So, I'm a New/Old First Edition Player, Vulcan Edition

by Maggie Geppert, Vice Chairman

29th September 2018

Dr. Phlox: You realize you are not the first Vulcan officer to be posted aboard a Human starship? The High Command has tried this before, but none of the others lasted more than a... few weeks. They found their crew mates too chaotic and unpredictable. But you've been here more than six months, and you haven't merely tolerated this crew, you've become part of it. Isn't it logical to take pride in that accomplishment?

T’Pol: Pride is a Human indulgence.

Dr. Phlox: I suppose it is.

                                                                        -from “Shadows of P’Jem”

In this series, I will show off some beginner level decks that people have sent to me.  Today’s deck is “A Vulcan Hello” by Rogue Shindler.  I looked for a fairly basic all-Vulcan deck with no Raptors or Temporal Benefactors, and this one seemed to fit the bill nicely.

Missions

This is another deck involving time travel, so you need a place to put your personnel from the past.  There are two time locations for this deck.  The first one is 22nd-Century ShiKahr, which seeds at Observe Ritual.  This time location gets you IDIC: Power of the High Command, which lets you attempt missions requiring OFFICER. This version of Vulcan has an advantage that your Vulcans and Amanda Grayson may report here.  You need this for the Vulcans who are in the deck.  You also have P’Jem Sanctuary which seeds at Rebuild Monastery. The advantage of this 2^nd time location is that your V’Shar personnel may File Mission Reports here and you can download the Secret of P’Jem.  This will allow you to get use Espionage: Vulcan on Andorian to do your Federation missions.  You can’t target Observe Ritual with it, but you could use it on Extract Rare Mineral or Fissure Research.  Besides IDIC, there are enough personnel here that I wouldn’t worry too much about being able to attempt all of your missions without Espionage.  The other missions are a mix of missions.  Intercept Dignitary is a nice choice to start out.  Assemble Fleet looks like a little more difficult to complete.

Other Seeds

The biggest seed in this deck is Kohlinar.  This card allows your Vulcans to mix and cooperate.  It also provides a free report as long as you don’t have Protect the Timeline in play.  Finally, you can use it to move between it and 2154 Vulcan.  The word Vulcan in this deck refers to anyone of the Vulcan species (including hybrids like Spock) or the Vulcan affiliation.  This is something I had to double check on for this article, because the word Vulcan in Second Edition only refers to Vulcan species, and doesn’t includes hybrids.  Another interesting seed is Reunite Legends.  There aren’t enough personnel to score the 10 points, so it’s probably just here to get the U.S.S. Enterprise-A.

You have a couple seed cards dedicated to personnel download.  Defend Homeworld is here as well as an old favorite of mine, Quark’s Isolinear Rods.  I believe the target here really is Charles Tucker III (Live Long and Prosper). I goofed on the Starfleet Top 5 on that one, but he’s a CIVILIAN in his / version. Your Mission Specialists are Sanye and Taurik.  Another old favorite here is Mission Debriefing.  This is seeded face-down as a hidden agenda card and stops any away team who finished a mission attempt. Make It So is also here and thanks to IDIC, isn’t discarded when you use it download Ready Room Door to get a Captain’s Order like Captain’s Log and Defiant Dedication Plaque.

Draw Deck

There are also a lot of old Vulcan support cards available to this deck.  Fal-tor-pan is an old one from The Motion Pictures.  It allows you to bring Vulcans back from the dead.  You can use The Katra of Surak to boost up one of your Vulcan personnel and can pass it around. Vulcan Mindmeld allows your Mindmeld personnel to gain skills from another personnel present until the end of the turn.  Finally, Live Long and Prosper will save a Vulcan selected to die.

What I’ve Learned from This Deck

Vulcans have a lot of moving parts.  After looking at it more carefully, it has a lot of complexity for a beginner.

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Decklist

This deck is currently eligible for the following family or families of achievements:

• Two Will Do
• Broken Bow Release
• Live Long and Prosper Release
• Vulcan Player
• Vulcan Victor

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Dilemmas
Total Dilemmas		12
[P]		5 (42%)
[S/P]		4 (33%)
[S]		3 (25%)

"Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads
Total "Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads		5
Incident		2 (40%)
Personnel		3 (60%)

Q-Tent Side Deck
Total Q-Tent Side Deck		13
Event		5 (38%)
Incident		2 (15%)
Interrupt		2 (15%)
Objective		2 (15%)
Ship		2 (15%)

Draw Deck
Total Draw Deck		75
Doorway		2 (3%)
Equipment		2 (3%)
Event		8 (11%)
Incident		6 (8%)
Interrupt		16 (21%)
Personnel		37 (49%)
Ship		4 (5%)

Seed Deck
Total Seed Deck		30
Dilemma		12 (40%)
Doorway		6 (20%)
Event		2 (7%)
Facility		1 (3%)
Incident		4 (13%)
Objective		3 (10%)
Time Location		2 (7%)

Skills
Acquisition		0
Anthropology		4
Archaeology		5
Astrophysics		6
Biology		5
CIVILIAN		3
Computer Skill		14
Cybernetics		0
Diplomacy		13
Empathy		0
ENGINEER		9
Exobiology		10
Geology		4
Greed		0
Honor		14
Law		4
Leadership		15
MEDICAL		7
Music		5
Navigation		7
OFFICER		18
Physics		7
SCIENCE		13
SECURITY		6
Smuggling		1
Stellar Cartography		4
Transporter Skill		6
Treachery		4
V.I.P.		4
Youth		1
Rare Skills
Barbering		0
Cantankerousness		0
Guramba		0
Mindmeld		16
Miracle Worker		0
Orion Syndicate		0
Resistance		0

Skill			On # Missions	Skill Dots	Classifications	Total
Acquisition						0
Anthropology			1	4		4
Archaeology			1	5		5
Astrophysics			1	6		6
Biology				5		5
CIVILIAN					3	3
Computer Skill				14		14
Cybernetics						0
Diplomacy			1	13		13
Empathy						0
ENGINEER			1	4	5	9
Exobiology				10		10
Geology			2	4		4
Greed						0
Honor			1	14		14
Law				4		4
Leadership			1	15		15
MEDICAL				6	1	7
Music				5		5
Navigation			1	7		7
OFFICER			2	3	15	18
Physics			1	7		7
SCIENCE			1	7	6	13
SECURITY			1	3	3	6
Smuggling				1		1
Stellar Cartography				4		4
Transporter Skill				6		6
Treachery			1	4		4
V.I.P.					4	4
Youth				1		1
Rare Skills
Barbering
Cantankerousness
Guramba
Mindmeld				16		16
Miracle Worker
Orion Syndicate
Resistance
Intelligence Skills
FCA
Intelligence
Klingon Intelligence
Memory Omega				1		1
Obsidian Order
Section 31
Tal Shiar
V'Shar				5		5
any Intelligence			1	6		6

Traits
Card group
Captains Order		8
Capturing-related card		1
Vulcan espionage		1
Vulcan-related interrupt		4
Dilemma group
male-related dilemma		1
MEDICAL-related dilemma		4
SCIENCE-related dilemma		2
Equipment group
ENGINEER-related equipment		1
SCIENCE-related equipment		1
Mission trait
Andorian-related mission		2
Asymmetric mission		1
Homeworld		1
Listening Post mission		1
Personnel gender
Female		8
Male		29
Personnel group
Terok Nor-related personnel		1
Personnel trait
Ambassador		1
Bodyguard		1
Cadet		1
Captain		9
Dissident		7
Minister		2
Nurse		1
Priest		1
Support Personnel		1
Syrranite		5
Ship equipment
Tractor Beam		5
Ship trait
Federation ship		1
Ship with a Skill		6
Vulcan ship		5

Icons
Era
		33
		4
		2
Faction
		1
		5
Quadrant
		1
		5
Special
		1
		50
		6
		4
		1
		3
Staffing
		23
		9