[BCSWowbagger]

What is your favorite part of the game?

I, mean, literally, you sit down to play, the clock starts... what thing are you going to do in the next hour and fifteen minutes that is going to make you happiest?

Is it the strategy of the dilemma phase? The joy of seeing the spaceline unfold? That crazy first turn where you get all your engines running? The moment you reveal your mid-game wombo combo? Attempting missions? Watching your opponent attempt missions while trying to figure out how to stop him? The moment of victory? Or just the banter over the table with (hopefully) a friend?

DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION! ANSWER ME NOW!

[edgeofhearing]

The look on my opponent's face when Jake Sisko and Mardah start a' smoochin'.

[boromirofborg]

The moments of interaction.

My favorite times over the years have been battles where tactics flipped the winner (even if I lost), turns where DS9 flipped control back and forth repeatedly, and Borg assimilating counterparts.

Actually, one of my favotire parts was always sliding that cool borg overlay on a personnel.

[JeBuS]

When the weird thing happens.

[Hoss-Drone]

Seeding dilemmas. Because I put a ton of thought into the dilemmas I'm playing and why and how I can shift and adapt to what I'm reading from the opponent. It's the most chess part of this 3d chess game

[winterflames]

Polluting the space line! With the Nexus, whale probe, 2 or 3 self dilemmas, and my opponent sent off on a Cytherian run, I enjoy seeing the pure devastation.

If I could justify a pile of Communication cards (Hail, incoming message) to put pause to my opponent at just the right time, I would.

I long to have a Borg ship, maman Picard combo hit just right!

[KazonPADD]

Seeing old friends, beers in-between rounds, General bonkers weird 1E shit.

[Enabran]

When my Dilemma destroys the big flagship of my opponent

[jadziadax8]

Dilemma seeding is probably my favorite. I love dilemmas in both editions, so the strategy in the seed phase when I have to rethink my combos on the fly based on what my opponent is playing is fun.

It is demonstrably not attempting missions.

[jjh]

Talking Star Trek with close friends and (sometimes) passing dilemma combos.

[Smiley]

The possibilities of what the next card draw will bring and how each card play will be a reaction/counter-reaction to what is happening on the board.

This follows the craft of making a deck that is less a process and more of a framework to hand stuff on.

[GooeyChewie]

My favorite part of the game is when the "thing" happens. Like, when a particular personnel helps me get past a dilemma that features that same personnel, or when ships that actually faced each other in the show end up in an engagement with each other.

[Klauser]

During the Decipher era, it was constant striving to master the game and adapting to new metas as each new expansion was released. Now, it's more of getting together with friends and playing Star Trek.

Most of this is being driven by lack of new blood getting into the game and our gaming base - including me - getting older.

One if my biggest game-related regrets is despite my efforts - I went through two phases seriously trying to get younger players interested in the game - I was never able to build a self- sustaining player group. So now occasional casual play is what works.

[stressedoutatumc]

To me, this game plays so much like a Rally Cross race. There is so much thought that needs to be put into the design for just the first couple of turns. Getting your play and draw engines in place, critical choices that can really determine the outcome of the game. My favorite part is by far that part of the game. Watching and trying to predict what my opponent is going to do in those critical first turns and the joy of my mechanics working as planned.