[Pazuzu]

Welcome to the seventh season of the monthly Thematic Challenges! For those who are new to this, this challenge was started in 2011 by MattgomeryScott and was rebooted by me in 2019. Every month I will announce a topic or theme and everyone may create a dream card during that month and post it in the month's thread. Voting will be done during the next month. Everyone is invited to join and we appreciate every single submission. At the end of the year, there will be a little bit more demanding challenge and we will announce the overall winner of the season.

This season I would like to give polls a try to vote for the entries. I hope we will get some more votes and overall participation as everyone is welcome to vote for one of previous month's entries.

And as always, feel free to contact me as I am always looking for feedback and ways to improve this.



These are the entries from last month's challenge.

1. (4) •Jean-Luc Picard, "Frenchman"
   Human
   Anthropology Archaeology 2 Diplomacy Honor Leadership Officer
   Commander: U.S.S. Enterprise-E. While this personnel is facing a dilemma, you may meet Acquisition and Treachery requirements of that dilemma using Diplomacy instead.
   "Oh, er, France. Labarre. My home village."
   Integrity 8 Cunning 6 Strength 6

2. Chorus
   They call themselves the scholar, the warrior, and that which binds them.
   Plays on your V.I.P. (for free on Riva). Personnel gains Anthropology and Empathy. When this personnel is randomly selected to die, you may discard this card instead to prevent that. Personnel is "stopped" instead. (Unique).

3. A Good Death {Star Trek: Voyager}
   Twas in the Midgard year 2371, that the brave warrior Schweltzer healer of men, didst honour his lost Lady Freya and vanquish the evil Grendel.
   Whomsoever falls in battle or upon a quest most valiant, if they be worthy, may enter the halls of fabled Valhalla itself (where many songs shall be sung of their NOBILITY and their name shall be known forever more.) Only the trickster Loki himself could thwart such a deed.
   

   (Translation)

   A Good Death
   Plays when your personnel is killed in battle or during a mission attempt. If they have Honour you may place them in your points area (worth points equal to their printed INTEGRITY; "in play" for uniqueness only). Nullified only by Q-Flash.

4. petaQ
   To play this interrupt, you must command Qo'noS and no other missions. When an opponent plays a personnel that costs 1 or less, prevent that and remove that personnel from the game. For the remainder of the game, players may not play a card with that title.
   Klingon insult derived from the verb taQ (to be weird) and imperative prefix pe- (you).

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   (Translation)

   S.O.S.
   Save our Souls
   When you have less points than your opponent, download a card.

6. Quick Study
   When your Genetically Enhanced personnel is facing a dilemma, name a skill. That personnel gains that skill until the end of that dilemma. If that personnel was a personnel, you may put this interrupt into your deck third from the top instead of in your discard pile.
   "Eee ja maa'na hoo'va baa'li jen'ku'rada sen'to."
   "Since when could you speak Dominionese?"

7. (5) Night, The Flow Trade
   Away Tunnel. Shout loafing call her locks. Brief into seven earlies justify the quarter turtle pants albeit skull into a henhouse. All purple medicine not for glory until juicy station. Roll linger.
   “Way link complete. Way link!”

8. In the Original Klingon
   Seeds on your facility. Once each turn you may stop your General, Chancellor or Emperor here to download Gagh Tek Or?, Qapla'!, Duj Saq, or To Be or Not to Be. Your Archaic Ritual, Jol Yichu'!, and Looking for Par'mach first stop one Honor OR Treachery.

9. Chateau Picard
   Traditional home of the Picard family. Purveyors of the finest French wines for generations. In this villa French is hardly an archaic language.
   Seeds or plays on Earth. Once per turn any Picard may report here (for free). Your Picards are attributes all +1. You may discard this even to download Laris and /or Zhaban.

10. A Piece of the Action
    Plays on da table. One time, when da udda boss's goons complete a job, you can demand "a piece of the action." Da udda boss has gotta pay you off 30% (or twice that if they took your job) (with juice), or you put his goons on ice and your goons can hit their goons until somebody gets all da jobs done. (Dis incident is one of a kind).
    

    (Translation)

    A Piece of the Action
    Plays on table. Once per game, when an opponent's crew or away team completes a mission, you can demand "a piece of the action." Opponent transfers 30% of the points scored to you (60% if they solved your mission) (round up), or all of their personnel and ships are stopped, and your personnel and ships may initiate battle against their personnel and ships for the remainder of the game. (Unique.)

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    (Translation)

    Sokrates
    CIVILIAN
    Greek genius in the 5th century BC from Athens. Founder of the Western philosophy. Hoplite during the Peloponnesian War. Knows that he knows nothing.
    Anthropology x3 Honor x2
    Once every turn your opponent may ask a question about your hand cards. If you reveal and answered correctly, score points.
    Image
    Integrity 10 Cunning 10 Strength 6

These are the winners from last month's challenge.

1. Shran (3)
2. Gagh (2)
   Trullux (2)

This is the overall scoreboard of this season.
Danny 9 (+2)
Armus 8 (+3)
HoodieDM 6 (+2)
Naetor 6 (+1)
Cartagia 3
Pazuzu 3 (+1)
WeyounsLastClone 2 (+1)
MattgomeryScott 1
rferries 1



All kinds of sealed Boosters, buttons and promo foil cards from my collection. The specific distribution will be announced later this year.



January 2020: The Greatest Minds
February 2020: Armada
March 2020: Lady Crush
April 2020: DIY
May 2020: Talk Like Yoda



Thematic Challenge VII 06: Artificial Intelligence

Alan Turing birthday is on 23 June 1912 and this is a good reason to dedicate one of our thematic challenges. His work has been always been an influence to all kind of science fiction and Star Trek is no different. Gene Roddenberry and the next generations of show runners also addressed numerous times the issue of artificial intelligence and one of my favourite episodes is The Measure of a Man. Create a Star Trek CCG card about artifical intelligence.


DEADLINE 30th June 2020


Sneak peak for July's challenge: Roll for initiative!

[Pazuzu]

It looks like a close race between Armus, first runner-up from last season, and Danny, who placed eighth last season. I am really happy to see such a diverse field and that the community is looking for good and interesting cards and not on designer's names. Overall I am really happy to see so many good entries and it is always hard to pick only one choice at the beginning of each month. I am looking for alternate voting options here for the future. I am also very happy to see some newcomers from time to time dropping by. Thank you all so much for participating and keeping this game alive and interesting!

[rferries]

3 •Lewis Zimmerman, Father of Modern Holography
Human
•Engineer •Physics •2 Programming •Science
You may play this personnel at cost +1 where you have three Holograms present together.
Order - Stop this personnel to add a Hologram, a Holoprogram, or a copy of Holodeck Arch from your discard pile to your hand.
"Why is everyone so worried about holograms taking over the universe?"
Integrity 4 Cunning 7 Strength 4

[MattgomeryScott]

My Entry:

4 *Ruk, Mysterious and Spooky

Android

Engineer, Exobiology, Programming, Security,

Assassin. Infiltrator. While you do not command Unicomplex, you may play this personnel at cost +2 to a planet mission requiring Programming.
Order: Return this personnel to his owners hand to kill up to two opponent's non-unique personnel present.

“Ruk was programmed to protect my experiments.”

Integrity 4 Cunning 9 Strength 10

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

[rferries]

My Entry:

4 *Ruk, Mysterious and Spooky

Android

Engineer, Exobiology, Programming, Security,

Assassin. Infiltrator. While you do not command Unicomplex, you may play this personnel at cost +2 to a planet mission requiring Programming.
Order: Return this personnel to his owners hand to kill up to two opponent's non-unique personnel present.

“Ruk was programmed to protect my experiments.”

Integrity 4 Cunning 9 Strength 10

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

"THAT was the equation!" (One of my favourite TOS lines )

[HoodieDM]

Time's Arrow

Seeds or plays on Earth.
Your (non- ) personnel may attempt Earth using these requirements:

Data's Body OR The Foragers OR Samuel Clemens

When solved, mission worth 25 points. You may download Data's Head, Ophidian Cane, and Samuel Clemens' Pocketwatch.

[Pazuzu]

Fully Functional
"I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring."
Plays on your Soong-type Android (for free on any Data) present with another personnel. Draw two cards. For the rest of the game, these two count as romantic partners, get attributes all +1 when present together, and each gain one regular skill the other personnel has. (Limit one per Soong-type Android.)

[winterflames]

Site:
Tom Servo's Used Robots
Compatible Cybernetics, androids, and artificial intelligences may report here. Once per turn, your Cybernetics x2 or Miracle Worker may reprogram one android here, both are stopped. Your Exocomps here may use thier skills to repair this station.
DS9/Terok Nor: Promenade

[WeyounsLastClone]

(4) •Warhead
Event
Damage. Decay: 4. Plays in your core. At the start of your turn, place the top card of your deck on this event. Your opponent may return an Engineer to hand to prevent this. When this event is destroyed, choose an opponent's ship and kill a personnel aboard that for each card on this event and if there are four cards on the event, place this event on that ship.
"I am a weapon of mass destruction."

[Naetor]

Alpha Onias III, Barash's Illusion
35
Leadership and (Geology, Physics, and Transporters Or Anthropology, Officer, and Security), and (Integrity>38 or Cunning>38).
Region: Neutral Zone. At the start of your first turn, name a card. When an opponent plays that card, place the top card of his or her dilemma pile beneath this mission.
"I'm running a level one diagnostic."
"For thirty hours!? It would never take you more than four. You're incapable of that level of incompetence, Mister La Forge. Worf, where did you get that scar?"
"In combat."
"What battle? When? Which sector? Which unit? Mister Data, if we left immediately, when would we arrive at Outpost twenty three?"

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[Cartagia]

Mudd's Women
Harry Mudd somehow found himself the(in)capable leader of a vast array of androids. Their efficiency was limited only by his imagination.

Plays on Harcourt Fenton Mudd. He gains Cybernetics. Once per turn your androids here may pass a gender related dilemma. May discard event to download an android to this location.

[Danny]

Inspired by the The Greatest Generation's review of "His Way"

(3) •Vic Fontaine, Brighter Than He Appears
Hologram

•2 Anthropology •2 Programming
Infiltrator. While this personnel is facing a dilemma, you may place him on your Holoprogram. At the start of your turn, if this personnel is on your Holoprogram, you may return him to his owner's hand.
"I'm between sets, so I transferred my matrix from that holosuite to this one."
INT 5 CUN 7 STR 4

[Armus]

(3)
Shore Leave

Place on mission. Whenever a personnel uses a skill to overcome a dilemma at this mission, place that personnel on this dilemma. When your personnel complete this mission, place each personnel here on mission and remove this dilemma from the game.
"None of this is permanent. Here you have to only imagine your fondest wishes, either old ones you wish to relive or new ones, anything at all. Battle, fear, love, triumph. Anything that pleases you can be made to happen."

[Pazuzu]

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