[Pazuzu]

Thanks everyone for participating last month! The winner of June's challenge is WeyounsLastClone with a total of three votes, but commdecker was able to take the lead again.

ENTRIES FROM LAST THEMATIC CHALLENGE: God is a DJ

1. (2) •Kaga, Klingon Chef
   Klingon
   
   Acquisition Anthropology Biology
   While this personnel is present with your Jadzia Dax, he is Integrity +1. Each of your Anthropology Klingon personnel present is Intergrity +1.
   "She taught that to me. Can you believe it? A Klingon song I'd never heard."
   Integrity 6 Cunning 5 Strength 7

2. Zefram's Jukebox
   Seeds or plays on your Headquaters, Quark's Bar, or Montana Missile Complex. Twice per turn, stop any personnel present with Music to draw a card. Once per game, at any time when your Zefram Cochrane is aboard your ship, you may interrupt gameplay to download Magic Carpet Ride OCD to that ship.

3. Data's Violin {Star Trek: The Next Generation}
   Once each turn plays on your Music personnel to change Music to any other regular skill until the end of your turn OR download a Music personnel (may report to your other Music personnel) OR score points when your Music personnel just helped to solve a mission. [10]

4. (0) •Ambassadorial Reception
   Plays on your ship. When you begin a mission attempt here, destroy this event to name a unique Anthropology and a Diplomacy personnel. Those personnel cannot be stopped by dilemmas until the end of this turn.
   Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major. Op. 18. 2nd movement

5. Jonathan Archer
   Officer
   Human Captain. Takes pride in his work, and his crew. Spent a summer working as a cook & bartender in New Orleans, where he learned to play piano. Been known to break a few rules.
   Law Leadership Music, Security
   Once per game, may nullify a , or card.
   Integrity 7 Cunning 7 Strength 7

6. Holoprogram: Club Vic
   Seeds or plays (for free) on your Holosuite. Twice per game, you may download a or Music personnel here. While such a person is at this site, and this station has an Infirmary, once every turn, you may relocate your personnel about to be killed here ("stopped" until the end of your next turn instead). Music personnel may file mission reports here.

7. (1) •Amarie, Well-armed Pianist
   Alien
   Acquisition Anthropology Archeology
   Smuggler. When you play an equipment at this mission you may reveal the top card of an opponent's deck. If it is an event or interrupt, you may destroy the equipment to discard that card.
   "Oh, just what I needed - another pair of hands."
   Integrity 4 Cunning 6 Strength 4

8. Absent Friends
   Following the encounter with the Scimitar, Riker toasted Data. He recalled when they met, though not which tune Data had been whistling.
   Plays on your Music personnel; relocate a Music personnel who died on a previous turn from your discard pile to point area (worth points equal to INTEGRITY; "in play" for uniqueness only). Discard event.

SCOREBOARD
commdecker 9 (+2)
MattgomeryScott 7 (+1)
Armus 6
WeyounsLastClone 5 (+3)
LostZoat 4
Pazuzu 4
Danny 4 (+1)
jrch5618 3
Naetor 3
superdave 3 (+1)
HoodieDM 2
rferries 2
Cartagia 1
Smiley 1
winterflames 1


PRIZE POOL
1st Place: 1 Year Premium Subscription + one random Continuing Committee Promo
2nd Place: 1 Booster Pack "The Motion Pictures" + one random Continuing Committee Promo
3rd Place: 1 Booster Pack "Reflections" (First Edition) + one random Continuing Committee Promo


PREVIOUS CHALLENGES
January 2019: New Year's Resolution (Link)
February 2019: Café des Armours (Link)
March 2019: The Neverending Story (Link)
April 2019: Fire and Ice (Link)
May 2019: All Good Things (Link)
June 2019: The Final Frontier (Link)
July 2019: God is a DJ (Link)


THEMATIC CHALLENGE VI 08: THE MACHINES ARE RISING
On 29 August 1997 the artificial intelligence Skynet started a nuclear attack on mankind and that day is called "Judgement Day". A terminator was re-programmed and sent back in time to prevent these events.
Create a self-aware Star Trek CCG card.
First Edition already has the dilemmas, but maybe there is room for more ideas. For Second Edition cards you may need to come up with a mechanical solution of how such a self-aware dilemma (or maybe another card type) may look.


DEADLINE 31th August 2019


Sneak peak for August's challenge: Captain on deck!

[MattgomeryScott]

Vote: B (Going on a magic carpet ride!)

My Entry:

Q-Ball

Energy sphere created by Q and encountered by the U.S.S. Enterprise in 2364.

When encountered, opponent may immediately download and seed a Q-Flash here.
End of every turn: Moves, then opponent may download and seed a Q-Flash here.

Range: 9 , Weapons: NO, Shields: 12

Notes: I thought it would be fun to have Q as a self controlled dilemma, travelling the spaceline and popping up where you least expect it. This represents the sphere that Q creates in Encounter at Farpoint to chase the Enterprise much like Q-Net and Drag Net, but is when it envelopes the Battle Section leading to the first appearance of Q as the Judge.

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

[Danny]

For Second Edition cards you may need to come up with a mechanical solution of how such a self-aware dilemma (or maybe another card type) may look.

I think 2E folk'll be okay; we've got Temporal Flux Energy Ribbon as a kinda template to work from.

[Pazuzu]

Vote F

Galaxy’s Mother

Huge space-dwelling life-form. Aggressive when about to give birth.
Immediately battles attempting ship when encountered.
End of every turn: Attacks one ship here, then moves. When destroyed download Birth of „Junior“ (even from outside the game) and attach it to attacking ship. [15]
Range 6 Weapons 10 Shields 6

[HoodieDM]

Vote: C

Battleship Enterprise

The U.S.S. Enterprise crew encountered itself in a temporal rift where the Federation was at war.
Non- ships here are attributes all -3.
Battles all non- ships present.
At the end of every turn, moves towards next closest ship not here (if possible).
[Range 8] [Weapons 10] [Shields 9] [15]

~D

[Armus]

Vote H

(4) Space Amoeba
Place on mission (limit one per mission). All ships and personnel here are attributes -2. At the end of this mission owner's turn they may place this card on a different mission.
Any player may stop a staffed ship with Four Staffing Icons or Engineer, Exobiology, and Medical aboard to remove this card from the game.
"Here we are. Antibodies of our own galaxy, attacking an invading germ. It would be ironic indeed if that were our sole destiny, wouldn't it?"

I've been doing a lot of 1e cards, but this particular challenge presents some exploration of 2e design space that hasn't been delved too deeply up to now.

[Takket]

I'll vote for F and take my first crack at this..........

Silver Blood

Countdown: 3

Lore: Biomimetic lifeform that became self aware when it began making copies of the crew of the USS Voyager in 2374. Instinctively understood it could not leave its home.

Seeds or plays on Demon Planet. If your landed ship and environmental suit here, you may download a copy of all non- , non-android personnel you have on planet. Copies may not leave planet. Discard all personnel on planet when countdown expires.

Gives you a "free away team" to attempt this mission with for a few turns.

[Naetor]

G

(1) Mutually Assured Destruction
Place this in your core. Beginning with the player on your right, each player chooses 1 card in an opponent's discard pile and places it on this card. Players may choose an additional card for each Assault or Maneuver card he or she commands. Cards on this card cannot be played.
"You will still not survive our assault."
"And you will not survive ours. Shall we die together?"

[WeyounsLastClone]

Vote A

(2) Bad Dog
Unless you have 3 Treachery, stop a non-Treachery personnel and place this in your core. Otherwise, stop a Treachery personnel and place this in your opponent's core. At the end of your turn discard a card from hand and place this in your opponent's core or lose 5 points to remove this dilemma from the game.
"He hasn't had his dinner yet."

[Pazuzu]

One more day.

[winterflames]

Vote G

Event
Exocomp: The Wrong Tool
As evidence of the exocomps ability to think and reason, they were sent on missions with the wrong tool installed.

Plays on Lore's Fingernail, it is immune to Kevin Uxbridge. OR Seeds or plays on table. Once each turn, Exocomps may use thier special skill as Physics, Transporter Skill or Computer Skill, but may not repair ships that turn.

[Pazuzu]

This Thematic Challenge is now closed. Thanks everyone for participating!