'45 Dom Perignon

Discarding this equipment to replace a ship is not a valid response to any other action (such as battle) and does not suspend play. You may replace a ship with one of different affiliation only if the class name is identical and any personnel aboard are compatible with the new ship (you may not place them under house arrest). You may not replace one "UNKNOWN CLASS" ship with another (e.g., Mercenary Ship with Fesarius). See ship class, exchanging cards.

-related

See related.

... on the Bridge

When this Trouble card is present with at least 1,000 tribbles on a ship with more than 10 personnel in its crew, that crew may not attempt missions.

1 Tribble

See once per turn.

1962 Roger Maris Baseball Card

You may not trade this artifact for another unless you are immediately able to play that artifact as your own (this does not count as your normal card play). Traded artifacts are returned to their owners at the end of the game. See in play.

35th Rule of Acquisition

You may not use this event for a download or card draw at the end of your first turn. Playing a 35th Rule card nullifies all 34th Rule cards already in play, and vice versa. A 35th Rule card in play does not prevent the play of a 34th Rule card (or vice versa). See turn.

62nd Rule of Acquisition

This event is nullified if you play or have played Scan or Full Planet Scan on any mission, or if you begin an attempt of the mission on which it is played with <3 or >7 personnel. Attempts of other missions have no effect on this event.

75th Rule of Acquisition

See helps.

Voyager stand-alone formats

When playing Voyager stand-alone Warp Speed and full game formats, you may use any cards with a Star Trek: Voyager logo (including those found in First Anthology, the Official Tournament Sealed Deck, Blaze of Glory, Mirror, Mirror, Holodeck Adventures, and The Motion Pictures) as well as any missions with a Delta Quadrant icon.

A Fast Ship Would Be Nice

When encountering this dilemma, you may not substitute a ship for the victim if your opponent is playing Borg. See commandeering.

Aamin Marritza

Abandon Ship!

For this dilemma, you may choose which of your personnel will fulfill the staffing requirements. A personnel may fill a requirement. In addition to printed staffing requirements (if any), a ship requires at least one matching personnel aboard to be staffed.

You may not rescue or capture the abandoned personnel during a mission or scouting attempt or during your opponent's turn. See damage, attribute modifiers, capturing, quarantine, ship staffing.

abduction

Cards such as Assimilate Counterpart, the Talon Drone (Three of Nineteen), or Reassimilate Lost Drone may allow your Borg to abduct a personnel. If this occurs during personal combat, both combatants cease to participate in the battle and may immediately beam away (if possible), but are still "stopped." The abducted personnel is escorted by your Borg present and may be moved around like equipment. If the abducted personnel is ever unescorted, your opponent can release them with their own personnel present. Abducted personnel are disabled, and do not participate in battles. They are not captives and are not affected by cards that affect captives, such as Rescue Captives. An abducted personnel who becomes assimilated is no longer considered abducted.

aboard

See Rulebook 12.4: "Here" and "Present", Rulebook 10.2.5: Separated.

acquired

See artifact.

actions

An action is one operation that you perform in the game. Examples of actions include playing, drawing, or discarding one card, moving a ship from one location to another (possibly passing other locations on the way), moving personnel by beaming or other means, using a personnel's special skill (except automatic modifiers), battle (from initiation until a winner has been determined and damage or deaths have been resolved), and attempting or scouting a mission. Applying automatic modifiers (e.g., "your personnel are STRENGTH +2 where present") and checking conditions (e.g., battle affiliation restrictions) are not actions.

actions - "just"

Some actions may be initiated only just after some other action or condition has occurred, before anything else can intervene (except another "just" action). These are typically indicated by the word "just" in game text. It may be a response to another action (e.g., "just initiated," "just played"), or it may be a new action that follows the result of the other action (e.g., "just completed," "just reported"). An action may be responded to or followed by any number of applicable "just" actions. "Just" actions always take place before non- "just" actions. This may allow or require you to initiate an action when it would otherwise be your opponent's turn to do so. For example, you initiate a planet mission attempt and solve the mission. Although it is normally your opponent's turn to initiate the next action, you may first play Particle Fountain ("play...on just completed planet mission").

actions - group

An action may cause other actions to occur within itself. For example, a personnel battle includes sub-actions of creating a combat pile, individual personal combat engagements, determining the winner of the battle, and discarding killed cards. An action in place of your normal card play, in place of a card draw, etc. may also consist of several sub-actions (such as playing multiple cards under Red Alert!). This is called a group action, and until it has finished, neither player may initiate any other actions except actions that suspend play, or responses to the group action or a sub-action. Valid responses may be made to each sub-action of a group action. For example, when a ship is reporting with crew, a player may choose to play an Energy Vortex on the ship, or on a specific personnel being reported. Likewise, you may play Android Headlock or use Hypospray's text in response to a specific combat pairing.

actions - interrupting

You may not interrupt an action by another action, unless the second action:

• is a valid response to the first action or one of its sub-actions; or
• explicitly "suspends play" (according to a card text or rule).

For example, you may make valid responses to the encounter of specific dilemmas during a mission attempt, but you may not play interrupts between dilemma encounters. See actions - step 2: responses.

actions - required

Required actions are usually indicated by "must" or "must do nothing but." For example, if Anya is present where Salia has just been randomly selected, Anya must replace her. Responses to a required action work normally.

During your Execute Orders segment, you must take required actions at your first opportunity. If you are required to take multiple actions at the same time, you may resolve them in any order. For example, if, at the beginning of your Execute Orders segment, your U.S.S. Galaxy affected by Cytherians and Saltah'na Clock is at Samaritan Snare with an opponent's ship, you must immediately choose to move the ship (Cytherians), attack opponent's ship (Clock) or attempt the mission (Snare); you may not take other, non-required actions. (If you allow Cytherians to forcibly move you away from Snare, attempting Snare is no longer required. Likewise, if you choose to have the Clock force a battle, your ship will be stopped and unable to move for Cytherians.)

A required action that affects a ship automatically affects its crew. "Full speed" and "normal speed" mean a ship must use all available RANGE each turn to accomplish a required action, even if this places the ship at a hazard such as Gaps In Normal Space.

"Must do nothing but" means that the affected ship and/or crew cannot initiate or continue any other voluntary actions (cloaking, beaming, attempting, battling, etc.) until the required action is completed, even if that takes more than one turn. (Outside personnel and equipment not yet compelled by the required action may report to or board it, but are then compelled. They may not use the affected ship's transporters.) The ship and crew may defend themselves in battle and use skills to cure/nullify cards affecting the ship, since those are not voluntarily initiated actions.

If required to move to a destination, a ship may take shortcuts, such as Wormhole or Lakanta, but only if it directly shortens the travel. For example, if Two of Nineteen is affected by Cytherians, it may use its special skill to download Transwarp Network Gateway to move between two existing Gateways, but not to play a new Gateway. Shortcuts are never required.

actions - sequence of steps

Every action has three steps that must occur in order:

1. Initiation (declaring the use of a multifunction card, meeting conditions, choosing targets, and paying costs).
2. Optional responses (attempts to cancel or modify the action).
3. Results (gameplay consequences of the action).

These steps are described in more detail in the following sections.

actions - step 1: initiation

Initiating an action may include any or all of the following, in this order:

• declaring the use of a multi-function card (for example, you may discard a Space-Time Portal from the table for one of five possible results);
• meeting conditions of rules and game text (e.g., battle affiliation restrictions; an open Alternate Universe Door to play an card; game text such as "plays at start of battle");
• choosing targets (e.g., selecting a player to draw cards with Kivas Fajo - Collector, an outpost at which to report a personnel; choosing a ship to attack, or a drone to download from your draw deck with the Borg Queen's skill); and
• paying costs required by rules or game text (e.g., using your normal card play to report a personnel card; forfeiting a card draw to initiate a download; using a special download icon).

Once you begin to choose targets for an action, you must complete the initiation of that action (if legal). For example, if you start looking through your draw deck for a target card to download with the Ops text, you may not decide to abort the download by not selecting a target; if you have any valid target card available, you must select one and complete the download. See showing your cards.

Cards played as a cost

Some actions require a specific card to be played as a cost in order to resolve. When this is the case, use only the game text of the action; ignore the game text of the card being played as a cost. Cards which are played as a cost may be responded to normally and if the card played as a cost is nullified, initiation of the original action fails, no other costs are paid and the action's performer may attempt to use the action again at their next opportunity. Examples:

• I Hate You allows you to play Vulcan Nerve Pinch as a cost to nullify itself.
• Relief Mission II (front side) allows you to play a Wormhole as a cost to move your ship between it and another location.
• ❖ Nebula requires you to play Scan as a cost to initiate battle at its location.

Dilemmas revealed and encountered

The initiation of a dilemma encounter begins (i.e. it has been "just revealed" but cannot otherwise be responded to) when the seeded card has been slid out from under the mission, turned face-up, and both players have had the opportunity to read it. After a dilemma is revealed, the dilemma encounter proceeds: targets are chosen and conditions are checked. The initiation of the encounter is complete (i.e. the seed card has been "just encountered" and may be responded to) only when any targets for the dilemma have been chosen and you have checked to see if the crew or Away Team can meet the dilemma's conditions (if any). If the dilemma requires a trigger or specifies targets with specific features which are not present, the dilemma will have no effect, but the initiation is still complete. (See dilemma resolution.)

For example, your Away Team encounters Nausicaans. The target must be selected and you must check the Away Team's total STRENGTH to see if it is greater than 44 before you may nullify the dilemma with Interphase Generator.

actions - step 2: responses

After an action has been initiated and before its results begin, optional responses are allowed. A valid response must specifically relate to (modify, cancel, nullify, or prevent) the action.

For example, if you initiate a personnel battle at a site, any action that says it "plays at start of battle," occurs "during battle," "cancels (or prevents) a personnel battle," plays when an adversary is "just engaged," etc. would be a valid response. Smoke Bomb, Hail, Establish Tractor Lock, and Phaser Burns are valid responses to battle. Space-Time Portal is not a valid response to ship battle; although returning a ship to hand or reporting one with crew could affect the outcome of the battle, Space-Time Portal does not specifically say that it is related to battle. Likewise, Hugh is a valid response to the attack of a Borg Ship dilemma just encountered, because it nullifies that attack. Playing Temporal Rift on the ship and returning the ship to your hand by discarding a Space-Time Portal are not valid responses to encountering a Borg Ship (or any other dilemma). Similarly, neither Loss of Orbital Stability nor What Does God Need With A Starship? are valid responses to a ship beginning movement.

A card play or other action that may occur at any time (e.g., playing an Interrupt card, revealing a hidden agenda) is not a valid response to an action unless it specifically relates to that action. For example, a card may not be played via "Devidian Door" to an Away Team during a mission attempt or battle. A card which says it suspends play may be played at any point during a turn (not just during the response step of an action), and may temporarily suspend any action, whether related or not. (The suspending action may be responded to normally, and after it is complete, the suspended action resumes.) Using a special download icon also suspends play. Thus, a personnel's special download icon may be used to download a card during a mission attempt or battle, and Launch Portal may be used to download and launch a shuttle during battle. See at any time, suspends play, downloading.

More than one valid response may be made to an action. For example, if I play Palor Toff, you may respond first with Countermanda to place three cards out of play, and then with Amanda Rogers to nullify Palor Toff. Interrupts and skills that "prevent" an action may be used as a response to that action. If the action thus prevented is a card play, it nullifies that card play. For example, if I play You Dirty Rat on Anya to morph her into a rat, you may respond with Howard Heirloom Candle to prevent her from morphing and nullify You Dirty Rat. (See battle.)

When all responses are over, or if neither player chooses to respond, the action has its result. If a properly initiated card play is nullified, any costs paid are not recovered, but all results of the card play are canceled. For example, you play Q's Tent and I nullify it with Wrong Door. You cannot play another Q's Tent this turn (a cost of playing the card), but you do not lose the ability to draw cards this turn (part of the results of the Q's Tent).

Responses modifying targets or conditions

If a hidden agenda is activated as a response to an action, all of its effects are retroactive to the start of the initiation of the action, as if the hidden agenda had already been revealed before the action was initiated. Thus, if the hidden agenda invalidates a condition for an action, the action becomes illegal. If the action was a card play, the card returns to your hand.

For example, you initiate the play of Activate Subcommands, and I respond by activating Computer Crash. Since Activate Subcommands requires a download, it is now illegal and returns to your hand. If a condition for an action becomes invalid before the action resolves, for any reason other than the activation of a hidden agenda (e.g., through the play of another card in a Manheim effect "hiccup"), it has no effect on the initiation. For example, if you initiate the play of K'chiQ, and I close your Alternate Universe Door with a Revolving Door during a "hiccup," you can still play K'chiQ because the condition was met during the initiation and is not re-checked. If a target of an action becomes invalid after the action is initiated, then the action is "played out" without results. If the action is a card play, that card is discarded. For example, if you target an outpost to play K'chiQ, and I then destroy the outpost with a Supernova during a Manheim "hiccup," you must discard K'chiQ.

actions - step 3: results

When an action begins to have its results, this typically causes one or more other actions to occur. For example, the result of playing Kivas Fajo - Collector is that the target player must draw three cards. Each of the three card draws is an action with its own three steps, and each may be responded to (e.g., with Subspace Schism).

However, the original action can no longer be responded to or otherwise modified, because its optional responses step has passed, and it is currently having its result. For example, failing to meet the requirements of Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease causes everyone present to die. These deaths can be responded to, but the dilemma's targets can no longer be adjusted. Empathic Touch, as a direct response, can stop an Empathy to save another personnel, but that Empathy (despite no longer being present) remains targeted and still dies.

actions - taking turns

Players alternate initiating actions. You may initiate the first action of your turn. After your action has had its result or is cancelled, then your opponent may initiate the next action, and so on. Whenever it is your turn to initiate an action, if you do not wish to do so you may "pass." You must allow your opponent ample time to initiate an action or "pass." When an action you initiated is in its optional responses step, your opponent has the first opportunity to initiate a response; when that response is complete you may initiate a response, and so on. Whenever both players pass consecutively during the optional responses step of an action, that action proceeds to its result. In the rare case where both players initiate an action at the same time (e.g., revealing adversaries for a combat pairing), and both players wish to respond to that action, the player whose turn it is may initiate a response first; players then alternate actions as usual. For example, if both players wish to make a response to a combat pairing (such as playing an interrupt or using a personnel's "stun" skill), the player whose turn it is may respond first. You cannot initiate any action (including using your personnel's skills which are not automatic modifiers) during your opponent's turn except:

• you may make valid responses;
• you may play interrupts (between other actions or as valid responses); and
• you may play a card or use game text that specifies it may be used "at any time" or "every turn," that "suspends play," or that in some other way indicates that the action may be taken on the opponent's turn. See use (skills).

Activate Subcommands

This event may download a drone which has all three subcommand icons (e.g., Seven of Nine) as any one of the three subcommands. You must also download two other drones of the other two subcommands.

Activate Tractor Beam

The first function of this interrupt allows you to tow one ship for the extent of your available RANGE on the current turn; the interrupt is then discarded. When played for the second function, the interrupt remains on the ship to add the Tractor Beam permanently. You may play two copies of this interrupt on a ship, one to add a Tractor Beam and one to tow a ship. See towing.

active

An active personnel is one which is not "stopped," not disabled, and not in stasis.

Adapt: Modulate Shields

See immune, Remodulation (errata).

Adapt: Negate Obstruction

A dilemma may be nullified by this interrupt only just after it is encountered in a Borg scouting attempt. You must play another copy of the interrupt each time you encounter another copy of a dilemma that you wish to adapt to. See Q-related dilemma.

Add Distinctiveness

For this incident, seed cards (which must be placed out-of-play) include missions, dilemmas, artifacts, and any other card which is only seedable (has no normal "play" function). See outside the game.

Any non-Borg personnel or ships obtained from an expansion pack with this incident are considered assimilated as drones (see assimilation - personnel) before you report them for duty. You may report such cards immediately (ships to any spaceline location or your Borg Outpost; personnel to any of your ships or outposts or to a planet) without regard to icons or native quadrant. If you place them in your hand to play later, you must obey all normal reporting requirements. If you obtain Jean-Luc Picard from an expansion pack using this incident, you may not play him immediately if you have Locutus of Borg in play, but may later perform a persona exchange with the two cards.

Personnel you assimilate as drones who are later killed, placed out-of-play, released, etc. are no longer counted in X for this incident.

adjacent

Two spaceline locations are adjacent to each other if there is no other location between them (even if a card which does not form a location, such as Q-Net, is between them.)

affiliation

There are 15 affiliations: Bajoran, Borg, Cardassian, Dominion, Federation, Ferengi, Hirogen, Kazon, Klingon, Neutral, Non-Aligned, Romulan, Starfleet, Vidiian and Vulcan. Each affiliation has a distinct border color (but see Captain Proton cards) and a unique affiliation icon in the upper left corner of each Personnel or Ship card (lower left corner of each Facility card). A few cards are multi-affiliation. (Equipment and Site cards have no affiliation.)

See: compatible.

affiliation and ship origin

See Rulebook 10.3.0.11: Ship Origin.

affiliation and species

Cards that affect "Klingons", "Romulans," etc. apply to personnel of that affiliation as well as that species (including hybrids). Thus, Worf, K'Ehleyr, and Quark Son of Keldar (in Klingon mode) all are Klingons for Klingon Death Yell. Ba'el and Simon Tarses are Romulans for D'Tan's INTEGRITY enhancement. Miles O'Brien (Fajo Collection) will not work with Garak (in either mode), Dukat, or Evek.

A "non-Klingon" personnel is neither Klingon by species nor Klingon affiliation. Espionage cards and cards that refer to an affiliation by its icon (such as Kira Nerys) refer only to affiliation, not to species.

affiliation attack restrictions

See battle.

affiliation icon

A round icon in the upper left corner of a Personnel or Ship card or lower left corner of a Facility card, indicating the card's affiliation. Also, a rectangular icon on a Mission card indicating which affiliations can attempt the mission.

Airlock

Either player may use the text of this doorway if their personnel is present with an appropriate target, but only on each of their own turns. An opposing personnel must have lower STRENGTH or CUNNING than the personnel tossing them out. A Rogue Borg must have lower STRENGTH. See battle - non-battle cards.

Ajur

This personnel (as well as his fellow Vorgon, Boratus) may use his special skill to peek at only cards that are seeded face down under the mission, and only if there more than three. See alone, once per game, mis-seeds.

Alien Parasites

This entry covers both the original Alien Parasites dilemma and the version included in the combo dilemma Alien Parasites & REM Fatigue, whether encountered on a planet or in space. When you encounter this dilemma and fail to meet its conditions, the mission or scouting attempt immediately ends. At a planet mission, beam the Away Team back to the ship or facility with which they are associated, if any (if not, they remain on the planet surface) or have them reboard their landed ship without transporters. At a space mission, the crew remains aboard their ship. Your opponent then chooses whether or not to take control of the ship/facility and the crew or Away Team. If your opponent chooses to take control, your turn is suspended (you may not initiate actions except as normally allowed during your opponent's turn) while your opponent temporarily controls the ship or facility (if any), the Away Team or crew which encountered the dilemma, and any other personnel aboard that ship or facility. (If any personnel aboard are already "stopped," they remain so unless your opponent plays a card that "unstops" them, such as Distortion of Space/Time Continuum; they then join the rest of the crew.) Your opponent does not control any other ship or facility at the location or any personnel who were previously "stopped" on the planet. Your opponent may not take any actions that would normally occur only during their turn, except those using your ship and crew which they control. Your opponent may take legal actions (see control for limitations) with the ship and crew until they become "stopped" (they may not then take any action to "unstop" them) OR they cannot take any further meaningful actions with them (e.g., they may not simply beam them up and down endlessly) OR they chooses not to take any further actions with them. Then control returns to you and your suspended turn resumes. If the ship and crew are not already "stopped" (or if your opponent chose not to take control), the personnel who originally encountered the dilemma (and the ship, if encountered at a space mission) are now "stopped" by their failure to overcome it. The dilemma is replaced under the mission to be encountered on the next mission or scouting attempt.

If you take control of your opponent's cards, you must follow all Borg Away Team and battle restrictions, and they may not attempt missions.

You may use the controlled Borg to scout for your own current objective if you are playing Borg. If you are playing Borg and control a non-Borg ship and crew, they may attempt and solve a mission, but neither player scores the mission points.

Alien Probe

See Telepathic Alien Kidnappers , Battle Bridge side deck, Tribble side deck.

All Threes

To play this interrupt, you must have at least six cards in your draw deck to reveal. Reveal the first three cards and the next three cards from the top of your draw deck in two sets, which you may not rearrange. See any, in play.

Alliance Interceptor

See interceptor.

alone

A personnel "is alone" if there are no other personnel (belonging to any player) present. A personnel is "alone with" a personnel, or a characteristic which that personnel has, if that personnel or characteristic is the only other personnel present.

Example: Ajur is "alone with Archaeology" if the only other personnel present has Archaeology.

Alternate Universe Door

A seeded copy of this doorway allows your -icon cards to enter play. See Alternate Universe icon. You may not play or download this doorway to the table for this purpose. You may play this doorway to nullify a Temporal Rift only during your own turn (unless downloaded by discarding a Space- Time Portal). This use is a card play that returns to your hand rather than discarding (not "showing a card") and may be affected by Energy Vortex.

Alternate Universe icon

Cards with this icon are not from the latter half of 24th century... at least, not the one we're familiar with. cards may be from the past, possible futures, alternate timelines, illusions, or even dreams. Ordinarily, they may only play to a Time Location where they are "native to the timeline."

Otherwise, cards may not seed or enter play except while specifically allowed to by a card (explicitly using the icon), such as Alternate Universe Door, Temporal Micro-Wormhole, or Dyson Sphere Door. The enabling card might further specify the timing or location of reporting the card, such as with Seal Rift or Where No Man Has Gone Before. The enabling card must use the icon in the context of enabling the report: for example, Marlena Moreau has a icon, and a special download of Classic Tricorder which is an card, but the download does not reference the icon, and so does not overcome this restriction.

cards already in play or already seeded are unaffected by closed or discarded doorways. If the doorway is closed (or has been discarded) when a legally seeded card is encountered, the card still has its normal effect. However, if an earned artifact goes to your hand, you do need an open doorway to play it later.

Altonian Brain Teaser

On this dilemma, the phrase "if their CUNNING <15" means "if that personnel's CUNNING <15." If the affected personnel's CUNNING is less than 15, any bonus points (positive or negative) scored at that location are not lost or cancelled, but are not counted in your final score for the game, whether scored before or after the dilemma was encountered. See points, Balancing Act , In the Zone , Rulebook 6.3.4: Dual-Personnel Cards.

The points from Cytherians are affected by an Altonian Brain Teaser only at the far end of the spaceline where the points are scored, not at the location where the Cytherians was encountered.

Amanda Rogers

An Artifact or Doorway card is "played as an Interrupt card" only if its text specifically says so. For example, Ophidian Cane plays "as an Interrupt card." See card types (explaining playing "as" another card).

Ambush Ship

See WEAPONS.

Anastasia Komananov

To use her special skill, this personnel must have been aboard the opponent's ship (like an infiltrator) since the start of the opponent's last turn.

android

"Android" is a species. The term includes any personnel identified in its title or lore as an android (such as any Soong-type android), Exocomps, and Commander Data. Androids are affected normally by all cards unless otherwise specified.

another

See other.

Anti-Matter Spread

The phrase "opposing ships'WEAPONS" on this interrupt refers to ships that are opposing the ships of the player playing the card. You may not play it on behalf of the Borg Ship dilemma to reduce the WEAPONS of your opponent's ships being attacked by the dilemma. The reduction of WEAPONS for personnel with CUNNING<8 applies only to Ship cards, including Borg-affiliation ships. The reduction of WEAPONS to 16 applies only to the Borg Ship dilemma.

Anti-Time Anomaly

This event kills all personnel (not Rogue Borg interrupts) on or off the spaceline in all quadrants, at time locations, in a Penalty Box, being held by aliens, in stasis, etc. (Holographic personnel deactivate as usual instead of being killed.) The only personnel who are protected are those who are timetraveling into the future (i.e., in a Temporal Rift or Time Travel Pod) at the time the Anti-Time Anomaly resolves. See in play.

any

If a card refers to a characteristic preceded by the word "any" (or "a", "an", or "one"), it refers to a card with that characteristic. For example, "any disruptor" includes Varon-T Disruptor, Klingon Disruptor Rifle, and Breen CRM114, while "Any Emblem card" includes Emblem of the Empire and Emblem of the Alliance (but not cards displaying the icons representing those emblems) and "any Odo" can refer to Odo, Curzon Odo, Overseer Odo, and Odo Founder.

When a card refers to a specific card title without a modifier such as "any", it refers only to a card of that exact title (or a member of that card title group). For example, Investigate Coup requires Tomalak and cannot be solved by Ambassador Tomalak.

any Intelligence

see Intelligence

anywhere

When a card allows a personnel or tribble to report, beam, or relocate to "anywhere," it must be aboard a ship or facility, or on a planet surface. You may not report, beam, or relocate personnel or tribbles off the spaceline or timeline (such as to a Penalty Box) or into space.

Aphasia Device

See quarantine.

Arachnia

See Borg (Borg-affiliation ships).

Arbiter of Succession

The two Klingons targeted by this interrupt may belong to the same player.

Arne Darvin

This personnel does not allow you to draw a card for his own report aboard K-7.

The Art of Diplomacy

see use (skills).

Articles of Jurisprudence

This card is unique only while in play for its first function. When in play for that function, it does not prevent another copy from being played for the other function

artifact

A card type representing a rare object with special powers. Artifacts must be seeded during the dilemma phase, under planet missions only, unless a card allows or requires seeding at a space mission, and you may seed only one artifact under each mission unless otherwise specified (see mis-seeds).

A seeded artifact is earned when the mission is completed, not when the artifact is encountered. ( must complete an objective that allowed scouting a location and have a card which allows acquisition of artifacts before they can acquire any artifacts seeded at that location.) "Earned" is synonymous with "acquired." Cards seeded like artifacts are earned or acquired in the same way as artifacts. See scouting.

Artifacts cannot be used until they have been earned, for example:

• by completing the mission (or a objective targeting the mission, if a card gives those permission to acquire artifacts);
• with a card such as The Charybdis or HQ: Return Orb to Bajor; or
• with a card that allows an artifact to be earned without seeding, such as Reclamation or Starry Night.

An artifact may be downloaded only by a card that specifically downloads artifacts (e.g. Secret Compartment) or that has a special download icon for a named artifact (e.g., James Tiberius Kirk for Tantalus Field). For example, Bareil may not download a Varon-T Disruptor. When a card specifically downloads an artifact, that artifact is earned.

If an artifact leaves play, it cannot be brought back into play unless it is earned again (for example, by re-seeding under Q's Planet and completing that mission, or with one of the cards listed above). See Masaka Transformations .

An artifact that is "used as equipment" joins your crew or Away Team when earned; some artifacts are placed in your hand to play later; and others are resolved immediately, according to their game text.

When you acquire multiple artifacts or cards seeded like artifacts at a single mission, you may generally resolve them in any order you choose. For example, if you acquire your opponent's Magic Carpet Ride OCD and your own Varon-T Disruptor, you may choose to have the Varon-T Disruptor join your Away Team before your opponent may relocate your ship and Away Team.

However, if two copies of a non-duplicatable card are earned, the first one encountered is acquired and the second copy is discarded. For example, if both you and your opponent seed a copy of Ressikan Flute under a mission, you acquire only the first copy encountered and discard the second. (This also applies if you acquire another instance of a persona which you already have in play, or a Borg counterpart when you already have a counterpart in your collective.)

The Artificial Intelligence

This personnel's "NO STRENGTH" is an undefined attribute.

Assign Mission Specialists

This objective has two effects. First, it allows a one-time download of two mission specialists to an outpost (not to any other type of facility). If you choose to use the optional download, you must do so immediately upon seeding or playing the objective. (The mission specialists are not seed cards.) If you wish to play another Assign Mission Specialists later to download two more specialists, you must first discard the one in play at the start of your turn. (See unique and universal.)

If the download of the mission specialists is prevented by the activation of Computer Crash , the objective remains in play on the table for its second function. The download opportunity is permanently lost.

Second, while you have any Assign Mission Specialists card in play, any mission specialists you have in play (regardless of whether downloaded or played normally) score 5 points when using their skill to complete a mission. See use (skills).

For example, the mission Reported Activity requires Navigation + Honor x2. It is solved by the following Away Team: mission specialists B'iJik (Navigation), Konmel (Navigation), Kahless (Honor x2), and two copies of Batrell (Honor), plus non-mission specialist Governor Worf (Honor x2 plus other skills). A maximum of 15 extra points may be scored (5 by Kahless, 5 by one copy of Batrell, and 5 by either B'iJik or Konmel, but not both). Kahless is not forced to meet the entire Honor x2 by himself, nor is Governor Worf required to use his Honor at all.

A skill with a multiplier, such as Honor x2, is one skill. Any special skill, including a special download, disqualifies a personnel from being a mission specialist. For example, Tarus (Stellar Cartography) and Kahless (Honor x2) are both mission specialists. John Doe, whose only skill is a special skill, and Madam Guinan, who has two skills (one regular and one special), are not mission specialists.

You cannot create a mission specialist by removing skills from a multi-skilled personnel (e.g., with Tsiolkovsky Infection). If a card replaces a mission specialist's single skill with another regular skill (e.g., Reflection Therapy), that personnel remains a mission specialist. If a personnel loses mission specialist status due to a card such as a Medical Kit or Mot's Advice, that personnel regains it if separated from the kit or if the card is nullified.

Assign Support Personnel

A skill with a multiplier, such as Honor x2, is one skill. Any special skill, including a special download, disqualifies a personnel from being a support personnel for this objective. See Major Rakal .

If a multi-affiliation personnel has different skill sets for each affiliation, the skill set for the affiliation selected for reporting determines support personnel status. For example, Stefan de Seve is a support personnel if reported in Romulan mode, but not in Federation mode.

Assimilate Counterpart

Participating in any battle at the location of the target prevents you from probing to complete this objective, even if the target is no longer at the location of that battle. Simply placing an unabducted target on an Assimilation Table (e.g., by relocating him there with Mysterious Orb) is not sufficient to allow you to probe. You must first battle and abduct the target as stated. See drone, showing your cards.

Assimilate Homeworld

If the target of this objective is destroyed (e.g., by a Supernova), discard the objective (and any Stop First Contact or Build Interplexing Beacon suspending it) immediately. See mirror universe.

Assimilate Planet

See point box.

Assimilate Species

See humanoid, assimilation - personnel, showing your cards.

Assimilate Starship

See active, showing your cards, scouting ships.

assimilated counterpart

See assimilation - personnel, counterpart, He Will Make An Excellent Drone.

Assimilated Vessel

The player who scores the points is the opponent of the player who encounters this card (or otherwise brings it into play, such as with Obsession). This card does not award points when it is destroyed in battle.

assimilation

You may assimilate planets or your opponent's personnel and ships by using Objective and other cards that allow assimilation. You may assimilate only cards which you do not already control, and only if a card or rule allows it. Assimilated cards undergo specific transformations detailed in the following sections.

assimilation - facility

See assimilation - planet.

assimilation - personnel

When your Borg assimilate an opposing personnel, it becomes a Borg drone under your control (however, your opponent must still obey the persona rule and may not report another instance of a non-universal persona) and it undergoes the following transformations:

• Its affiliation changes to .
• Its gender becomes irrelevant to the Borg.
• Its classification (if any) becomes its first listed regular skill.
• If it already has any subcommand icons, it retains them, and any other normal staffing icons are lost.
• Otherwise, it loses old staffing icons and gains Borg subcommand icons, as follows:

Printed Staffing	New Staffing
Neither

A drone will never have more than one copy of each subcommand icon. For example, if Seven of Nine is assimilated as a drone, her icon is lost rather than converted.

Its attributes adapt to service the collective based on its subcommand icons, as follows:

Icon	Sets attribute...
	INTEGRITY to 7
	CUNNING to 7
	STRENGTH to 7

Any attribute not set by a subcommand icon is set to 5.

Its other icons and restriction box become irrelevant.

Borg do not assimilate holographic personnel (or target them for assimilation). Such personnel are excluded from any selections for abduction or assimilation. All other personnel, including androids, changelings, and your opponent's Borg, may be assimilated normally unless otherwise specified by a card. For example, if your opponent has The Kazon Collective in play, their Kazon are immune to assimilation.

In addition to drone assimilation, you may assimilate a male personnel as a counterpart by completing the Assimilate Counterpart objective. When this occurs, the counterpart undergoes the same transformations as a drone, with the following exceptions:

• He is considered male for Borg-related cards only. For example, a counterpart is not affected by Male's Love Interest unless Let Me Help is in play.
• His staffing ability adapts to service the Collective by changing to all three subcommand icons: .
• His INTEGRITY and CUNNING remain the same, and his STRENGTH is +3 (if he was already a counterpart, all attributes remain the same).
• His previous affiliation remains relevant for all cards requiring a matching counterpart, such as Assimilate Homeworld or Service the Collective. If he is multi-affiliation, all of his affiliation icons may be used for this purpose.

Any cards already played or placed on the personnel before assimilation remain in play (you do not recheck the conditions or targets for playing that card).

The Borg overlays from the Enhanced First Contact product do not allow assimilation of cards and cannot be placed on non-Borg cards to allow them to be stocked in your deck. They may be sleeved with Personnel cards you assimilated as a memory aid for the transformations.

assimilation - planet

When you assimilate a planet, any opposing personnel, equipment, and landed ships on that planet are assimilated. Any opposing facilities at that location, all personnel and equipment in or aboard a facility, and all ships docked at a facility are also assimilated. Personnel and equipment aboard a docked or landed ship are not assimilated. The affiliation of an assimilated facility changes to , and you may report cards to it in accord with normal native quadrant reporting rules.

If your Survey Drone, Sixteen of Nineteen, is on the planet when it is assimilated, it may acquire any seeded artifacts. If not, any artifacts (or cards seeded like artifacts) are placed face up on the planet and may be later acquired by your Survey Drone or by any non- personnel present. Mission attempts may not be made at assimilated planets, and the mission affiliation icons become irrelevant (facilities requiring a matching affiliation icon may no longer be built there).

assimilation - ship

When your Borg assimilate an opposing ship, you take control of that ship (but your opponent must obey the persona rule) and it undergoes the following transformations:

• Its affiliation changes to .
• Borg staffing requirements do not change.
• Non-Borg staffing requirements adapt to service the Collective:

Old Staffing	New Icon
Other

Any other non-Icon staffing requirements are irrelevant.

Any carried ships aboard are assimilated (but personnel and equipment aboard are not). Any cards played on or placed on the ship prior to assimilation (such as a Kurlan Naiskos) come under your control.

Assimilation Table

Connecting a personnel to (or disconnecting the occupant from) this equipment is an order. See executing orders. The Assimilation Table's controller may connect it to any personnel he or she controls (including a captive), and may disconnect it from any personnel. See implant card, Assimilate Counterpart .

Asteroid Sanctuary

This interrupt is a valid response to the initiation of a ship battle. It cancels the battle (but all cards involved are still "stopped"). See actions - step 2: responses. It may not target a docked ship.

at any time

This phrase indicates that an action may be used during any phase of either player's turn (except start-of-turn or end-of-turn), between other actions or as a valid response. It may not interrupt other unrelated actions. See actions - step 2: responses.

Atmospheric Ionization

This event allows up to 3 personnel to beam, up or down, every turn (e.g., 2 down and 1 up or any other combination).

ATTACK bonus

A feature of Tactic cards. In a ship battle, the ATTACK bonus on your current tactic (if any) is added to the total WEAPONS of your ships firing to calculate your ATTACK total. The ATTACK bonus is not an attribute enhancement. See Rulebook 7.4.2: Ship Battle.

attempt

Non-Borg affiliations may make mission attempts and commandeering attempts. Borg may make scouting attempts.

attribute

A feature of Personnel, Ship, and Facility cards. Personnel have three attributes: INTEGRITY, CUNNING, and STRENGTH. Ships have three attributes: RANGE, WEAPONS, and SHIELDS. Facilities may have WEAPONS and/or SHIELDS. See attribute enhancements, attribute modifiers, undefined attribute, variable attribute.

attribute enhancements

Attribute enhancements refer only to positive changes in the attributes of a ship or personnel. SHIELD extension from a facility and ATTACK and DEFENSE bonuses are not attribute enhancements; thus, Shipwreck and Weak Spot do not affect a facility's ability to extend its SHIELDS around ships. See attribute modifiers, Rulebook 7.4.2: Ship Battle.

The attributes of ships with a restriction box such as the Keldon Advanced are not enhanced by the presence of the required skill or characteristic aboard (in this case, Obsidian Order); rather, they are reduced if the required skill or characteristic is not aboard.

attribute modifiers

When resolving dilemmas, determining STRENGTH in battle, etc., always apply any relevant modifiers to cards in play. Modifiers do not affect cards in your hand (e.g., for Royale Casino dilemmas). See automatic modifiers.

An attribute is considered reduced (for cards such as Abandon Ship! or U.S.S. Enterprise-B) if it is affected by a card or rule that says it is reduced, disabled, or set to a value lower than its printed value, even if it is also affected by a card or rule that increases that attribute by the same amount. A ship that "cannot move" (Menthar Booby Trap) does not have its RANGE reduced. Attributes may not be reduced to less than 0. An undefined attribute may not be modified.

See modifier order.

automatic modifiers

Any modifier which simply states that it occurs, without a word such as "may" to indicate that it is optional, is automatic and mandatory. For example, "While on your ship, RANGE is +1" is an automatic modifier, whereas "if on a ship, may reduce RANGE or WEAPONS by 2 until end of turn" is optional.

Away Team and crew

When your personnel are aboard a ship or space facility that you control, they are a crew. In all other situations, they are an Away Team. When aboard a ship or facility controlled by your opponent, they are also intruders. (Equipment cards may be carried by crews or Away Teams, but an Away Team or crew must contain at least one personnel.)

Your opponent may not look at the cards in your Away Team or crew, except when necessary for verification. See showing your cards.

Borg affiliation personnel may not form Away Teams unless counter-attacking or allowed by game text. Holographic personnel and equipment may exist only on ships or facilities, unless a card such as Mobile Holo- Emitter or Holo-projectors allows them to exist on a planet surface.

Cards referring to an Away Team normally do not include crew. For example, a Flintlock Rifle unstops personnel only in your Away Team, not in your crew. (A few dilemmas which incorrectly refer either to a ship's crew or to an Away Team have been revised to include both.)

Your compatible personnel aboard one ship or facility, at one site, or on one planet surface (outside a facility or landed ship) must form a single Away Team or crew.

However, compatible personnel who are "stopped," disabled, or in stasis are separated from the primary Away Team or crew and form a second, separate team. This second team cannot participate in mission attempts, and its members are not present with dilemmas encountered by the primary team during mission attempts. (See dilemma resolution.) When members of this team become unstopped, leave stasis, or are no longer disabled, they immediately rejoin the primary team.

An Away Team can be associated with only one ship or space facility at a time. If you beam Away Teams from multiple ships or facilities to the same planet, you must designate which single ship or facility the new combined Away Team will be associated with. An Away Team remains associated with the ship it beamed (or disembarked) from until they board another of your ships or space facilities, become associated with another ship by joining that ship's Away Team, or are separated by the departure of the ship or the Away Team from that location (including the ship time-traveling into the future via Temporal Rift). For example, if you play Memory Wipe on your ship, beam an Away Team to a planet, and move the ship to another location, those personnel revert to their normal affiliations.

Away Team battle

This phrase (or "Away Team or Rogue Borg battle") on a card is synonymous with "personnel battle," which may include Away Teams, crews, and/or Rogue Borg.

B'Rel

See Rulebook 10.3.0.11: Ship Origin.

Bajoran

An affiliation and a species. See affiliation and species.

Bajoran Interceptor

See interceptor.

Bajoran Raider

See report with crew.

Bajoran Resistance Cell

A Resistance personnel is one with Resistance skill. This objective only allows you to report Resistance personnel aboard ships. (The "" modifies both "facility" and "ship".) See Espionage cards.

Bajoran Shrine

"Using a disruptor at an adjacent site," which can destroy this site, means that a personnel is present there with a disruptor which that personnel can legally use (see equipment). For example, a Klingon could destroy the site if that klingon is carrying a Klingon Disruptor, but not a Romulan Disruptor. The disruptor does not have to be used in battle, nor does destroying the Shrine count as a battle.

The "other Bajoran" who must be present for the Prylar, Vedek, or Kai to conduct services may be any other Bajoran Personnel card, including another Prylar, Vedek, or Kai (even a copy of the first one).

Bajoran Wormhole

Whenever you play or download this doorway to the Alpha Quadrant, you must download another copy to the Gamma Quadrant (creating that spaceline if there are no missions there yet). The Alpha Quadrant Bajoran Wormhole  card must be placed or inserted adjacent to a Bajor Region location if any are on the spaceline. If not, the doorway may be inserted anywhere on the spaceline that is not within another region, creating a Bajor Region. If one end of the Bajoran Wormhole  is destroyed, the other end is discarded also. See doorways, wormholes - movement through.

Bajoran Wormhole: Mirror Universe

When you seed or play this doorway, you are not required to download Bajoran Wormhole , but if you fail to do so, the download opportunity is lost. Only one player may download Bajoran Wormhole ; the player who seeded or played Bajoran Wormhole: Mirror Universe gets the first opportunity to do so. This doorway is not discarded if the Bajoran Wormhole  is destroyed. See between, Rulebook 12.10: The Colon Rule.

Balancing Act

The point loss for this dilemma is not scored at any specific location and thus is not affected by Altonion Brain Teaser. To see if you are affected by this dilemma, count all your missions with point boxes in all quadrants. A dual-icon mission is both and and is counted as one of each. Examples:

5-1 or 5-1 = 4. You lose points. 4-2 or 4-2 = 2. No point loss. 1 + 4 + 1 = 5-2 = 3. You lose points.

banned cards

Barclay Transporter Phobia

This interrupt plays as a response to the initiation of transport. The affected personnel refuses all beaming, including the transport just initiated. Place the interrupt on the affected personnel as a marker.

Bareil

This personnel cannot download an artifact used as equipment.

Baryon Buildup

See cumulative, facility.

Barzan Wormhole

See between, Supernova .

Bashir Founder

This personnel cannot use his special download while aboard a cloaked or phased ship. See Rulebook 7.6: Cloak, WEAPONS.

battle

See Rulebook 7.4: Battle, Rulebook 7.1.4: Dock & Undock, Rulebook 10.2.1: Stopped, Rulebook 6.3.2: Holographic Personnel and Equipment.

Battle Bridge Door

The second function of this doorway enhances the WEAPONS of only those ships and facilities involved in the battle, and only for the duration of that battle.

Battle Bridge Door: Auxiliary Control

See leaves play.

Battle Bridge side deck

This side deck is made up of Tactic cards which increase your offensive and/or defensive capabilities during ship battle and also indicate damage affecting your opponent's ships and facilities.

You can have as many Tactic cards in your side deck as you like, even duplicates. The side deck is activated during the doorway seed phase by a Battle Bridge Door card placed face up on top of the side deck. See Rulebook 7.4.2: Ship Battle.

Your Tactic cards are not part of your hand, and thus are not affected by cards such as Alien Probe and Energy Vortex. Your used Tactic cards do not go to your discard pile. Instead, whenever one of them is discarded or otherwise leaves the table, place it face up underneath your side deck. When your side deck runs out of face-down Tactic cards, shuffle the face-up cards and place them face down again underneath your seeded Battle Bridge Door.

beaming

become

when a card "becomes" a characteristic (such as a new gender, species, or affiliation), it gains the new characteristic and simultaneously loses any other characteristics of the same kind, for as long as the card causing the change is in play (and/or the the condition causing the change holds true). For example, if Mardah is affected by Frame of Mind, she gains but loses and (until Frame of Mind leaves play). If affected by Q-Type Android, she ceases to be Bajoran species and becomes android or human species (unless Chef nullifies it).

between

When a card allows a ship or personnel to move between one location and another, it may move in either direction. For example, Bajoran Wormhole: Mirror Universe allows a ship to move "between here and a Bajoran Wormhole ." The ship may move either from or to the Bajoran Wormhole .

Beware of Q

When you seed this objective (and have a Q-Continuum side deck), you must declare which function you are seeding the card for. If you wish to use both of the first two functions, you must have two copies in play. The first function does not require a Q-Continuum side deck or a seeded Q-Flash. It allows seeding of Q-icon dilemmas only (not other Q-icon card types). Using this objective to replace a dilemma with a dilemma named "Q" is a valid response to the reveal of the dilemma. See actions - step 1: initiation. If you replace a dilemma with a dilemma named "Q" at a location where you seeded another copy of the same dilemma, the second one revealed is discarded as a mis-seed. The second function of this objective can be used to replace a dilemma seeded at Empok Nor . If a mission has already been solved (or a Borg objective has been placed on it), seeding a dilemma named "Q" under it does not allow it to be solved again, or targeted with another Borg objective. See encountered, Q-icon cards, scouting locations.

Beyond the Subatomic

If the last card in your deck is the card type you named when you played this interrupt, you do not lose the game.

The Big Picture

Once you have solved (or begun a scouting attempt at) both a space mission and a planet mission (either before or after The Big Picture is played), this event no longer affects you. See Rulebook 9.0: Winning the Game, scouted.

Birth of "Junior"

A ship whose RANGE is disabled by "Pup" has not been reduced to 0 by Birth of "Junior," and thus is not destroyed.

Black Hole

This doorway will pull in all cards (including ships) at the adjacent location even if a Q-Net is between the Black Hole and the adjacent location. Cards that can close a doorway (e.g., Revolving Door) suspend the Black Hole's game text and are not pulled in.

When a ship in a Temporal Rift (or Time Travel Pod) is located at a spaceline location that is pulled into a Black Hole, the ship is not immediately discarded, because the ship is time traveling and thus not at that location "in the present"; the card only indicates where it will eventually reappear. Move the ship to the Black Hole location itself until it reappears.

Blade of Tkon

Blended

See "any".

Blood Screening

On this event, "pooling skills" refers to two or more personnel combining their skills together for a dilemma, mission, etc.

bonus point area

Some cards have point boxes, even though they are not missions (or Borg Objectives). These boxes represent bonus points. If a card with a bonus point box is worth points to you when it leaves play, place it in a point area on your side of the table so that you remember those points. These cards are not in play, nor are they part of your discard pile. If a card or rule diverts a bonus point card from your point area, whether permanently (You Can't Kill The Captain) or temporarily (Federation Flagship: Recovered); or if you score bonus points from a card without a point box (such as Lack of Preparation), then you must keep track of those bonus points by other means.

bonus points

See points, bonus point area, Altonian Brain Teaser , Intermix Ratio .

Boratus

See Ajur .

Borg

There are a number of important differences between the Borg and other affiliations. An overview is presented here. Although "Borg" is considered both an affiliation and a species, unless otherwise specified, throughout this section, the term "Borg" refers to cards of affiliation.

The Collective and Hive

All of your Borg affiliation cards in play make up your Borg collective. All of your Borg-affiliation cards at one spaceline location (or time location), whether in space, on a planet, aboard a ship or facility, etc., make up a Borg hive.

Borg Personnel

Most Borg Personnel cards represent drones. A drone's lore identifies it as such and lists its species of origin (or "Biological Distinctiveness"). The Borg Queen, assimilated counterparts such as Locutus of Borg, and former Borg of non- affiliations are not drones. A Borg is considered to be both Borg species and its species of origin.

Gender is largely irrelevant to the Borg. Borg affiliation cards are not affected by gender-related game text on non-Borg-related cards (e.g., Love Interests, Matriarchal Society, Arachnia). For Borg-related cards, the Borg Queen is female and counterparts are male.

Borg personnel have no classifications, though several of the personnel types appear as skills. Regular skills (including the Borg Queen's selected skill) may be shared throughout a Borg hive using the Interlink Drone's skill or the Borg Vinculum. (See skill-sharing.) Your Borg may also share CUNNING using the Unity Drone's skill.

Each Borg personnel has an icon identifying which subcommand ( Communication, Navigation, or Defense) it is assigned to within the Borg collective. Subcommand icons are used primarily to staff Borg ships, but also have other uses indicated by cards. Some Borg, such as the Borg Queen, have more than one subcommand icon, but may each contribute only one icon at a time to meet ship staffing requirements unless otherwise specified. See Seven of Nine.

Borg-Affiliation Ships

Each Borg ship has a bonus point box. These bonus points do not contribute to a Borg player's score, but are earned by your non-Borg opponent whenever that player destroys your Borg ship in battle (and only in battle).

Borg-affiliation ships are not affected by Plasma Fire, Warp Core Breach, Isabella, Into The Breach, Hugh, or the second function of Anti-Matter Spread. (They are affected normally by the first function of Anti-Matter Spread, like any other ship.)

Cooperation

Borg don't mix or cooperate with cards of other affiliations (they are not compatible with them). A player using - affiliation cards may not stock any non-- affiliation personnel, ships, or facilities in their game deck or any side decks, including former Borg such as One, or a Mission II with a built-in non-Borg outpost (even if they do not use that function of the card). If a player has and non- cards present together (The Naked Truth, Frame of Mind, etc.), normal house arrest rules apply. (A card bearing the "Borg Use Only" icon in its title bar can be stocked in your deck and used only when playing the Borg affiliation.)

Objectives

personnel may never begin or join mission attempts . Instead, a Borg player uses Objective cards to accomplish goals such as destroying a ship, scouting a space location, or assimilating a planet. Some Borg objectives score points; others confer different benefits.

When you are playing Borg and you have an uncompleted (Borg Use Only) Objective card face up in play, this is defined as your current objective. You are limited to one current objective at a time. You may have any number of non- objectives in play at a time. (You may also have other cards such as incidents in play.)

When you play (or activate) a Objective card, you must immediately target an appropriate location, ship, personnel, etc., as specified by the objective. Objectives may target solved or unsolved mission locations. The objective then allows your Borg to scout the ship or location, initiate battle, abduct a target, etc. See scouting, scouting locations, scouting ships.

Your Borg must complete scouting (if an objective involves scouting) and meet any other listed requirements (such as having Borg present at the location) before you may probe (usually at the end of your next turn) to determine your current objective's outcome and score its points, if any. See probing.

Scoring points

A Borg player scores points, both positive and negative, only from cards and cards which specify that they affect Borg. When you or your Borg are confronted with any other card which is point-related, play out the card but ignore the points. If that card presents a choice, you must choose an option which is not point-related, if possible. Points you score from completing objectives are non-bonus points. Any other points you score are bonus points (for example, points from the Add Distinctiveness incident or the negative points from Balancing Act).

Assimilation

You may assimilate planets or your opponent's personnel and ships by using Objective and other cards that allow assimilation. (Also see abduction.)

Borg Away Team Restrictions

Your Borg may not form Away Teams (either on a planet or on an opponent's ship or facility) except when counter-attacking or when allowed by your current objective or another card (e.g., Emergency Transporter Armbands, Near-Warp Transport, Iconian Gateway, Devidian Door).

Borg Battle Restrictions

Your Borg may not initiate battle except when counter-attacking or when allowed or required by your current objective (e.g., Assimilate Counterpart, Eliminate Starship) or another card (e.g., Conundrum, The Issue Is Patriotism). When allowed to initiate battle, they may attack any affiliation, including Borg.

Other Borg Restrictions

Borg do not commandeer.

Borg Cube

This ship (as well as the other Borg cubes with similar wording, like Locutus' Borg Cube) allows reporting of any equipment aboard (not just ). Personnel may report to this ship using its game text even while affected by a moving required action. See actions - required, Borg Tactical Cube.

Borg Nanoprobes

This Equipment card is not a hand weapon. A "Species 8472-related dilemma" is one that mentions Species 8472 in its lore. See drone.

Borg Queen

See enigma icon, unique and universal, skills - modifying, skill-sharing.

Borg Scout Vessel

See report with crew.

Borg subcommand icons

See Borg.

Borg Tactical Cube

This ship is a "Borg cube" (for cards such as Harness Particle 010) but may not be downloaded by Retask (which downloads the ship named ? Borg Cube). See Borg Cube

Borg Use Only icon

If your deck includes cards, all your personnel, ships, and facilities must be . See Borg: Cooperation.

Borg Vinculum

See skill-sharing.

Borg-affiliation ships

See Borg.

Botany Bay icon

A card with the icon represents an unpleasant surprise for players who try to uncover what is better left buried. If a player examines a card with the icon any time other than during a mission or scouting attempt, place it on the mission where it was seeded. That player may not attempt or scout this mission until another mission has been completed or a scouting attempt initiated by either player, then re-seed the dilemma at the same mission. If multiple dilemmas are to be simultaneously re-seeded in this way, re-seed them so that they are encountered in the original order. See scouted.

bottom seed card

The bottom seed card at a mission is the card on the bottom of the mission stack (the first card you would encounter if attempting the mission).

Brain Drain

See showing your cards.

Brainwash

This event does not change a captive's affiliation, but makes it compatible with your personnel and removes all affiliation based restrictions on using the Brainwashed personnel as your own. (See capturing.) Examples:

• Galen will work with the Federation if Brainwashed, or with a Brainwashed Federation personnel (even if not Brainwashed himself).
• A Brainwashed captive in your crew or Away Team does not add affiliation-based attack restrictions (e.g., a Brainwashed Federation captive will not prevent your Klingons from initiating battle).
• A non-Borg captive Brainwashed by the Borg is not assimilated and thus may not share skills or scout, but may attempt missions of their affiliation (the Borg may not join the mission attempt and the Borg player may not score the mission points). The captive's skills may be used for other purposes, such as using SCIENCE to enhance SHIELDS with Metaphasic Shields.
• A Borg captive, Brainwashed by a non-Borg captor, will work with that affiliation, but may not join mission attempts. The captive's skills may be used in other ways, such as using Transporter Skill to nullify an Anti-Matter Pod. A Brainwashed Talon Drone could assimilate an opposing personnel stunned in battle (it would immediately be placed under house arrest or would become a separate Away Team).

Breen CRM114

This Equipment card may report wherever your Breen or arms dealer is present, and only where your Breen or arms dealer is present, even when reporting by using another card (e.g., Devidian Door, Security Office). A Breen or arms dealer need not be present to acquire a Breen CRM114 seeded at Search for Weapons.

Using this disruptor to damage a planet facility or landed ship is a special kind of attack (battle), requiring a leader in the Away Team and subject to all normal attack restrictions. The attack automatically succeeds; place one damage marker on the target from your Battle Bridge side deck (no damage is applied if you aren't using the side deck). Cards involved in the attack are "stopped" and your opponent is allowed to counter-attack there normally. See once per turn.

brig

See capturing.

Build Interplexing Beacon

See Stop First Contact .

Calamarain

This event's owner moves it in the same way as they would move a ship, but it is not a ship, is not affected by cards that affect ships, such as Q-Nets or Wormholes, and cannot move through the Bajoran Wormhole . Discard the event after either use (damaging a ship or killing Mortal Q). Calamarain cannot damage a cloaked or phased ship. See Rulebook 7.6: Cloak, Explore Interstellar Matter .

This event may not cause damage that will destroy a ship. When used with a Battle Bridge side deck, it causes default damage. Draw the two damage markers from your side deck, one at a time, and place each one on the ship unless it would destroy that ship (in which case discard that damage marker instead).

cancel

Act of preventing an action (such as a card play or a battle) from having its result. Any costs paid to initiate that action remain paid. When you cancel an action that was limited to once per turn, that action may not be initiated again during that turn. See nullify.

Captain Kirk

This personnel's special skill, "May initiate battle against non-," allows only his ship to initiate battle. Your other Federation ships (or ships with any Federation crew) present may not participate in that battle. (He may also lead an Away Team or crew in personnel battle.) See Rulebook 7.4.1: Initiating a Battle, non-Federation.

Captain Proton cards

Several cards in the Holodeck Adventures set represent people and things from Tom Paris' holoprogram based on the 1930s sci-fi serial, The Adventures of Captain Proton. Like the world of Captain Proton itself, these cards are entirely in black-and-white. Any icons appearing on them should be treated as normal, color versions of those icons. Thus, Captain Proton is treated as a normal, Non-Aligned personnel; also, if you are probing for Omega Directive and reveal him as your probe card, his special download icon triggers the "Threat eliminated" outcome.

Captain's Log

See matching commander.

Captain's Order

In addition to the cards marked with this phrase, Captain's Log, Lower Decks, Yellow Alert, and Senior Staff Meeting are also Captain's Order cards. You need not have Ready Room Door or Commander's Office (which list this definition) in play for these cards to be Captain's Orders and downloadable by James T. Kirk. Red Alert is not a Captain's Order.

capturing

Some cards and rules allow you to capture your opponent's personnel (never a personnel you control). Captives are disabled (unless a card such as Brainwash specifies otherwise). The captives are escorted by your personnel as follows:

• Upon capture, captives are immediately relocated to one of your crews or Away Teams at that location, if possible (to the specific crew or Away Team making the capture, if any, such as when using Ilon Tandro or Captured).
• Otherwise, the capturing card remains in play and serves as a temporary "trap" to hold the captives on your side of that location until your personnel can arrive to take them into custody. (If there is a planet at that location, the trap is on the planet.)
• Your ship with transporters (in space) or your Away Team (on a planet) can subsequently take custody of the captives if present with the trap, then discard the trap card.

Each of your crews and Away Teams may escort any number of captives, and may move them like Equipment cards.

At any given time a captive can be in one of three conditions: (1) held by a trap, in a Brig, or by escorting personnel, (2) Brainwashed, or (3) left unattended. You may change the captive's condition during your turn.

A trap card placed on a captive is not in play; it is a marker of captive status and can no longer be nullified. For example, you may nullify Mandarin Bailiff with Q2 or Miss Q when it is encountered (after the captive is selected but before placing the card on it as a trap), but not later.

You may not initiate battle against personnel you have captured, unless a card allows or requires it. See White Deprivation .

All captured cards are returned to their owner at the end of the game.

For personnel who are held by a dilemma (but have not been captured) like the targets of Primitive Humanoids, see Rulebook 7.2.2.0.1: Reading and Responding to Dilemmas.

Brigs

Some cards allow you to add a Brig to a ship or facility. While you control the ship or facility, you may move captured personnel into and out of the Brig during your turn (while in the Brig they are held but not escorted). If your opponent commandeers or assimilates the ship or facility, their personnel may subsequently release any of their other personnel held captive in the Brig (if present).

Release

Captives that are held or Brainwashed may be released only by using a card that specifically releases (or "returns" or "rescues") captives (such as Rescue Captives, His Honor, The High Sheriff of Nottingham, or Prisoner Exchange).

Unattended captives, however, are conceptually "tied up and left behind" and thus may be released by their owner's other personnel present, without any special card.

Whenever a captive is released, all capturing-related cards played on that captive are discarded.

capturing-related card

This phrase includes any card that:

• captures personnel or prevents their capture;
• specifically affects captives or allows them to be used in any way; or
• has an effect when a captive is taken or escorted.
• In addition, any card whose gametext downloads, nullifies, or modifies a card which meets any of the above criteria (specified by title), is also a capturing-related card

Disregard title and lore, ignoring the ordinary -related rule."

Examples of capturing-related cards include Thine Own Self, Ilon Tandro, Wolf, Brainwash, Rescue Captives, Impersonate Captive, Holding Cell Door, Fajo's Gallery, Gul Madred, and Madred.

Capture-related cards may still use captives.

card draw

A card draw refers to any card drawn from your draw deck (or from your discard pile, if using Carlos' skill; but not from a side deck), either as the player's end-of-turn draw(s) or through the use of a card that specifies that you "draw cards," such as Kivas Fajo - Collector. (Cards chosen from your deck using a Betazoid Gift Box are not "drawn.") Each card draw is a separate action.

An action that is "in place of one card draw" may replace any card draw (you may do this even if there are no cards remaining in your draw deck). Unless the action is explicitly restricted to once per turn, you may replace as many card draws as you are entitled to. For example, downloads with the Borg Queen's special skill may replace any or all of the three card draws from Kivas Fajo - Collector. The replacement action must be performed at the time you would normally make that card draw.

You may perform as many actions as you like each turn that have the restriction "draw no cards this turn" (e.g., playing a Q's Tent, downloading with Ops). You may not then draw any more cards for the remainder of the turn, by any means (normal card draw, Kivas Fajo - Collector, Masaka Transformations, etc.), or use an ability (such as the Borg Queen's special skill) that allows you to perform an action in place of a card draw.

However, if the first action you perform imposing a restriction of "draw no cards this turn" triggers a "just" action or valid response of drawing a card, the "just" action or valid response occurs before the restriction takes effect. See turn, actions - "just".

card play

A card play refers to any card played by any means (normal card play for the turn, normal interrupt or doorway play, a card played "for free," downloaded into play, Devidian Door, etc.), except those "drawn" from a side deck (such as a Tactic card drawn from a Battle Bridge side deck). Card plays are of two types: Personnel, Ship, Equipment, and Tribble cards report (for duty), while all other card types are simply "played." See entries for specific card types for details of playing that card type.

Your normal card play is defined as the onecard play you are allowed each turn by rule. Although optional, this must take place before executing orders. Interrupts and doorways do not use up (or count as) your normal card play. All other playable card types use your normal card play unless otherwise specified, or unless brought into play via a mechanism such as downloading or as the direct result of playing an interrupt or doorway (such as Barzan Wormhole). If you are allowed to report a card using ongoing game text of a card in play, such as Borg Cube, then that report uses your normal card play (unless otherwise specified).

Cards are always played face up, unless they have a hidden agenda icon. Except when playing a hidden agenda card, announce the name of the card when you put it into play.

Your opponent may examine any card that you play face up at the time of play, but not later unless allowed by a rule or card. (See showing your cards.)

An action that is "in place of your normal card play" must be performed when you would make your normal card play. Such an action may be a group action with several subactions; interrupts may not be played between those sub-actions. See actions - group.

Only one such "replacement" action may be performed each turn. For example, two Spacedoors will not allow you to download two ships.

card titles

See Rulebook 12.10: The Colon Rule, combo dilemma.

card types

The current card types are listed in Appendix A.

The following are not separate card types: cards of different affiliations; Outpost, Station, and Headquarters (all are Facility cards); Q-icon cards (a Q-icon dilemma is a Dilemma card, etc.); Mission II (Mission cards); and Combo dilemmas (Dilemma cards).

A card that functions "like" or "as" another card type in a particular context does not count as that card type (unless the card specifically says otherwise). For example, Satan's Robot, an Equipment card that "participates in battle like a personnel," may never be targeted by Sniper (which targets personnel) and is still vulnerable to Disruptor Overload (which targets equipment). Likewise, Calamarain may not be targeted by Hail.

By contrast, when a card functions "like" or "as" another card type generally (such as when the card says it "plays as," "seeds like," or is "used as" a different card type), it counts as both card types for all purposes. For example, an Artifact that "plays as an event" can be nullified by Kevin Uxbridge. An Artifact that is "used as equipment" may be targeted by Vorgon Raiders (as an artifact), stolen by a Procurement Drone (as an equipment), discarded to satisfy Rebel Encounter, or (if re-earned with Reclamation) reported in any way that an Equipment card may be reported. Artifacts must still be earned legally before use.

Cardassian

An affiliation and a species. See affiliation and species.

Caretaker's Array

This incident allows a ship to relocate here from any Badlands Region location in any quadrant.

Cargo Bay

You begin a cargo run (as described on this site) when one or more of your personnel aboard a facility pick up one or more Equipment cards aboard that facility and carry them directly aboard your ship at the same location. You must announce the run and show your opponent which personnel and equipment are involved (but you do not have to specify now which personnel, equipment, or Cargo Bay you will use to complete it). When that ship arrives at a different facility any number of turns later, any of those same personnel who has been a member of the ship's crew since the run was announced may carry any of those equipment cards directly to the Cargo Bay to complete the cargo run.

You may not begin or complete a cargo run by beaming a crew member with equipment between universes with a Multidimensional Transport Device, or by beaming them aboard a ship with Invasive Transporters and then to Cargo Bay. You may not complete a cargo run begun by your opponent (e.g, if you take control of the ship with Neural Servo Device).

Your ship can take any path from the starting facility to the ending facility, giving you credit for each mission passed (except starting and ending locations). You may count each mission only once per cargo run. See passing locations.

While you may have multiple ships making cargo runs concurrently, a single ship's crew can complete only one at a time, earning card draws or Latinum downloads for only one piece of equipment. To deliver any additional equipment, a crew must begin a new cargo run. See report.

cargo run

See Cargo Bay .

Carlos

This personnel's special skill has no effect on probing or any other function that involves the draw deck, other than drawing cards.

carried ships

One ship may not be carried aboard another ship unless a card, such as Engage Shuttle Operations or Borg Sphere, allows it. If the "mother ship" is destroyed, any ship it carries is also destroyed. If a carried ship is destroyed, the "mother ship" is damaged.

Game text that allows you to launch carried ships also allows you to load or recover such ships. For example, Engage Shuttle Operations allows you to launch shuttlecraft from, and re-load them aboard, your ships with Tractor Beam and ENGINEER. Launching and loading require full staffing (see movement).

Personnel aboard a carried ship are also part of the crew of the carrying ship, or are intruders if the carrying ship is controlled by a different player.

Cards that may not target docked ships also may not target carried ships.

If you launch a carried ship into space from a landed ship, it counts as both launching and taking off; reloading a ship aboard a landed ship counts as both reloading and landing. For example, to launch the Delta Flyer from your landed U.S.S. Voyager, you must have a card such as Blue Alert to allow it to take off, using 2 RANGE.

Cha'Joh

This is a multi-affiliation ship of Klingon origin ("Bird-of-Prey"); thus, it is (by origin) a "Klingon ship" regardless of its current affiliation mode, but a "Romulan ship" only in Romulan affiliation mode. (It is only a only a " ship" while in mode.)