[GooeyChewie]

Welcome to Fill in the Blank, the set-building dream card contest!

Each week I will post the collector’s information for one of the cards in the set’s cardlist. Contestants are free to create whatever card they see fit for that slot in the cardlist, keeping in mind the surrounding cards. As the contest progresses, the cardlist will become more and more defined, guiding the contests’ choices.

The theme of our set is The Villains of Star Trek. Not every card has to fit the theme, of course, but it’s something to keep in mind when voting. Speaking of voting, as per normal each contestant will vote for one of the previous week’s entries (with the exception that as the contest runner, I will vote ONLY in the case of a tie).


Our winner from last week: Danny!

(3) •Valdore, Soldier of the Empire
Romulan

•Diplomacy •Officer •Security •Treachery
Admiral. When you play this personnel, you may download a Drone-class ship. While you command a ship at an opponent's non-headquarters mission, this personnel is attributes +1 and gains Intelligence and Security.
"We're all soldiers, Nijil, from the moment we're born. When we forget that, we invite disaster."
INT 4 CUN 5 STR 6
By Danny

Here are our entries for this week:

0 Gratuitous Remark
Image
Plays in your core. When your opponent is about to draw additional dilemmas and/or spend extra in total cost on dilemmas, you may destroy this event to prevent that.
"One 'aye' is sufficient acknowledgment, Ensign."

(3) Emergent Threat
If you command more Assault events than your opponent, place the top card of their dilemma pile beneath your mission. If you command more Maneuver events than your opponent, place the top card of their dilemma pile beneath your mission. Remove this dilemma from the game.

1 Industrial Replicators
Plays in your core. You may pay the cost of using a Replicate ability by stopping your Engineering personnel instead. You may play non-Artifact equipment cards on this event at cost -1. Equipment cards on this event are present with all your personnel.
Order - Stop your Engineering personnel to download a non-Artifact equipment card.
"I just talked to Odo. Someone overrode the security blocks on the industrial replicator on Level Seventeen."

(3) Diabolical Duplicate

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Event
Infiltration. To play this event, you must command three personnel. Lose 5 points to choose an opponent's unique personnel you do not command. That personnel becomes and gains Infiltrator. (You now command that personnel.) Remove this event from the game.
"You've been working for sixteen hours straight. I thought you could do with some sandwiches."

(2) Cheap Bargain
To play this event, you must command a Treachery personnel. Plays in your core. When an opponent's Diplomacy or Leadership personnel is killed, you may destroy this event to score 5 points and to make your Intelligence and Treachery personnel attributes +1 until the end of your next turn.
"And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer."

(0) Contractual Obligation
Event
To play this event, you must command two Acquisition personnel. Plays in your core. While your Acquisition personnel is facing a dilemma, you may destroy this event to take command of a Commodity event you own in an opponent's core.
"All right. I'll send those vouchers to you."
"Don't bother. I voided them while we've been talking."

Please remember to vote for one of these entries in your post, referencing the entry’s letter.



This week’s card is...

Card #25!

Card #25 must come between Borg Queen, Relentless Pursuer (Personnel - Borg - Card #24) and Weyoun, Deceptive Diplomat (Personel - Dominion - Card #26). It’s our last chance for a Cardassian-affiliation card in the set, but with Borg Queen at the start of the alphabet and Weyoun at the end, we have a lot of possibilities for Borg and Dominion as well.

[GooeyChewie]

Here’s what we have so far:

Dilemmas:

1. Evil’s Plans

(0) Evils Plans

Your opponent discards a personnel that could be played at his or her headquarters mission from his or her hand. That personnel's cost is added to this dilemma's cost. Unless you have the skills on that personnel, all your personnel are stopped.
"And another thing. These villains always have a trick up their sleeve. Trapdoors, secret weapons."
By Danny

2. Forcefield Failure

(3) Forcefield Failure
Choose one: place this dilemma on your ship at this mission; or all your personnel are stopped.
Damage - This damage card counts as two damage cards.
"Warning. Hull breach on deck one. Emergency forcefields inoperative."
By Danny

3. Gift of the Tormentor

(4) Gift of the Tormentor
Dilemma
Choose one: Your personnel are attributes +2 until the end of the mission attempt and your opponent scores 5 points; or lose 5 points.
"We have offered you a gift beyond all other gifts."
By GooeyChewie

4. I’m Going To Miss You

3 I'm Going To Miss You.

Dilemma

When your opponent reveals this dilemma, add 5 to each of this dilemma's requirements for each different Q event in play. Unless you have an attribute > 30, all your personnel are stopped, and if you have more points than your opponent, lose 5 points.

“Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you. You had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end.”
By MattgomeryScott

5.
6. Xenophobic Paranoia

(3) Xenophobic Paranoia
Persistent. (When your personnel complete this mission, this dilemma's owner may discard a non-personnel card from hand to return this dilemma to his or her dilemma pile.)
If half (or more) of your personnel are the same species, stop all your personnel who do not share that species.
By Peers

Equipment:

7. Orb of Wisdom

(3) •Orb of Wisdom
Artifact. (To play this card, you must have completed a mission requiring Acquisition, Anthropology, or Archaeology.) Orb. When your personnel present is facing a dilemma, you may meet an attribute requirement of that dilemma using any attribute instead. You may do this only once each turn.
"It's one of the missing Bajoran Orbs..."
By Danny

8.
9. *in voting*

Event:

10. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

(2) Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Event
Paranoia. To play this event, each of your non-headquarters missions must require Intelligence. Plays in your core. Your Intelligence personnel may meet Integrity and Strength requirements using Cunning.
"In time of war, the law falls silent. Cicero. So is that what we have become? A twenty fourth century Rome driven by nothing more than the certainty that Caesar can do no wrong!"
By GooeyChewie

11. Mariachi Band

(2) Mariachi Band
Event
Q. Plays in your core. While a personnel is facing a dilemma which requires multiple levels of a skill, that personnel cannot gain that skill.
"Au contraire, mon capitaine! He's back!"
By GooeyChewie

12. Orbital Bombardment

(0) •Orbital Bombardment
Plays in your core. When you win an engagement at a planet mission, you may destroy this event to randomly select two personnel on the planet to be killed.
"We just received a priority one transmission from Starfleet Command. The Breen have attacked Earth."
By Naetor

13. Triskelion Trial

(0) Triskelion Trial
Event
Plays in your core. When your dilemma would randomly select three personnel, you may instead choose one eligible personnel. You may do this only once each turn.
"As leader of your people, your spirit seems most indomitable. We suggest you alone, pitted against three contestants of our choosing."
By GooeyChewie

14. Ultimatum

(2) *Ultimatum
To play this event, lose 5 points. Plays on an opponent's mission. When you play this event, name a personnel. This mission may not be completed if that personnel is at this mission.
"There can be no peace... as long as Kirk lives!"
By Peers

15.
16. Yridian Informant

(1) Yridian Informant
Event
Plays on an opponent's mission. When that player begins a mission attempt at that mission, you may destroy this event to examine your opponent's personnel involved.
"I am Jaglom Shrek, a man with information to sell."
By GooeyChewie

Interrupt:

17. And Share It With Me

And Share It With Me
Interrupt
If an opponent's personnel is about to be killed by a dilemma, reveal and stop your personnel with Telepathy and Treachery to take command of that personnel instead (if possible). That personnel becomes and gains the Infiltrator keyword.
By Nate Winchester

18. I Do Not Take Orders From You!

I Do Not Take Orders From You!
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Interrupt
To play this interrupt, you must command a personnel with 2 Treachery. When your opponent executes one of his or her personnel's order abilities, discard a card from hand to prevent that. That order ability may not be executed until the end of this turn. Remove this interrupt from the game.
"Admiral Dougherty will not be joining us for dinner."
By CaptMDKirk

19.

Missions:

20. Amargagosa Observatory, Steal Trilithium Weapon

•Amaragosa Observatory, Steal Trilithium Weapon
40
Programming, Transporters, 2 Treachery and Cunning >34
When you attempt this mission, if there are no dilemmas beneath it, choose an opponent's incomplete mission. When that mission is completed, lose 10 points.
Span 4

By DJStormtrooper

21. Earth, Seat of the Empire

* Earth, Seat of the Empire

You may play cards and equipment at this mission. At the end of your turn, any non-[Pa] personnel you command are killed unless they have Treachery.
This mission is not attemptable.
--2--
By Peers

22.

Personnel - Bajoran:

23. Vaatrik Pallra, Wicked Widow

(2) •Vaatrik Pallra, Wicked Widow
Bajoran
Acquisition, Anthropology, Diplomacy, Treachery
When an Assassin returns to his or her owner's hand, you may stop this personnel to remove that Assassin from the game instead. If that Assassin was yours, score 5 points.
"I've never seen him before in my life."
Integrity 4 Cunning 6 Strength 4
By WeyounsLastClone

Personnel - Borg:

24. Borg Queen, Relentless Pursuer

(4) •Borg Queen, Relentless Pursuer
Borg
• 2 Leadership • Officer • 2 Treachery
Commander: Borg Queen's Vessel. When you win an engagement involving this personnel, you may discard the top card of your deck. If it is an event, you may name a skill; randomly select an opponent's personnel involved who has that skill, take command of him or her and place him or her aboard your ship.
"Welcome home."
Integrity 2 Cunning 8 Strength 6
By WeyounsLastClone

25. *in creation*

Personnel - Dominion:

26. Weyoun, Deceptive Diplomat

(4) •Weyoun, Deceptive Diplomat
Vorta
Anthropology, Biology, Diplomacy, Exobiology, Leadership, Treachery
When this personnel would be stopped or killed by a dilemma, you may discard a card from hand to have him gain a skill of your choice until the end of your turn instead.
"Oh my! That is quite toxic, isn't it?"
Integrity 2 Cunning 6 Strength 4
By WeyounsLastClone

Personnel - Federation:

27. Luther Sloan, Man of Mystery

(3) •Luther Sloan, Man of Mystery
Human
2 Anthropology, Intelligence, Security, 2 Treachery
When an opponent's card is about to prevent or destroy your interrupt or event, you may place this personnel on the bottom of his owner's deck to prevent that.
"It's as if I never really existed."
Integrity 2 Cunning 6 Strength 5
By WeyounsLastClone

28. *Matthew Dougherty, Torn Apart

(2) •Matthew Dougherty, Torn Apart
Human
Anthropology, Diplomacy, Law, Leadership, Treachery
Admiral. To play this personnel, you must discard a card from hand. When this personnel is killed, you may take a card from your discard pile into hand.
"It was for the Federation. It was all for the Federation."
Integrity 4 Cunning 6 Strength 5
By WeyounsLastClone

29. William T. Riker, Desperate Survivor

(4) * William T. Riker, Desperate Survivor
Human
Anthropology Leadership Officer Security Treachery
Commander: U.S.S. Enterprise-D. When any number of your personnel are about to be stopped, you may kill your non-[AU] personnel on a ship at this mission to prevent that.
"You don't know what it's like in our universe... NO! WE WON'T GO BACK!"
Integrity 4 -- Cunning 6 -- Strength 6
By Peers

30.

Personnel - Non-aligned:

31. Arne Darvin, “Hero to the Empire”

(2) •Arne Darvin, "Hero to the Empire"
Klingon
•Acquisition •Anthropology •Geology •Programming •Treachery
Assassin. When an opponent's personnel at this mission is stopped by your Infestation, you may return this personnel to his owner's hand to kill that personnel.
"I see myself standing with Kirk's head in one hand – and a tribble in the other."
INT 3 CUN 5 STR 5
By Danny

32.

Personnel - Romulan:

33. Shinzon, Forcing Their Hand

(4) •Shinzon, Forcing Their Hand
Human
Anthropology, Diplomacy, Engineer, Leadership, Officer, 2 Treachery
Commander: Scimitar. When you play this personnel, your opponent draws a card and then reveals his or her hand. This personnel is cost -1 for each Event and Interrupt revealed.
"And my voice shall echo through time, long after yours has faded to a dim memory!"
Integrity 1 Cunning 6 Strength 6
By WeyounsLastClone

34. Valdore, Soldier of the Empire

(3) •Valdore, Soldier of the Empire
Romulan

•Diplomacy •Officer •Security •Treachery
Admiral. When you play this personnel, you may download a Drone-class ship. While you command a ship at an opponent's non-headquarters mission, this personnel is attributes +1 and gains Intelligence and Security.
"We're all soldiers, Nijil, from the moment we're born. When we forget that, we invite disaster."
INT 4 CUN 5 STR 6
By Danny

Ships:

35. Borg Abduction Cube

(7) *Borg Abduction Cube

Cube
When a dilemma you own of cost 4 or more is revealed, you may remove that dilemma from the game to place this ship from hand at the mission that dilemma was to be faced.
Order- Discard a card from hand to begin an engagement involving this ship. If you win, select an opponent's personnel involved to be beamed to this ship.
Range 10 Weapons 12 Shields 11
By Peers

36. Raptor One

3 •Raptor One
Drone Class
When your opponent attempts a mission, you may discard an event from hand to place this ship at that mission.
Order - Choose your personnel at another mission. That personnel is considered to be aboard this ship. This effect lasts until this order is executed again.
Range 6 Weapons 4 Shields 4
By DJStormtrooper

[Danny]

Vote F

(3) •Cardassian Agent, "Raymond Boone"
Cardassian

•Engineer •Intelligence •Physics •Programming •Treachery
Infiltrator. When your opponent is about to fail a mission attempt here, you may discard a Capture card from hand to randomly select a unique personnel involved to place in your brig.
"I don't have anything to be worried about."
INT 3 CUN 5 STR 6

[rferries]

Vote D

1 •Iliana Ghemor, Lost Daughter
Cardassian
•Anthropology •Intelligence •Security
Infiltrator. You may play this personnel at an opponent's headquarters mission. If you do this, she loses all her skills and that opponent now commands her. While you command but do not own this personnel, reveal a random card in your hand at the start of each of your turns.
"I go in for my surgery tomorrow. I'm going to miss Cardassia. But I know I'm doing the right thing. The terrorism on Bajor has to be stopped."
Integrity 6 Cunning 6 Strength 6

[MattgomeryScott]

Sorry I've missed a few of these recently. Been going through a really rough patch with my health and an old friend passed away.

Vote: B (Though I think there's a typo in the last sentence. )

My Entry:

3 *Elim Garak, Necessary Evil

Cardassian

Engineer, Intelligence, 2 Programming, Treachery

When your opponent plays an interrupt, you may kill your non- personnel present to prevent that interrupt and place it in it's owner's discard pile.

“That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing?”

Integrity: 2, Cunning: 6, Strength 6

For such a crucial episode, we surprisingly don't have a Garak from "In the Pale Moonlight." So decided to rectify that with a version who can really mess with your opponents interrupts (say if they catch you out on a Vile Deception ,) but at price the Federation wouldn't usually be willing to pay.

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

[Peers]

Vote: F

And screw the Cardassians, let's do this...

(2) Technopsy Drone
Borg
Programming
Drone. Broadcast: Equipment. While your Drone is attempting a mission, you may discard a card from hand to choose an card present with this personnel. Your Drones are considered present with that card until the end of the mission attempt.
"Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own."
Int 5 - Cun 5 - Str 5

[CaptMDKirk]

Vote D

4 •Turrel, Contravening Diplomat
Image
Cardassian,
Anthropology Diplomacy Intelligence Law Officer Security
Legate. When any number of captives would be taken from your brig by an opponent's card, you may remove this personnel from the game to prevent that.
"Perhaps you didn't hear me. There are no Bajoran prisoners left in Cardassian hands."
Integrity 5 Cunning 7 Strength 6

[MattgomeryScott]

Vote D

4 •Turrel, Contravening Diplomat
Image
Cardassian,
Anthropology Diplomacy Intelligence Law Officer Security
Legate. When any number of captives would be taken from your brig by an opponent's card, you may remove this personnel from the game to prevent that.
"Perhaps you didn't hear me. There are no Bajoran prisoners left in Cardassian hands."
Integrity 5 Cunning 7 Strength 6

Except Sito Jaxa .

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

[WeyounsLastClone]

Vote C

(2) Kardin
Cardassian
Anthropology Engineer Security Treachery
When an opponent's card is about to destroy or prevent your Punishment card, you may return this personnel to hand to prevent that.
"Step back from the gate."
Integrity 3 Cunning 5 Strength 7

[GooeyChewie]

Things got thrown off a little last week and by the Superbowl, so the new one will be this evening (7 Feb 2017).

[GooeyChewie]

(3) •Seska, Infiltrator
Cardassian

Engineer Intelligence Physics Programming Science Treachery
Infiltrator. While this personnel is attempting a Region: Demilitarized Zone mission, she is attributes +1 and gains Security.
"Your secrets weren't good enough. They wouldn't have been worth the trouble for a Cardassian agent."
Integrity 2 Cunning 7 Strength 5