | ||||
24 V | 1x Attend Mysterious Rendezvous | |||
9 V | 1x Battle of Sector 001 | |||
7 V | 1x Clash at Chin'toka | |||
U | 1x Investigate Coup | |||
P | 1x Reported Activity | |||
P | 1x Sensitive Search |
Seed Deck (30) | ||||
Dilemma | ||||
2 V | 1x Alien Abduction: Test Subjects | |||
U | 1x Center of Attention | |||
C | 1x Chula: The Dice | |||
4 U | 1x Chula: The Game | |||
U | 1x Dal'Rok | |||
2 V | 1x Deliberate Tactical Error | |||
5 R | 1x Denevan Neural Parasites | |||
4 V | 1x Distracted by Thoughts of Home | |||
R | 1x Founder Secret | |||
11 R | 1x Hanonian Land Eel | |||
P | 1x Hippocratic Oath | |||
U | 1x Hologram Ruse | |||
C | 1x Menthar Booby Trap | |||
U | 1x Null Space | |||
7 C | 1x Oops! | |||
17 V | 1x Subspace Shock Wave | |||
7 V | 1x The Arsenal: Divided | |||
25 R | 1x The Cloud | |||
U | 1x The Higher... The Fewer | |||
Doorway | ||||
1 V | 1x Q's Tent | |||
P | 1x Space-Time Portal | |||
Event | ||||
14 V | 1x Duck Blind | |||
16 V | 1x Shades of Gray: Anguish | |||
Facility | ||||
Federation | ||||
4 V | 1x Starbase 247 | |||
Incident | ||||
22 V | 1x Federation Flagship: Relaunched | |||
14 V | 1x Intruder Alert! | |||
26 R | 1x Make It So | |||
Objective | ||||
C | 1x Assign Mission Specialists | |||
39 C | 1x Assign Support Personnel | |||
28 V | 1x Defend Homeworld |
Draw Deck (43) | ||||
Doorway | ||||
U | 3x Ready Room Door | |||
Event | ||||
15 V | 1x Federation Flagship: Renewed | |||
4 U 54 | 1x Forever Linked | |||
4 U 61 | 1x Mission Accomplished | |||
C | 1x Spacedock | |||
R | 4x Wall of Ships | |||
Interrupt | ||||
39 U | 1x I'm a Doctor, Not a Bricklayer | |||
Personnel | ||||
Federation | ||||
R | 1x Admiral Hayes | |||
R | 1x Alyssa Ogawa (First Contact) | |||
R | 1x Beverly Crusher (First Contact) | |||
R | 2x Data (First Contact) | |||
R | 2x Deanna Troi (First Contact) | |||
C | 1x ❖ Dr. Royse | |||
R | 2x Geordi La Forge (First Contact) | |||
14 V | 2x ❖ Jae | |||
R | 1x Jean-Luc Picard (First Contact) | |||
9 V | 1x Kell Perim | |||
U | 1x Lightner | |||
32 V | 1x ❖ Martinez | |||
C | 2x ❖ Obarakeh | |||
R | 1x Paul Porter | |||
U | 1x Thomas McClure | |||
6 V | 2x William T. Riker (Chain of Command) | |||
38 V | 2x Worf (Shades of Gray) | |||
Non-Aligned | ||||
71 V | 1x Altovar (Emissary) | |||
27 V | 1x Kathleen Tonell | |||
37 V | 1x ❖ Vekor | |||
Ship | ||||
Federation | ||||
10 V | 1x U.S.S. Defiant (Chain of Command) | |||
11 V | 1x U.S.S. Enterprise (Chain of Command) | |||
17 VP | 1x U.S.S. Enterprise (Earth's Savior) | |||
12 V | 1x U.S.S. Enterprise-E (Chain of Command) |
Q-Tent Side Deck (13) | ||||
Equipment | ||||
C | 1x Medical Kit | |||
C | 1x Medical Tricorder | |||
5 V | 1x Mission Briefing PADD | |||
U | 1x Starfleet Type III Phaser Rifle | |||
Event | ||||
U | 1x Captain's Log | |||
U | 1x Crew Reassignment | |||
R | 1x Defiant Dedication Plaque | |||
U | 1x Intruder Force Field | |||
U | 1x Lower Decks | |||
R | 1x Ocular Implants | |||
C | 1x Yellow Alert | |||
Interrupt | ||||
U | 1x Sense the Borg | |||
Objective | ||||
110 U | 1x Divert Power |