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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
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#24901
"So Many Acronyms So Little Time".

This game, as with many (and most offices), has a lot of abbreviations. I thought it would be nice if we could come up with a reference list. That way new players, return players, and those that are just having a "brain fart" can look them up right away rather than posting a question and waiting for a response.

So I'll start off with a few (but just a few, I'm supposed to be working :P ), I'll try to edit the list as more are added.


UPDATED (06-Jul-2022)
Expansions:
Prem = Premiere
AU = Alternate Universe
QC = Q-Continuum expansion
FC = First Contact expansion
DS9 = Deep Space Nine expansion
Dom = Dominion expansion
RoA = Rules of Acquisition expansion
BoG = Blaze of Glory expansion
MM =Mirror, Mirror expansion
TWT = Trouble With Tribbles Expansion
HA = Holodeck Adventures
TMP = The Motion Pictures expansion
AGT = All Good Things
WP = Warp Pack
Faj = Fajo Collection
AT = Away Team
OTSD = Official Tournament Sealed Deck
EnhFC = Enhanced First contact
1A = First Anthology
2A = Second Anthology
EnhPrem = Enhanced Premiere
Voy = Voyager Expansion
EC = Enterprise Collection
LFL = Life from Lifelessness
HF = Homefront
SaS = Straight and Steady
SoG = Shades of Gray
RiF = Resistance is Futile
TNG = The Next Generation
HF3 = Homefront III
ENG = Engage
StL = The Sky's the Limit
HF4 = Homefront IV

Cards and other Misc.:
1E = First Edition
AAH = Attention All Hands
AMS = Assign Mission Specialists
AQ = Alpha Quadrant
ASP = Assign Support Personnel
ATA = Anti-Time Anomaly
B12S = Borg 12 space (deck type)
Bar = Barash
BC = Backwards Compatable
BO = Borg use Only
BTP= Barclay's Transporter phobia
CM = Continuing Mission
CPC = Cellular Peptide Cake
DH = Defend Homeworld
DLIETW = Don't Let It End This Way
DNP = Denevan Neural Parasites
DQ = Delta Quadrant
DQSS = Delta Quadrant Spacial Scission
DRAGS = Destroy Radioactive Garbage Scow
DS9 = Deep Space Nine
DTP = Dosi Trading Post
ELF = Emergent Life-form
FCITF = Finest Crew In The Fleet
FF:RL = Federation Flagship: Relaunched
FLI Scow = Female's Love Interest & Garbage Scow
G4s = GenQ = General Quarters
GQ = Gamma Quadrant
GoE = Goddess of Empathy
GuQu = Guest Quarters
HA = Hidden Agenda
HBI = Here By Invitation
HH:CE = Hirogen Hunt: Coordinated Effort
HoD = Habit of Disappearing
HTSBEG = Holographic Tal Shiar Barbering and Engineering Guild
IA! = Intruder Alert!
IFF = Intruder Force Field
ILotE = Illegitimate Leader of the Empire
IJLSFL = I Just Love Scanning For Lifeforms
IOAG = It's Only A Game
KCA = Klingon Cardassian Alliance
KFC = Kivas Fajo - Collector
LoOS = Loss of Orbital Stability
LoP = Lack Of Preparation
LSWOT = Lets See Whats Out There
MIS = Make It So
MQ = Mirror Quadrant
MSD = MilesStuntDouble
NPE = Negative Player Experience
NPR = Nanoprobe Resuscitation
OotP = Office of the Proconsul/Office of the President
PAQ = 1st 3 sets of 1E (Premiere, Alternate Universe, Q Continuum)
PNZ = Patrol Neutral Zone
PotOO = Plans of the Obsidian Order
PotTS = Plans of the Tal Shiar
QIR = Quark's Isolinear Rods
QT:CW = Q's Tent: Civil War
QtR = Q the Referee
RAGS = Radioactive Garbage Scow
RBM = Rogue Borg Mercenaries
RI = Remote Interference
RRD = Ready Room Door
RTQ = Reshape the Quadrant
SSI = Shape-Shift Inhibitor
STP = Space-Time Portal
SWB = Static Warp Bubble
TAK = Telepathic Alien Kidnapers
TE = Terran Empire
TFSW = The First Stable Wormhole
TIiP = The Issue is Patriotism
TMW = Temporal Micro-Wormhole
TNG = Transwarp Network Gateway
TOS= Thine Own Self
TTP = Time Travel Pod
TV = Temporal Vortex
VCM = Visit Cochrane Memorial
WATB = We Are The Borg
XQX = Cross-Quadrant Expansion
YAAM = You are a Monument
YCBI = You Could Be Invaluable
YGII = Your Galaxy is Impure
YKILTH = You Know I'd Like to Help

Tournament lingo:
OTF = Official Tournament Format
OPG = Organized Play Guide
VP = Victory Points
CVP = Cumulative VPs
SoS = Strength of Schedule
Last edited by Iron Prime on Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:42 am, edited 54 times in total.
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By tksolway (Thomas Solway)
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#24911
COD = Crap its an Olav Deck
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By TyKajada (Alexander Schmitz)
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#24918
DRAGS comes to my mind almost immediately... :P

(Destroy Radioactive Garbage Scow)
 
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#24922
AU = Alternate Universe
FC = First Contact
BoG = Blaze of Glory
MM =Mirror, Mirror
HA = Holodeck Adventures
TMP = The Motion Pictures

ATA = Anti-Time Anomaly
RAGS = Radioactive Garbage Scow
RBM = Rogue Borg Mercenaries
SWB= Static Warp Bubble
TAK = Telepathic Alien Kidnapers
AMS = Assign Mission Specialists
STP = Space Time Portal
ASP = Assign Support Personnel
DH =Defend Homeworld
FLI Scow = Females Love Interest & [Radioactive] Garbage Scow

I am sure I will come up with more later, but these are commonly used.
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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
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#24930
updated.
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By The Ninja Scot (Michael Van Breemen)
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1E World Quarter-Finalist 2023
2E World Champion 2023
Tribbles World Champion 2022
The Traveler
1E North American Continental Champion 2023
2E North American Continental Champion 2023
  Trek Masters 1E Champion 2024
1E American National Champion 2023
1E Canadian National Champion 2023
2E Canadian National Champion 2023
2E  National Runner-Up 2023
2E American National Second Runner-Up 2023
1E The Neutral Zone Regional Champion 2023
2E The Neutral Zone Regional Champion 2023
#25010
MilesStuntDouble wrote:
Altoid wrote:KFC = Kivas Fajo: Collector
Where is the colonel?
Dad is stationed at Fort Bragg.

Michael,
son of Col. Van Breemen
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#25031
Actually, an acronym is a new word, not just an unpronouncable abbreviation (examples would be: laser, scuba, Aids, Trek-examples are Padd and Visor), and I always found the need to talk in gibberish abbreviations annoying. RATS (Running a tight ship) or DRAGS are okay, I can live with abbreviations of often-used cards like AWC or PNZ, but who really needs ODIGTTF or YABMF? Your readers will need more time to figure out what you're talking about than you would have needed to write those card titles out. Even "Death is Glory" or "Always Favorite" would be much cleverer.

Just my :twocents: (Euro-cents, that is!)
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By The Ninja Scot (Michael Van Breemen)
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1E World Quarter-Finalist 2023
2E World Champion 2023
Tribbles World Champion 2022
The Traveler
1E North American Continental Champion 2023
2E North American Continental Champion 2023
  Trek Masters 1E Champion 2024
1E American National Champion 2023
1E Canadian National Champion 2023
2E Canadian National Champion 2023
2E  National Runner-Up 2023
2E American National Second Runner-Up 2023
1E The Neutral Zone Regional Champion 2023
2E The Neutral Zone Regional Champion 2023
#25042
QtR - Q the Referee

Michael
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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
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#25055
updated again.
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By The Mad Vulcan (J)
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#27630
My brother and I always called the Future Enterprise "the FE" of just "Iron"
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The Mad Vulcan wrote:My brother and I always called the Future Enterprise "the FE" of just "Iron"
Yeah, I had a lot of local guys that referred to it the same way and even I use that one every now and then.
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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
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#34541
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