Good question! Can you be more specific about the cards you have in mind? I understand the desire to keep builds secret before you play them, but it does make rules questions a lot easier.
First thing: Turns are structured into three parts:
The Play Phase - when you play one or more cards
The Order Phase - when you do stuff
The Draw Phase - when you draw one or more cards
(At every phase, you can also play interrupts, doorways, cards that play "at any time", and you can do things that are a valid response, like downloading
Ezri with
Crossover after you play a
Multidimensional Transport Device.)
Within each phase, the game doesn't care what order you do things in. If you have a regular card play and two free plays in a turn, you can do the free plays first and the regular card play last. Or you can do the regular card play first and the free plays second. Or you can do a free play, your regular card play, an interrupt, a doorway, and then your second free play. Game doesn't care. Same at end-of-turn: if you have an extra draw for
Duck Blind, you can draw it and then do your regular card draw at the very end, or you can do the regular card draw first and the Duck Blind draw second. Game doesn't care.
The only thing the game cares about is that you're doing things in the correct phase. If you beam a personnel up from a planet, that is an order, and it immediately ends your play phase. Doesn't matter if you've used your regular card play or not. Orders end your play phase automatically.
The text on
Bajoran Resistance Cell that says, "Once each turn, you may download a Bajoran espionage card to one of your unsolved missions"? That's an order. You're not playing a card using your regular card play or a free play, so it is an order. (The "once each turn" is usually a tip-off.) Using Bajoran Resistance Cell's download of an espionage card advances you to the orders phase. Same with
Defend Homeworld's download of a SECURITY personnel. Same with the download on
Quark's Isolinear Rods. You are doing something, not playing something, so it's an order and happens in your orders phase.
So, to answer your first question: yes, you can use the "once per turn, you may download x to the table" text after your regular card play. In fact, you
have to; using this order
before your regular card play would forfeit your regular card play.
The second part of your question is irrelevant. Free plays are always from your hand. This is a download, not a free play, so it doesn't matter if it
could play for free. The only question is whether it can download (and
where it will download -- if the downloading card doesn't provide a destination, you have to have a valid place to play the card). The card you're using says it can download once each turn. Therefore, it can!
Does that make sense?
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