[kingmj4891]

Per the Glossary Appendix A Page 79 the text on Assimilate Starship should be:

Assimilate Starship
Plays on table. Target an opponent’s ship.
Your Borg may scout that ship. (Whenever
no active Borg aboard target during your
turn, you may beam one scout aboard.)
After scouting complete, if your Borg have
Computer Skill aboard that ship, you may
probe: [Com], [Def]: Assimilated. Place on
planet. May download one Objective card.
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-The card does not have any printed points on it. Was it changed or is this dare I say it a mistake in the glossary?

-Also does the beam one scout aboard mean you can only send one Borg to scout, or is that just to allow the Borg to send scouts since they cannot normal form a scouting party without the objective saying so?

[frakkingoff]

Responding to your first question, it's a glossary mistake. Its statement to "place on planet" indicates that someone made a copy-paste error with "Assimilate Planet."

[frakkingoff]

Per the glossary (see "scouting ships"), you may only beam one scout aboard at a time. If you ever don't have an active scout aboard (perhaps he was stopped or killed), you can then beam over another single scout.

If your scout is attacked, you can respond by counter-attacking with any size away team that you beam over next turn. Later on, they may engage in scouting (assuming they are not stopped by battle!)

[pfti]

Glossary mistake - you do not score points

[Borg King]

On its own Assimilate Starship won't score you points, but seed one or two Contingency Plan and you can turn it into a 35 point Objective.

Pair it with Undetected Beam-In and Borg Servo and you've got a host of drones to take that ship!

[bhosp]

On its own Assimilate Starship won't score you points, but seed one or two Contingency Plan and you can turn it into a 35 point Objective.

Pair it with Undetected Beam-In and Borg Servo and you've got a host of drones to take that ship!

It's fun to use Cytherians and Establish Tractor Lock with Contingency Plan. That way you can hold them and Assimilate Species (or Counterpart) them a couple times before you actually do the Assimilate Starship part, and they can't even beam off or counter-attack. (You do have to finish the Cytherians trip once you assimilate the ship though, for no points, which is annoying...)

[sexecutioner]

On its own Assimilate Starship won't score you points, but seed one or two Contingency Plan and you can turn it into a 35 point Objective.

Pair it with Undetected Beam-In and Borg Servo and you've got a host of drones to take that ship!

It's fun to use Cytherians and Establish Tractor Lock with Contingency Plan. That way you can hold them and Assimilate Species (or Counterpart) them a couple times before you actually do the Assimilate Starship part, and they can't even beam off or counter-attack. (You do have to finish the Cytherians trip once you assimilate the ship though, for no points, which is annoying...)

If you set up the Spaceline right, then a well placed Transwarp Network Gateway or two can shorten the trip

[sexecutioner]

Also, once you assimilate the ship, then any opposing personnel aboard are Intruders

Set up a few Q the Referees and a few of the linked card, and assimilate away