STAR TREK CUSTOMIZABLE CARD GAME RULEBOOK - BASIC RULES - ADVANCED RULES
Version 2.5.4 — April 2024

Star Trek Customizable Card Game Rulebook - BORG RULES

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

—The Borg Collective

1: INTRODUCTION

Welcome to a universe with endless possibilities.

In the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, you will venture into the final frontier. Using cards representing personnel, ships, missions, events, and more from the Star Trek universe, you will complete missions to score 100 points and win the game.

But beware! If your ships and crews aren't being torn apart by the natural (and unnatural) hazards of deep space, your rivals will be one step behind you, undermining you at every turn, profiting from your losses, and even engaging in open warfare against you — determined to reduce you to one more footnote in galactic history books. Get ready to Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before!

ABOUT THIS GAME (1.1)

Tip: First vs. Second Edition (1.1.0.1)

From 2003 to 2006, Decipher produced a brand new Star Trek card game, called simply the "Star Trek Customizable Card Game (Second Edition)". This was a completely different game, and you should be careful when buying from wholesalers to make sure that you are buying cards from the correct Star Trek CCG. The two games are commonly referred to as "1E" and "2E", respectively. Like 1E, 2E is maintained today by the Continuing Committee, and you can find more information about it at the Committee's website.

"It took us centuries to learn it doesn't have to take centuries to learn."

—Anij

Most card games have just one deck of cards that never changes, but a Customizable Card Game (or CCG) works differently. In a CCG, you construct your own playing deck using cards from your collection. In this game, you and another player establish a shared universe, where you each establish operational bases, deploy ships and personnel, and complete missions in order to score points.

The Star Trek Customizable Card Game (First Edition) is a universe of over 4200 different cards, representing people, places, events, equipment, missions, and more from Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe.

This game was published on physical cards by Decipher, Inc. from 1994 until 2003. You can still purchase many of the cards Decipher produced at specialty gaming stores or online wholesalers.

Since 2009, the Star Trek CCG has been produced and organized by the volunteers of The Continuing Committee. The Continuing Committee (CC) regularly releases new sets.

You may print copies of any and all cards on your home printer. Printed cards are legal in tournament play. (They must be sleeved and backed by a physical card.) New players should consider printing one of the CC's virtual starter decks, available on their website, for a quick way to jump into a game using a pre-constructed, competitive deck.

While even a single virtual starter deck is competitive in today's game, additional cards unlock more options and new ways to play. Download, print, purchase, and trade cards in order to Expand Your Power in the Universe!

ABOUT THIS RULEBOOK (1.2)

"You can't play a foolie without rules. Even Grups ought to know that."

—Miri

This Basic rulebook, designed especially for beginners who are eager to start playing, explains the generally applicable core rules of the Star Trek CCG (1E). When you're ready, you may continue with the Advanced Rulebook, which covers the more specialized areas of the game.

This advanced rulebook is the sequel to the Basic Rulebook. The purpose of this volume is to explain everything that was left out of the Basic Rulebook. The Basic Rulebook and the Advanced Rulebook, combined, form the Complete Rulebook; if you have read both the Basic and Advanced Rulebooks, there is no need to read the Complete Rulebook.

The companion to this rulebook the Advanced Rulebook is the Glossary. The Glossary is available at the CC's website, and includes many rulings and clarifications related to specific cards and terms. If the rulebook and the Glossary ever conflict, the Glossary is correct.

Tip: Try the Basic Rulebook (1.2.0.1)

This is a comprehensive rulebook for the Star Trek CCG. It covers the basics, but it also delves into advanced subjects and some pretty detailed minutiae. If you're a new player, that's a lot to take on, especially in one sitting.

You might want to try the Basic Rulebook instead. The Basic Rulebook is simply an abridged edition of the Complete Rulebook, explaining the core gameplay but leaving out the more "fringe" parts of the game (like Sites and infiltration) so you can jump in and start playing your first game faster.

And don't worry — once you've read the Basic Rulebook, you can quickly and easily digest the rest of the rules by reading the Advanced Rulebook, which covers everything the Basic Rulebook left out.

Formats: Modern, Traditional, and Open Rules (1.2.0.2)

This rulebook describes the game's current rules ("Modern" rules).

Some players prefer using "Traditional" rules, the official rules as of July 7th, 2006 (the day Decipher released The Enterprise Collection). Others prefer "Open" rules, a compromise between Traditional and Modern.

This rulebook fully describes Open rules in blue sidebars (like this one). Open players do not need to refer to any other document.

If playing Traditional, disregard this rulebook. The definitive rules documents for Traditional are Glossary 1.8 and CRD 7/14/03. These should be used instead. To see all differences between Traditional and Modern, consult the Rule Change Viewer. The Rules Committee does not issue updates, rulings, or clarifications for Traditional rules.

"Modern" was previously known as "Official Tournament Format" ("OTF").

Keep in mind a few things as you begin:

Allow a couple hours to read the rules, and a few more to play your first game. What seems complicated in the beginning becomes quite natural in subsequent games. This game aims to allow you to do virtually anything in the Star Trek universe; it takes a little practice and patience to master its infinite possibilities.
You don't have to memorize what each card does. Usually, using written information and a handful of important icons, the cards themselves explain what you can do with them.
A specific rule overrides a more general rule, and a card's specific text overrides an otherwise applicable rule.
Throughout the rulebook, sidebars contain in-depth discussion of certain topics; just click to expand. (Or, if you're feeling very daring, expand them all by clicking here: .) If this is your first time reading the rules, ignore the sidebars, except for the green "tips" sidebars, which are written for novices. Most other sidebars discuss complications and ambiguities in the rules, and should be absorbed gradually over the course of many games.
If you click on a term in bold, you will be taken straight to an explanation of the term. Most bold terms also have an entry in the Glossary.
The various rule documents, the rulesmaster, your local tournament directors, and the CC forums are always available to answer your rules questions. If you want a definitive answer, you can always find it, usually from an enthusiastic player.
IThat said, if you and your gaming partners need to resolve a rules dispute quickly, especially during a casual game, try applying a little "Trek Sense": if this were an episode of Star Trek (or, if you're not familiar with Star Trek, the science fiction of your choice), how do you and your gaming partner think the situation should resolve? Look at it in the friendly spirit of Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future, then proceed with the game.

2: THE CARDS

ODO: I don't play cards.
QUARK: I'll teach you. It's a very simple game.
ODO: Let me put it another way. I don't want to play cards. And even if I did, I wouldn't want to play with you.
QUARK: Afraid you'd lose?

—"The Ascent"

There are seventeen card types in the Star Trek CCG, some of which you'll use in every game, and others which you'll rarely see. The following pages are a brief overview of the card types not covered in the Basic Rulebook.

The cards feature many different icons. Some have built-in gameplay functions, which will be explained in this rulebook. Other icons are only referenced by other cards; they are explained in the icon legend at the end of this rulebook.

MISSIONS (2.1)

Every player begins the game with exactly 6 missions. Missions represent locations within the cosmos. Each mission has a span, representing the distance that must be traveled to visit or pass this location. Some missions are Planets, where personnel and equipment can beam down to the surface. Others are Space missions, where everyone remains aboard their ships.

Tip: Homeworlds (2.1.0.2)

A few missions state in their lore that they are the homeworld for their affiliations. For example, the location of Alter Records is Bajor, which, as the lore states, is the Bajoran homeworld. Homeworlds are used by many cards, and including your affiliation's homeworld in your deck can be an excellent strategic move. "Homeworld" is a characteristic.

Following is a list of all homeworlds in the game. You do not need to memorize it; it's just handy to have around:

Federation: one version of Earth (Espionage Mission)
Starfleet: a different version of Earth (Research Devastating Attack)
Vulcan: Vulcan (Deliver Ancient Artifact and Observe Ritual)
Klingon: Qo'nos (Expose Covert Supply and Repatriate Citizen)
Romulan: Romulus (Cloaked Mission)
Bajoran: Bajor (Alter Records)
Cardassian: Cardassia Prime (Orb Negotiations)
Dominion: Founder Homeworld (Intelligence Operation)
Ferengi: Ferenginar (Deliver Message)
Mirror Quadrant Bajorans: Bajor (Disrupt Alliance)
Mirror Quadrant Klingons: Qo'noS (Launch Military Strike)
Mirror Quadrant Starfleet: Earth (Monitor Population)
Mirror Quadrant Vulcans: Vulcan (Oppress Population)

Clarifications: Two Kinds of Attemptability Icon (2.1.0.3)

The "regular" attemptability icons (, , etc.) and the "summary" attemptability icons (, , etc.) are normally equivalent. For example, if a card plays on "a mission," you can seed it at a mission with a or icon facing you. (Remember: you ignore your opponent's end.)

However, when a card uses both the "regular" and "summary" icon, it is overriding the general rule and instructing you to look at (or alter) both ends of the mission. For example, when Cold Station 12 seeds "at a or mission," it may seed at your opponent's Intercept Dignitary, even though a icon only faces your opponent.

Most missions also define a goal, in which case they show which affiliations may attempt the mission, usually through affiliation icons. They also have requirements, which state what skills are needed to accomplish the mission, and a point box, specifying the number of points a player receives for completing the mission. If a player completes at least one Planet mission, one Space mission, and scores 100 points, that player wins the game.

The opponent's side of the mission contains a convenient mission summary. However, the information on the opponent's end may be different from the information on your end. You may only use (or alter) the requirements, gametext, attemptability, point box, and span facing you, ignoring the corresponding information on opponent's end (and vice versa).

Both players' missions are played together in a row called the "spaceline," representing locations in one quadrant of the galaxy. If missions belong to different quadrants, each quadrant has a single, separate spaceline. All spacelines, together, form the shared universe you and your opponent inhabit during the game.

DILEMMAS (2.2)

A dilemma is a problem or obstacle personnel must face when attempting to complete a mission. They are your main tools for preventing your opponent from solving missions and scoring points. They are placed under missions at the beginning of the game, to be discovered later. Planet dilemmas can be encountered only at planet missions. Space dilemmas can be encountered only at space missions. Dual dilemmas may be encountered at any mission.

ARTIFACTS (2.3)

Artifacts represent rare and precious objects with special powers. They are discovered at Planet locations during mission attempts, and can only be earned by completing the mission. Some are then kept as equipment, some play on the table as events, and others are placed in your hand for later use.

EVENTS, INCIDENTS, & OBJECTIVES (2.4)

Tip: What's the Difference? (2.4.0.1)

The difference between Events and Incidents is that incidents are harder for your opponent to nullify. Likewise, the difference between Incidents and Objectives is the concept they represent; they are otherwise used in exactly the same manner.

The "real" reason there are three such similar card types is because Decipher launched the game with Events, but, over the years, discovered that the Events gametext box was not big enough for some of the cards they wanted to design. Incidents are also used in lieu of Events to avoid interacting with certain cards (such as Quinn).

Events and Incidents represent developments within the universe. Objectives represent tasks you may complete, usually for points or some other benefit. Although they have different names, they all function the same way. While most events, incidents, and objectives have lasting effects, a few say to discard them after use.

DOORWAYS (2.5)

Doorways represent a physical door or a passage to another time or place. They open up side decks, link different spacelines together, allow special cards to be played, and more. Most doorways are seeded (they enter play before the game begins), but many doorways can be played during your turn.

INTERRUPTS (2.6)

Interrupts represent sudden developments or unexpected changes of fortune in the universe. Unlike other card types, Interrupts can be played at any time between other actions — even during your opponent's turn! Interrupts normally have a short-lived effect, and they are automatically discarded after use (unless the card says otherwise).

PERSONNEL (2.7)

Personnel are your primary resource in the race to one hundred points. Personnel solve missions, face dilemmas, staff ships, and fight battles. All personnel have an affiliation (see the list of affiliations). Cards from different affiliations do not normally work together, so you will probably have cards from only one or two affiliations in your deck.

All personnel have attributes (STRENGTH, INTEGRITY, and CUNNING), a single classification (OFFICER, ENGINEER, MEDICAL, SCIENCE, SECURITY, V.I.P., CIVILIAN, or ANIMAL), and one or more skills.

Many personnel also have characteristics, such as human, female, admiral, cook, bodyguard, and many more. For example, Benjamin Sisko is a human, a male, the commander of Deep Space 9, the Emissary of the Prophets, a cook, and a friend.

EQUIPMENT (2.8)

Equipment cards represent portable tools and other devices. Your personnel carry Equipment to add skills, improve attributes, or do things they otherwise would not be able to do. Like personnel, equipment often have characteristics.

SHIPS (2.9)

Clarifications: List of Special Equipment (2.9.0.1)

This is a complete list of special equipment on ships:

Cloaking Device, Energy Dampener, Holodeck, Holographic Skin, Invasive Transporters, Long-Range Scan Shielding, Particle Scattering Device, Phasing Cloak, Solar Sail, and Tractor Beam. Moreover, any regular skill may be used as special equipment.

Regular transporters (which all ships have unless otherwise specified), special downloads, and other game text on the ship card, usually expressed as a sentence with a period, are not special equipment. For example, the U.S.S. Stargazer's text ("Once each game, may be taken from discard pile to hand.") is not special equipment.

Ships move your personnel and equipment around the universe. You also need ships to attempt space missions. Like personnel, ships have affiliations and characteristics (such as class). They have attributes (RANGE, WEAPONS, and SHIELDS), and some have special equipment (like Tractor Beam or Cloaking Device) or abilities (like the I.K.S. Pagh's extra Tactic draw). Ships also have staffing requirements.

FACILITIES (2.10)

Facilities are installations throughout the universe. Your ships, personnel, and equipment typically enter play at one of your facilities. Facilities are usually well-shielded, and can extend their shields to friendly ships that dock at them. There are three main types of facilities:

Outposts are operational bases on the frontiers of known space. Only the player who controls an outpost may use it, and only Outposts have built-in repair functions.
Headquarters are the centers of government located on each affiliation's homeworld. If both players are playing the same affiliation, they share control of its headquarters.
Stations represent all other facilities. Like Outposts, only the player who controls a Station may use it. Each Station card specifies where it plays and what it can do.

Facilities are usually seeded, but some are built during the game.

SITES (2.11)

Sites represent areas within facilities where personnel can report for duty, perform tasks, and interact. At present, sites are used only on Nor-type stations.

Although usually seeded, Sites can be stocked in your draw deck. Playing one uses your normal card play.

TIME LOCATIONS (2.12)

The Star Trek: Customizable Card Game is set in the latter half of the 24th Century. Time locations represent important places in the past or future.

Time Locations are not part of the spaceline, but every time location is paired with a spaceline location named in its lore. For example, Camp Khitomer states that it is located on 2293 Khitomer, so it is paired with the mission Khitomer Research, which states that its location is 24th-Century Khitomer. A time location may only be played if its corresponding spaceline location is in play.

Time locations are usually seeded before the game starts, but, if you do play one, it uses your normal card play. Getting to and from Time Locations requires a special form of movement called Time Travel.

TACTICS (2.13)

Tactics are side deck cards — they may play only through a Battle Bridge side deck, which requires a Battle Bridge Door. Tactic cards increase your offensive and/or defensive abilities during ship battles, and double as damage markers, doling out penalties to enemies who cannot withstand your firepower.

TRIBBLES & TROUBLES (2.14)

Tribbles and Troubles are side deck cards — they may play only through a Tribble side deck, which requires a Storage Compartment Door. They are designed to impede (and irritate) your opponent by burying his or her operations under piles of adorable, unstoppable tribbles. Tribble groups start small, then breed into larger and larger groups. Troubles play on large groups of tribbles and add even more complications, making life very difficult for your opponent!

Q-ICON CARDS (2.15)

Q-icon cards are side deck cards — they may be stocked only through a Q-Continuum side deck, which requires a Q-Flash, and are drawn out through other cards, like Q: Enter the Supernova. Q's meddling creates all kinds of cosmic chaos... for both players! icon cards have a normal card type, such as Event or Dilemma. For example, a Event is still an Event, and may be nullified by Kevin Uxbridge.

BANNED CARDS (2.16)

The Continuing Committee maintains an Official Ban List, updated on the first Monday of every month. Banned cards may not be included in your deck.

3: BUILDING A DECK

Borg Rule: Borg Cards in Your Deck (3.0.1)

A player using any Borg Use Only or -affiliation cards may not stock any non--affiliation Personnel, Ships, or Facilities in any part of his or her deck. There are no exceptions: a player under this restriction may not use former Borg drones such as One (who is Non-Aligned), or even use a Mission card that happens to have a built-in non- outpost. The Borg are a perfect organism, and the Collective has no tolerance for intermingling with those creatures who are not part of its perfection.

Your Star Trek CCG game deck consists of a seed deck of up to 30 cards, plus a draw deck of at least 30 cards. Your seed deck consists of the cards you play during the game setup, while your draw deck consists of the cards you will play during the main game. You may also use any number of side decks, if you include the doorways to open them in your seed deck.

SEED DECK (3.1)

Tip: A Typical Seed Deck (3.1.0.2)

A "typical" seed deck consists of 6 missions, 18-24 dilemmas, 1-2 facilities, a Q's Tent or Q's Tent: Civil War, 1-3 other doorways, and an assortment of objectives, incidents, and events. Some of the perennials in that last category are Defend Homeworld, Assign Mission Specialists, Continuing Mission, and Tribunal of Q. New players are advised to pad their dilemmas, rather than skimp on them; only a handful of experts have ever won a tournament with 12 dilemmas or fewer.

Your seed deck contains the cards you will use before the first turn. Your seed deck will probably include Dilemmas and Facilities, and might include Artifacts, Doorways, and other cards that state they may be seeded. You may include as many copies of each card as you like, as long as the total size of your seed deck is no larger than 30 cards.

Alongside your seed deck, you must bring a mission pile, and you may bring a site pile. These are separate from the seed deck, and they do not count toward its 30-card limit. (You may not include Missions or Sites in your 30-card seed deck.)

MISSION PILE (3.1.1)

Your mission pile must include exactly 6 missions. Each of your missions must be at a different location. For example, Study Rare Phenomenon and Attack at Rare Phenomenon have the same location ("Compression anomaly"). Therefore, you cannot use both in your deck.

Tip: Sites Without A Nor (3.1.0.4)

Sites only seed or play on Nors, such as Terok Nor. However, even if you do not have a Nor in your deck, you may want to bring some Site cards. If your opponent seeds a Nor, you can put your sites on that! Otherwise, your sites are placed out-of-play at the end of the Facility Phase.

If you think you might want to board an opponent's Nor, you should include at least one docking site that fits your ships, in case your opponent doesn't include any -- and maybe an Ops or Ops: Mirror Universe, in case you want to commandeer it!

SITE PILE (3.1.2)

Your optional site pile includes up to 6 site cards.

DRAW DECK (3.2)

Your draw deck may be of any size, as long as it contains at least 30 cards. You may put any card in your draw deck, except Tactic, Tribble, Trouble, and Q-Icon cards. However, you should avoid cards that must be seeded rather than played, such as Dilemmas and Artifacts, since you will normally have no way of using them if stocked in your draw deck. You may include as many copies of each card as you like.

SIDE DECKS (3.3)

Tip: Q's Tent & Dyson Sphere as Download Warehouses (3.3.0.1)

You will quickly realize that most people who use Q's Tent side decks do not stock a single copy of Q's Tent in their draw decks. This is counter-intuitive. At first glance, without more copies of Q's Tent, there is no way to get cards out of the side deck, right? But this assumption is wrong.

Many cards allow players to download other cards into play, and many players rely on downloads early in the game to get their ships and personnel on the table. A player can download from a Q's Tent to get a desired card into play. Why not stock these cards in the draw deck, then, and save yourself the seed slot? Because players already know they are going to get these cards into play early on, and do not want to risk wasting valuable card draws getting them into their hands only to download them immediately. Q's Tent is like an offshore tax haven — you can get your downloadable cards into play without risking the tax on your card draws — and they are a worthwhile investment for most decks.

The Dyson Sphere Door dilemma side deck, which also makes little sense at first glance, is also based on downloading, taking advantage of seeded cards like All Available Personnel and I'm Not Going To Fight You to get its contents into play.

Your side decks are optional additional decks separate from your seed deck and draw deck. Each side deck is shuffled and placed face-down on the table. It must be opened by a Doorway card during the seed phase. Cards in your side decks are not seed cards and do not count toward the 30-card seed limit. (However, the Doorway cards that open them are seed cards and do count.) While you may have as many side decks in a game as you like, you may have only one side deck of each type (one Battle Bridge side deck, one Q-Continuum side deck, one Q's Tent side deck, etc.).

Unless the enabling doorway states otherwise, your side decks may be of any size.

4: THE SEED PHASES

"Ah, the game's afoot, eh?"

—General Chang

Tip:

Cards (4.0.1)

If you wish to play cards with the Alternate Universe icon during this game, you should seed a card during one of the seed phases that allows you to play them.

There are five -enabling doorways as of this writing: Alternate Universe Door, Temporal Conduit, Dyson Sphere Door, Space-Time Portal, and Temporal Micro-Wormhole.

You may also use the mission Seal Rift, the event Where No Man Has Gone Before, or the personnel Sigmund Freud.

You do not need an -enabling doorway to report personnel to Time Locations where they are "native". Thus, for example, if you are playing an all- deck, you may seed Sherman's Planet and Agricultural Assessment, report all your ships, personnel, and equipment there, and never be forced to play an doorway. However, the moment you put a single non- in your deck, be it Ressikian Flute or T'Pol, you will need a doorway or some other means of getting that card in play.

The icon originally meant "Alternate Universe", and is referred to as the "AU" icon. However, as the game evolved, it came to encompass all cards from the past, from possible futures, and from various delusions (such as Barash's illusion). A separate mechanic was eventually devised for the cards from the Star Trek's most iconic alternate universe, the Mirror Universe, and so they generally do not have the icon.

The Star Trek CCG begins with four seed phases, in which players establish the universe, followed by the play phase, in which players take alternating turns until one player wins.

Clarification: Seed Phase Actions (4.0.2)

The only actions you may take during the seed phases are:

seeding cards;
carrying out game text that takes place immediately upon seeding a card (for example, rotating Rura Penthe upon seeding Operate Dilithium Gulag); and
Special Downloads.

All other actions, including "at any time" actions, must wait until the play phase begins.

If a seeded card (such as Assign Mission Specialists or Ultimatum) permits a download, and it is not limited to the play phase with a phrase like "in place of a card draw" or "once per game", then that download must occur immediately. Cards downloaded in this way are stocked in your draw deck or side deck, not your seed deck. They are not seed cards and do not count toward your 30-card seed limit.

The seed phases use your seed deck to "set the stage" for your adventure. Don't confuse them with mere setup, though! Victory or defeat often hinges on decisions you make in the seed phases. The seed phases are one of the main features that distinguish this game from most other card games. By establishing a universe that is different every time, where everything from the shape of the galaxy to the basic rules can be changed by seeded cards, the seed phases allow every game to play out completely differently. For novice players, the number of complicated cards that hit the table "before the game even starts" can feel overwhelming, even pointless, because "nothing is happening" -- but the seed phase is where each player starts building the road they will eventually take to victory.

There are four seed phases that must occur in sequence: the doorway phase, mission phase, dilemma phase, and the facility phase. Doorways, Missions, Dilemmas, and Facilities must be seeded in the corresponding phase. Other cards that seed (like Establish Landing Protocols) must seed during the Facility Phase.

Seed a card by placing it face-up on the spaceline or table; it is now in play. However, cards seeded under a mission, and any card with a Hidden Agenda icon, always seed face-down. Face-down cards are not considered "in play" until encountered or activated. You do not have to announce the title of cards seeded face-down, but your opponent may count them, or require you to announce how many face-down cards you have seeded, whenever he or she chooses.

A card with the Alternate Universe icon may only be seeded if a card (such as Alternate Universe Door; see sidebar) expressly allows you to seed cards.

Determine by any mutually agreeable method (often a coin toss) which player will be the starting player. The starting player will go first in each of the seed phases, and will have the first turn of the play phase. Then, shuffle any side decks you have and proceed to the first seed phase. The game has now begun.

DOORWAY PHASE (4.1)

"We exist in a universe which co-exists with a multitude of others in the same physical space. At certain brief periods of time, an area of their space overlaps an area of ours."

—Mr. Spock

Both players simultaneously seed their Doorways on the table. Then, starting with the player who will go first, each player announces the title of all cards he or she seeded face-up.

MISSION PHASE (4.2)

"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million, million galaxies like this."

—Dr. McCoy

In this phase, you and your opponent create one or more lines of Mission cards, called spacelines, representing different quadrants of the galaxy. Each spaceline functions like a gameboard where your cards move and interact. Each card that is part of a spaceline is a separate location.

Every Mission card states its native quadrant in its point box: Gamma Quadrant missions have the symbol, Delta Quadrant missions , Mirror Quadrant missions , and Alpha Quadrant missions have no symbol. Missions without a point box, like Nebula, are native to the Alpha Quadrant.

Both players shuffle their six missions and place them in a pile face-down. The starting player draws the top mission from his or her pile and places it face up on the table, beginning the first spaceline. The second player then draws and places his or her first mission.

A mission may be placed on either end of the appropriate spaceline. If it is the first mission in the quadrant, it is placed on a new spaceline, separate from the others. Cards that specify they are inserted into the spaceline may be placed anywhere in their native quadrant, including between two missions already seeded. This continues until both players are finished.

Some cards specify that they are part of a region, such as the "Bajor region" or the "Neutral Zone region". These cards must be next to each other, forming a single, contiguous region within the quadrant. The first location in a region is placed normally. Subsequent locations within that region may be inserted into the spaceline at either end of the region.

Clarifications: Built-In Cards ("Mission II") (4.2.0.2)

Some missions, like Secret Salvage II, have other cards "built in" to them. Such missions are called "Mission II"s, and are always two-sided. See Double-Sided Cards.

Mission II's are usually elaborations of a different mission card. A Mission II and its original function as the same card (for most purposes) under The Colon Rule. Thus, Timicin scores 10 points for solving Test Mission II just as he would at Test Mission.

Built-In Outpost: Mission II outposts do not prevent you from seeding another outpost of the same affiliation. However, as always, you may not establish a second facility at the same location where you already have a built-in Mission II outpost. Outpost-related cards work normally with Mission II outposts. If the outpost is destroyed, flip the mission over to signify this. If the outpost is placed out-of-play, flip the mission over and place a token on it to signify that it is out-of-play; the Mission II outpost may not be rebuilt for the rest of the game. A Mission II outpost shares the uniqueness of its mission card.

Finally, a card management issue: normally, docked ships and personnel at an outpost are placed face-up beneath the outpost to show their presence there. Because there are already seed cards at the mission, this is impossible at built-in outposts. Instead, place docked ships and personnel face-down in a pile directly in front of the outpost.

Built-In Wormhole: You may move in either direction between your own built-in Wormhole and a Wormhole Interrupt you play at another mission (or any player's other built-in Wormhole). You may not use your opponent's built-in Wormhole with a Wormhole Interrupt; you must use your own built-in Wormhole. However, you may use your opponent's built-in Wormhole if the opposite end is also your built-in wormhole. If you move between two built-in Wormholes, flip one (your choice if both yours; otherwise your own).

You may not pair Space-Time Portal's Wormhole function with a built-in wormhole. (The Wormhole for Space-Time Portal must be played.)

If two players seed the same location in the same quadrant, it becomes a shared mission. The first version to appear is seeded normally, but the second version is placed on top of the original, wherever it is on the spaceline, leaving half of the original exposed. The two missions form only one location and may be completed only once. Each player uses only their own mission card for gameplay purposes; players may not use the "opponent's end" of their opponents' mission card at a shared mission. For example, if you seed Aftermath and then your opponent seeds Aftermath II, they are the same location ("Lifeless Planet") in the same quadrant ( Delta). Place Aftermath II atop Aftermath; both players may attempt it. If you solve it first, you get 35 points; if your opponent solves it first, he or she gets only 30 points.

After the mission phase is over, your table may look something like this:

Spaceline diagram after the mission phase

DILEMMA PHASE (4.3)

"It's a chess game. Move, counter-move. Guile and deceit."

—William T. Riker

In this phase, you and your opponents hide dilemmas and artifacts face-down under missions, where they will be encountered during the game.

Space dilemmas seed under any Space mission. Planet dilemmas and all artifacts seed under planet missions. Space/Planet dilemmas seed under any mission. Q-dilemmas may not seed unless a card allows it. Whenever you seed a card beneath a mission, that card always goes on the bottom of any other cards already stacked there.

You may seed any number of cards beneath a mission, but only one copy of each. You may only seed one artifact per mission.

Some cards, like Cryosatellite, Orb Negotiations, and The Nexus, provide specific exceptions to these rules. All other cards seeded beneath missions are mis-seeds and will be removed from the game when revealed. If you seed more than one artifact at a single Mission, all your artifacts there are mis-seeds.

Once both players have considered their dilemma phase strategies for a brief period, seeding proceeds. The Dilemma Phase is divided into 4 stages:

1. Opponent's Missions: Both players place all cards they wish to seed under their opponent's (non-shared) missions in front of each such mission, in the order they are to be encountered, creating a face-down stack of cards. (Cards on bottom will be encountered first.) Once both players have placed all cards they wish to seed under opponent's missions, all stacks are seeded by sliding the stack under their missions.
2. Shared Missions: Both players now create stacks in front of all shared missions. Once all stacks are created, players alternate seeding cards. The player who owns the bottom seeded mission card seeds the bottom card (the one encountered first) then his or her opponent places a card on top of that card. Repeat until all cards have been seeded, then move on to the next shared mission.
3. Your Missions: Both players now create stacks in front of missions that they seeded. Once both players have placed all cards they wish to seed under their own missions, all stacks are seeded by placing each stack on top of any existing cards under the mission. These cards will therefore be encountered last.
4. Everything Else: Starting with the player who will go first, players alternate seeding any cards that may seed during the dilemma phase but do not seed under missions. If you have no cards remaining to seed, you may pass. Once you pass, you may not seed any more cards during this phase, and your opponent may seed their remaining cards immediately.

FACILITY PHASE (4.4)

"Referring to the map on your screens, you will note, beyond the moving position of our vessel, a line of Earth outpost stations. Constructed on asteroids, they monitor the Neutral Zone established by treaty after the Earth-Romulan conflict a century ago."

—Mr. Spock

In this phase, you and your opponent establish the bases from which you will operate during the game. Beginning with the starting player, players alternate seeding their facilities (or other cards that seed during this phase) one at a time. A facility is seeded by placing it face-up in front of the location where it is being seeded. All facilities are located in space, unless their gametext states they are played "on" a planet.

Like Missions, every Facility has a native quadrant: Delta Quadrant , Gamma Quadrant, Mirror Quadrant, or Alpha Quadrant (no icon). Each facility must be seeded in its native quadrant.

Most Facilities state on their cards where they may be seeded — Nor enters play at a mission with affiliation icon; Tower of Commerce enters play at Deliver Message (Ferenginar).

The exception is Outposts. Outposts may be seeded at any mission in their native quadrant with a matching affiliation icon. Thus, a Federation Outpost may seed at any Alpha Quadrant mission with the Federation affiliation icon, such as Investigate Dead Planet or Repair Mission. However, Outposts may never be seeded at the homeworld of any affiliation. For example, you may not seed a Outpost at Deliver Message, because it is the Ferengi homeworld.

You may not seed (or build) a facility at a location where you already own one (unless permitted by a card that allows them to "co-exist"). Your opponent may seed a facility where you already have one, and you may control two facilities at one location during the game if one of them has been moved or commandeered.

SEEDING SITES (4.4.1)

During the Facility Phase, you may seed the Sites in your site pile. You are not required to seed all of them. You may not mis-seed your Sites, nor misrepresent them as part of your seed deck. Each site may be added to any facility where it is allowed to play (identified on the lower left corner of the Site card), no matter which player seeded that facility. Sites are added to a facility in a line associated with that facility. Each site indicates which level of the facility it belongs to (Ops Module, Promenade, Habitat Ring, Docking Ring, etc.), and the Sites from each level must be grouped by level, in that order. When seeding or playing a Site on the table, you may insert it between other sites, as long as you keep Sites from the same level adjacent to each other.

By default, sites are "unique per station". That is, each station is limited to one copy of each Site card. However, some sites are ❖ universal and thus may exist in multiple on each station.

Although you are limited to 6 Sites during the seed phases, you may not seed additional sites beyond the 6 free ones, even by using seed slots. You may stock Site cards in your draw deck and add them to your facility during the game using your normal card play.

STARTING THE GAME (4.4.2)

The facility phase continues until both players announce they have no more cards to seed by saying "pass." Once both players have passed, the seed phases are complete. Show your opponent any seed cards you did not use (including unseeded Sites), then place them out-of-play. Both players shuffle their draw decks and place them face-down on the table, then draw seven concealed cards to form a starting hand. Your table may look something like this:

Here is how your spaceline might look at the end of the seed phase with Sites included:

Example spaceline after facility phase complete

Example spaceline after facility phase complete (simplified version for streamlined rulebook)

The play phase now begins.

5: THE PLAY PHASE

"There's more to this than just the cards, Data."

—Geordi LaForge

The starting player takes the first turn. Then players take alternating turns until one of them wins.

Each turn consists of a series of actions taken by the player. Actions may be permitted — or required — by the rules or by the cards on the table. There are three basic kinds of action, which each player normally must do during his or her turn in the following order:

Play a card to the table (normally at the start of the turn)
Do something with the cards on the table (normally in the middle of the turn; this is called "excuting orders")
Draw a card from your draw deck (normally at the end of the turn)

You may not normally interrupt your own actions, or your opponents' actions, unless you use a card that is a valid response to that action or a card that suspends play.

The next three chapters will detail the three basic actions described above.

Tip: Valid responses are hard!

Understanding what is and is not a valid response, how they affect the action-response cycle, and who gets to respond when is often the hardest part of the game for beginners, and gives rise to many, many rules questions. Ironically, it also one of the least important parts of the rules. Don't feel the need to get it exactly right in the first few games. Accept what you just read above and take your best shot. When you're ready for it, after a few games, come back and read the below clarification on valid responses.

Clarifications: Valid responses

A card can be used as a valid response to an action if that card specifically modifies the action it is responding to (usually by name). For example, Hugh is a valid response to encountering the Borg Ship dilemma, because Hugh's gametext specifically modifies the dilemma (by name) by preventing its effect. Temporal Rift is not a valid response to encountering Borg Ship, because Temporal Rift does not mention Borg Ship, nor does it directly modify the action of encountering the Borg Ship. As a player, you might want to escape the Borg Ship dilemma using a Temporal Rift, but the fact that a card would be a useful response does not make it a valid response.

The cards are usually very clear about when they can be used as valid responses. If a card is not a valid response to the current action, it cannot be used until after the current action has resolved. In our example above, you cannot play Temporal Rift until after the battle with the Borg Ship has been resolved — by which time it's probably too late. The only exception is cards which state that they suspend play. A card that suspends play (like The Guardian) may interrupt any action.

When Responses Happen

Every action consists of an initiation followed by a resolution. During the initiation, the action is announced. If necessary, relevant cards are played, targets are chosen, and costs are paid. Valid responses take place immediately after the initiation. After all responses (if any) are resolved, the action proceeds to its resolution. During the resolution, the action finally takes effect within the game. Lastly, "just" responses to the resolution may take place (see "just" responses below).

Hidden Agendas as Responses

Hidden Agenda cards that are face-down on the table may be activated (flipped face-up) and used as a valid response where applicable. When this occurs, they take immediate, retroactive effect, as though they were already in play when the action they are responding to was initiated. This can make the initiated action illegal, in which case the action is undone (as if it was never initiated; for example, a card played would be returned to hand). However, in most cases, a Hidden Agenda card does not illegalize an action, but instead punishes a player for taking it. There are few things more satisfying than flipping a Feedback Surge on your opponent who thinks he just scored 25 points off Establish Gateway.

Group Actions and Valid Responses

Some actions are composed of a series of other actions. These are referred to as group actions, and the actions that compose them are called sub-actions. Like all actions, they may not be interrupted, but each sub-action may be responded to. For example, a mission attempt is a group action: it consists of a series of dilemma encounters (each of which is a sub-action) and concludes in a mission solve sub-action (which may or may not succeed). The mission attempt itself, the dilemma encounters, and the mission solve can all be validly responded to (for example, by Adapt: Negate Obstruction, or Emergency Transporter Armbands to escape Firestorm, or Particle Fountain after a successful solve), but no other action may take place until the mission attempt is complete. For example, no player may play Fitting In during a mission attempt, not even to add a needed skill to the crew or Away Team attempting the mission.

Alternating Actions

Normally, the action-response cycle alternates between the two players, starting with the player whose turn it is. For example, on her turn, Alice always takes the first action. Then, Bob has the opportunity to take an action (assuming it is legal during her turn, like playing an Interrupt). Then Alice takes another action. The same is true within actions. Suppose Alice initates an action. Bob has the first opportunity to validly respond to that action. After Bob's response (if any) is over, Alice may give a response to her own action. (For the purposes of determining response precedence, the current action is the active sub-action, not any of the group actions the sub-action may be a part of.)

"Just" Responses

Some cards specify that they are played or used "just" after an action is initiated or resolved (usually with a phrase like "just initiated", "just played", "just completed", "just encountered", and so forth). These responses, which are called "just" actions or "just" responses, automatically take precedence over all other responses, overriding the normal alternation between players.

For example, if Bob downloads Maihar'du to a planet, it is normally Alice's turn to take an action (perhaps by playing Remember the Alamo). However, if Bob has Crossover in play, he may use its gametext to download Multidimensional Transport Device before Alice's action. The only way Alice can interrupt Bob's download is with a card that suspends play (such as discarding Access Denied to download Fractal Encryption Code) or with a "just" card of her own (such as Manheim's Dimensional Door). If she plays a "just" card of her own, Alice's "just" card takes precedence over Bob's, because they have equal precedence and ties go to the player who did not initiate the current action.

Any number of "just" responses may be taken in response to a given trigger. However, once a non-"just" response or a new action has been taken, no more "just" responses may be made.

Responses to Responses

Making a valid response is a sub-action of its own, which means that it, too, can be responded to. This can sometimes go on for a while. For example:

Alice announces that her Away Team is attacking Bob's Away Team, initiating an action called a personnel battle.

Bob's Away Team includes Anya, who has the "shape-shifter" characteristic, and a Klingon Disruptor. He also happens to have Salia in his hand, so he plays In The Bag as a valid response. He announces that he will use In The Bag to "morph" the Klingon Disruptor into Salia, exchanging the Salia in his hand with the Disruptor in play, and that he will also download Strike Three, which Anya and Salia will use to stun a total of six opposing personnel (a very powerful move). Bob's play of In The Bag is a new sub-action, though, which means Alice gets to respond. She says, "Not so fast!"

As her response to Bob's response, Alice plays Howard Heirloom Candle, which will prevent Salia from morphing.

Bob responds to this sub-action by playing Amanda Rogers on Howard Heirloom Candle, nullifying it before it can prevent Salia's morph.

Alice responds by playing Q2 on Amanda Rogers, nullifying it, restoring Howard Heirloom Candle, and blocking the morph.

Bob doesn't have anything that can stop a Q2, but he does have The Line Must Be Drawn Here played face-down on the table using its Hidden Agenda icon. So, as his response, he flips it face-up, activating it as his final valid response.

Alice is satisfied, and makes no further response. Her Howard Heirloom Candle takes effect, successfully blocking Salia's morph. Salia returns to Bob's hand, and the Klingon Disruptor remains in play. Alice loses 5 points from The Line Must Be Drawn Here for playing Q2 against Bob's Amanda Rogers. Bob does not lose 5 points for playing Amanda Rogers, however, because The Line Must Be Drawn Here was not in play when he played Amanda, and The Line Must Be Drawn Here's retroactive effect only reaches back to Alice's play of Q2 (the action The Line Must Be Drawn Here was responding to) and does not affect any prior actions. Strike Three also remains in play, and will be resolved by stunning three opposing personnel immediately, unless someone suspends play to intervene. (For example, Bob might decide to suspend play by using Anya's Special Download icon to fetch Salia, which would allow him to use Strike Three to stun six personnel as he planned all along.)

Once this chain of actions and responses has been resolved, Alice or Bob could play another card that responds to the start of battle (such as Smoke Bomb or Emergency Transporter Armbands). Once all responses have been made and resolved, the actual battle begins.

6: PLAYING A CARD

YOUR NORMAL CARD PLAY (6.1)

At the beginning of each turn, you have the option to play any single card from your hand to the table. This is referred to as your "normal card play."

Your normal card play must take place before you take any further actions. If you begin executing orders before using your card play, you forfeit your card play for the turn.

Most card types may play directly from your hand. However, personnel, ships, and equipment must report for duty to enter play.

PLAYING "FOR FREE" (6.1.1)

Some cards say that they play "for free", or allow other cards to play "for free". This means that they play normally, but they do not count as your normal card play for the turn. You may play cards "for free" before or after your normal card play (or both!), and there is no limit on the number of cards you may play "for free" during your turn. However, like your normal card play, you must play all your "for free" cards before you begin executing orders.

ENTERING PLAY (6.2)

"For nearly a century, we've waded ankle-deep in the ocean of space. Now it's finally time to swim."

—Maxwell Forrest

Clarifications: Cards Played as Costs (6.2.0.1)

Sometimes, a player is permitted or required to play a specific card in order to resolve an action. 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.

For example, I Hate You can be nullified by playing Vulcan Nerve Pinch as a cost. If a player chooses to do so, then I Hate You is nullified, but the gametext of Vulcan Nerve Pinch is ignored. Both cards are then discarded.

Cards which are played as a cost may be responded to normally, and, if the card played as a cost is nullified, the original action resolves as if the card were not played; no other costs are paid.

For example, ❖ Nebula allows a player to initiate battle at its location, at the cost of a Scan card. When Scan is thus played to initiate battle, its gametext is ignored (do not examine the cards beneath the mission). The opponent may nullify the Scan (for example, with Quinn), causing Scan to be discarded and the battle to be cancelled. (However, the player may immediately play another Scan from hand, if one is available.) By the same token, if you play a Wormhole in conjunction with a face-up Relief Mission II in order to move to another location, and your opponent nullifies the Wormhole, the Wormhole is discarded, but, because "no other costs are paid," Relief Mission II remains face-up.

Clarifications: Not Yet Played (6.2.0.2)

Cards not yet played (or encountered) cannot generally be nullified, modified, or used. For example, if you use Alien Probe to discover a Parallax Arguers in opponent's hand, you cannot use Plexing to nullify it until your opponent actually plays it. Likewise, even if you discover Empathic Echo at a mission using Ocular Implants, Plexing cannot nullify it until encountered.

Cards that have been played, but which have not finished entering play, can only be modified by direct responses.

Likewise, selected or shared features or skills on a personnel do not exist until they have finished entering play. For example, the card Soong-type Android may not report to a site allowing a certain classification to report, because it has no classification during the initiation of its card play.

To play a card, announce the title of the card and place it face-up on the table (or wherever the card directs). It has now been played. Any player may examine the card. Any player may respondrespond to it. Then, any immediate effects in the gametext are played out and resolved. If the card's immediate effects do not discard the card played, it enters play. Cards remain in play until they are nullified, discarded, killed, destroyed, or otherwise leave play.

If a card is marked "unique", its owner may not play another copy if its owner already has one in play. Any additional copies its owner plays, earns, encounters, or activates are immediately discarded. Ships, Personnel, and Facilities are unique by default; Sites are "unique by station".

If a card is marked "not duplicatable", there may not be more than one copy in play anywhere in the game, and any additional copies that enter play for any player are immediately discarded. Missions and Time Locations are non-duplicatable by default. (Duplicated missions become shared missions.)

A very small number of cards are marked as ✶ enigmas. Their nature is mysterious or unexplained. For most purposes, ✶ enigmas are treated like uniques: you may not play (or earn, activate, encounter, etc.) an ✶ enigma card if you already own a copy in play (the persona rule applies). However, ✶ enigmas are not unique, so they are immune to cards that specifically target uniques, such as The Arsenal: Separated.

Otherwise, cards are presumptively ❖ universal, meaning there is no limit on the number of copies that can be in play at the same time.

A non-seeded Alternate Universe card may play only if another card (typically an open doorway or time location) allows it.

A card with the Hidden Agenda icon must be played face-down on the table. The player does not announce its title or use its gametext at this time. It is not in play, and may not be examined by the opponent. The player who controls the card may, at any time, activate the card by flipping it face-up. It enters play and takes immediate effect. If a player seeds or plays a card as a hidden agenda (face-down) when it does not have a icon, that player forfeits the game.

REPORTING FOR DUTY (6.3)

KIRA: Captain, as a Major in the Bajoran Militia, I must officially protest Starfleet's refusal to turn over this station to my government.
SISKO: Your protest is duly noted.
KIRA: Good. Now that that's over with... Kira Nerys, reporting for duty.

—"Call to Arms"

Your Personnel, Ship, and Equipment cards do not simply play on the table like other cards. Normally, they must play at a usable, compatible outpost or headquarters in their native quadrant, or to a time location where they are native. Announce the title of the card you are reporting and where you are reporting it, then place it there.

USABLE

A card is usable if you control it. In addition, some cards, like Ferengi Trading Post, state that they are usable by both players.

COMPATIBLE

A card is compatible with another card if they both belong to the same affiliation. Cards from different affiliations are compatible only if some other card (such as Treaty: Romulan/Klingon) permits them to "mix", "mix and cooperate" or otherwise interact "regardless of affiliation".

For example, a Cardassian personnel like Jerax can report to a Cardassian Outpost (they are naturally compatible), or a Ferengi Trading Post (which allows "mixing"), but not a Federation Outpost (they are incompatible).

Equipment cards have no affiliation, and are compatible with all cards.

NATIVE QUADRANT

A card's native quadrant is indicated by an icon on its right side. Cards that are native to the Delta Quadrant have the icon, cards native to the Gamma Quadrant have the icon, cards native to the Mirror Quadrant have the icon, and cards native to the Alpha Quadrant (the majority of cards in the game) have no quadrant icon. When reporting for duty, both the card reporting and the facility it reports to must be in their native quadrants.

Equipment cards have no native quadrant, and may report to any quadrant.

REPORTING TO A TIME LOCATION

A card may report for duty at any time location where it is native (as defined by a listing on the Time Location). It may report directly to the Time Location card (if a Planet location), to any of your ships there, or to any compatible, usable facility there. No additional -enabling card is required to report native cards to a time location.

SPECIAL REPORTING

The above rules describe the game's built-in reporting rules. Some cards provide special reporting: additional reporting options at specific locations. When a card provides special reporting, native quadrant restrictions do not apply. Thus, you can use Assign Mission Specialists to download Narik and Amarie (who are Alpha Quadrant natives) to a Primary Supply Depot (which is in the Gamma Quadrant), or report a Vulcan (even a Delta Quadrant Vulcan like Tuvok) to Observe Ritual, even if you have no facility there.

AFTER REPORTING

Once your card has "reported for duty", and your opponent has had the opportunity to inspect the card reported, you may place it face-up underneath the facility (or face-down atop the time location), so that your opponent can no longer see it. (See Looking At Cards.)

DUPLICATION AND PERSONAS (6.3.1)

Clarifications: Personas and Requirements (6.3.1.0.1)

When a mission, dilemma, or other card specifies a personnel as a requirement, you may not normally use a different version of the same persona to meet the requirement. For example, Attend Mysterious Rendezvous can be completed by any card with the exact card title Jean-Luc Picard. It could not be solved by Galen, even though Galen is a different version of the Jean-Luc Picard persona. Nor would Galen count as the matching commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise, since his lore does not call him the Enterprise commander, and the Enterprise lore does not name him as one.

An "any" requirement can be met by any personnel with the given characteristic. For example, only the card titled Pel could meet the Pel requirement on Tulaberry Wine Negotiations, but any card identified in title or lore as "Quark" (including Deputy Quark, Mr. Quark, and Quark Son of Keldar) can meet the "any Quark" requirement.

Unlike other cards, Ship, Personnel, and Facility cards are unique by default: you may not play another copy of a ship, personnel, or facility in play if you already own a copy in play. Just as there is only one Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek universe, you may only have one copy of Jean-Luc Picard in play at once.

Tip: Be careful with personas (6.3.1.0.2)

It is sometimes surprising that certain cards are not versions of the same persona. For example, Lt. (j.g.) Picard and Admiral Picard are different personas, and you may have both in play at once. (This is because both are from alternate realities and therefore are not "true" Picards.) To take a stranger example, Mr. Spock and Captain Spock are versions of the "Mr. Spock" persona, but Spock and Ambassador Spock are versions of a different persona (the "Spock" persona). Thus, you could have Captain Spock and Ambassador Spock in play at the same time. At first glance, this seems very strange, perhaps even a mistake, but it is actually a careful decision by the design team based on the meaning of the

icon. Bottom line: never presume two cards are versions of the same persona, especially if you are a Trekkie. Always check, or you'll miss out on some great and unexpected play opportunities.

In addition, if you have in play a version of any given persona, you may not bring another into play. A few personnel in the game (and even some ships!) have several cards representing them, each one showing a different side of the subject's personality. For example, there is Benjamin Sisko, commander of Deep Space Nine... but there is also Benjamin Sisko (Chain of Command), a young exec at the Battle of Wolf 359; Lt. Sisko, the time-travelling crewman on Kirk's Enterprise; The Emissary, the central figure in Bajoran religion; and Dr. Noah, the holographic criminal mastermind. All of these are different representations of the same persona, and you may not play another if you already have one in play.

You can identify whether a card shares the persona of another in three ways:

Clarifications: Bold Italics is Not Plain Bold (6.3.1.0.3)

If a name in a personnel's lore is written in bold italics rather than plain bold, that personnel is not a version of the named persona and is not prevented from entering play if a version of that persona is already in play. (For example, First Officer Spock is not a version of the Mr. Spock persona.) Bold italics is used in lore to designate two very different relationships between cards: opposite versions and impersonators. These two characteristics are explained in greater detail below.

if the two cards have the exact same card title, letter-for-letter, they are the same persona (for example, the Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
if one card has the exact name of the other card written in bold in its lore, they are the same persona (for example, Falcon and Miles O'Brien)
if the two cards both have the same name written in bold in their lores, they are the same persona (for example, Falcon and Ensign O'Brien)

Card Image: personas/miles_obrien_bog.jpg

As always, if a card is specifically marked ❖ universal, then there is no limit on the number of copies and versions of that persona you may have in play. ❖ Universal ships and personnel are typically representative of a genre. For example, Linda Larson represents all young Starfleet engineers.

HOLOGRAPHIC PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT (6.3.2)

Holographic personnel and equipment, or holograms, are computer programs that must be "projected" into the real world using photons and forcefields.

Clarification: Using Opponent's Holodecks; Captive Holograms (6.3.2.0.2)

An opponent may allow your hologram to use that opponent's ships, holodecks, Holo-projectors, and other cards that allow holograms to exist (even deactivated). This allows an opponent to capture your personnel, as long as they can be immediately moved to that opponent's -enabled environment. (Otherwise, captured personnel without Mobile Holo-Emitters are deactivated rather than captured, because they cannot be moved to the trap card.)

ACTIVATION AND DEACTIVATION (6.3.2.1)

Holographic cards must always exist in one of two states: activated or deactivated (conceptually stored in memory). They may exist activated if present with a holodeck (on cards like U.S.S. Galaxy), but they may exist deactivated aboard any ship or facility. They may not exist anywhere else.

Holograms may not report or voluntarily move any place where they cannot exist. Whenever a hologram would be moved somewhere it cannot exist, it deactivates instead. If holograms are somewhere where they cannot exist, they are immediately erased (discarded). (This can happen if, for example, holograms are present with Holo-Projectors when it is nullified.)

While deactivated, personnel are disabled, and equipment may not be used in any way. If an activated hologram is deactivated, it may not be reactivated during the same turn.

A hologram may report activated, if possible. Otherwise, a hologram reports deactivated; it may be activated (even on the same turn) by any of your unstopped personnel present (even an activated hologram).

DEATH AND ERASURE (6.3.2.2)

Any time a hologram is targeted to be killed or destroyed, it is deactivated instead (not erased).

HOLOGRAPHIC SAFETY PROTOCOLS (6.3.2.3)

cards are normally restricted by Holographic Safety Protocols, which prevent them from killing "organics" (non- cards) in personnel battle. They may stun organics, but may not mortally wound them. If, at the end of a personnel battle, the total STRENGTH of the stronger force is derived entirely from holograms, they win the battle but may not kill an opposing personnel as a casualty.

MULTI-AFFILIATION CARDS (6.3.3)

Clarifications: Ambiguities — Multi-affiliation cards (6.3.3.0.1)

If not on board your ship or facility, you may change the affiliation of a multi-affiliation personnel, even if it causes incompatibility. The newly-incompatible personnel simply leaves his or her current Away Team and forms a separate one.

Until played, multi-affiliation cards count as all their affiliations (for cards like Diplomatic Contact).

A multi-affiliation personnel may not change affiliations to create an incompatability situation while at a site. However, that personnel may walk away from his or her comrades to a different site, where there are no other non-opposing personnel (or only compatible non-opposing personnel), and then may change affiliations.

You may not simultaneously change the affiliations of one or more Personnel cards, ships, and/or facilities; each change is a separate game action. Thus, if the Sisters of Duras are aboard the Cha'Joh, both in mode, you may not change either the Sisters of Duras or the Cha'Joh to mode without removing the Sisters first, because changing either affiliation alone would make them incompatible.

If a single-affiliation personnel gains a new affiliation without losing his or her original affiliation, it functions as a multi-affiliation card.

If a multi-affiliation personnel, whose features are dependent on their affiliation mode (such as Major Rakal) is assimilated or made Non-Aligned (for example, by Memory Wipe), that personnel may still switch "modes" as a game action, changing his or her features without changing the now-locked affiliation.

As always, a card is a copy of another if both have the same title and gametext. Prints of the same card with different affiliation border colors, such as Prot and Prot (Identity Crisis) are copies.

If a multi-affiliation card is reported using an affiliation-specific benefit, it must report in that affiliation mode, while following all applicable restrictions. For example, Dar can use Dominion War Efforts only if reported in mode to a ship or facility. If you download him in mode to a ship or facility, you must discard Assign Support Personnel.

A few cards have more than one affiliation icon. For example, The Emissary has both the and affiliation icons. However, a card may have only one affiliation at a time. When a multi-affiliation card is played, you must decide its current affiliation. All regular reporting restrictions apply (for example, you may not report Tallera to a Romulan Outpost in mode). You may change the affiliation of a multi-affiliation card at any time (except during another action). There is no limit on the number of times you may do this.

However, you may never change a card's affiliation in such a way that it causes your personnel aboard your ship or facility to become incompatible. For example, if you have Koral (The Next Generation) in Non-Aligned mode aboard the H.M.S. Bounty in mode, surrounded by a crew of other personnel, you may not change Koral to mode, since this would make him incompatible with his shipmates. Similarly, you may not change the H.M.S. Bounty to mode, since this would make many of the crew incompatible with it.

DUAL-PERSONNEL CARDS (6.3.4)

Clarifications: Random Selections and Dual-Personnel Cards (6.3.4.0.1)

When a dual-personnel card is in a group that is facing a random selection, it is treated as though it were one personnel (in order to maintain the randomness and effectiveness of the selection). If selected, the effects of the random selection are applied to both personnel on the card. For example:

Armus - Skin of Evil, enhanced by All-Consuming Evil, randomly selects two personnel in the Away Team to die. Shuffle all personnel in the Away Team and select two cards at random. All selected personnel die. (That is, if one of the cards selected is dual-personnel, both personnel on the card are killed, even though this means Armus kills three personnel instead of two.)
An Away Team consists of one dual-personnel card and one regular personnel card (a total of 2 cards and 3 personnel). Denevan Neural Parasites randomly selects "half the Away Team" (rounded up) to face death. The dual-personnel card is treated as a single personnel during the random selection, so "half the Away Team" equals 2 personnel / 2 = 1 card. That card is selected. All personnel on that card face death, and will die unless protected by a phaser or disruptor. Because the random selection has ended, the dual-personnel card is now treated as two personnel again — which means that, if selected, they will require two guns, not one, if they want to escape with their lives.
Lineup selects four members of the Away Team at random. If a dual-personnel card is selected, both personnel on the card are affected equally, both join the "lineup", and either can meet the INTEGRITY requirements.
Chula: The Chandra randomly selects one personnel, and a dual-personnel card is drawn. Both are affected equally, so the attribute numbers of either can be used to pass the dilemma.

Dual-personnel cards are treated as single personnel only during random selections, and only during the selection (not the effect, which hits them both equally). In all other selections, a dual-personnel card is treated as two separate personnel. For example:

Reluctant Informant targets lowest INTEGRITY member of the crew or Away Team. That happens to be Nog on the card Jake and Nog. Nog is stopped. (Jake is then stopped because if either personnel on a dual-personnel card is stopped, both are stopped.)
On a succesful probe, Chula: Crossroads forces a player to choose two personnel from his or her own Away Team to be stopped. If that Away Team includes The Twin Mistresses of Evil, that player may choose to satisfy the dilemma's effect by stopping Demonica and Mallica. This contains the stop to one card, but counts as stopping two personnel.

Include a dual-personnel card in all selections that are applicable to either personnel on it. It is thus possible for a dual-personnel card (such as Beverly and Will) to be randomly selected as both the male and the female for a card like Parallel Romance. (If one is selected but not the other, both are nevertheless stopped, because if either personnel on a dual-personnel card is stopped, both are stopped.)

Clarifications: Dual-Personnel Downloads (6.3.4.0.2)

Dual-personnel cards are downloaded normally; if you download Seska (on Cullah and Seska) with Defend Homeworld, Culluh automatically downloads, too. If a card allows the download of multiple personnel, all legal targets on a dual-personnel card must count towards the limits of the download. For example, suppose you use Ferengi Conference to download

CIVILIANs with up to 11

. First, you download Jake and Nog. They are both CIVILIANs and both count, using 6 of your

. Then, you download Deanna Troi on The Trois, using 2 of your

. (Lwaxana is not a CIVILIAN, so her

do not count.)

A few special personnel cards, such as Sons of Mogh and The Trois, have two individual personnel printed on the same card. They count as two personnel, but the individuals on a dual-personnel card have a linked destiny: what happens to one usually happens to the other.

If either personnel on a dual-personnel card is: stopped, killed, captured, moved, removed from play, downloaded, reported for free, or otherwise experiences some change in status or position (for example, is phased, "held by aliens", or changes affiliation), then the same thing automatically happens to the other personnel on the card. One cannot survive without the other, so they can never be separated.

MIRROR OPPOSITES AND IMPERSONATORS (6.3.5)

If a personnel's lore contains a name written in bold italic text, the named personnel is either an opposite version of that persona from the Mirror Universe, or an impersonator who is pretending to be that personnel.

It is easy to tell the two apart: impersonators have a diamond-shaped infiltration icon, and opposite versions have a Mirror quadrant icon.

For example, O'Brien Founder (who has a infiltration icon) is an impersonator of the Miles O'Brien persona.

On the other hand, Smiley (who has no infiltration icon) is the Mirror Universe opposite of our man Miles.

Opposite versions and impersonators are not versions of the original persona, so players may have copies of both in play at the same time. Impersonation matters during infiltration. Opposite versions have no built-in gameplay function, but several cards, like Transporter Mixup, make use of them.

LEAVING PLAY (6.4)

When a card leaves play (or is "discarded"), it is placed in its owner's discard pile. Cards in the discard pile are stacked face-up. If the discarded card was unique, its owner is now free to play another copy during his or her turn (if he or she has one!). You may not discard cards unless a card or rule allows or requires it.

Dilemmas are placed out-of-play instead of being discarded (even when the dilemma specifies "discard dilemma"). Cards put out-of-play are placed in a separate pile from the discard pile. They are now conceptually outside the game, and can only be retrieved by a card that expressly allows you to retrieve a discarded dilemma.

If a card leaves play, other cards played on or under it also leave play in the same manner. For example, if a ship is destroyed, all personnel aboard are killed and discarded to their owners' discard piles. If a ship affected by Cytherians and Tactical Console is returned to hand by Space-Time Portal, all personnel aboard are returned to their owners' hands, as are Tactical Console and Cytherians (which, as a dilemma, cannot normally be played again).

Your card may require you to choose a long-term target (other than the card it is played on). If the long-term target leaves play, your card leaves play in the same manner. For example, if the male targeted by Assimilate Counterpart returns to hand, so does Assimilate Counterpart.

Borg Rule: Borg Points (6.4.0.2)

A player scores points, both positive and negative, only from Borg-Only Objectives (these are not bonus points), from other cards (these are bonus points), and from cards that specify they affect Borg players, like Assimilate This! (these are also bonus points).

When a Borg player is confronted with any other card that offers positive or negative points, play out the card, but ignore the points. If the card presents a choice, you must choose an option that is not related to points, if possible.

Some cards have a bonus point box in their gametext — a black box with a specified number of points inside it:

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.

When a mission has you discard cards, they must come from the team attempting the mission (not from your hand), at the time the mission is solved. All other discards (for instance, from Static Warp Bubble) come from the hand, unless otherwise specified.

OTHER WAYS TO PLAY A CARD (6.5)

"Captain, we've detected six more Hirogen ships. They're converging on us from all directions."

—Chakotay

PLAYING "AT ANY TIME" (6.5.1)

Interrupts, and several other cards (like Out of Time), play "at any time." You may play them at any time, during any phase of your turn or your opponent's.

Cards played "at any time" do not count as your normal card play.

You may activate a face-down Hidden Agenda card by flipping it face-up at any time (as if it were an "at any time" card play). It enters play when flipped. Its gametext takes immediate effect (or retroactive effect, if a valid response). It may not be flipped face-down again.

Even a card that plays (or activates) "at any time" may not interrupt another action in progress, unless it suspends play or is a valid response to that action. For example, you may not play Near-Warp Transport during a mission attempt, but could play Renewed Spirit if a combo dilemma was encountered during the attempt.

Cards that play "at any time" likewise may not play between start-of-turn or end-of-turn actions, like probing or using Tyranny. If a card says it has to be the first thing done on your turn, the only thing that can go before it is another card that says it has to be the first thing done on your turn!

PLAYING A DOORWAY (6.5.1.1)

Doorways, by default, may play at any time during your turn only.

However, if a Doorway specifically states it plays "at any time" (for example, Holodeck Door), then it may also play during your opponent's turn.

PERSONA REPLACEMENT (6.5.2)

At the start of each of your turns (before your normal card play), if you have one version of a ship or personnel persona in play and another version of that persona in your hand, you may exchange them for free. (Facility personas, such as Terok Nor and Deep Space Nine, may not be exchanged in this way.) Persona replacement does not count as a card play, and it is not a reporting-for-duty action. All cards affecting the first version (for example, Framed for Murder) are transferred to the version entering play, if applicable; inapplicable cards are returned to their owners' hands.

All persona replacements for a turn occur simultaneously. You must own and control all cards you replace. The replacement cannot add or remove any personas from play. For example, you may not replace Lursa with Sisters of Duras unless you also replace B'Etor at the same time.

DOWNLOADING (6.5.3)

Clarifications: Download Timing (6.5.3.0.1)

There is no limit on the number of times you may download in a turn, as long as you have the cards to trigger them. However, each download is a separate action, and you may not interrupt another action to start a download, except when it suspends play or is a valid response.

As always, you must use your normal card play (and all free plays) before taking any other actions for the turn. Many cards, like Study Protonebula, Quark's Isolinear Rods, and Assign Support Personnel require you to take an action in order to trigger a download. These downloads can therefore only be used after you have played your cards for the turn and started "giving orders."

Clarifications: Invalid Downloads (6.5.3.0.2)

A download is invalid if the target card cannot be found in the available cards, or if, once found, the target card is required to be played but cannot be.

An invalid download is cancelled, and any target cards are returned to their sources, which are then shuffled. If a single download action requires multiple target cards (such as the download on Activate Subcommands), and any of the targets cannot be found, the entire download is invalid.

If any resources were spent to initiate an invalidated download (such as a card draw for Officer Exchange Program, a card play for Spacedoor, or a special download icon), those resources remain spent. If a download is invalid because the target card could not be found, an opponent may look through the downloader's deck and all other download sources to verify that the target is not there, and the same download may not be attempted again until one of its downloading sources have been replenished (for example, the draw deck is replenished by Regenerate) or reopened (for example, by nullifying a Revolving Door played on your Q's Tent).

A download action can be rendered illegal by the activation of a Hidden Agenda card that is a valid response (such as Computer Crash). Like an invalid download, an illegal download is cancelled and target cards are returned to their sources, which are shuffled. However, resources spent to initiate an illegal download do not remain spent and can be used later. If you initiated the download by playing a card and selecting a function that requires a download (for example, the second function of Bajoran Civil War), the card goes to your hand.

Clarifications: Where Personnel May Download (6.5.3.0.5)

If a card allows you to download a personnel, ship, or equipment and is not a Facility or Site and provides a specific location for that download (for example, Assign Missions Specialists or Starry Night), then it is providing special reporting: The requirement to report the personnel to a facility in their native quadrant does not apply.

By contrast, if a card allows you to download a ship, personnel, or equipment but does not provide a specific location for the download (for example, Wall of Ships or Activate Subcommands), or if it is a Facility or Site (for example, Son'a Observatory or Cargo Bay), these downloads are normal reports, and you must follow normal reporting rules.

Clarifications: Where Facilities May Download (6.5.3.0.6)

When downloading a Facility into play, you must meet all requirements for building that Facility at the location where you are playing it.

For example, you may not download Primary Supply Depot with Establish Dominion Foothold, because that facility must be seeded, not built. You may instead download Remote Supply Depot, but only if the location is a non-homeworld mission with a affiliation icon where you have no other facilities and you have the required ENGINEER present to build it.

This is, of course, just a restatement of what was already said in the rules — you must follow the normal rules for playing a card when downloading, except when specifically overruled by gametext.

When a card instructs you to download a card, search through your hand, your draw deck, and/or your open side decks for the target card. Once found, you must immediately play it. (If you cannot, the download is invalid; see sidebar.) You must follow all the normal rules for playing a card, such as reporting restrictions. Then reshuffle any face-down decks you looked through.

Some downloads (like Quark's Isolinear Rods) specify your hand as the destination. When you use such a download, you must place the target in your hand instead of playing it. Some downloads (like Blood Oath) work "in place of one card draw." When you use such a download, you may choose whether to play the target immediately or place it in your hand for later use. Some downloads (like High Rollers) "download and seed" the target. When you use such a download, seed the target card (instead of playing it). You do not need to show it to your opponent.

You may not download artifacts or Q-icon cards unless specifically permitted by a card (for example, Starry Night). Facilities and Sites do not provide downloads unless they are in their native quadrant.

A Facility card (or its attached Site card) may not provide downloads outside its native quadrant. (This is in addition to all normal reporting restrictions.)

General Quarters: The Personnel Download Limit

Personnel cannot be downloaded as easily as other cards. When you recruit specially-picked personnel (instead of reporting personnel who are already "available" in your hand), you must locate, enlist, and reassign them to your forces — all of which takes time and effort. For this reason, you may not download personnel into play more often than once every turn.

For example, suppose you use Ferengi Conference to download Leeta and Lumba. Because you did this as a single action, you are allowed to download both personnel at once. Leeta may then immediately use her Special Download to download Dabo — Dabo is not a personnel. However, because of the personnel download limit, you must wait until your opponent's turn to use Lumba's Special Download of Nilva — Nilva is a personnel, and you have already hit the once-every-turn download limit for personnel this turn.

SPECIAL DOWNLOADING (6.5.4)

Clarifications: Ambiguities — Special Downloads (6.5.4.0.1)

A special download may download anywhere at the target location (see "here"). One classic trick is to begin a mission attempt with Starship Enterprise in orbit, encounter the first dilemma, then use the ship's to download a personnel who can solve that dilemma directly to the planet, where that personnel immediately joins the Away Team and the mission attempt.

Because special downloads provide a specific location for the download ("here"), they provide special reporting to any ships, personnel, and equipment that are special-downloaded: normal reporting restrictions like native quadrant and compatible facility do not apply

When you use a Special Download icon to download a Hidden Agenda card, you must play that card, then immediately activate it and follow its gametext (targeting something at the location of the special download, if applicable). You may not use a special download to play a Hidden Agenda card face-down. This rule is the exact opposite of the rule for non-special downloads, which require you to download Hidden Agenda cards face-down.

A special download icon on a personnel card is a special skill, and can count for cards like Rascals which add, remove, or count skills. However, an Special Download icon is not a skill dot, so it does not count for cards like Hero Worship.

If a special download inserts a new card into the spaceline, the personnel downloading it must be adjacent to the location where it is inserted. For example, The Emissary must be in or adjacent to the Bajor Region in order to use his special download of Bajoran Wormhole, and must insert the wormhole into the spaceline between his location and the location on his left or the one on his right.

A card with a Special Download icon allows you to suspend play at any point during the game (including during a seed phase or an opponent's turn), interrupting other actions as necessary, while you download the target card and immediately play it.

If the target card is location-based, it must be downloaded to the location of the icon. For example, Arandis may download Jamaharon to nullify a Horga'hn, because that effect is not location-specific. Arandis may also download Jamaharon to relocate a male at her location to Risa. But she may not download Jamaharon to relocate a male at another location to Risa.

Each icon on a particular card grants a Special Download only once per game, regardless of how many copies of that card you have in play. Thus, Admiral Kirk (Life From Lifelessness) may download both The Genesis Effect and Khan! during a game, but, if you later get another copy of Admiral Kirk into play (using Aid Clone Colony), he could not use those spent downloads.

7: EXECUTING ORDERS

Once you have played all the cards you intend to play at the start of your turn, signify this by announcing that you are now "giving orders". This is the part of your turn where you and your cards get stuff done.

MOVE (7.1)

QUARK: 'Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun, come right now — don't walk, run!' Oh, I love the part where my name rotates around.
KIRA: If all your little 'advertisements' aren't purged from our systems by the time I get back from the Gamma Quadrant, I will come to Quark's. And, believe me... I will have fun.

—"The Quickening"

Clarifications: Crews, Away Teams, and Movement (7.0.1)

A crew is not an Away Team, and an Away Team is not a crew. A Flintlock Rifle can unstop your personnel after they’re stopped by a Founder Secret on a planet, but not after they’re stopped by Ankari "Spirits" in space.

Your Away Teams are usually associated with the last ship or facility you control that they visited. This "association" rule is only occasionally relevant, for cards like Memory Wipe and Alien Parasites. They only remain associated with the ship or facility while that ship or facility is at their spaceline location; if it leaves, then the Away Team becomes unassociated, and remains unassociated until they visit another ship or facility that you control. If your Away Team is made up of personnel from multiple ships or facilities, you must designate which one of those ships or facilities will be the one officially associated with the Away Team as soon as the merged Away Team is formed.

All your compatible personnel present automatically form one Away Team. If you have incompatible personnel present, they automatically form as many separate Away Teams as necessary so that nobody is incompatible with anybody else in an Away Team. Personnel who are compatible with multiple Away Teams present (such as personnel) may join any compatible Away Team at that location.

This only applies to Away Teams, however. On your ship or facility, all your personnel present, compatible or incompatible, form one crew. Incompatible personnel are simply placed under house arrest.

You may not ever move any of your cards into space unless specifically allowed to do so by a card (such as Airlock or Anti-Matter Pod).

During the game, your personnel will move throughout the universe. They may visit facilities, board starships, beam down to planets, invade an opponent's ship, travel across the galaxy (or across time), or stop by the bar for a relaxing hand of Tongo.

When your personnel move to a ship or space facility that you control, stack them face-up underneath the ship or facility card. (If the facility has sites, stack the personnel face-down on top of the appropriate Site card.) These personnel, collectively, form the crew of that ship or space facility.

Tip: Separate Crews and Away Teams (7.0.2)

Later, we'll discuss dilemmas and mission attempts. In practice, dilemmas will frequently cause your crews and Away Teams to become separated, by stopping, disabling, dividing, or putting in stasis your personnel. This is actually a good thing: personnel who are the victim of early dilemmas like Blended form a separate team for the rest of the mission attempt, which protects them when a team-wiping dilemma like Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome shows up. It won't save you from V'Ger or Crytalline Entity, but it helps!

When your personnel are on a planet (or in a planet facility) stack them face-down on the planet (or on the planet facility). They now form a single Away Team. You may not divide your crews or Away Teams into separate groups, except when permitted or required to do so by a card or another rule.

When your personnel are on an opponent's ship or facility, they still form an Away Team, but they also become intruders. Intruders cannot attempt missions, but they can start personnel battles, and they are in a good position to commandeer their hosts. Intruders are not necessarily hostile; indeed, cards like Open Diplomatic Relations and Ferengi Trading Post positively invite friendly "intruders" to board opposing ships and facilities.

Whenever your personnel move, whether by choice or by force, they may carry any number of Equipment cards with them. Equipment is not carried by any specific personnel, but is carried (and used by) the entire team as a whole. (There are a few exceptions, like Mobile Holo-Emitter and Data's Head, which are "worn" or "placed on" a single, specific personnel.)

BEAM (7.1.1)

Clarifications: Card-Activated Transport (7.1.1.0.2)

Special beaming cards such as Near-Warp Transport, Emergency Transporter Armbands, or Extradition do not provide transporters and do not allow you to use your opponent's transporters. They do not overcome obstacles to beaming, such as Atmospheric Ionization, Barclay Transporter Phobia, Katherine Pulaski's beaming restriction, or being stopped. Special beaming cards simply allow you to use existing, functional transporters in unusual ways.

"I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget!"

—Dr. McCoy

In the Star Trek universe, all modern facilities and vessels are equipped with transporters, which are devices that allow near-instant teleportation of personnel and equipment en masse. In the Star Trek CCG, using the transporters ("beaming") is the normal way to move your crews and Away Teams between ships, planets, and facilities. All Ships and Facilities have transporters unless the card indicates otherwise.

Any ship or facility that you control, even if it has no personnel onboard, may use its transporters to beam your personnel and/or equipment to or from that ship or facility. You may beam to (or from) your other ships or facilities at the same location, to (or from) your opponent's unshielded ship or facility at the same location, or, if your transporters are at a Planet location, to (or from) the planet's surface. Announce the beaming, remove the cards from their origin, and place them at their destination.

You may only use your opponent's transporters at a usable facility or ship.

WALK (7.1.2)

"I think it's time that we took a little stroll."

—Jean-Luc

Your personnel may also walk around at a location. Specifically, your personnel at a facility may walk on or off of your ships docked there ("embarking" and "disembarking"). On a planet, your personnel may walk in or out of your facilities or landed ships on that planet ("entering" and "exiting"). At a station with sites, personnel may walk from one site to another (they must pass through each site in between, but do not have to stop at each). There is no limit to the number of times personnel may walk during a turn.

STAFF A SHIP (7.1.3)

"I've had my share of piloting experience. Actually only two lessons, and they were in a shuttlecraft on the Holodeck, but I showed great intuition. Where's the helm?"

—The Doctor

Clarifications: Ship Staffing (7.1.3.0.1)

A dual-personnel card has only one affiliation icon (even if multi-affiliation, it has only one affiliation at a time) which may be used for staffing by either of the personnel, but not both. For example, Third and Fourth may contribute one icon and one icon toward staffing a Borg Cube, but not two icons.

One personnel cannot supply more than one required staffing icon, even if the personnel has more than one of the required icons. For example, a Borg Cube normally requires seven personnel to staff it, even if the Borg Queen or Locutus of Borg is aboard.

A personnel may contribute only one staffing icon to staffing requirements, but may contribute any number of skills and characteristics, even if already contributing a staffing icon. (There are no cards to which this rule is applicable at this time.)

In order to dock, undock, or move a ship, you must meet its staffing requirements. A ship's staffing requirements are listed on the card, usually as icons representing Command ability () or Staff ability (). A ship is staffed when:

There is at least one personnel of matching affiliation on board; and
Each staffing requirement is met by a compatible personnel onboard.

For staffing purposes only, a personnel with may substitute for a required .

Full staffing is required only for movement. Any ship which has at least one personnel of matching affiliation on board can attempt a mission, initiate battle, or fire weapons, even if the ship is not fully staffed. Any ship, including an empty one, may use its transporters.

DOCK & UNDOCK (7.1.4)

"Close exterior hatches, depressurise the airlock. Detach umbilicals, clear all moorings."

—Kira Nerys

Your outposts allow your ships to dock and undock. Your ship must be compatible with your outpost to dock, but its crew does not have to be.

Docking and undocking are forms of ship movement that use no RANGE. To dock or undock from your outpost, your ship must be staffed. Since it uses no RANGE, there is no limit on the number of times a ship may dock or undock in a turn. Place docked ships beneath the facility card (or atop the site card).

While docked, your ship gains SHIELDS equal to 50% of the facility's SHIELDS. Docked ships may not attempt missions or fire WEAPONS (even to return fire when attacked). Docked ships are not destroyed if the facility is destroyed. Outposts repair only docked ships.

When a ship is played to a facility (or its site) that allows docking, it must enter play docked.

FLY A STARSHIP (7.1.5)

"Number One, set a course for the Neutral Zone."

—Jean-Luc

Clarifications: Warp Speed Immunity (7.1.5.0.1)

A ship "flying by" a location cannot affect, and is not affected by, cards at that location (unless the card says it affects ships flying by or passing by), even if an action suspends play at the moment the ship is passing the location. (A ship flying by a location is conceptually at warp speed.) For example, if play is suspended when a ship is passing the ❖Nebula mission and the opponent scores points while play is suspended, that ship does not face a dilemma.

Clarifications: RANGE Boosts in Regions (7.1.5.0.3)

Some cards, like Deranas and Used To Being Outnumbered, increase a ship's RANGE in a region. To benefit from this RANGE boost, the ship's entire movement (including locations flown past) must be within the same region. See ❖ Space.

For example, if Bajoran Interceptor (RANGE 5+X, X=4 in a region) moves from Establish Station (no region) to Kressari Rendezous (Cardassia Region, span 2) adjacent, its RANGE is 5. At the end of the move, its remaining RANGE is 3. If it then makes a second move from Kressari Rendezvous to the adjacent Orb Negotiations (Cardassia Region, span 4), its RANGE at the start of the move will be 7 (9 - 2 used), and at the end its remaining RANGE will be 3 (as long as any further movement is within the Cardassia Region).

A staffed ship can move along your side of the spaceline in either direction. The distance your ship can move on one turn is limited by its RANGE. You determine how far it can travel by adding up the span of each location the ship moves to (or passes), not counting the location where it begins. For example, three consecutive missions A, B, and C on a spaceline have spans of 2, 4, and 3. A ship starting at mission A will use 7 RANGE to reach mission C, and 6 RANGE to return from C to A.

A ship does not have to move all of its RANGE on a turn. A ship can stop at each location as it moves, or it can "fly past" locations (conceptually passing them at warp speed) without stopping there (but still using RANGE).

LAND & TAKE OFF (7.1.6)

"Harry, vent all plasma from the nacelles, transfer available power to atmospheric thrusters and stand by to commence landing sequence."

—Kathryn Janeway

Some ships are able to take off or land on Planets. Landing and taking off is a movement action that uses no range (unless stated); thus, it requires full staffing.

Landed ships may not attack or be attacked by ships or Away Teams unless a card specifically allows it. Landed ships may not be targeted by any card or effect that targets a ship (such as Loss of Orbital Stability), unless the card specifically allows it to target a landed ship (such as Hirogen Hunt). However, cards may report and beam to (or from) a landed ship as normal.

CARRIED SHIPS (7.1.6.1)

Clarifications: Carried Ships (7.1.6.1.0.1)

Game text that allows you to launch carried ships also (implicitly) allows you to recover such ships.

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. Carried ships cannot be targeted in battle (they are not present with opponents' 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.

Carried ships are present with the carrying ship, and with the crews of both ships.

Some cards, such as Engage Shuttle Operations, permit ships to be carried aboard other ships. Like docking and undocking, launching and recovering a carried ship is a movement action that uses no RANGE, which requires the carried ship to be fully staffed.

If a carried ship is destroyed (for example, by Warp Core Breach), the carrying ship is damaged.

MOVE BETWEEN QUADRANTS (7.1.7)

Tip: Inter-Quadrant Strategies (7.1.7.0.1)

Typically, players use Bajoran Wormhole to move between the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants, and Bajoran Wormhole: Mirror Universe to move between the Alpha and Mirror Quadrants. Mirror players also use Crossover and Multidimensional Transport Device. The Caretaker's Array is useful for non- Delta Quadrant travel, while Transwarp Network Gateway is typical for players. Other cards that frequently appear in decks that need quadrant travel are Barzan Wormhole and the classic Wormhole.

Clarifications: Which Cards Count? (7.1.7.0.1)

Any gametext which allows or requires a card to move directly from one location to another may potentially move that card to a different quadrant. Examples of cards that could cause movement between quadrants include Iconian Gateway, Wormhole, Where's Guinan?, and Mysterious Orb.

However, cards whose gametexts refer to the "spaceline" or to a distance (such as the "most distant planet") can only cause movement within the current quadrant. Examples include The Traveler, Where No One Has Gone Before, Female Love Interest, and Magic Carpet Ride OCD.

"Captain, if these sensors are working, we're over seventy thousand light years from where we were. We're on the other side of the galaxy."

—Harry Kim

It is not legal to move between quadrants unless permitted or required by a card.

TIME TRAVEL (7.1.8)

"The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that time travel is impossible."

—T'Pol

Clarifications: "Corresponding" Time Locations (7.1.8.0.1)

Some time travel-enabling cards, like Out Of Time, specify that they only permit time travel between a time location and its corresponding spaceline location. The corresponding spaceline location is the card (usually a Mission card) whose location (stated in its title or lore) matches the location stated in the time location's lore. For example, playing Out Of Time allows you to move your temporal agent between Khitomer Conference (located on 2293 Khitomer) and Khitomer Research (the Mission card for present-day Khitomer), or between Montana Missle Complex (located on 2063 Earth) and Espionage Mission (the Mission card for present-day Earth), but it would not allow you to move between Montana Missile Complex and Khitomer Research (a time location and a non-corresponding spaceline location), or between Montana Missile Complex and Khitomer Conference (two time locations).

It is possible for multiple time locations to exist at the same spaceline location. For example, a player (if he or she were insane) might play Espionage Mission (Earth) with Montana Missle Complex (2063 Earth), Cetacean Institute (1986 Earth), and 22nd-Century San Francisco (2154 Earth). If you want to travel between time locations at the same spaceline location without having to pass through the spaceline location (for example, you want to go straight from Cetacean Institute to Montanan Missle Complex without stopping at Espionage Mission), you will have to carefully read the gametext of the card that is making your time travel possible. For instance, Orb of Time supports this use, because it permits "time travel" without restriction. But Out Of Time only permits time travel "between a time location and the corresponding spaceline location," which means it cannot support direct time travel between two time locations.

Even if a time location's corresponding spaceline location is "destroyed", that Mission card remains the corresponding spaceline location. For example, if Khitomer Research (location: present-day Khitomer) is destroyed by a Supernova, your Ensign Jameson can still use Out Of Time to travel between that location and Camp Khitomer (location: 2293 Khitomer).

Time Travel is movement between a time location and a spaceline location, or between two time locations. It is not legal unless expressly permitted or required by a card.

ATTEMPT A MISSION (7.2)

The mission. Whether it's exploration or relief, diplomacy or combat, the mission is at the heart of every Star Trek episode — and the Star Trek CCG.

Of course, missions rarely go as planned. You'll beam down to do some Changeling Research with a research team, but you'd better bring weapons and Security officers to keep them safe, or they might fall prey to a Berserk Changeling. It's even more important in space, where a mission to Observe Stellar Rebirth could end in catastrophe for an entire starship if they're not prepared for everything they might find. But, if you survive the dilemmas your opponent has left for you and solve the mission, you're one step closer to winning the game.

BEGINNING AN ATTEMPT (7.2.1)

"Well... it seems we're truly sailing into the unknown."

—Jean-Luc Picard

You may attempt any mission with a point box that you seeded. You may also attempt a mission with a point box an opponent seeded if its point box shows 40 points or more, or (if ❖ universal) there is more than one copy in play. You may not attempt or solve other missions.

Clarification: Attempting a

Dual-Icon Mission (7.2.1.0.2)

To attempt (or solve) a Dual-Icon Mission like Deliver Cargo, you must have both an Away Team on the planet and a crew in orbit, both of which must have at least one personnel who allows the attempt (for instance, by matching one of the affiliation icons on the Mission).

During a mission attempt at a Dual-Icon Mission, Planet dilemmas are encountered by the Away Team only, and Space dilemmas are encountered by the crew only. When Dual dilemmas or Q-icon cards are encountered, the attempting player may choose which team encounters it. When a card like Kobayashi Maru Scenario targets attempting personnel randomly, the attempting player chooses which team it targets. When a card like All Available Personnel checks or restricts how many personnel are attempting the mission, it includes both teams unless otherwise specified. (For example, Villagers With Torches uses the words "on planet," specifying the Away Team only.)

Once all dilemmas are cleared, the two teams may combine their skills to meet the mission requirements.

Clarification: Meeting Requirements is Mandatory (7.2.1.0.3)

During a mission attempt, you cannot choose not to meet mission or dilemma requirements (including conditions, cures, and nullifers). If your mission team meets the requirements, they overcome the dilemma or solve the mission.

You can choose which personnel or equipment in the mission team fulfill the requirements of a dilemma (including conditions, cures, and nullifiers). You do not need to use everyone if a smaller group can meet the requirements. Thus, a personnel with Picard's Artificial Heart will not die when facing a dilemma with a STRENGTH requirement if you can satisfy the requirement with other personnel in the Away Team, and Matthew Dougherty will not score points from Collect Metaphasic Particles if his Treachery is not specified as contributing to the requirements.

Clarification: Permission to Attempt & Solve (7.2.1.0.4)

Permission to attempt a mission granted by a card implies permission to complete that mission as well, unless another card or rule specifically prevents you from "solving" that mission.

For example, if you play Espionage: Federation on Romulan on your own copy of Covert Installation, your Federation personnel may attempt and solve the mission.

However, if you don't seed that mission, and then play the Espionage on your opponent's copy of Covert Installation, your Federation personnel may still attempt the mission... but they may not solve it, because the rules in this section expressly forbid you from "attempting or solving" an opponent's mission (unless it shows at least 40 points or is shared or duplicated). Espionage overrides the first restriction, but not the second.

At a Planet mission, any single Away Team that is present on the planet's surface may begin a mission attempt. At a Space mission, any single undocked ship may begin a mission attempt. (The ship's crew must include at least one personnel of matching affiliation.)

To begin a mission attempt, there must be at least one personnel attempting whose affiliation matches one of the icons (or meets alternate qualifications) given in the mission's affiliation box. All compatible personnel in the crew or Away Team may assist that personnel, and may contribute skills and other attributes to the mission requirements. You do not need to meet the mission's requirements in order to begin a mission attempt.

Some cards, like Quantum Torpedo or Homefront, may add further restrictions on beginning a mission attempt. However, they do not affect a mission attempt while encountering seed cards.

Simply announce that you are beginning a mission attempt with your ship or Away Team. Mission attempts are a single action, so, once the attempt has started, you will not be able to do anything else (except as a valid response or by suspending play) until the entire mission attempt is completed.

If there are cards seeded under this mission, slide the bottom seed card out from under the mission, reveal it face-up, and begin working through the mission's challenges! If there are no seed cards, you then try to solve the mission.

MISSION ATTEMPTS: BASIC RULES (7.2.1)

You attempt missions using the personnel, ships and equipment you have played. You attempt Space missions with your crew aboard a ship; you attempt Planet missions by beaming an Away Team down to the mission.

When you begin a mission attempt, start by revealing the bottom dilemma beneath the mission (the dilemma closest to the table). Read it. If it says "unless" or "to get past," you can prevent the dilemma by meeting the stated conditions... but, if you fail, the entire team is stopped and the dilemma reseeds. If it says "cure," you can discard the dilemma (after it has its initial effect) by meeting the cure requirement, but, if you can't, there's no penalty. If it says, "nullify," then it works just like a "cure," except you can meet the nullify requirement and discard the dilemma before it has any effect. If it doesn't say any of those, then just do what the dilemma says, then discard it and continue to the next seed card. Usually, dilemmas will kill or stop enough personnel to prevent you from solving the mission immediately.

When there are no more dilemmas beneath the mission, check your crew or Away Team; if you still have the mission requirements, then you complete the mission! You score points equal to the value of the mission, and you can continue your turn.

ENCOUNTERING DILEMMAS (7.2.2)

Clarifications: Reading and Responding to Dilemmas (7.2.2.0.1)

Dilemmas are intended to be read by the encountering player. All references to "you", "your", and "your choice" refer to the encountering player. "Opponent" or "opponent's choice" refer to the encountering player's opponent.

On a dilemma card with more than one effect, each effect should be encountered and resolved in sequence. For example, Menthar Booby Trap first causes the effect of preventing the ship from moving, then causes the effect of killing a member of the crew.

A requirement such as STRENGTH>40 refers to the total STRENGTH of the Away Team or crew. When requirements or targets include attributes, apply any relevant attribute modifiers, such as Lower Decks, phasers, The Emissary, etc.

Only personnel in the crew or Away Team attempting the mission are present with a dilemma during the mission attempt, or may trigger, be targeted by, overcome, nullify, or cure it. Personnel who are "stopped," disabled, in stasis, intruders, etc. are separated and are not affected by dilemma text targeting "crew," "entire crew," "all crew," "Away Team," or "entire Away Team" (which refer only to the crew or Away Team facing the dilemma). Only dilemmas using broader terms such as "all life on ship" (Crystalline Entity) or "personnel at this location" (Dal'Rok) can affect personnel not involved in a mission attempt when the dilemma is encountered.

A personnel placed atop a mission by a dilemma and/or "held" there is in stasis (but is not a captive).

If a dilemma looks for something like "strongest" or "higest total attributes," and there is a tie, the opponent of the encountering player chooses. See Ties.

Each dilemma encounter is a sub-action of the mission attempt (which is a group action). Like the mission attempt itself, the encounter cannot be interrupted except by a valid response or a card which suspends play. Normally, you may not respond to a dilemma until all potential targets for the dilemma have been chosen and the crew or Away Team's ability to meet any requirements has been checked. (Only at this point is the dilemma considered "just encountered" for cards like Holoprogram: Deadwood.)

Playing a card that nullifies certain dilemmas, such as Plexing, is a valid response to encountering such a dilemma. Likewise, activating a card that enhances certain dilemmas, such as Shades of Gray: Anguish, is a valid response to any player encountering one of those dilemmas.

Borg Rule: Some Dilemmas are Irrelevant (7.2.2.0.2)

Gender is Irrelevant: Gender-related requirements or targets on dilemmas are ignored, unless the dilemma is specifically identified as "Borg-related." If there is an alternative which is not gender-related, a Borg must use that. Otherwise, the dilemma is discarded (it is not considered overcome). For example, must meet the first requirement on Unexpected to avoid its conditional effect, but Matriarchal Society and Talosian Cage are discarded without effect. The Borg Queen is female. All counterparts are male. Borg drones have no gender unless specifically identified.

Classificiation is Irrelevant: Any cards which specifically require or change a "classification", such as Scottish Setter, do not affect .

Bonus Points are Irrelevant: Because cannot score bonus points, any dilemma which shows bonus points must be played out normally, but any bonus points scored are ignored. When overcome or cured, the dilemma is placed out-of-play as normal (instead of the bonus point area). If a dilemma presents a choice between scoring bonus points and some other option, a Borg player must select the option without bonus points.

Missions are Irrelevant: Because attempt to scout locations instead of directly attempting missions, all game text referring specifically to a mission attempt (such as Edo Probe's "Abandon mission attempt", Dead End's "Mission may not be attempted", or Linguistic Legerdemain's "Place on mission; it may not be attempted") do not affect . Ignore such text, and discard the dilemma if it is wholly inapplicable. However, the word "attempt", by itself (for example, Buried Alive's "attempt ends") includes scouting attempts and does affect .

Moreover, the phrase "Mission continues" is uniquely important in dilemma resolution (see conditional effects), and means "Scouting continues" for Borg.

Clarification: Dilemma Targets (7.2.2.0.3)

If an effect requires you to choose a target, and there is no valid target in play, the effect is not carried out (or "fizzles"). For example, if you encounter Conundrum and cannot meet its conditions, but your opponent has no targetable ships, it cannot be placed on an opponent's ship and must be discarded instead. (You have still failed the mission attempt.) If you encounter Hippocratic Oath but there are no planets on the spaceline, it is removed. However, the absence of targets does not affect other elements of the dilemma encounter. If you don't meet the conditions of Empathic Echo (SECURITY and MEDICAL), the mission attempt fails and the dilemma is reseeded even if you have no Empathy (the target) in your Away Team.

If there are not enough targets for the effect of a dilemma, do as much as you can. (Dilemmas are an exception to the normal rule that gametext is all-or-nothing.) For example, Armus: Roulette specifies that four target personnel are to be selected, but, if only two personnel are present, it selects those two. Likewise, Dejaren targets one personnel and one non-; if there are no personnel present, select a non- personnel to die, then proceed to Dejaren's next effect.

Clarification: Dilemma Triggers (7.2.2.0.4)

Some effects are subject to triggers. If the trigger is not met, then the effect is nullified. For example, Maman Picard has the automatic effect of sending your ship to the end of the spaceline, but the trigger for this effect is "If this is a Federation ship...". If the attempting ship is not , this effect is nullified. Since there are no remaining effects on the dilemma, it is removed.

Some triggers have alternative effects. For example, Cybernetic Homing Device has an automatic effect ("opponent may move ship up to printed range") with the trigger ("If android or non- Borg aboard"). If a trigger is not met, that effect is nullified, but is replaced with a different conditional effect (cannot get past without CUNNING > 36).

Most cards seeded under a mission are probably Dilemmas, or are cards that function as Dilemmas. Either way, you're in trouble!

After you flip a dilemma face-up during a mission attempt to reveal it, the crew or Away Team begin an encounter with that dilemma.

Each dilemma has one or more effects, such as, "kills one personnel with SCIENCE (random selection)", "when countdown expires, ship is destroyed", or "cannot get past". Effects may be automatic or may have requirements: conditions, cures, or nullifiers.

Clarifications: Dilemmas Entering Play (7.2.2.0.5)

Some dilemmas, when removed, are not discarded, but instead are placed elsewhere, such as atop the mission, on the attempting ship, or on table...often as a consequence of failing to meet the dilemma's conditions.

If the dilemma is not placed on a valid target, all subsequent text on the dilemma is ignored. For example, if you encounter "God" and you prevent it from being placed on the mission (by having two personnel present with INTEGRITY > 7), the dilemma is removed and the mission continues – even if you do not have a ship in orbit.

Clarifications: "Combo" Dilemmas (7.2.2.0.7)

There are a total of six "combo dilemmas" in the game. These rules apply only to them and may otherwise be ignored.

A combo dilemma is a two-dilemma combination in one Dilemma card. (Example: Male's Love Interest & Plague Ship) Encountering a combo dilemma is like encountering two separate dilemmas: if you meet the conditions of the first half, you continue on to face the second half; if not, you place the card back under the mission and will have to face the first half again. However, some combo dilemmas with conditions say "not repeatable" in the first half; this phrase takes the place of "discard dilemma" and means that the first half is conceptually discarded after you face it; when you or your opponent encounter that same exact card on another attempt, the first half of the combo is skipped. If the first half has no conditions (for example, Male's Love Interest), it is always conceptually discarded after it has its effect.

Cards that specifically affect the first half of a combo dilemma do not automatically affect the second half. For example, if Male's Love Interest is discarded by Senior Staff Meeting or nullified by Kareen Brianon you still encounter the Tarellian Plague Ship half of the card. Similarly, if, during an encounter with Alien Parasites & REM Fatigue, you fail to overcome Alien Parasites and your opponent uses your personnel to re-attempt the mission, they will begin by facing REM Fatigue Hallucinations. Any Mission Fatigue in play "stops" a personnel before each dilemma, so one personnel will be "stopped" before each half of the combo.

You may not legally seed a combo dilemma at the same location as either of the original dilemma cards on which it is based; the second one encountered would be a mis-seed. If the mis-seed is the first half of a combo dilemma, place it "conceptually" out-of-play while you encounter the second half, then place it physically out-of-play once the second half has been resolved.

Likewise, you cannot legally seed more than two of any dilemma, including a combo dilemma that includes it. For example, if you seeded two copies of Radiactive Garbage Scow and an additional copy of Female's Love Interest & Garbage Scow, that would count as three copies of Radioactive Garbage Scow, and your deck would be disqualified.

A dilemma is removed from the mission's seed cards once all its effects have been resolved. Some removed dilemmas enter play, with long-term effects. However, most removed dilemmas are discarded.

AUTOMATIC EFFECTS (7.2.2.1)

"You may win this war, Commander, but I promise you, when it is over, you will have lost so many ships, so many lives, that your victory will taste as bitter as defeat."

—Founder Leader

Effects that have no requirements happen automatically. Examples include Artillery Attack, which automatically kills some number of personnel, Murasaki Effect, which penalizes beaming at the mission where it is encountered and the first effect of Armus: Energy Field, which stops (at least) one personnel. (The second effect of Armus: Energy Field is conditional.)

When your mission team encounters an automatic effect, simply follow its gametext. If all of the effects your mission team encounters on a dilemma are automatic, the dilemma is automatically removed at the end of the encounter. Thus, Chula: Crossroads is overcome and removed as soon as the personnel targeted by it have been stopped. I'm Not Going To Fight You is removed as soon as its download is complete and placed on the mission for a persistent effect. Chula: The Lights has both an automatic effect (returns a personnel to hand) and a conditional effect (cannot get past without a certain amount of CUNNING), so it is not overcome and removed until the condition is met.

CONDITIONAL EFFECTS (7.2.2.2)

"If we can't find a way to stop them, they'll tear the ship apart."

—B'Elanna Torres

Many effects can be prevented if you meet certain conditions. If you meet the conditions for all such effects on a dilemma, the dilemma is overcome and removed. Examples include "God", which has a condition of two personnel who each have INTEGRITY > 7, Ancient Computer, which has multiple options for defeating its effect, and Dead End, which has a condition of having at least 50 points. Conditions are prefaced with the words "unless", "to get past", or "cannot get past".

Tip: Condition Examples (7.2.2.2.0.1)

Basic Example: if you encounter Astral Eddy, check your crew. If they have Navigation, Physics, and 2 ENGINEER, the dilemma is overcome (remove it). Otherwise, they fail to overcome the dilemma. One crew member is killed, the mission attempt fails, the ship and crew are stopped, and the dilemma is replaced under the mission to be encountered again.

Advanced Example: if you encounter Spatial Rift, first resolve the automatic effect ("Two personnel (random selection) are discarded unless their combined CUNNING > 14"). Then face the conditional effect ("To get past...") with its conditions ("...requires Astrophysics and 2 ENGINEER). If you still have those requirements after potentially losing your two personnel, the dilemma is overcome; discard it and proceed with the mission. If not, you fail to overcome the dilemma. It takes effect (you can't get past), the mission attempt fails, and all your involved ships and personnel are stopped. Then the dilemma goes back under the mission to be encountered again (in full). Next time you attempt it, you will probably lose two more personnel to the automatic effect before you get a second chance to meet the requirements and overcome it!

"Discard Dilemma": Alice has a condition of 2 Computer Skill and Biology. If that condition is not met, the personnel with most Navigation is captured, the mission attempt fails, and the mission team is stopped (along with their ship, if at a mission)... but Alice itself is removed and discarded, instead of being put back under the mission to be encountered again.

"Mission Continues": Hunter Probe has the effect of (eventually) killing two personnel, which can be prevented by meeting the condition of having 2 SECURITY and 2 Anthropology present. Normally, failing to meet this condition would not only mark two personnel for death, but would also stop the mission attempt and mission team. However, because the card says, "Mission continues," the dilemma is removed, and the mission attempt goes on. (The two personnel then die at end of turn).

However, if you fail to meet the conditions of any of the active effects on a dilemma, the dilemma is not removed. Failing to overcome a conditional effect has all of the following consequences:

The effect occurs.
The mission attempt fails (see mission failure below).
The ship, crew, and/or Away Team involved in the mission attempt are all stopped.
The dilemma is reseeded as the bottom card under the mission, to be encountered again on the next attempt.

There are two main exceptions to these consequences for dilemma failure:

If a dilemma says, "Discard dilemma", then the dilemma is removed and discarded after it is encountered, even if the mission team failed to overcome it. The mission attempt still fails, and the mission team is still stopped, but at least the dilemma will not be encountered again!

If a dilemma says, "Mission continues", then the dilemma is removed even if the mission team fails to pass it. The mission attempt continues and the mission team is not stopped.

CURABLE EFFECTS (7.2.2.3)

"By golly, Jim, I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"

—Dr. McCoy

Tip: Cure Examples (7.2.2.3.0.1)

Basic Example: when encountered, Horta is removed from the mission's seed cards, placed atop the mission, and kills a member of your Away Team. This kill repeats each turn, an ongoing effect. It can be cured with 2 Leadership, 2 Mindmeld, and 2 Exobiology — but only after the first person has been killed (hopefully it didn't get one of your Exobiologists!). If it can't be cured immediately, the mission continues, but the dilemma remains on the planet until its cure requirements are met.

Multiple-Effect Example: when encountered, Menthar Booby Trap is automatically removed from the mission's seed cards and placed on the attempting ship. Its first effect is that the ship cannot move, with a cure requirement of "2 ENGINEER aboard". This is followed by a second effect (killing a random crew member), unless the crew meets the condition of having MEDICAL present. The mission team may cure the first effect with 2 ENGINEER, but only after it has been placed on the ship and after any deaths that result from the dilemma's second effect.

Multiple-Condition Example: Ankari "Spirits" has a single effect — killing large numbers of your personnel — but two conditions. The first requirement ("3 Honor and INTEGRITY > 35") is a normal dilemma condition; if the crew does not meet this condition, they fail to overcome the dilemma. The dilemma is placed on the ship, two personnel are killed (and an ongoing effect begins), the mission attempt fails, and the ship and crew are stopped. Now the original condition goes away, and is replaced by a cure requirement ("Cure with 3 ENGINEER and Exobiology"). If it can be met now, the dilemma is cured and placed out-of-play (but the dead people remain dead, and the ship and crew are still stopped, because they failed to overcome its conditions). Otherwise, it remains on the ship until it is cured by 3 ENGINEER and Exobiology. Since 3 Honor and INTEGRITY > 35 is not a cure requirement, it is irrelevant after the initial encounter.

Some dilemmas have an ongoing effect that can be cured by meeting a set of cure requirements – after the dilemma has taken effect. First, the dilemma has its effects, which removes the dilemma from the mission's seed cards (it will not be encountered again). Then, if the required skills are present, it is cured immediately, before the next dilemma is encountered. If not, then the dilemma remains in play until cured or otherwise discarded. The cure requirements on a dilemma apply to all its effects; once a dilemma's cure requirements are met, the entire dilemma is discarded. Curable requirements are always marked with the word "cure."

Examples include Komar Possession, which stops personnel every turn until cured with 3 SECURITY, Emergent Life-Form, which takes control of a ship's movement until it is cured or expires, and Nitrium Metal Parasites, which destroys the host ship in two turns.

Cure requirements are often harder to meet than normal requirements, because the effect hits first. For example, Data Has Some Issues is cured with 3 ENGINEER, but first it stops a personnel present. If that personnel happens to be one of your engineers, and you don't have any extra, too bad! You can't cure the dilemma this turn, and people are going to start dying!

Failing to immediately meet a cure requirement does not cause mission failure.

NULLIFIABLE EFFECTS (7.2.2.4)

"This is the nanovirus Axum designed to prevent the Borg from detecting those with the genetic mutation. But I've modified it to nullify their cortical inhibitors instead."

—The Doctor

Tip: Nullifier Examples (7.2.2.4.0.1)

Nullification Example: Framed For Murder plays on a unique personnel present and prevents that personnel from using skills or staffing icons. It has a nullifier: "Nullify with any personnel who has CUNNING>9 and Biology OR Law." If you have a personnel who meets those conditions, the dilemma is immediately removed, before your opponent has the chance to place it on one of your personnel. Otherwise, the dilemma is placed on one of your personnel and remains there until some personnel arrives who has CUNNING>9 and Biology or Law. Either way, the mission continues.

Another Nullification Example: Do You Smell Something Burning? has the effect "stops half your Away Team" with the nullifier "Nullify with a cook, ANIMAL, or Lure of the Nexus." If a cook or ANIMAL is present, the dilemma is immediately removed, before any personnel are stopped. If the player encountering the dilemma has Lure of the Nexus available to play from hand or by download, he or she may do so, which also discards the dilemma before any personnel are stopped. If those conditions cannot be met, the effect occurs. The mission continues with the remaining unstopped Away Team members. (The "Mission continues" text at the end is redundant.)

Some dilemmas state they can be nullified. Some form of the word "nullify" is always used. When a nullifier requirement is met, the dilemma is removed. A nullifier can be met either immediately when the dilemma is encountered and before it takes effect (like a condition) or, if it has an ongoing effect, at any time after it takes effect (like a cure).

For example, Dial-Up stops some personnel, but has the nullifier "Nullify with 3 Computer Skill and Anthropology." An Away Team facing this dilemma may check immediately for 3 Computer Skill and Anthropology, before stopping any personnel. If the requirements are not present, mission continues, but the dilemma can still be discarded later whenever 3 Computer Skill and Anthropology are present. The dilemma self-nullifies when its countdown timer reaches zero.

Failing to immediately meet a nullifier does not cause mission failure.

DILEMMA BONUS POINTS (7.2.2.5)

Some dilemmas, like Microvirus, have a bonus point box on them, but do not specify how to earn the points. These points are scored by meeting the dilemma's requirements during the mission or curing the dilemma afterward. Instead of being discarded or placed out-of-play, dilemmas you score from should be placed in your bonus point area.

You do not score the points if you fail the dilemma's requirements. For example, if you fail to meet the requirements of Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease and your mission team dies, the dilemma is still removed and discarded, because it says "Discard dilemma." But you don't score 10 bonus points from it, because you did not overcome it.

OTHER SEEDS (7.2.3)

Besides Dilemmas (and cards that function as Dilemmas), you may encounter other cards beneath a mission. Artifacts may be seeded at any planet mission, and several other cards (such as Search for Weapons and Cryosatellite) will allow you to seed personnel or equipment beneath a mission. If you encounter one of these cards during a mission attempt, place it face-up beneath the mission and continue to the next seed card. The player who solves this mission will earn all these cards.

MIS-SEEDS (7.2.4)

Any card revealed at a mission that cannot be legally encountered at that mission is immediately placed out-of-play (it is not encountered).

Clarifications: Becoming Mis-seeded (7.2.4.0.1)

In rare situations, it is possible for a card seeded legally to become a mis-seed during the course of play. For example, Cryosatellite allows you to seed three

personnel under a mission. If you discard your own seeded Cryosatellite during a mission attempt (for example, with a Pla-Net), those personnel become mis-seeds. These mis-seeds are placed out-of-play as normal when encountered, but they do not affect your ability to solve the mission.

Mis-seeds include (but are not limited to):

non-seed cards (such as Event cards) placed under a Mission as a bluff,
multiple copies of the same card seeded under one Mission by a single player,
space Dilemmas revealed under planet Missions (and vice versa),
-icon cards without an -enabling card,
multiple Artifacts seeded under one Mission by a single player (all that player's artifacts at that Mission become mis-seeds), and
personnel with no game text allowing them to seed (such as Mirasta Yale under a mission other than First Contact).

If a player encounters his or her own mis-seeded card at a Mission, that player cannot solve that mission (or any Objective targeting that Mission) for the rest of the game. At Empok Nor, encountering your own mis-seed permanently prevents you from taking initial control of the station (but you may commandeer later).

SOLVING THE MISSION (7.2.5)

Clarification: Mission Points (7.2.5.0.1)

Additional points provided by a Mission card's gametext (such as the additional points for discarding Youth personnel at Conceal Unlikely Society) or an Objective explicitly affecting that Mission's point value (such as Launch the Phoenix) are part of the points earned for solving the mission, not bonus points. Points provided by any other card card, such as Assign Mission Specialists, are bonus points. This matters both for the official win conditions, which limit the number of points that can come from bonuses, and players, who cannot score bonus points.

Once you have completed a mission, its points cannot normally be taken away from you. Even if a Mission is destroyed by a card like Black Hole or Supernova, you retain the points scored from it. Only cards that explicitly modify the point value of completed missions, such as I Tried To Warn You and Hero of the Empire, can do that.

Clarification: Alternative Mission Requirements (from Objectives) (7.2.5.0.2)

A mission attempt using alternate requirements provided by an objective is exactly like any other mission attempt. You do not need to have the requirements in the Away Team, and you score the point value of the underlying mission when you complete it. The mission cannot then be completed with its normal requirements. In order to gain any additional benefits from such an objective (such as Establish Trade Route's download of a Ferengi Trading Post and equipment upon completing the mission), you must complete the targeted mission using the objective's alternate requirements. If an objective allows a different affiliation to attempt a mission than the icons on the Mission card, only that affiliation may use the requirements provided by the objective.

You must declare before the mission attempt begins which card's set of requirements you are attempting under. You may not solve the mission using the other set(s) of requirements during this attempt.

Clarification: Individual Requirements (7.2.5.0.3)

Some cards, like For The Cause and Cytoplasmic Life-form, manipulate individual mission requirements separately. Each required skill (including classifications), total attribute level, characteristic (or combined characteristic), or condition is considered a single requirement. For example:

Find Hidden Base has 7 requirements: 3 requirements of SECURITY (which can be satisfied by skills or classifications or both), 2 requirements of Leadership, and 2 requirements of a hand weapon.
Patrol Neutral Zone has 2 requirements: 1 Leadership and the condition that there be no opposing ships in the Neutral Zone Region.
Search For Rebels has 5 requirements: 2 requirements of SECURITY, 1 requirement of CUNNING > 30, 1 requirement of Professor Sisko (a characteristic), and 2 requirements of " leader." The latter is a combination of two characteristics; both characteristics must be on the same personnel. For example, The Intendant counts as one " leader", but Commander Leeta and Dorza do not. The "OR" wording means that not all these requirements must actually be met to solve the mission.

If requirements overlap due to replacement, they are added. (If attribute requirements overlap, the larger is used.) For example, if For The Cause is used to replace the OFFICER requirement on Intercept Maquis (with Leadership + SECURITY + CUNNING > 30), the requirements change from OFFICER + SECURITY + CUNNING > 24 to Leadership + SECURITY x2 + CUNNING>30.

Once all seed cards under a mission have been encountered, and there are no dilemmas remaining beneath the mission, check your remaining personnel present. If they still have a personnel whose affiliation matches one of the mission's, still meet additional conditions for attempting the mission (from Homefront, for example), and meet the mission requirements, they solve the mission; slide it a half-card length toward you to mark it complete. The completed mission remains on the table as a spaceline location, but cannot be attempted again. (It can be scouted.)

Now, any gametext triggered by solving the mission is resolved. (For example, after solving Host Metaphasic Shield Test, you may download Metaphasic Shields to any of your ships at that location.)

Then, artifacts are earned and other hidden seeds are resolved (the solver may decide the order in which they are earned and resolved). If you earn personnel from a mission attempt, any personnel you seeded join your crew or Away Team if compatible, form a separate Away Team if not, or are placed under house arrest if aboard a ship. Personnel seeded by your opponent are captured. Earning seed cards is neither a card play nor a reporting-for-duty action. (However, some Artifacts are played immediately when earned; these card plays do count as a free card play.)

Finally, you score the mission points, plus any bonus points you earned (for example, with Assign Mission Specialists)... even if the personnel who earned those points have been moved away (for example, by Magic Carpet Ride OCD). A mission with no point box cannot be solved.

The mission attempt is now complete, and cards which respond to that (such as Particle Fountain) may be played.

MISSION FAILURE (7.2.6)

Clarification: Reseed After Escapes (7.2.6.0.1)

If, just after encountering a dilemma, but before it has any effects, the entire crew or Away Team leaves the mission attempt, reseed the dilemma. On the other hand, if the dilemma encounter has begun to resolve when the entire crew or Away Team leaves the attempt, continue resolving the dilemma as if it were being faced by a crew or Away Team with zero members. For example, if you special download The Gift just after revealing Disgraceful Assault, it has had no effects; reseed the dilemma. However, if your ship is destroyed after the first effect of Disgraceful Assault, resolve the rest of the dilemma (including its "discard dilemma").

Tip: Mission Failures Don't Stop the Team (7.2.6.0.2)

Failing a mission attempt does not automatically stop the ship, crew, or Away Team that is making the attempt. If your Away Team clears out all dilemmas under Insurrection, but then doesn't have the STRENGTH to solve the mission, they fail the mission, but the unstopped personnel can still beam up and fly away, or even beam down reinforcements and attempt the mission again.

On the other hand, by far the most common cause of mission failure is failing to overcome a dilemma. Failing to overcome a dilemma with conditions does automatically stop the Away Team or ship and crew that encountered it.

During a mission attempt, a lot can go wrong, but your hardy crews and Away Teams will try to venture on through great adversity. Only a few dire conditions can completely stop a mission attempt:

No one remains in the crew or Away Team. (This may be because they are dead, stopped, disabled, relocated elsewhere, or removed by some other means.)
After a dilemma is encountered, it is reseeded under the mission to be encountered again.
After resolving all dilemmas, the crew or Away Team cannot meet the mission requirements with its remaining personnel.

When a mission attempt fails, unstopped personnel (on an unstopped ship, if at a Space mission) may reattempt the mission. This is a new mission attempt, not a continuation of the previous attempt.

COMPLETE BORG OBJECTIVES (7.3)

Borg Rule:

Borg-Only Objectives & Scouting

"In their collective state, the Borg are utterly without mercy; driven by one will alone: the will to conquer. They are beyond redemption, beyond reason."

—Jean-Luc Picard

The Borg affiliation does not attempt the petty missions of lesser, imperfect species. Instead, players complete Borg-Only Objectives, such as Establish Gateway, Assimilate Homeworld, or Reassimilate Lost Drone. Borg-Only Objectives, not missions, are how the Borg Collective climbs to 100 points. Points scored from Objectives are regular points, not bonus points. (See Borg Points.)

IN GENERAL (7.3.1)

Borg-Only Objectives function like other Objective cards. Follow the instructions on the card. All probing takes place at the end of your turn, unless the specific card says otherwise.

Borg may never probe for a Borg-Only Objective if they've battled at the target's location since the end of their last turn (even if the target has since moved). The single-minded Borg cannot adequately analyze an objective while also defending the hive.

Finally, Borg may have only one face-up Borg-Only Objective in play at a time, referred to as the current objective. ( Borg players may still have any number of non- Objectives in play.)

SCOUTING (7.3.2)

Many Objectives state that, before the Borg can bring the full might of the Borg Collective to bear and complete them, they must first scout a location. This means sending a single crew or Away Team to gather relevant data while neutralizing any resistance.

Once scouting is complete, it is permanent. Even if your opponent seeds an extra dilemma beneath a scouted mission using Beware of Q or kills the last Borg aboard his ship, you do not have to complete scouting again.

You may not probe for an objective on the same turn that you completed scouting for that objective. Objectives that require scouting are complex tasks, and the single-minded Borg cannot even begin those tasks until the area has been pacified. (However, cards like Service the Collective and Relentless can accelerate the Collective's processing power.)

Missions Are Irrelevant: Scouting Locations (7.3.2.1)

Instead of solving missions, Borg use objectives like Assimilate Planet and Consume: Technology to scout locations. As with mission attempts, Borg-Only Objectives targeting missions for scouting may only target missions with a point box that you seeded (unless its point box shows 40 points or more or there is more than one copy in play). Scouting functions much like a mission attempt: a Borg crew or Away Team announces the start of a scouting attempt, then encounters seed cards, just like during a mission attempt. (However, do not need a personnel with matching affiliation to begin a scouting attempt.)

While this is a kind of "attempt," it is not a "mission attempt," and it will not culminate in "solving the mission." Borg ignore any card text that refers specifically to "mission" attempts or "solving" the mission, such as the first two sentences of Radioactive Garbage Scow.

Scouting a location is completed at the end of your turn if:

The location is targeted by your Objective;
You have scouted it at least once for that Objective; and
No dilemmas remain to be encountered.

You do not need to have any surviving or unstopped Borg at the location for scouting to be completed. You may begin probing for the objective on your next turn (assuming there have been no subsequent battles there).

When the probe is successful, the objective is complete. Borg cannot acquire artifacts or other seeded cards unless a Survey Drone or similar card allows it. If not, then the artifacts or other seeded cards are placed face-up on the planet, and can be acquired (or earned) at any time by a Survey Drone (or similar)... or by any non- personnel.

A dilemma that has remained in play, such as Friendly Fire or Cytherians, no longer remains to be encountered, and so does not prevent scouting from being complete.

An objective that allows you to scout a location requires you to complete scouting for that objective in order to probe to complete it. For example, if you scout a mission with Establish Gateway and resolve all dilemmas, then switch to Harness Particle 010 by downloading A Change of Plans in place of your normal card draw at the end of your turn, scouting is complete at the end of that turn for Establish Gateway, but not for Harness Particle 010. You must scout the mission again before scouting is complete for the new objective.

Planetary Assimilation (7.3.2.1.1)

If a planet is assimilated by the completion of an objective, the planet becomes part of the Borg collective. All opposing personnel, equipment, and landed ships on the planet are assimilated, becoming Borg under your control. All opponent's facilities at the location are also assimilated, as are all opponent's cards aboard them. (You may report cards there, but still must follow native quadrant restrictions.)

An assimilated planet cannot be attempted, its affiliation attempt icons are considered irrelevant, and facilities requiring a matching icon can no longer be built there.

Scouting Ships (7.3.2.2)

Scouting a ship is complete at the end of your turn if you have any active, unstopped Borg aboard.

(Assimilate Starship may allow you to beam one Borg drone aboard as a scout. If so, you must also have a way to beam through opponent's SHIELDS, such as Transport Drone.)

If your opponent attacks your Borg at that location, you may counter-attack during your next turn by beaming any number of Borg aboard and initiating battle. Those Borg are free to remain aboard.

Ship Assimilation (7.3.2.2.1)

When the Borg assimilate a starship, the following transformations occur as the Borg retrofit it:

Its affiliation changes to .
Any Borg staffing requirements (such as those on Assimilator) remain.
Staffing requirements are converted to Borg subcommand icons, as follows:

command stars become communications subcommand requirements.
staff stars become navigations subcommand requirements.
All other staffing icons become defense subcommand requirements.
Staffing requirements that do not have an icon (such as "Vulcan" on Vulcan Lander) are irrelevant. They are ignored.

Any ships carried aboard are assimilated. Personnel and equipment aboard are not. Any cards played on or placed on the ship prior to assimilation (such as a Pride of the Fleet, Cytherians, or a Pulse Disruptor damage marker) transfer to you.

BATTLE (7.4)

"To all ships, this is Captain Sisko! Assume attack formation Delta Two! There's an old saying: fortune favours the bold. Well... I guess we're about to find out."

—Benjamin Sisko

The final frontier is a dangerous place, and not everyone will want to be your friend. Your rivals may attack your vessels, your outposts, your personnel, and even your planets. Whether in hand-to-hand ground battles or space-based fleet actions, combat gives your enemies an opportunity not just to destroy you and your assets, but to capture your personnel, paralyze your fleet, disrupt your operations, and even score points from your suffering. You must always be prepared for it. You may even find it necessary to begin combat yourself in order to defend your interests — or your honor.

BATTLE: BASIC RULES

When your ships are at the same location as your opponent's ships, or your personnel are present with your opponent's personnel, you may battle them, as long as they belong to a different affiliation. There are a few exceptions to this rule: may not attack unless attacked first. , , and may attack anyone, including fellow Klingons and Kazon. To start a battle, you must have OFFICER or Leadership present.

SHIP BATTLE

Add up the total WEAPONS on all your attacking ships. (Each ship must have OFFICER or Leader aboard and must be at the same location as the battle.) Pick one of your opponent's ships or facilities present. If your WEAPONS are greater than its SHIELDS, it is damaged. Place a Rotation Damage Marker on the ship (or simply rotate the ship): the target's cloaking device (if any) goes off-line, and its RANGE is reduced to 5. Your opponent may now return fire by totalling her WEAPONS at this location (her ships do not need OFFICER or Leadership to fire back), choosing one of your ships, and attempting to damage it in the same way.

If an attacker's total WEAPONS are more than double the defender's SHIELDS, the defender is destroyed at the end of the battle. If a damaged ship is damaged again, it is destroyed at the end of the battle.

PERSONNEL BATTLE

Shuffle your attacking crew or Away Team and place them in a face-down pile on the table (like a card deck). Your opponent does the same with the defending crew or Away Team. You will now play a short game of "war": each of you must draw the top card of your respective "combat piles" and compare the STRENGTH of the personnel revealed. Whoever has less STRENGTH is stunned. If one card has greater than double the STRENGTH of the other, the weaker one is mortally wounded. Repeat until one player runs out of cards in the combat pile. Both players now total up the STRENGTH of their remaining unstunned, un-wounded personnel. Whoever has more STRENGTH remaining wins! The winner randomly selects one of the unstunned, un-wounded personnel from the losing side as a casualty. The casualty dies. Stunned personnel on both sides recover, and mortally wounded personnel die.

AFTER THE BATTLE

After a battle, all ships and personnel involved in the fighting are stopped. On the next turn, your opponent (even ) may freely counter-attack any and all of your cards at that location, launching a new battle without needing OFFICER or Leadership. Affiliation attack restrictions do not apply during counter-attacks.

You can repair damage to your ships by docking at a friendly facility and remaining there for two full turns (not including the turn you docked).

INITIATING A BATTLE (7.4.1)

Reminder: Actions and Valid Responses (7.4.1.0.1)

A battle is a single action composed of many sub-actions. Thus, once a battle has been declared (or initiated), no player may take any other action until the battle has resolved... unless that action either suspends play or is a valid response to the battle (or one of the battle's sub-actions).

For example, valid responses to battle actions could include playing Asteroid Sanctuary to escape a just-initated battle, Weak Spot to reduce a ship's SHIELDS during the battle's Open Fire or Return Fire stage, or activating Federation Flagship: Recovered (even if currently face-down) when your ship is destroyed during the battle's Resolution stage.

On the other hand, once your opponent has declared an attack, it is normally too late to use Out Of Time to escape by time travelling, even though the card states it may be used "at any time," because both the card play and the time travel are new, separate actions, not valid responses to the battle action, and therefore may not be made until the battle action is resolved. However, if you have Daniels in play anywhere at the location of the battle, you could use his special download (if valid) to play Out Of Time from your deck or hand. Special downloading suspends play, so Out Of Time would immediately play to the table, allowing your crew to escape the already-initiated battle.

Your ships, facilities, and Away Teams may initiate battle ("attack") as an action during your turn.

Your personnel may attack any opposing personnel (or Rogue Borg) present with them. This is referred to as "personnel battle" (sometimes "Away Team battle" or, if Rogue Borg Mercenaries are involved, "Rogue Borg battle"). Your ships and space facilities with WEAPONS and your personnel of matching affiliation aboard may attack your opponent's ships and facilities at the same location. This is referred to as "ship battle" or "space battle" (even if neither ships nor space are involved).

Each of your ships, facilities, or Away Teams that wishes to initiate an attack must have a leader present. (A leader is a personnel with OFFICER or Leadership.) Moreover, you may only initiate battle against cards you do not control. (For example, you may not normally order your Klingon ship to attack your own Romulan ship.)

Clarifications: Affiliation Attack Restrictions (7.4.1.0.6)

A "mixed" force is subject to all the attack restrictions of its members. All cards in the force must be compatible. A Romulan crew on a Non-Aligned ship is a Romulan force, may not be attacked by other Romulans, and prevent their Non-Aligned ship from joining forces with with another Non-Aligned ship that includes Ferengi crew. A Federation/ Klingon Away Team (enabled by Treaty: Federation/Klingon) is a Federation force, and may not initiate battle (except against Borg). A Nor you control is "crewed" by all compatible personnel aboard and has all their battle restrictions.

If a card specifically allows you to attack a specific affiliation (or faction), then you may attack any forces that include that affiliation (or faction), even if other cards are working with them. For example, Admiral Leyton, who allows present to attack , implicitly allows you to attack a mixed / force as well.

When a card, such as Emblem of the Empire, removes affiliation attack restrictions from a group of cards, they may attack any affiliation, including their own. If cards from that group mix with other cards whose affiliation attack restrictions have not been removed, the entire force is subject to the restrictions of the second group.

A card that allows a specific attack (for example, Captain Kirk may initiate battle against non-) does not permanently or universally remove affiliation attack restrictions. A card (like Kirk) that allows your force to override affiliation attack restrictions applies only to its own crew or Away Team, unless otherwise specified (for example, Admiral Leyton’s effect applies to all your cards at the location). Each ship in the force must either be following affiliation attack restrictions or have permission to override it.

Finally, you must obey affiliation attack restrictions:

Most affiliations (, , , , , , , , and ) have standard attack restrictions: they may attack opponents' cards of any affiliation except their own. For example, your Starfleet-affiliation ships may attack your opponent's Ferengi or Federation ships, but may not attack your opponent's Starfleet ships (or ships with Starfleet personnel aboard).

, , , and have no attack restrictions. For example, your Klingon Away Teams may attack any opposing Away Team, including another Klingon Away Team.

may initiate battle only against . Otherwise, may battle only during counter-attack, or when permitted or required by a card.

PERSONNEL BATTLE (7.4.2)

Personnel battles are fought between two opposing crews or Away Teams (the forces) that are together on a planet, aboard a ship, on a station, or anywhere else they are present with each other. A force normally includes Personnel, who may be using Equipment (such as Klingon Disruptor). However, a few exotic cards, like Satan's Robot and Rogue Borg Mercenaries, can also join (or form) a personnel battle force. Normally, you will battle cards you do not control, but some cards allow you to battle your own cards.

The battle proceeds in 6 stages:

1. Initiation: The attacking player announces an attack, chooses which single force is performing the attack, and which single opposing force present they are targeting in the attack. The battle has now been initiated.

2. Responses: Players that control a force in the battle may now play or use cards that apply at the initiation of battle, such as Antique Machine Gun, Bodyguards, D'k Tahg, or I Do Not Take Orders From You!.

3. Form Up: Set aside personnel who are disabled, stunned, in stasis, mortally wounded, or otherwise excluded from battle. Set aside other all other cards (like Tricorders) unless they expressly participate in battle. The remaining cards (or combatants) in each force should be shuffled together and placed face-down on the table as a combat pile.

Clarifications: Response Precedence in the Combat Stage (7.4.2.0.2)

If both cards in a combat pairing have special abilities, or if both players wish to respond to a combat pairing, the player whose turn it is has the first opportunity to do so. For example, your Data has just engaged your opponent's Fek'lhr who has '45 Dom Perignon present. You wish to play Android Headlock, while your opponent wishes to use the ability on the '45 Dom Perignon. If it is your turn, you may play Android Headlock first (stunning Fhk'lhr, which prevents him from using the '45 Dom). Otherwise, your opponent may use the '45 Dom Perignon first (stunning Data instead). If either or both combatants are stunned, mortally wounded, killed, abducted, returned to hand, or otherwise removed from the combat before comparing their STRENGTHs, do not compare their STRENGTHs. Proceed to the next combat pairing.

4. Combat: Simultaneously reveal the top combatant in each combat pile. These combatants are now adversaries. They fight. After applying relevant STRENGTH modifiers (such as El-Aurian Phaser and Lower Decks), compare their STRENGTH attributes:

If one combatant's STRENGTH is greater than their adversary's STRENGTH, the player controlling that combatant may choose to stun the adversary. (You may rotate stunned cards 90 degrees to signal their condition.)
If one combatant's STRENGTH is more than double the adversary's STRENGTH, the player controlling that combatant may choose to stun or mortally wound the adversary. (You may rotate mortally wounded cards 180 degrees to signal their condition.)
If both combatants have equal strength, neither is stunned or mortally wounded.

Repeat this stage of the battle until either combat pile is empty.

5. Determine Winner: Add the total STRENGTH of each force's combatants who are neither stunned nor mortally wounded, including any combatants who remain in a combat pile. Apply modifiers as usual. The force with the higher total STRENGTH is the winner. The other force loses. (If the winning force's controller does not control any other forces in this battle, the player wins the battle as well, and his or her opponent loses.) Randomly select a combatant from the losing force who is not already mortally wounded. That combatant becomes mortally wounded.

If STRENGTH totals are equal, the battle has no winner.

6. Resolution: All mortally wounded cards die. Stunned cards become unstunned. All surviving cards in both forces are stopped. The battle is over.

SHIP BATTLE (7.4.3)

A ship battle is fought between two space forces, which are composed of ships, facilities, or other cards with WEAPONS and/or SHIELDS (such as the Planet Killer dilemma). Some of the rules of ship battle depend on whether each player is using a Battle Bridge side deck or not.

A ship battle proceeds in 8 stages:

Clarifications: Multitargeting (7.4.3.0.1)

Normally, each force in a space battle may target only one ship in the opposing force. However, whenever a self-controlling card, such as Spaceborne Entity, is the target of a player's attack, it returns fire against all attacking ships. Also, some cards, like Multiplexor Drone, allow a ship to target multiple opposing ships, which are all targeted during the initiation step.

If the multitargeting ship is in the attacking force, repeat the Open Fire step, with one engagement for each target. In each engagement, add together the WEAPONS of only the ships attacking that target, plus the ATTACK bonus from the current Tactic, then register a miss, a hit, or a direct hit on that target. Once all Open Fire engagements are done, the defending force may Return Fire.

If the multitargeting ship is in the defending force, repeat the Return Fire step instead.

If your multitargeting ship scores a hit or direct hit against two or more targets, and your current tactic has a symbol, use that card as the damage marker for one of those targets (your choice), and treat that symbol as for damage to each remaining target. All damage markers drawn from your side deck must be placed on the hit targets randomly, without looking at the markers before placing them; choose a ship, draw and place the markers for it, choose another ship, and so on.

1. Initiation: The attacking player announces an attack, chooses an attacking force (which can include any or all of that player's compatible cards at that location), and one opposing card to target. The targeted card forms the defending force. The player controlling the targeted card may add any or all compatible cards with WEAPONS at that location to the defending force, as long as they have at least one matching, compatible personnel aboard. The defending player must then decide whether to return fire during this battle. If so, he or she selects one card in the attacking force to target. The battle has now been initiated.

2. Responses: Players that control a force in the battle may now play or use cards that apply at the initiation of battle, such as Awaken, 34th Rule of Acquisition, or Attack Pattern Delta.

Clarifications: Applying Tactics (7.4.3.0.3)

Tactics are not part of your hand, and thus are not affected by cards like Alien Probe or Energy Vortex.

Facilities may use Tactics just like ships. However, a facility with no usable WEAPONS may not target an opponent's card and thus cannot use the ATTACK bonus.

A card that attacks multiple targets in a single battle, such as a multiplexed ship, uses the same current tactic in each engagment throughout the battle.

self-controlling cards do not use Tactics (except as damage markers).

Players without an open Battle Bridge Door or who have no remaining Tactic cards in their Battle Bridge side deck may not select a current tactic.

3. Tactics: Each player who has an open Battle Bridge side deck may draw up to two Tactic cards from that side deck. (Players may look at each drawn card before choosing whether to draw the next.) Then, each player may choose to play one drawn Tactic face-down on the table (the current tactic). Unused Tactics return face-up to the side deck. Once all current tactics are chosen, reveal them all simultaneously.

4. Open Fire: Compute the attacking force's ATTACK total by adding all WEAPONs (including applicable attribute enhancements, such as Tactical Console), plus the ATTACK bonus from the force's current tactic (if any). Note that the tactic bonus applies only once, not once per ship.

Compute the target's DEFENSE total by adding the SHIELDS of the single targeted card (including any applicable attribute enhancements, such as Nutational Shields), plus 50% of the SHIELDS of the facility the target is docked at (if any), plus the DEFENSE bonus from the force's current tactic (if any).

If the ATTACK total is greater than the DEFENSE total, the target suffers a hit.

If the ATTACK total is more than double the DEFENSE total, the target instead suffers a direct hit.

Otherwise, the attack misses the target.

No damage is applied at this time.

5. Return Fire: If the defending force is returning fire, repeat Stage 4: Open Fire with the forces reversed: compute the defending force's ATTACK total against their target's DEFENSE total. The target will receive a hit, direct hit, or miss.

6. Damage: If any opposing cards took a hit or a direct hit, apply damage to them as follows:

If you have a current tactic, the amount of damage is determined by the text of your current tactic. Place the appropriate damage markers on the damaged card. These are determined by the symbols on your current tactic: means that you must use the current tactic as a damage marker. means you must draw a new Tactic card from your side deck to place on the target as a damage marker.
If you have a Battle Bridge side deck but do not have a current tactic, apply default damage: draw two cards from your Battle Bridge side deck for a hit () or four cards for a direct hit ().
If you are not using a Battle Bridge side deck, apply rotation damage. On a hit, apply a Rotation Damage Marker (or, if none is available, rotate the damaged card 180 degrees). The ship's HULL is reduced 50%, its Cloaking Device goes off-line, and its RANGE (if greater than 5) is reduced to 5. On a direct hit, apply two Rotation Damage Markers, reducing the HULL by 100%. (The ship will be destroyed at the end of the battle.)

7. Determine Winner: The force that sustained the least total HULL damage is the winner. The other force loses. (If the winning force's controller does not control any other forces in this combat, the player wins the battle as well, and his or her opponent loses the battle.) If both sides took equal HULL damage, there is no winner (or loser).

No card sustains more than 100% HULL damage. If more than 100% HULL damage is inflicted on a single card, the points beyond 100% do not count toward winning the battle.

8. Resolution: Discard your current tactic (if any). All ships or facilities with 100% or greater HULL damage are destroyed. (Players may now play cards that respond to the destruction of a card, such as Escape Pod.) Surviving cards in both forces are stopped. Cards that are damaged but not destroyed remain damaged until repaired. See 7.5: Damage and Repairs.

AFTER THE BATTLE (7.4.4)

Once a battle has resolved, all cards involved in the battle are stopped.

If a player is attacked, then, during his or her next turn, that player has the option to counter-attack against any or all ships, Away Teams, facilities, crews, and other opposing cards controlled by the attacking player anywhere at the location of the original attack, regardless of which cards participated in the original attack or what form it took. A counter-attack is a new battle, not a "continuation" of the previous battle. During a counter-attack, affiliation attack restrictions do not apply and leaders are not required. For example, if your Keldon attacks your opponent's Pagh at Avert Solar Implosion, your opponent may respond next turn by attacking your completely separate Away Team on the planet there by bringing a new crew into the system, beaming them down to the planet, and attacking.

A player attacked by a counter-attack may launch a counter-attack of his own on the following turn, and so on until either player chooses to refrain from counter-attack, or is rendered incapable of attacking at that location.

DAMAGE AND REPAIRS (7.5)

"You scratched the paint."

—Jonathan Archer

On a long space voyage, damage is inevitable. Whether sustained in glorious battle, while investigating a solar flare, or by bad luck with the Calamarain, ships left to fend for themselves for too long face degradation and perhaps even destruction. A prudent commander will ensure that his or her starfleet is given ample opportunities to repair at a friendly starbase.

DAMAGE (7.5.1)

The rules for damage depend heavily on whether your opponent is using a Battle Bridge side deck (opened with Battle Bridge Door). If your opponent is using a Battle Bridge side deck, any damage you sustain will take the form of Tactics cards. This is known as "tactics damage." Otherwise (if your opponent is not using a Battle Bridge side deck), you will follow simplified rules for damage called "rotation damage."

The two systems are described below:

Clarifications: Tactics Damage (7.5.1.1.0.1)

All damage markers are cumulative: multiple damage markers, and even multiple copies of the same damage card, inflict separate and cumulative penalties on the targeted ship or facility.

If, at any time, your opponent is supposed to draw a damage marker for you but cannot (because he or she doesn't have any more cards in his or her Battle Bridge side deck), then you do not suffer that damage marker. If your opponent is unable to place any damage markers after damaging you, then your ship or facility escapes completely undamaged, and cards targeting damaged ships (for example, Children of Light and Your Place Is On The Bridge) can't be used.

If you battle your own self-controlling card, any damage you inflict on the is drawn from your Battle Bridge side deck (or rotational damage markers, if necessary). Any damage inflicted by the on your ships is drawn from your opponent's Battle Bridge (or rotational damage markers.)

Intruders are included in all applicable random selections for casualties inflicted by Tactics cards.

TACTICS DAMAGE (7.5.1.1)

Whenever any of your ships, facilities, or other cards are damaged, for any reason, your opponent must place Tactics cards on them as damage markers. If the damage is the result of another Tactic (like during a ship battle), your opponent must place () or draw () damage markers as indicated by the Tactic. In any case where damage is not indicated by the card, your opponent deals default damage, which is two cards drawn from the side deck (or ).

The bottom (black) area of a Tactics card is known as the damage marker, and it indicates the results of the damage. As soon as the marker is placed on the damaged ship, any immediate effects are played out, such as crew casualties, systems going off-line, or downloads (for example, Engine Imbalance may be downloaded when Target Warp Field Coils is drawn as a damage marker). Second, the ship or facility suffers any attribute damage indicated by the damage marker (for example, Maximum Firepower's damage reduces the enemy vessel's SHIELDS by 2). Finally, HULL damage is added. When a ship or facility's HULL is reduced to 0%, it is destroyed.

ROTATION DAMAGE (7.5.1.2)

Whenever any of your ships, facilities, or other cards are damaged, you or your opponent must place a single Rotation Damage Marker on them. These markers function the same way as Tactics.

If, for any reason, a Rotation Damage Marker is not available, you must instead rotate your damaged ship or facility 180 degrees to indicate its damage. If it has a cloaking device, that cloaking device is now off-line. If its RANGE is greater than 5, its range is reduced to 5. HULL integrity is reduced by 50%. If a ship with rotation damage suffers any more rotation damage, HULL integrity will fall to 0% and the ship will be destroyed.

If your opponent is using rotation damage, you are immune to any effects that would allow your opponent to or your ships or facilities (such as Federation Flagship: Relaunched, HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform, or Breen CRM-114). No player may use both rotation damage and tactics damage during the same game under any circumstances.

SYSTEMS OFF-LINE (7.5.1.3)

PICARD: Computer. Stand by. Auto-destruct sequence omega. Recognise voice pattern Jean-Luc Picard. Authorisation alpha alpha three zero five.
COMPUTER: Auto-destruct is off-line.

—Star Trek: Nemesis

When a damage marker or other card indicates that a system is off-line, the affected item may not be used in any way as long as that damage marker is in play. When "attribute enhancements" go off-line, it affects all enhancements to the specified attribute (such as Tactical Console for WEAPONS). If a core attribute, such as RANGE, goes off-line, it is considered to be 0 RANGE and cannot be enhanced until repaired.

REPAIR (7.5.2)

At the end of each of your turns, you may remove one damage marker (random selection) from each ship that has been docked at an outpost (or other facility that performs repairs) for the full turn. As stated on the Rotation Damage Marker, however, rotation damage is only repaired after two full turns docked at an outpost or other repair facility.

Damaged facilities may only be repaired by cards that specifically allow it (such as Defense System Upgrade).

Whenever a ship or facility is fully repaired (for example, by Spacedock), remove all damage markers immediately.

CLOAK (7.6)

"Can you learn to see in the dark, Captain?"

—Shinzon

In Star Trek, some ships have the ability to render themselves invisible ("cloaked") or even immaterial ("phased").

In the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, some ships have the Cloaking Device special equipment. Once each turn, each card with cloaking equipment may cloak or decloak. (No personnel are required to operate a cloak.) Cloaking is represented by flipping the cloaked card face-down. Decloaking is represented by flipping the card face-up again. The following rules apply to cards that are cloaked:

Your opponent may not target your cloaked cards.
A cloaked card may not initiate battle, nor attempt or scout missions, nor be attacked or boarded.
Cloaked cards are not considered to be opposing, present, "here" or otherwise located at their current location for requirements or abilities.
Cloaked cards are affected normally by cards that do not require specific targeting. For example, cloaked ships are affected normally by Q-Net, Stellar Flare, and Navigate Plasma Storms.
Cards aboard a cloaked card are not considered cloaked.
Although cloaked ships are technically at locations (for movement) and may be on a spaceline or at a year (for cards like Quantum Slipstream Drive or UFP: One Small Step), they ignore requirements and abilities that would treat them as present, opposing, "here" or which otherwise acknowledge their current location. For example, if on a cloaked ship, Captain Chakotay's attribute bonus applies to personnel on his ship but not on any others.
Other cards may not embark or disembark from, beam on or off of, undock or dock with, or take off or land on, a cloaked card.
When your personnel cloak, they may cloak their carried equipment.

Cards with the Phasing Cloak special equipment may phase or dephase, which is exactly the same as cloaking, except phasing includes these additional effects:

You may not target your phased cards.
Phased ships may not move except by using RANGE. Phased personnel may not move except by beaming.
A phased ship may not land or dock. If a landed or docked ship phases, it immediately takes off or undocks.
Cards aboard a phased card may not be attacked or targeted by cards that are not on or aboard the same card (or vice versa). For example, a Tantalus Field played on a phased ship can target personnel aboard the same ship, but not other ships.
Phased cards are unaffected by most cards in play. For example, a phased ship is unaffected by Q-Net, but also cannot use Bajoran Wormhole. Only cards that affect all cards in play (such as Anti-Time Anomaly) can affect phased cards.

A card may not enter play cloaked or phased.

CAPTURE (7.7)

"In this room, you do not ask questions. I ask them, you answer. If I'm not satisfied with those answers, you will die."

—Gul Madred

Some cards allow you to capture your opponents' personnel. Captives are disabled.

Clarifications: Capture (7.7.0.1)

If a specific crew or Away Team performs a capture, such as with Ilon Tandro, the captive is relocated to that specific team.

A trap card is only an indicator that the personnel underneath has been captured; the card itself is not considered in play and cannot be nullified. For example, your opponent may nullify Mandarin Baliff with Q2 when he encounters it and even after the captive has been selected, but only before placing the Baliff on the personnel as a trap card.

Assuming custody is an action.

Borg Rule: Personnel Assimilation (7.7.0.2)

The Borg affiliation frequently practice assimilation, not capturing your personnel but actually transforming them into new Borg enslaved by the collective mind. When a card states that a personnel is assimilated, that personnel can no longer be released, becomes a new drone under the Borg player's control, and undergoes the following transformations:

His or her affiliation changes to .
He or she loses gender. Drones have no gender.
The drone's classification is treated as its first-listed skill.
If it had any Borg subcommand icons, it retains them.
Otherwise, it loses old staffing icons and gains Borg subcommand icons, as follows:
- Printed command stars become communications subcommands.
- Printed staff stars become navigation subcommands.
- Personnel with neither icon gain defense subcommands.
No personnel may have more than one copy of any given subcommand.
The drone's attributes adapt to service the collective based on its subcommand icons, as follows:
- Drones with now have INTEGRITY = 7.
- Drones with now have CUNNING = 7.
- Drones with now have STRENGTH = 7.
- All other attributes are now 5.
The drone's other icons and restriction box become irrelevant.

The Borg cannot assimilate Holograms. Such personnel are excluded from targeting and abducting for assimilation as well. All other personnel are valid targets for assimilation.

Some cards allow the Borg to assimilate a personnel as a counterpart, instead of as a drone. Counterparts are key members of the collective, and you may have no more than one counterpart in play at a time. (For this reason, you may not target dual-personnel cards for counterpart assimilation, nor target anyone for counterpart assimilation, if you already have a counterpart in play.) The assimilated counterpart is better than a drone in many ways:

The counterpart gains all three subcommand icons.
The counterpart's INTEGRITY and CUNNING remain what they were before assimilation, and STRENGTH is +3.
The counterpart's previous affiliation and gender remain relevant for Borg-related cards that require matching affiliations or specific gender, such as Assimilate Homeworld. If he was multi-affiliation, all affiliation icons may be used. For non-Borg related cards (such as Female Love Interest and Frame of Mind), gender and affiliation remain irrelevant.
Counterparts are very important to the Borg Collective, so any personnel targeted for assimilation as a counterpart may not simultaneously be targeted for assimilation as a drone.

Assimilated equipment simply falls under the Borg player's control.

Borg Rule: Abduction (7.7.0.3)

The Borg sometimes abduct personnel prior to assimilating them. This is considered different from capturing (so an abducted personnel can't be Tortured), but functions identically: the abductee is escorted, moved like equipment, and can be freed if left unattended.

Abduction may take place in the middle of a battle. If so, both the abductor and the abductee immediately cease participating in the battle, and the abductor may immediately beam away to any valid location. Both cards are then stopped.

An abducted personnel who is assimilated is no longer considered abducted.

Upon capture, captives immediately relocate to one of the capturing player's crews or Away Teams at the same location, if possible. That team immediately assumes custody and begins escorting the prisoner, who is considered held.

If you don't have any teams at the location, the card that caused the capture remains on the table as a trap card. Place the captured personnel under it; she is now held. Once your crew or Away Team arrives, they may assume custody by either being present with the prisoner or beaming her from the trap card to their ship. The trap card is now discarded.

An escorted prisoner may be moved like an Equipment card. Each crew or Away Team may escort any number of captives. You may not initiate battle against personnel you have captured. If the ship or facility has a brig, the captive may be placed there. (She is still held, but is no longer escorted, which affects a few cards like Suicidal Attack.)

Captives that are held (or Brainwashed) can only be released by a card that specifically releases (or "returns") captives (like Prisoner Exchange). Captives that are left unattended, however, with neither a trap card nor an escort nor a Brig holding them, are conceptually "tied up and left behind" and thus may be released by their owner's other personnel present, without any special card. When a captive is released, all capture-related cards (like Impersonate Captive) played on her are discarded.

COMMANDEER (7.8)

"I am DaiMon Lurin, and I declare this ship to be a loss and open to claim according to the Ferengi Salvage Code. You will cooperate with our salvage operations, or we will begin executing your crew."

—Lurin

Clarifications: Commandeering (7.8.0.1)

You may not commandeer cards that you already control. For example, your Luther Sloan may not change the affiliation of your own Deep Space Nine to by commandeering it, although he may do so if your opponent controls the station.

If you commandeer a ship but have no personnel present (for example, using A Fast Ship Would Be Nice), the ship's affiliation does not change until your personnel arrive to take custody of the ship.

Borg may not commandeer unless a card allows it. (No such card exists; see ship assimilation above.)

Because Empok Nor seeds uncontrolled, any player may commandeer it.

Some cards allow you to commandeer an opponent's ship (or facility). When you commandeer an opponent's card, control transfers to you and the card's affiliation changes to the affiliation of one of the personnel (your choice) in the commandeering crew or Away Team. It is yours to use for the remainder of the game as though it were your own card. Even if you leave it unattended and your opponent beams an Away Team aboard, they can only regain control if another card allows it.

You do not automatically gain control over any of your opponents' personnel or equipment aboard a ship or facility that you have commandeered. Cards played on the ship, like Subspace Transporters, Cytherians, or damage markers, transfer to you. Staffing requirements still apply to commandeered ships.

INFILTRATE (7.9)

"You're too late... we're everywhere..."

—Odo Founder

Your personnel who have a diamond-shaped infiltration icon may infiltrate your opponent's cards if your opponent is playing that affiliation (or faction). Such cards may join the opponent's side by reporting to your opponent's usable, compatible outpost or headquarters as if your card were one of your opponent's cards of the affiliation in their infiltration diamond. (You may ignore quadrant restrictions while reporting this way.)

These personnel may also begin infiltrating by joining an opponent's compatible crew or Away Team where present (even during your opponent's turn).

Once an infiltrator has begun infiltrating, it becomes the affiliation or faction shown in its infiltration diamond, and it becomes an infiltrator. Thus, if you are using Bashir Founder, you could report him to your own Dominion facilities or your opponent's Federation facilities. If your opponent has Treaty: Federation / Romulan in play, you could also report to his or her Romulan facilities.

Your infiltrator is part of your opponent's crew or Away Team, but is still under your control. For example, your opponent may not treat the infiltrator as "his personnel" to benefit from his hand weapons.

Your opponent may not treat your infiltrator as an intruder (for example, by attacking him). However, you may treat your infiltrator as an intruder for the purposes of cards such as The Walls Have Ears.

Whenever any of the opponent's personnel present take any action, your infiltrator may choose whether or not to participate (or contribute to ship staffing requirements). If he chooses to participate, he must participate fully; for example, an infiltrator joining a mission attempt must contribute skills and requirements to all dilemmas and to solving. He may move independently, moving and beaming like any normal personnel, but may not take any other actions unless permitted specifically by a card. Your infiltrator may not take your equipment with him while infiltrating.

EXPOSURE (7.9.1)

An infiltration mission can end in exposure, when your infiltrator's deception is "uncovered" by your opponent. You may choose to expose your own infiltrator as a normal action during either player's turn. An infiltrator can also be exposed by being present with any other version of the persona they are impersonating (including mirror opposites). Thus, if Kira Founder is ever present with Kira, Colonel Kira, or The Intendant, she is immediately exposed. Finally, your infiltrator can be exposed by returning to your own crew or Away Team.

Once exposed, the infiltrator reverts to its original affiliation. If aboard an opponent's ship or facility, the exposed infiltrator becomes an intruder. He may infiltrate again once he has spent any length of time not being present with any of that opponent's personnel.

REQUIRED ACTIONS (7.10)

Clarification: Hazards and Shortcuts in Required Moves (7.10.0.1)

For a moving-required action, ships must normally move at "normal speed" or "full speed," using all available RANGE on the targeted ships, including any modifiers (such as a Plasmadyne Relay). They must do this even if it leads them into a hazard, such as Gaps in Normal Space.

They may make use of immediate shortcuts, such as The Traveler's skills, Where No One Has Gone Before, Wormholes, or Transwarp Network Gateways, but they may not take any less-direct shortcuts. For example, it is not legal for a ship influenced by Cytherians to use Orb of Time to time travel to Sherman's Peak with the intent of time travelling back to the final destination next turn (thus vastly shortening the distance traveled), because it is not a direct shortcut.

Some cards require that you take a specific action. For example, Samaritan Snare requires Federation to attempt it if present. Cytherians and Conundrum require ships to move (and, in Conundrum's case, attack). When your cards are being compelled by a required action, they may not take any other actions until the required action is complete. A Federation ship at Samaritan Snare may not play Preparation before attempting. A Klingon ship under the influence of Incoming Message - Klingon may not cloak, dock, or initiate battle, even to counter-attack. (However, it may return fire if attacked.) If a ship is compelled by a required action, so is its crew: they may not leave by any means nor initiate battle. Additional personnel and equipment may beam or report aboard by normal means, but, once aboard, they must follow the same restrictions as the rest of the crew.

Other than the fact that they are required, required actions are just like any other actions. Valid responses are allowed (for example, playing Magnetic North when attacked). If a ship or personnel influenced by a required action is captured, assimilated, or commandeered, the influence remains; the new controller must complete the action.

Meeting conditions to cure or nullify a card affecting a ship (such as Engine Imbalance) is not an action, so it is allowed, even during a required action.

8: END OF TURN

When you are finished executing orders for the turn, announce that you are ending your turn. This section describes several things that normally happen at the end of your turn. You may address them in any order, with the exception that your end-of-turn card draw must be the very last thing you do.The very last thing you do on your turn is draw a card from your draw deck.

COUNTDOWNS (8.1)

"Six... Five... Four... Three..."

—Starship Enterprise

Some cards have a Countdown Icon. When a Countdown Icon card that you own enters play, it has a conceptual counter placed on it. At the end of each of your turns (not your opponents'), the counter counts down one turn. When the counter reaches zero, it is immediately discarded.

PROBING (8.2)

Occasionally, a card will instruct you to probe. This is a means for the game to generate semi-random outcomes. Probing takes place at the end of your turn (unless otherwise specified). Simply reveal the top card of your draw deck, called the probe card. (If your draw deck is empty, you may not probe.)

The card that allowed you to probe will have a list of various icons on it, along with gametext associated with each icon. This is called the probe list.

Clarifications: Multiple Outcomes (8.2.0.1)

A probe cannot have more than one outcome. If multiple icons from the probe list appear on the probe card, the outcome is always the first match on the probe list. For example, if you are probing for Visit Cochrane Memorial, and you reveal probe card gold-bordered Chakotay, the outcome is "Oooh," not "I thought it'd be bigger", because (even though the icon is listed first on the card) is the first icon on the probe list, whereas is the seventh.

In order to determine the outcome, identify the first icon on the probe list. If this icon appears anywhere on the probe card (in gametext, as a staffing icon, etc.), replace the probe card atop your draw deck, then execute the appropriate outcome for that icon. If the icon does not appear, proceed to the second item on the probe list, then the third, then the fourth, and so on until you have identified an outcome. For example, if you probe with Secret Compartment and Wall of Ships is revealed as your probe card, your outcome is "Success." Replace Wall of Ships atop your draw deck, download two equipments or an artifact, and discard Secret Compartment.

If none of the icons in the probe list appear on the probe card, and there is no "otherwise" clause, simply replace the probe card atop your deck and continue with the game. (This is called probing with no outcome, and is common with Objectives like Assimilate Planet.)

If multiple cards allow you to probe at the end of your turn, you must announce which ones you are using before you probe. You then reveal only one probe card, using it to resolve all your probes, in any order.

If your draw deck is empty, you may not probe.

DRAW A CARD (8.3)

Clarifications: Card Draws (8.3.0.2)

All card draws must be from your draw deck. An action that is taken "in place of one card draw" may replace any legal card draw (including draws during your turn). Each card draw is a separate action.

A card that states "draw no cards this turn" forbids all card draws for the rest of the turn, including extra draws. However, if the first action you perform imposing a "draw no cards this turn" restriction triggers a "just" action or valid response of drawing a card, the card draw occurs before the restriction takes effect.

When you have finished all other end-of-turn actions, you must draw a card from your draw deck. If you are unable to draw a card from your draw deck (because a card requires you to "draw no cards this turn" or you have no cards in your draw deck), simply inform your opponent that your turn is over.

9: WINNING THE GAME

"As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember: victory is life!"

—First Omet'iklan

The game continues until one player wins the game by having at least 100 points. However:

Organized Play: Time Limit (9.0.2)

At Continuing Committee tournaments, time is called 75 minutes after the seed phases begin. The current player may finish his or her turn, and the other player may take one final turn if that player did not go first. (This ensures each player gets an equal number of turns.) At this point, if neither player has won the game, the player with the most points is credited with a modified win, which, in tournament play, earns a lower power ranking than a normal, full win.

In addition, in tournament play, either player may concede at any time, crediting his or her opponent with a full win and 100 points. Finally, in the event that a tournament game ends because both players ran out of cards, the player with the most points is automatically awarded 100 points.

Each player who has not completed (or placed a Borg-Only Objective on) at least two missions, including one Planet and one Space mission, must score an additional 40 points to win.
Each player who has not completed (or placed a Borg-Only Objective on) at least one Alpha Quadrant mission must score an additional 40 points to win — unless neither player seeded any Alpha Quadrant missions, in which case this penalty is not applied.
If, at any time, any player has more bonus points than non-bonus points, the excess bonus points do not count toward winning.
If, at any time, both players' draw decks are empty, or if both players simultaneously achieve the victory conditions, the player with the most points is the winner.

10: LIFE IN SPACE

"Out there, there are no saints, just people! Angry, scared, determined people who are going to do whatever it takes to survive – whether it meets with Federation approval or not!"

—Benjamin Sisko

The facilities, ships, personnel, and equipment you bring with you on your voyage into the galaxy are more than tools — in many ways, they have a life of their own. This section explains how you can turn their quirks to your advantage — and how things can backfire.

USING SKILLS (10.1)

Clarifications: Classifications vs. Skills (10.1.0.1)

Classifications sometimes appear as skills, and they are usually equivalent. For example, Overseer Odo has classification OFFICER and the skill SECURITY. He may contribute his OFFICER classification to nullifying Maglock, and may use his SECURITY skill to help against Kazon Bomb.

However, a few cards, like Crisis, specify that a requirement can be fulfilled only by a member of the correct "classification". For those cards, only a card's classification counts. Overseer Odo can use a Medical Kit, because of his OFFICER classification, but cannot report to Security Office or activate Body Armor, because both these cards require SECURITY as a classifcation, not a skill.

Clarifications: Skill Multipliers (10.1.0.3)

Some personnel are so good at their skills that they have them in multiple. For instance, Mortimer Harren has Astrophysics x2. Sarek has Diplomacy x3. Luther Sloan has SECURITY classification and SECURITY skill, which is effectively SECURITY x2.

A single skill with a multiplier is still considered one skill. If Sarek loses his first-listed skill, he loses all 3 of his Diplomacy, not just one of them. On the other hand, if Sarek uses Vulcan Mindmeld to gain Riva's diplomacy, Sarek now has Diplomacy x5.

A personnel who has a skill with an integral multiplier also has the skill at all lower positive integral multipliers. For example, Sarek has Diplomacy x3, so he also counts as a personnel with Diplomacy x2 and may pass Inside Collaborators.

Normally, multiplied skills are regular skills. However, negative skills, such as Valeris's Diplomacy -3, are special skills.

Clarifications: "First-Listed Skill" (10.1.0.4)

Some cards, like Invasive Procedures, affect personnel's "first-listed skill".

A personnel's "first-listed skill" is the first skill printed in the skill box, whether a regular or special skill. When a first-listed skill is "lost" (for example, to a dilemma), the skill becomes conceptually blank or "no skill" (the second skill does not "slide over" to become a new first-listed skill).

For example, Julian Bashir is a MEDICAL-classification personnel with skills MEDICAL x2, Exobiology, Biology, and a special download. His "first-listed skill" is:

Normally: MEDICAL x2
While aboard a ship affected by Tsiolkovsky Infection: no skill
If assimilated: MEDICAL x3
When present with a Science Kit: MEDICAL x3
After changing MEDICAL to Biology with Reflection Therapy: Biology
If affected by Rascals: Youth

If a personnel has no first-listed skill because it has been removed by a dilemma, he is not affected by subsequent cards affecting the first-listed skill, and no other personnel has "the same first-listed skill" for purposes of a dilemma such as The Clown: Playing Doctor.

Most skills are preceded by a red skill icon. However, the number of skills a personnel has is not necessarily the same as the number of skill dots on the Personnel card. Skill dots are not gained or lost when skills are added or removed by a card; Juliana Tainer has four regular skills and one special skill, but only two skill dots; and special download skills have a icon instead of a dot. When a card such as Assimilate Counterpart refers to the number of icons on a personnel, use the actual number of skill dots printed on the card.

Clarifications: List of Regular Skills (10.1.0.6)

This is a complete list of regular skills:

ANIMAL, CIVILIAN, ENGINEER, MEDICAL, OFFICER, SCIENCE, SECURITY, V.I.P., Anthropology, Acquisition, Archaeology, Astrophysics, Barbering, Biology, Cantankerousness, Computer Skill, Cybernetics, Diplomacy, Empathy, Exobiology, FCA, Geology, Greed, Guramba, Honor, Klingon Intelligence, Law, Leadership, Memory Omega, Mindmeld, Miracle Worker, Music, Navigation, Obsidian Order, Orion Syndicate, Physics, Resistance, Section 31, Smuggling, Stellar Cartography, Tal Shiar, Transporter Skill, Treachery, V'Shar, and Youth

All other skills, including Special Downloads, are special skills.

Clarifications: Undefined and Variable Attributes (10.1.0.7)

Some personnel have an undefined attribute. For example, Mortal Q's CUNNING is Q. Kivas Fajo has NO INTEGRITY. Spot has an asterisk in place of STRENGTH. Undefined attributes are treated as zero. Undefined attributes cannot be modified. For example, Kivas Fajo will be killed by Firestorm (because his INTEGRITY is treated as 0), and cannot have his INTEGRITY raised by Kukalaka.

However, undefined attributes should not be confused with variable attributes. Some personnel, like Quark, have an X in one of their attribute boxes, with a corresponding special skill such as "X=2 or 7." Each time you need to know the value of a variable attribute (even when the card is in hand, such as for a Royale Casino dilemma), the controller of the card may choose one of the listed values at that time. Whenever the special skill is unusable (for example, because of Brain Drain or Hate Crime), the attribute is an undefined attribute, treated as zero.

"Fix the replicators, Chief. My console's offline, Chief. I should've transferred to a cargo drone. No people, no complaints."

—Miles O'Brien

Skills appear on all personnel cards, usually preceded by a skill dot. Most skills are regular skills, such as Physics, Computer Skill, and Honor. (They are all one or two words long.) Regular skills are typically used in meeting conditions for another action where present, such as curing a dilemma. Regular skills are most often used to meet mission and dilemma requirements.

All other skills are special skills, such as "If on Cha'Joh, it is RANGE +2." Special skills that provide general modifiers like this are "always on." Other special skills, such as, "Once per game, may capture one personnel present," may normally be used only as normal actions on your turn, although many special skills provide their own special timing.

Some cards allow you to select, add, or increase skills (for example: Frame of Mind, Fitting In, Ishka). You may only select or modify regular skills.

Attributes (INTEGRITY, CUNNING, and STRENGTH) also appear on all personnel cards, and can be used like regular skills.

LOADED SKILLS (10.1.1)

A few regular skills and classifications include additional built-in powers, beyond their regular uses in solving missions and overcoming dilemmas. They are:

OFFICER AND LEADERSHIP: "LEADER" (10.1.1.1)

Any personnel with Leadership or OFFICER (as a skill or classification) is a leader. Leaders are needed to initiate battle.

"ANY INTELLIGENCE" (10.1.1.2)

The terms "Intelligence" and "any Intelligence" (on cards like Damaged Reputation) refer to any of several skills: FCA, Intelligence, Klingon Intelligence, Memory Omega, Obsidian Order, Section 31, V'Shar, and Tal Shiar. If a card requires multiple Intelligence skills ("any 3 Intelligence") you may use any combination of Intelligence skills to meet the requirement.

GURAMBA (10.1.1.3)

"Guramba" is a Nausicaan word meaning "courage". Wherever your crew or Away Team has Guramba present, your opponent must have two leaders present in order to initiate personnel battle. (Guramba has no effect on ship battle.)

TRANSPORTER SKILL (10.1.1.4)

Personnel with Transporter Skill can beam large Tribble cards, even through SHIELDS, once per turn per skill level.

GETTING HURT (10.2)

"The plasma was super-heated. It thermalised his lungs. Initialise the hyperbaric sequencer!"

—Dr. Phlox

This section describes the many ways your personnel might be injured or otherwise prevented from carrying out their duties.

STOPPED (10.2.1)

Clarifications: What Stopped Cards Can Do (10.2.1.0.1)

Stopped personnel may do anything they're not specifically prohibited from doing. For example, a stopped personnel may contribute skills or traits to Defiant Dedication Plaque, Navigate Plasma Storms, or Ketracel-White. They can even share skills where allowed (for example, with Fitting In or Nine of Eleven). Stopped cards are prohibited from participating in a mission attempt or dilemma encounter, but not entirely prevented from using their skills and characteristics in other ways.

Stopped cards may also be targeted by other cards, as long as the card does not require them to take a prohibited action. For example, you may relocate a "stopped" ship with Magic Carpet Ride OCD, because the ship is merely being moved by the card, but you may not play Emergency Transporter Armbands on your stopped personnel, because that card requires them to actively beam themselves, which they cannot do.

A minor rules quirk: as stated in the rules, if an entire crew or Away Team is stopped, their Equipment is also stopped. However, if individual members of a crew or Away Team are stopped by a card that specifically stops only selected personnel (for example, Lineup), their Equipment is not stopped — even if the selected personnel are the only ones in the crew or Away Team.

The most common "injury" in the game is getting "stopped." Stopped personnel are, conceptually, either completely engaged in what they're doing, completely exhausted, or injured enough to be "out of the action" for the rest of the turn while they recuperate.

Examples: Devastating Communique, failing a conditional dilemma, Oo-mox, finishing a battle

Stopped cards may not be beamed, move, walk, participate in an attack (they may battle defensively), staff an unstopped ship, cloak, phase, get stopped again, or participate in any mission, commandeering, or scouting attempt in any way. (They become separated.)

If a ship is stopped (or unstopped), all cards aboard the ship are stopped (or unstopped). Using up a ship's RANGE does not stop it.

Equipment carried by a crew or Away Team are stopped if the entire crew or Away Team is stopped (whether by battle, failure to overcome a dilemma, or other means).

Stopped cards become unstopped automatically at the start of either player's next turn.

KILLED OR DESTROYED (10.2.2)

Cards that are killed or destroyed leave play normally, usually to the discard pile. All personnel aboard a ship or facility when it is destroyed are killed, and all equipment and ships aboard are destroyed.

Examples: Armus - Skin of Evil, Vulcan Stone of Gol, V'Ger, Disruptor Overload

DISABLED (10.2.3)

A disabled personnel is unconscious.
Examples: Hypospray, getting captured, deactivated holograms

Disabled personnel may not be used in any way. They may not take actions, use gametext or characteristics, or even enable gametext on other cards that depend on the disabled personnel being in play. For example, if Lore is disabled, you cannot use his skills to cure dilemmas, cannot use his Treachery for Recruit Mercenaries, and cannot prevent a ship from being relocated at Paxan "Wormhole". However, disabled personnel may be moved and beamed like equipment cards, and may be targeted by effects that target their card types. For example, disabled personnel may be battled by opposing personnel, captured by Ilon Tandro, or targeted by Release This Pain.

Disabled personnel are separated during mission attempts.

STASIS (10.2.4)

Personnel or ships in stasis are in suspended animation, where they remain until released.
Examples: The Whale Probe, Vulcan "Death Grip"

Cards in stasis may not take actions, use gametext, or characteristics, and may not be targeted or moved by any effect except the one placing them in stasis. Ships and personnel in stasis therefore cannot be attacked in battle. For example, no player may play Diplomatic Contact on Kai Winn if she is in stasis. Cards already targeting ships or personnel in stasis are suspended until stasis ends. For example, Federation Flagship: Renewed does not generate extra card draws while the Enterprise is in stasis, and REM Fatigue Hallucinations does not count down.

Personnel in stasis are separated during mission attempts.

SEPARATED (10.2.5)

During mission attempts, your personnel who are stopped, disabled, in stasis, or under house arrest are separated. Any personnel who are stopped, disabled, placed in stasis, or house arrested during a mission attempt automatically and immediately form a new "separated" crew or Away Team (or join it, if one already exists). Separated personnel automatically rejoin the main team as soon as they are able (when unstopped, removed from stasis, etc.).

Because separated personnel are no longer part of the main mission team, this means they are no longer present: They can no longer be targeted by dilemmas from the mission attempt (unless expressly specified, like on Crystalline Entity). They are not considered to be "aboard" their ship, for the purposes of dilemmas. Furthermore, separated personnel cannot contribute characteristics or skills toward overcoming, curing, or triggering dilemmas encountered during mission attempts. They are completely sidelined.

All opposing personnel are considered "separated" from your mission attempts, as well. For example, if you encounter Kazon Bomb during a mission attempt at Liberation, your opponent's Away Team will not suffer casualties, even if it is on the planet's surface with your Away Team.

RELOCATED (10.2.6)

Some cards can "relocate" ships and personnel in play. (Equivalent euphemisms are sometimes used, too, including "hurled", "transported", and "towed".) Relocation is a form of forced movement. As such, it does not require full ship staffing, and even stopped cards can be relocated.

QUARANTINED (10.2.7)

When a card places a ship, facility, or planet under quarantine, personnel may board the ship or facility, or beam to the planet, but none may leave. Example: Aphasia Device

Exception: Dilemma-Forced Relocation (10.2.7.0.1)

If a dilemma (or a card that plays like a dilemma) instructs you to move or relocate a personnel (either as a condition for passing the dilemma or as part of the results), it may require you to move them out of a quarantine. This is legal. For example, Male Love Interest, Hippocratic Oath, Make Us Go, Tarellian Plague Ship, and Abandon Ship! all override quarantines. (This applies only to dilemma relocations. Relocations from other cards, such as Mysterious Orb, do not override quarantines.)

IN PLAY 'FOR UNIQUENESS ONLY' (10.2.8)

When a card is in play "for uniqueness only", the card is considered "in play" only insofar as its owner may not report another copy of the same persona. For all other intents and purposes, they are considered not in play. For example, if The Emissary is trapped in a Kobayashi Maru Scenario or placed in your point area with Duranja, Bajorans do not have their INTEGRITY enhanced by his ability, but you cannot report another The Emissary or Benjamin Sisko.

NEMESIS DESTRUCTION (10.2.9)

"From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"

—Khan

Nemesis icons identify a destructive relationship between personnel and/or ships. Two cards that have a nemesis relationship will have icons of the same color but pointing in different directions.

For example, Kor and The Albino are nemeses. Kang and The Albino are also nemeses. But Kor and Kang are allies, because their nemesis icons point the same direction. Kor and I.K.C. Chang have no relationship, because their nemesis icons are different colors.

If two or more personnel or ships with opposing nemesis icons are present with each other at the end of any turn, the player whose turn it is must choose one of them to be immediately killed (personnel) or destroyed (ships). This is not a battle.

For example, if your Pralor Unit 3947 is on a planet with your opponent's Cravic Unit 122 at the end of your turn, you must choose one of them to be discarded. If you have left your Pralor Unit 3947 aboard your Cravic Warship at the end of your turn, you must choose one to be discarded. (If you choose to destroy the ship, all personnel aboard — including Pralor Unit 3947 — will be killed.)

HOUSE ARREST (10.2.10)

If your personnel who are mixing and cooperating become no longer compatible, they are in a house arrest situation. (This typically happens because a card allowing different affiliations to cooperate, such as Treaty: Cardassian/Bajoran, has been nullified, or when incompatible personnel are acquired from a Cryosatellite.) When this occurs on a ship or facility, the personnel who are incompatible with the ship or facility they are aboard are placed under house arrest. If this is not applicable (because they are at a Neutral Outpost, at a site on a Nor, aboard an opponent's ship, etc.), the minority group is placed under house arrest. If on a planet, the incompatible personnel simply split into two separate Away Teams.

While under house arrest, personnel are treated as disabled. (During mission attempts, they are separated.) However, they may freely walk and beam, and can thereby end the house arrest situation as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

You may never voluntarily place your personnel in a house arrest situation. You may not report a Klingon to a Romulan Outpost without a treaty, nor to a Neutral Outpost where you have Romulans present, without a treaty in place. You may not beam your Romulan personnel aboard a Klingon ship, stop your Klingons and Romulans at the same site, or switch the Sisters of Duras's affiliation to while they are aboard a ship.

CHARACTERISTICS (10.3)

You are The Sisko.

—Kira Prophet

Tip: Characteristics Are Usually Obvious (10.3.0.1)

99% of characteristics are obvious and intuitive. For example, you don't need to know the rules to see, at a glance, that Kurak is a female, a Klingon, and a scientist; nor does it take any knowledge of Star Trek to realize that a Mirror Dagger counts as both a "blade weapon" and a "hand weapon".

For this reason, we reiterate our strong recommendation that you skip over the sidebars in this section (which are very long), unless you have some particular issue you need to clarify. Beginners can skip this section altogether.

Clarifications: Characteristics: Context Matters (10.3.0.2)

Context matters when determining whether a card has a characteristic; the mere appearance of a particular word on a card does not necessarily confer a characteristic on the card. For example, the phrase "uses the same hull as the Cardassian shuttlecraft" in the lore of Patrol Ship does not give it the characteristic "shuttlecraft," and Falcon is not "any Miles" just because he "took on the appearance" of Miles O'Brien. Likewise, Makbar is not a human, even though her lore includes the word "human". The card must clearly state that the subject of the card has the characteristic.

Clarifications: Ignore Information Outside the Card (10.3.0.6)

Information from outside a card may not normally be used to determine that card's characteristics. For example, Mendak is not an admiral, because there is no indication on his card that he is an admiral, even though the lore on Devoras states that he is one. Similarly, characteristics are not shared across similar cards. William T. Riker (Premiere) is a cook, because his lore states that he is a cook. Will Riker, Riker Wil, and William T. Riker (First Contact) are different aspects of the same character (or persona). They do not state in their lore that they are "cooks", so these cards are not cooks.

Automatic Characteristic: Gender (10.3.0.8)

If a personnel's gender (or lack of gender) is indicated somewhere on the card, it has that gender. This indicator may be explicit ("male," "genderless") or implicit ("his," "Queen," "it"). Otherwise, if the personnel's gender is obvious from its image, it has that gender. If all else fails, treat the personnel as male.

Male and female are opposite genders. Other genders, like cogenitor, have no opposite.

Borg Rule: Gender is Irrelevant (10.3.0.8.1)

Gender is irrelevant to the Borg.

cards and

players are not affected by gender-related gametext (for example, Venus Drug). However, if gender is invoked on a Borg-related card, such as Borg Kiss, gender becomes relevant. When gender is relevant,

Queens are female and

counterparts are male.

drones are genderless, even if gender-specific pronouns are in their lore or gametext. An assimilated

drone becomes genderless.

This applies only to cards. Members of the Borg species who are not (like Jean-Luc) have normal genders.

Automatic Characteristic: Species (10.3.0.9)

Personnel are presumed to belong to the "usual species" that corresponds to their printed affiliation.

cards are presumed to be Klingon species,

cards are presumed to be Cardassian species,

, and

cards are presumed to be Human species,

are presumed to be Changeling species,

are presumed to be Kazon species, and so on.

Some cards explicitly state that the personnel represented on the card does not belong to the "usual species" for his or her affiliation. For example, Jodmos's lore states his species is human. The Viceroy states his species is Reman. This overrides the "usual species" presumption; the Viceroy's species is Reman and is not Romulan.

If lore states a native planet, this indicates the species if no other species is given. For example, Coutu is "from Parada II." His species is "Parada II native."

Mixed-race personnel are members of all their native species. Deanna Troi is both human and Betazoid. She could be targeted by Hate Crime as the only Betazoid member of an otherwise all-human Away Team, or, on a different mission attempt, she could be targeted as the only human member of an otherwise all-Betazoid Away Team.

Any personnel who is Borg affiliation or who has a Borg subcommand icon ( ) is Borg species. Any personnel who has a Ketracel-White icon is Jem'Hadar species. Borg-species personnel always have another species, their "biological distinctiveness," identified using the above rules. For example, Five of Eleven (Cyber Drone) is both Borg and Klingon. Ensign Jameson is both Borg and Human. Most Borg Queens are Borg and humanoid, but Borg Queen (The Borg) is Borg and Species 125.

Holographic personnel always have the species "hologram". This overrides all other card features, including affiliation, appearance, subcommand icons, and lore. Holograms can only be holograms; they cannot be mixed-race.

Exceptions: Species (10.3.0.9.1)

The Rules Committee has seen fit to issue these explicit clarifications in the few cases where the above rules are inadequate, incorrect, or ambiguous:

William T. Riker, Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Picard, Inge Eiger, and Hannah Bates are all Human.
Stefan deSeve is Human.
Tora Ziyal's species are Bajoran and Cardassian.
Dathon is Tamarian.
Arandis is Risian.
Commander Data, Exocomp, and all Cravic Units and Pralor Units are species Android (but do not have the characteristic "Soong-type Androids").
Kira Meru is Bajoran.
The Emissary is Human.
Kasidy Yates is Human.
Captain Nog is Ferengi.
Jake and Nog are Human and Ferengi, respectively.
Koval is Romulan.
The Sisters of Duras are Klingon.

In rare cases where a card image shows that a personnel is obviously not a member of the appropriate "usual" species (for example, Sirna Kolrami is clearly not Human), but the rules do not otherwise provide for its species, then players must treat the personnel as "humanoid".

Humanoid is not a distinct species, and cannot be targeted by a card which targets a particular species by name (such as Assimilate Species). Moreover, a humanoid is always the only member of its species. Therefore, a card like Hate Crime can target anyone in a party of humanoids, and a player could use Seek Out New Life to download multiple copies of Vekor.

A multi-affiliation card could be the "usual species" of any of their affiliations... or all of them. For example, Kira Meru is Bajoran species.

Automatic Characteristic: Ship Class (10.3.0.10)

Every ship has a class defined in its class box. The class box may also suggest more characteristics. For example, Cha'Joh's class ("Class D-12 Scout Vessel") also identifies it as a scout ship that can be used with Scout Encounter.

"Unknown Class" is not a distinct class. Ships like Fesarius and Bothan Vessel, which are "Unknown Class," are always considered to be different classes.

When a ship's class box states that it is an "advanced" or "modified" version of another class, then that ship is treated as a member of both classes. For example, I.K.C. Kla'Diyus's class ("Modified B'Rel Class") identifies it as a B'Rel-class ship for the purposes of Duj Saq.

Automatic Characteristic: Ship Origin (10.3.0.11)

The "origin" of a ship describes which affiliation built it. A ship's origin is presumed to match its affiliation. For example, virtually all ships, like the Kurdon, originated in the Ferengi Alliance, even if they don't explicitly say so. However, B'Rel states in its lore that it is a "surplus Klingon bird-of-prey," which means its origin is .

Origin is important for cards like Klingon Civil War and Ferengi Energy Weapon, which specify that a "Klingon ship" or "Ferengi ship" must be involved. A ship is a Klingon ship if either its current affiliation or its origin is . Therefore, B'Rel could use gain the ATTACK bonus from Ferengi Energy Weapon as a Ferengi ship, then score points from Klingon Civil War as a Klingon ship.

A commandeered ship retains its origin. Thus, a Romulan-origin ship that becomes by commandeering is a " ship", a "Klingon ship," and a "Romulan ship," but not a " ship".

Clarifications: Named In Lore (10.3.0.12)

A few cards and rules, like Dramatis Personae and matching commanders, check to see whether a card is "named in lore" of another. But this can raise questions: does William Samuels name Bok in lore, simply because he bombed the freighter Bok'Nor? (No.)

A card names another card in lore only if the named card's title exactly matches the name given in lore, including any capitalized modifiers (such as ranks, titles, and descriptors). Standard word form variations, such as declined or possessive nouns, do not "break" a match, and the capitalization of articles ("a", "the") may be disregarded. For example, I.K.C. K'elric names Captain Kang in lore (but not Kang), Ezri names Mr. Brunt in lore (but not Brunt), Gorta names Duras (but not Sisters of Duras, because, in Gorta's lore, "sisters" is not capitalized), Bareil's lore names The Intendant, and Els Renora's lore names Jadzia Dax.

Context matters for determining whether the lore is naming the subject. Incidental uses of a word, like "One" in Kovat's lore, do not count. For example, Telle mentions "data" in lore, but does not name Data; Kor's lore does name Kahless (who owns the "Sword of Kahless"); and Zegov's lore names both Sisters of Duras and Duras.

Moreover, a card's lore may refer to its own subject by a different name. This can be used to identify the card's as (for example) a matching commander; the lore of Jean-Luc Picard (Premiere) identifies the card's subject, Jean-Luc Picard (Premiere), as a matching commander of U.S.S. Enterprise. (It would also name a card with the title "Captain Jean-Luc Picard," if any existed.)

Apart from regular gametext and icons, many cards have additional characteristics, such as "female", "cook", "Jem'Hadar attack ship", "maje", "disruptor", and "Vulcan". Characteristics have no built-in gameplay function, but characteristics are used by many cards, such as Matriarchal Society, Klingon Restaurant, Engage Shuttle Operations: Dominion, The Kazon Collective, Phaser Burns, and Fal-Tor-Pan.

A card has a characteristic if that card says it has that characteristic, whether in lore, title, affiliation, icons, or some other area of the card. For example:

Norah Satie's lore states that she is an admiral, as does Admiral McCoy's card title, so they are both "admirals".
The title, lore, and class of Type 9 Shuttlecraft state that it is a shuttlecraft, as does the class of Quark's Treasure, so both are "shuttlecraft".
In an unusual example, Krax's special skill provides him with the characteristic of "nagus" only if certain conditions are met. He loses the characteristic if another nagus (such as Grand Nagus Zek) enters play.

A few characteristics are defined or fleshed out by rule. They are:

hand weapon: in addition to cards which identify themselves as "hand weapons," Equipment that has the "phaser", "disruptor", "blade weapon", or "tommygun" characteristic also has the "hand weapon" characteristic.
changeling: a species. All changelings also have the characteristic "shape-shifter." (But not all shape-shifters are changelings.)

Clarifications: Matching Commanders (10.3.0.13)

A few personnel, such as Rinnak Pire and Regent Worf, have special game text that allows them to act as, or assign another personnel as, the matching commander of a ship.

A statement that a ship "transported" or was "used by" a personnel does not qualify that personnel as a matching commander. Kivas Fajo is not a matching commander for Zibalian Transport, but he is matching commander of Jovis.

To gain matching commander benefits, the matching commander must not be disabled or in stasis.

Unless specified, a ship (or facility) can only gain benefits from one matching commander at a time.

If a card provides matching commander benefits specifically on ships, the benefits do not apply for facilities (or vice versa). For example, Ready Room Door can download a matching commander to a ship, but not a facility.

Matching commanders for facilities are called "facility commanders".

romantic partner: A personnel is the romantic partner of another personnel if the lore on either card both names the other (see named in lore sidebar) and states that they have been "romantically involved". For example, Pel and Quark are romantic partners of one another, but Pel and Deputy Quark are not.

The following terms (even if preceded by "ex-") are considered equivalent to the phrase "romantically involved": "husband", "wife", "mate", "married", "wedded", "bride", "imzadi", "beloved", "mistress", "widow", "divorced", and (naturally) "romantic partner". A personnel and their romantic partner are collectively called a couple.

matching commander: A personnel is a matching commander for a ship (or facility) if either card both names the other in lore and states that that personnel is (or was) the commander or captain of that ship (or facility). For example, Worf (First Contact) and Kudak'Etan are both matching commanders for all ship cards with the title U.S.S. Defiant, but not Stolen Defiant. All cards with the title "Benjamin Sisko" are matching commanders for U.S.S. Sao Paulo — but substitutes like Ben Sisko and The Emissary are not. Many cards provide benefits to cards with a matching commander aboard.

11: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."

—Q

There are some strange things in the galaxy. Most of it can be catalogued, documented, analyzed. But there are a few entities out there whose operation is unlike anything else in our seemingly simple universe. They require somewhat deeper explanation.

SELF-CONTROLLING CARDS (11.1)

"They say there's no devil, Jim, but there is. Right out of hell, I saw it... miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships."

—Commodore Decker

Cards with the Self-Controlling icon move, operate, and attack on their own. After entering play, they are under the control of neither player. At the end of every turn (both players'), each card in play acts according to its gametext.

When a card moves, it moves its full available RANGE toward the far end of the spaceline. (Exact ties are settled by the owner.) A card requires 1 RANGE to move off the spaceline and leave play.

When a attacks, it attacks all eligible targets at that location at once. (For a detailed explanation, see Multiplexing & Multiple Targets.)

Any affiliation, including , may initiate battle against cards. ( must obey their usual restrictions.) cards automatically return fire against every ship and facility involved in the attack, but not bystanders. cards do not use either player's Tactic cards in battle. However, if your ships take a hit and your opponent has a Battle Bridge side deck, he or she inflicts default damage on your damaged ships. Otherwise, you suffer rotation damage.

cards are not considered ships for the purposes of cards that affect ships (such as Q-Net, Plasma Fire, Isabella, or Wormhole).

PLANETARY DESTRUCTION (11.2)

"I have confirmed the location of Praxis, sir, but... I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis."

—Dmitri Valtane

Cards such as Unstable Matrix and Redirect Energy Ribbon may cause a mission to be "converted to space". When this occurs, the mission's icon becomes Space. If any player has completed (or placed a Borg-Only Objective on) that mission, that player has now completed a space mission for the purposes of cards like The Big Picture or the game's win conditions.

However, all cards on the planet or played on the planet are destroyed and discarded. This includes any personnel, landed ships, facilities, Events, or other cards there, including cards like The Guardian of Forever or Hotel Royale which specifically play on the planet. However, cards which merely play at the mission or the location generally (like Venus Drug and Dal'rok) remain.

TRIBBLES (11.3)

"They do nothing but consume food and breed. If you feed that thing more than the smallest morsel, in a few hours you'll have ten tribbles, then a hundred, then a thousand."

—Worf

"Oh, it's purring! Listen, it's purring!"

—Lt. Uhura

Clarification: Tribbles are Non-Cumulative (11.3.0.1)

Tribbles and Troubles are non-cumulative; multiple copies of the same tribble card in the same place does not multiply their effect, and only one copy of any given Tribble card may have an effect on any given turn. For example, if you have seven copies of 10 Tribbles present at a single location, Klingons present are INTEGRITY -1, not INTEGRITY -7.

Moreover, because the effect on 1 Tribble is "once every turn", you may only use it once every turn, regardless of how many copies you have in play. For example, if you have one copy of 1 Tribble in each of seven different locations, only one of them may stop one personnel at one of those locations.

Tribbles are small, furry, adorable creatures, but their rapid reproduction can cripple a fleet.

Tribble cards may be played only from a Tribble side deck (opened with Storage Compartment Door). Each tribble card represents some number of tribbles. Small tribble cards (1 Tribble and 10 Tribbles) cards may report anywhere. Large tribble cards (100 Tribbles and greater) may only be bred from your tribble cards already in play (not your opponent's), and may only report where their "parents" are present. You may play only one tribble card on a group of tribbles each turn. Each of the different tribble cards inflict annoyances of increasing scope, described in their gametexts.

Worse still, the Storage Compartment Door may disgorge Trouble cards, like ...On The Bridge, which compound the tribble troubles exponentially. Trouble cards may play on any tribble group at any time, but portions of its gametext will not "activate" until the listed "minimum" number of tribbles is present. Whenever tribbles within the group are moved, the Trouble card may move with them, at the owner's discretion. A Trouble is discarded if there are no tribbles present.

The main tribble mitigation strategy is to move them somewhere else. Small tribble cards may be carried (and beamed) by either player's personnel, like equipment. However, each personnel may carry only a single small tribble card, and, when they drop it, they are stopped. Large tribble cards may be beamed by any personnel with Transporter Skill. Each personnel may beam up to one large Tribble card for each multiple of Transporter Skill that they have, then are stopped. (Thus, Burrows could beam any one large tribble card, Charles Tucker III could beam two large tribble cards, and Emory Erickson could beam three. All would be stopped after.) You may beam tribbles anywhere that you would normally be allowed to beam a generic personnel, including an opponent's ship if their shields are down (or you can beam through them).

BOTANY BAY CARDS (11.4)

"...Botany Bay? Oh, no! We've got to get out of here—now!"

—Commander Chekov

Cards with the Botany Bay icon represent an unpleasant surprise for players who try to uncover what is better left buried. If a player examines a dilemma with the icon any time other than during a mission or scouting attempt (for example, by using Ocular Implants to peek at it), 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 scouted) by either player, then re-seed the dilemma at the same mission.

THE MIRROR UNIVERSE (11.5)

ARCHER: According to some theories, everything that exists in our universe should also exist there.
HOSHI: Another Terran Empire? Another Starfleet?

—"In A Mirror Darkly, Part I"

Cards from the Mirror Quadrant are not just native to a different spaceline; they are from a mirror universe, similar to our own but far more savage.

Some locations in the Mirror Quadrant, such as Mirror Bajor, correspond to locations in the Alpha Quadrant (like Bajor): they have exactly the same location text, just in the opposite universe.

Cards from the Mirror Quadrant are often written from the perspective of the mirror universe, so Mirror Quadrant cards that refer to specific locations mean the Mirror Quadrant versions of those locations. (All other references to locations refer only to the Alpha Quadrant version unless otherwise stated.)

For example, Imperial Palace may seed on 22nd-Century Japan ( 2155 Earth), but may not seed on 22nd-Century San Francisco (Alpha Quadrant 2155 Earth). Likewise, The City of B'Hala may seed under Alpha Bajor, but not Mirror Bajor. For the same reason, Homeworld-related effects do not apply to cards from the opposite universe. For example, Commander Leeta's homeworld is Mirror Bajor; she is not protected by Strategema at Alpha Bajor.

12: MISCELLANEOUS RULES

"You are now subjects of the Klingon Empire. You'll find there are many rules and regulations. They will be posted. Violation of the smallest of them will be punished by death."

—Captain Kor

There are a few other rules you should know when you start playing.

SELECTION (12.1)

"Execute them. I think you'll find that random and unprovoked executions will keep your entire workforce alert and motivated."

—The Intendant

Clarification: Zero-Target Selections (12.1.0.1)

When a card is removed from a selection before it is made, it might leave the selection with no valid targets. Resolve the card normally. For example, if you play Alien Groupie on an Away Team that includes Elim Garak, he may use his special skill to avoid the random selection. If he is the only male in the Away Team, that leaves no valid targets of Alien Groupie, which discards without effect. (It is still considered a random selection.) See reseeding after escapes.

Some cards require one or more cards to be chosen. The selection may be automatic, one player may choose, or it may be random. If the card (or rule) does not specify, the player who played or encountered the card selects. For example, on Odo's Cousin, you choose which SCIENCE to stop. The selecting player may see the cards.

Make random selections by any mutually agreeable means; or shuffle together all eligible cards, hold them so the faces of the cards cannot be seen, and let your opponent draw a card, at random, from this group.

There are special rules for tied selections; see Ties.

TURNS: "EACH", "EVERY" & "FULL" (12.2)

Clarification: Who's the Subject? (12.2.0.1)

The "subject" of a given card's gametext is usually indicated by a word such as "you," "opponent" or "owner." ("You" or "your" refers to the person playing the card or encountering the dilemma.) It may also be implied by game text instructing the person who played the card to take specific actions. If no player is specified or implied, then the subject of the game text is the player whom it affects. If it affects both players equally, the subject is the person who played or encountered the card. Examples:

Temporal Rift: "Ship ... must reappear here after two of your full turns." The subject is the person who played the interrupt.
Hyper-Aging: "Away Team... dies at the end of your third full turn." The subject is the player encountering the dilemma.
Warp Core Breach: "Ship explodes at end of owner's next turn." The subject is the owner of the ship.
Telepathic Alien Kidnappers: "At end of each turn, guess a card type..." The subject is the person who played the card, who is instructed to guess a card type.
Plasma Fire: "Fire damages ship at end of next turn." The subject is the owner of the ship.

When a card states that something happens "every" turn, it means every turn of any player. However, when a card says that something happens "each" turn (or "per" turn), it means each turn of the card's subject, skipping opponents' turns. Thus, Harvester Virus kills every turn, but Dal'Rok kills only on the turns of the player who encountered it.

A "full turn" is one complete turn of one player, from beginning to end. It does not include the current turn.

CONTROL AND OWNERSHIP (12.3)

Clarification: Start of Control (12.3.0.1)

A card comes under your control as soon as you declare that you are playing, seeding, or downloading it. (This is the first part of the initiation step of the action.)

For example, if Rinnak Pire is in your hand, he is not "yours," does not benefit from Lower Decks, and thus will not automatically win Royale Casino: Craps. However, if D'jarras is in play, and you later declare that you are playing Rinnak Pire, he immediately gains CIVILIAN, which allows him to then report for free using First Minister Shakaar.

You control each card you seed or play, as well as any Headquarters of an affiliation you are playing. You do not control cards which are in your deck, hand, or discard pile, except while seeding or playing them.

The word "your" is often used as shorthand to refer to cards you control. For example: Each of your Treachery personnel is CUNNING +2. This gametext affects the CUNNING of each Treachery personnel you control.

Similarly, the word "opponent's" is used as shorthand for cards your opponent controls.

You are the owner of each card you begin the game with. You remain the owner of a card for the entire game.

During a game, your opponent may take control of some of your cards (through commandeering, Brainwash, Alien Parasites, etc.). Such a card is no longer "yours." (It becomes your opponent's.) However, you still own it, and therefore you still "have it in play." For example, if your opponent assimilates your unique Jean-Luc Picard, you may not play another Jean-Luc Picard, because you still have the first one in play. At the end of the game, all cards are returned to their owners.

"HERE" AND "PRESENT" (12.4)

Each member of a crew or Away Team is present with every member of that crew or Away Team, including themselves. Cards that are present together are also "with" each other. Your separated cards are not present, nor are your other cards in different crews or Away Teams (for example, if you have incompatible and Away Teams on the same planet).

Your crews and Away Teams are present with other cards (such as Duck Blind or opposing Away Teams) that are on the same ship, inside the same facility (at the same site, if any), or on the same planet surface. They are also present with that ship, site, facility, or planet. Away Teams are present with a planet only while on its surface; crews and Away Teams at a space location are always present with it. (During attempts, opposing crews and Away Teams become separated.)

Clarification: "Present" with Seeded Cards (12.4.0.2)

A seeded card is not "present" with any other cards until encountered. For example, Madam Guinan may nullify Frame of Mind if she is in the mission team, or after the attempt if she is present with the affected personnel, but may not nullify it when examined by Ocular Implants.

An artifact just earned is not present unless it joins the crew or Away Team. Thus, an Orb of Prophecy and Change is present with the Away Team when earned, but a Mysterious Orb or Horga'hn is not.

Ships and facilities are present with all other ships and facilities (both players') at the same location (except carried ships), with other cards at the location like The Nexus, and with any site at which they are docked. They are not present with one another's crews. Planet facilities and landed ships are present with the planet.

"Here" means "anywhere at this location." Whether in open space, aboard a ship or facility, or (at planet locations) on the surface, all ships, personnel, facilities, equipment, events, and any other cards that are at the location are "here". For example, Venus Drug affects all females, in orbit or on the planet, including opponents' females.

Similarly, "there" means "anywhere at that spaceline location." For example, your Greed personnel don't have to be on the surface to use Bribery's first function at a planet mission.

TIES (12.5)

In general, the player who controls a card breaks ties for that card. For example, if you play Arbiter of Succession and there is a tie for strongest two Klingons, you determine who battles.

Since just-encountered dilemmas are not controlled by either player, the opponent of the player encountering the dilemma breaks the tie. Thus, if you encounter Archer, and your crew has a tie for highest total attributes, your opponent chooses the victim.

FAR AND NEAR (12.6)

When a card like Fire Sculptor or Gomtuu Shock Wave requires you to find the "far end of spaceline" or "nearest ship," compare the number of cards in each direction. If there is a tie, compare the total span in each direction. If there is still a tie, resolve it using the ties rule.

COPIES AND "DIFFERENT" (12.7)

A card is a copy of another if it has the same card title and gametext. For example, Dead End (Homefront) is a copy of Dead End.

A card is different from another card if:

they are not copies, and
they are not versions of the same persona.

Cards that are not different are considered the same, even if they are not strict copies.

For example, if U.S.S. Voyager is destroyed, Federation Flagship: Recovered may download U.S.S. Intrepid, because that is a different ship, but not U.S.S. Voyager (Virtual Promos), because it is a copy, nor Voyager (Engage), because it is a version of the same persona (thus "the same ship").

"ONCE PER GAME" AND SIMILAR LIMITS (12.8)

When a card has an effect that may be used "once" or "once per game", you may use that card's effect only once during a game, no matter how many copies of that card you have in play during that game (even ❖ universal cards).

For example, you may download an Armus dilemma only once per game with All-Consuming Evil, even if you play a second copy of All-Consuming Evil. You and your opponent may each use such text once per game if you each control a copy of that card. If the same "once per game" skill is included on different cards, you may use the skill once for each card; for example, you may use the ability to peek at seed cards once per game for Ajur and once per game for Boratus.

"Once each turn," "twice," "twice per game," "thrice a battle," "thrice," and other similar phrases work similarly — you may use the card's effect only as often as the card allows, even if you have multiple copies in play.

THE CUMULATIVE RULE (12.9)

Clarification: Timing (12.9.0.2)

Effects only take place at the same time if they are continuous, or are part of the same action.

For example, Transwarp Conduit allows a ship to move double RANGE for a single turn. The effect lasts for the entire turn, so it is continuous. Since Transwarp Conduit is not cumulative, playing it twice on the same ship in the same turn will still only allow it to move double range (not triple or quadruple).

Suppose two of your ships both have War Games placed on them, and they are both at the same spaceline location. If your opponent's ship moves to that location, both dilemmas are discarded. Because they are discarded as part of the same action (the resolution of the move action), your opponent scores only 5 bonus points (instead of 10).

On the other hand, during a personnel battle, a player could play multiple copies of Android Headlock in rapid succession, killing one personnel after another, because each engagement is a separate action within the larger action of the battle. A player could even use multiple copies of Antique Machine Gun in response to the start of a personnel battle, because each use of each copy is a separate response to the start of the battle — and therefore a separate action.

Clarification: Targets (12.9.0.3)

The target of an effect includes every card, every deck (or hand), and every player that is altered by the effect.

A deck (or hand) is only targeted if the entire deck (or hand) is directly altered, not just individual cards within it. For example, Regenerate targets your draw deck or discard pile, but Orb of Prophecy and Change only targets the top card of your draw deck. Alien Probe targets both players' hands, but Chula: The Lights only targets the personnel returned to hand (not the hand itself).

A player is altered if he or she is permitted or required to take an action (or score points) that would not be permitted under normal rules. This is a continuous effect (as explained in the clarification on timing) and thus cannot be multiplied using extra copies of the same card.

Further examples:

The target of Science Kit is "all of your OFFICER-classification personnel" present. (Result: multiple Science Kits do not cause OFFICERs to gain extra levels of SCIENCE skill.)
The target of Woteln's special ability is "opponent's span" at the mission he is at. (Result: mutliple Wotelns at the same location do not increase opponent's span by +4, +6, etc.)
The target of Taar's special ability is copies of Ferengi Attack in the same quadrant. (Result: multiple copies of Taar in the same quadrant do not triple or quadruple Ferengi Attack there.)
The target of Canar is both the female personnel it is played on and the male personnel it specifies.
The target of the objective Process Ore is the player, who gains the ability to "process ore" each turn. (Result: multiple copies of Process Ore played on different Ore Processing Facilities do not grant the ability to process ore multiple times each turn.)
Fajo's Gallery and The Traveler: Transcendence target the player. (Result: multiple copies do not generate extra card draws.)
Colony targets the player who is scoring points. (Result: if you have multiple Colonies in play, you must choose one to score points from each turn.)
Telepathic Alien Kidnappers targets both the player who is guessing and the card that he or she guesses. (Result: multiple copies do not allow multiple guesses.)
The target of Young Jem'Hadar's special ability is both the Young Jem'Hadar himself and the card he is being exchanged for. (Result: multiple Young Jem'Hadars may be exchanged in a turn.)

Multiple copies of the same card have the same effect on the same target at the same time only if they are cumulative.

In the Star Trek: CCG, most cards are not cumulative. For example, you may play a copy of Space Boomer on Travis Mayweather and a second copy on Daniel Leonard. However, because two copies of Space Boomer do not have the same effect on the same target at the same time, if you put them both aboard Columbia, its RANGE would only be +3 (instead of +6).

By contrast, some cards are marked cumulative. For example, if your Away Team has three Romulan Disruptors, every personnel in the Away Team is STRENGTH +6 (instead of +2), because it is marked cumulative.

All damage markers are cumulative by default. All other cards are not cumulative unless specifically marked.

THE COLON RULE (12.10)

Normally, when a card specifies another card by title, only a card with that exact title may be used. For example, only a Scan can be used to initiate battle at Nebula, not a Full-Planet Scan or a Tactical Scan.

The exception to this is the "colon rule": when a card references a particlar card title, cards that have that exact title followed by a colon, dash, or the numeral "II" are equivalent to that card title.

For example, Calamarain is immune to both Kevin Uxbridge and Kevin Uxbridge: Convergence. Launch Portal may download either Engage Shuttle Operations or Engage Shuttle Operations: Dominion. Subspace Interference nullifies Incoming Message: Attack Authorization, Incoming Message - Federation, and any other card whose title begins with "Incoming Message" followed by a colon or a dash.

On the other hand, Weyoun's Warship can download only Engage Shuttle Operations: Dominion, not Engage Shuttle Operations or Engage Shuttle Operations: Starfleet, because the card making the reference (the Warship) specifies that specific card, not the card group.

SET, ADD, MULTIPLY (S.A.M.) (12.11)

A card or rule may set numerical values (such as attributes or point boxes) to a specific value (for example, Frame of Mind sets all attributes to 3). Other cards may add, subtract, multiply, or divide numerical values. When a single card is affected by more than one such effect, first apply any set values, then add or subtract, then multiply or divide. For example, if Kromm is affected by Frame of Mind while armed with a Klingon Disruptor and a Varon-T Disruptor, his total STRENGTH is 10 (((3) + 2) * 2). (This is sometimes called the "S.A.M. Rule".)

LOOKING AT CARDS (12.12)

Any player may examine any face up card, whether or not it is in play.

Clarification: Necessity and Card Inspection (12.12.0.1)

You have the right to verify the legality of any action your opponent takes. For example, if your opponent tries to move a ship, you may ask him or her to prove the crew meets staffing requirements. Or, if your opponent encounters a dilemma that randomly kills a personnel with Diplomacy, you may ask your opponent to prove that he or she has included all the Diplomacy personnel in his or her mission team in the selection.

Your opponent does not need to show the entirety of every card, but only the portion relevant to the action he or she is taking. For example, if proving staffing, your opponent needs only show the necessary staffing icons. If proving that all Diplomacy are in a selection, your opponent only needs to show skill boxes.

If you have a card in hand that may play on your opponent only under certain conditions, you may require your opponent to reveal to you whether he meets those conditions. (However, you must reveal the card.) For example, if you have Dal'Rok in hand, you may reveal it to your opponent, then require your opponent to reveal the location of his or her Orb Fragment (if any), then decide whether or not to play Dal'Rok.

If your opponent fails to do something required because he or she is unable to meet the requirement, you have the right to verify that. For example, if your opponent tries to use The Trois of Wolf, but then finds that Wolf isn't in his or her hand, deck, Q's Tent, or Zalkonian Storage Capsule, you may search through all those sources to verify it.

However, you may see and inspect your opponent's Personnel and Equipment only when they are played, when permitted or required by a card (such as an "opponent's choice" dilemma), or when necessary to verify that your opponent is complying with the rules. Furthermore, you may not see or inspect Ships that are docked, cloaked, or phased (the same exceptions apply).

When a card grants you opponent's choice to choose one of your opponent's personnel, you may inspect all cards present in their entirety. For example, if your opponent falls victim to Antedean Assassins, you may fully inspect all personnel (not just those with Anthropology and Empathy) in your opponent's crew or Away Team.

You have a right to know the number of cards in your opponent's hand.

You may see and inspect your own cards in play at all times (including Hidden Agendas), and you may look through the cards in your discard pile (without rearranging them). You may not see face down cards in your draw deck or side decks.

Any player may count the number of seed cards remaining under a given mission at all times.

EQUIVALENTS (12.14)

"Look in the mirror. See yourself."

—Shinzon

A few words and phrases have been ruled equivalent. Equivalent terms are interchangeable. (All other terms are not interchangeable.)

The icon and names of card types are equivalent. For example, all equipment is "" for Quality of Life (even equipment that doesn't have the icon).
"Outpost Phase" is an obsolete term for the "Facility Phase." They are equivalent.
"DS9" is equivalent to "Deep Space 9". Thus, Quark's Bar may seed on Deep Space 9.
"I.K.C." is equivalent to "I.K.S." Thus, Kargan is matching commander of both the I.K.C. Pagh and I.K.S. Pagh.
"Alien" species is equivalent to "humanoid" species.
"Terran" species is equivalent to "human" species.
A "vice-admiral" is equivalent to an admiral, a "vice-chairman" is equivalent to a chairman, a "vice-president" is equivalent to a president, and so forth.
Gendered characteristics are equivalent to their opposite-gendered counterparts. (For example, an "empress" is equivalent to an "emperor.")
For facilities, "build" is equivalent to "play".
"Gaining" a skill is equivalent to "adding" a skill.

Clarification: "Like" or "As" Examples (12.14.0.1)

Cards used as another type generally (equivalent): an Artifact that "plays as an event," like Stone of Gol, is both an Artifact and equivalent to an Event. It 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.

(Of course, Artifacts must still always be earned legally before use.)

Cards used as another type in a "particular context" (not equivalent): Satan's Robot, an Equipment card that "participates in battle like a personnel," is an Equipment card and is not equivalent to a Personnel. It 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.

Mobile Holo-Emitter specifically states that it does not count as an Equipment card when worn, which overrides this general rule.

A card that functions "like" or "as" another card type in a particular context is not equivalent to that card type. However, 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 is equivalent to both card types.

WHAT DOES THIS CARD MEAN? (12.15)

This rulebook has now conveyed all generally applicable core rules of the Star Trek CCG. You should be able to play with every card in the game, interpreting them with the ordinary English language.

However, there are still some specific cards with particularly difficult gametext, and a few specific words that can be interpreted ambiguously. For help working through these issues, look up the card (or word) in the Glossary. If you understand this rulebook, however, you should rarely (if ever) have to open the Glossary.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I BREAK A RULE? (12.16)

"You are out of order!"

—Q

The Star Trek Customizable Card Game is a complicated game. You will make mistakes. You will break rules. It will happen by accident. It happens in casual home games and it happens at the Worlds championship series.

For this reason, it is a good idea to pay attention to everything your opponent is doing to make sure that it is fully legal.

Tip: Common Quick Fixes (12.15.0.1)

If a stopped personnel (or a hologram without holo-projectors) is beamed down with an Away Team and helps attempt a mission, and it is discovered during the mission attempt, simply remove the card from the Away Team and put it back on the ship where it came from.

Any cards that cannot legally be in play are removed from play immediately upon discovery. For example, if you discover that you have both Chakotay and Captain Chakotay in play at the same time without an enabling card (which they can't be, because they are versions of the same unique persona), immediately discard one of the illegal Chakotays. In general, discard the last one played. However, any actions that Chakotay has taken previously (such as overcoming Founder Secret or helping solve Investigate Disturbance) cannot be undone; these remain.

If you forget to tick down a countdown or remove a damage marker at the end of your turn, simply tick it down to where it should be whenever you discover it.

If a rules violation is discovered and an easy fix is available, take it. However, if a rules violation took place several actions, several turns, or even (at a tournament) several games ago, it is generally not possible to redress it. Play continues normally, without correction.

This rule presumes the good faith of both players. If a player is seen to have deliberately or negligently violated the rules, sanctions may be imposed. At official events, all questions, fixes, and penalties are settled by the Tournament Director, pursuant to the Organized Play Guide and the Code of Conduct.

Above all, keep having fun after an accidental rules violation. That's the spirit of Star Trek.

NEXT STEPS (12.17)

You are now finished with the Basic Rulebook. Try the game out using an official starter deck, or perhaps one of these beginner decks! Join the forums and start talking about the game, or find a tournament near you!

When you're ready to learn the rest, come back to read the Advanced Rulebook, which covers all the more obscure parts of the game that this volume skipped over, from Artifacts to the Q-Continuum!

CLOSING (12.18)

The Star Trek CCG was developed by Tom Braunlich, Rollie Tesh, and Warren Holland. As they wrote in the end of the original rulebook more than twenty years ago, and we say again today...

We hope you enjoy the endless possibilities in our universe.

See you on the spaceline.

13: ICON LEGEND

Icons not part of the core game are omitted from this streamlined rulebook. See the complete rulebook for a full icon legend.

ICONS WITH BUILT-IN RULES

- Alternate Universe: Cards with this icon are from parallel realities, other time periods, illusions, or even dreams. They may not enter our universe unless cards are specifically permitted by a card (or if they report to their native Time Location). See Entering Play.

- Hologram: Cards with this icon are holograms. They are "deactivated" (disabled) unless present with a holodeck or holoprojectors. See Holographic Personnel and Equipment.

- Borg Use Only: These cards may only be used in Borg decks. See Building A Deck.

- Hidden Agenda: These cards are played face-down, then flipped and activated during a turn. See Entering Play and Playing "At Any Time".

- Self-Controlling Card: These cards move, operate, and attack on their own. See Self-Controlling Cards.

- Botany Bay: These dilemmas prevent you from attempting a mission if you peek at them too early. See Botany Bay Cards.

- Nemesis Arrows: Cards with opposed Nemesis arrows of the same color must destroy each other if they encounter each other. See Nemesis Destruction

- Infiltration Icons: Permits cards to infiltrate an opponent's personnel of the correct affiliation. See Infiltration.

- Countdown Icon: Cards with this icon "count down" at the end of each turn, and are discarded when the count reaches zero. See Countdown Tickdown.

- Planet: Refers to a planet, or a dilemma that may seed only at a planet location.

- Space: Refers to a space location, or a dilemma that may seed only at a space location.

- Dual: Designates a dilemma that may seed at either a planet or space location. Also called "Space/Planet."

- Skill Dot: Indicates a regular or special skill. See Using Skills.

- Special Download: Cards with this icon may suspend play to download the named card. See Special Download.

- Damage: Draw: Instructs a player to draw a Tactic card from their Battle Bridge Side Deck (if any) and place it on a target as damage. See DAMAGE.

- Damage: Place: Instructs a player to place this card on a target as damage. See DAMAGE.

Staffing

- Staff Ability: These personnel can meet staffing requirements on ships. Staffing Requirements.

- Command Ability: These personnel can meet or staffing requirements on ships. See Staffing Requirements.

- Borg Subcommands: These staffing icons represent Communication, Defense, and Navigation for the Borg affiliation. They are used in lieu of and Stars for ships.

Quadrants

- Delta Quadrant: This card is native to the Delta Quadrant. Also appears on missions. See Mission Phase and Reporting for Duty.

- Gamma Quadrant: This card is native to the Gamma Quadrant. Also appears on missions. See Mission Phase and Reporting for Duty.

- Mirror Quadrant: This card is native to the Mirror Quadrant. Also appears on missions. See Mission Phase and Reporting for Duty.

Affiliations

- Federation: An interstellar alliance dedicated to peace and progress

- Klingon: An honor-driven warrior race

- Romulan: A cunning people known for their political intrigues

- Ferengi: A big-eared species whose culture is built on the doctrines of greed and grift

- Cardassian: A crumbling military dictatorship that eventually aligned itself with the Dominion

- Bajoran: Ancient, religious people oppressed by Cardassians for decades, then aided by the Federation

- Dominion: Aggressive "anti-Federation" bent on order through conquest. Mostly native to the Gamma Quadrant.

- Kazon: Primitive spacefaring race divided into gang-like "sects". Native to Delta Quadrant.

- Vidiian: Once-great race suffering from a terminal illness called The Phage. Native to Delta Quadrant.

- Hirogen: Hunter race dedicated to killing challenging "prey". Native to Delta Quadrant.

- Borg: Cyborg race seeking perfection through assimilation of the galaxy. Native to Delta Quadrant. The Borg are an advanced affiliation, with many affiliation-specific rules not covered in this basic rulebook. See the complete rulebook.

- Starfleet: The earliest human space explorers, who predated the Federation.

- Vulcan: Before they joined the Federation, the Vulcan species explored the galaxy on its own

- Neutral: Neutral facilities and some ANIMAL personnel

- Non-Aligned: Everyone else

ICONS WITHOUT BUILT-IN RULES

These icons do not have any inherent impact on the game. However, they are referenced by other cards, which may confer some importance on them.

Eras & Series

- 22nd Century: Cards with this icon are from the 22nd Century (the time frame of Star Trek: Enterprise).

- Original Series: Cards with this icon are from the time period of the original Star Trek series, approximately 2250-2270.

- Classic Films: Cards with this icon are from the time period of the classic Star Trek films, approximately 2270-2300.

- The Next Generation: Cards with this icon are from the time period and milieu of Star Trek: The Next Generation, approximately 2364-2371. No card in the game actually has this icon, but it can be added to hundreds of cards using Continuing Mission, then exploited with cards like Seek Out New Life and Attention All Hands.

- Deep Space Nine: Cards with this icon are from the time period and milieu of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, approximately 2370-2377. No card in the game actually has this icon, but it can be added to hundreds of cards using Reshape the Quadrant, then exploited with cards like New Frontiers and Gagh Tek Or?.

- Enterprise-E: Indicates personnel with the special training necessary to staff the U.S.S. Enterprise-E.

Factions

Factions are not affiliations, but some cards refer to them in a similar fashion.

- Maquis: Indicates an association with the Maquis, a rebel group battling for independence in the disputed territory between Federation and Cardassian space.

- Alliance: Indicates an association with the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance (KCA), the dominant power in the present-day Mirror Universe.

- Terran Empire: Indicates an association with the Terran Empire, the dominant power in the 23rd Century Mirror Universe, and later the Terran Rebellion, the contemporary revolt against the Alliance.

Other

- Referee: Referee cards are designed to counter certain powerful cards or strategies. They are readily accessed with Q the Referee and Tribunal of Q.

- Rule of Acquisition: The Rules of Acquisition are Ferengi scriptures that ground their profit-oriented philosophy.

- Warp Core: These cards are designed to "power" your deck, usually providing free plays or card draws at the price of following certain restrictions on your deck design. They are normally found in decks.

- Reactor Core: These cards are designed to "power" your deck, usually providing free plays or card draws at the price of following certain restrictions on your deck design. They are normally found in decks.

- Ketracel-White: Indicates a dependence on the drug Ketracel-White, common for Jem'Hadar soldiers.

- Orb Experience: Personnel with this icon have had an encounter with one of the Bajoran Tears of the Prophets (or "Orbs").

- Punishment: These cards relate to punishments and torment, usually for captives.

- Crime: These cards relate to criminal activity.

- Pursuit: These cards relate to pursuit.

- Barash's Illusion: Indicates that the card was part of the illusion generated by Barash, a lonely, abandoned alien boy who wanted William T. Riker to be his friend.

- Optical Compact Disc: Indicates that this personnel can staff Zefram Cochrane's first warp-capable vessel, the Phoenix.

- Shielded: These cards have immunity to certain nullifying effects, such as Kevin Uxbridge.

- Sha Ka Ree: These cards joined Sybok in his quest for Sha Ka Ree.

Expansion Icons

This is collectors' information. It is extremely rare for expansion icons to have gameplay relevance.

Decipher Era (Physical Cards; 1994 - 2006)

- Premiere: The original set of 363 Next Generation cards, released 1994. Icon is errata not present on original cards.

- Alternate Universe: 122 cards, first expansion set, released 1995. Icon is errata not present on original cards.

- Q-Continuum: 121 cards, released 1996. Icon is errata not present on original cards.

- Introductory 2-Player Game: 21 cards, released 1997. Icon is errata not present on original cards.

- First Anthology: 6 cards, released 1997. Icon is errata not present on original cards.

- Fajo Collection: Special collection of especially novel 18 cards, released 1997.

- First Contact: 130 cards about the new movie Star Trek: First Contact, released 1997. Introduced and many major rules changes, ending what is called the "PAQ" (Premiere/AU/Q-Continuum) period of the game.

- Premium: Premium cards that have released as promotions at various times throughout the game's history.

- Deep Space 9: 276 cards, released 1998

- The Dominion: 130 cards, released 1999

- Blaze of Glory: 130 cards, released 1999

- Rules of Acquisition: 130 cards, released 1999

- The Trouble with Tribbles: 141 cards, released 2000

- Mirror, Mirror: 131 cards, released 2000

- Voyager: 201 cards, released 2001

- The Borg: 131 cards, released 2001

- Holodeck Adventures: 141 cards, released 2001

- The Motion Pictures: 134 cards, released 2002

- All Good Things: 41 cards, released 2003

- Enterprise Collection: 18 cards, released 2006. Icon is errata not present on original cards. (Originals had .)

Continuing Committee Era (Virtual Cards; 2008 - present)

- Referee Reprints: 31 cards, released 2008, reprinting all cards from the Decipher Era.

- Identity Crisis: 25 cards, released 2009, providing alternate-color versions of all multi-affiliation cards that didn't receive this treatment during the Decipher Era

- Virtual Premium: Virtual premium cards that were released as promotions at various times during the CC era

- Chain of Command: 15 cards, released 2009

- Life from Lifelessness: 54 cards, released 2010, marking the first full Virtual expansion and the end of the game's Dark Age

- Homefront I: 36 cards, released 2010, featuring reprints of all homeworld and headquarters cards

- Straight and Steady: 57 cards, released 2010

- BaH!: 36 cards, released 2011, reprinting all Tactics cards

- Shades of Gray: 55 cards, released 2011

- Homefront II: 54 cards, released 2011

- Resistance is Futile: 18 cards, released 2011

- The Next Generation: 102 cards, released 2012, introducing the new Block Format

- The Next Generation: Supplemental: 45 cards, released 2012, consisting of reprints needed for the TNG Block

- Homefront III: 36 cards, released 2012

- Engage: 54 cards, released 2012

- The Sky's The Limit: 55 cards, released 2013

- Homefront IV: 27 cards, released 2013

- Emissary: 81 cards, released 2013, commencing Deep Space Nine block

- Emissary: Supplemental: 80 cards, released 2013, containing reprints for DS9 Block

- Homefront V: 18 cards, released 2013, containing Site reprints

- Warp Pack: Emissary: 6 cards, released 2014

- The Maquis: 54 cards, released 2014

- Twentieth Anniversary Collection: 18 cards, released 2014

- The Gamma Quadrant: 54 cards, released 2015

- Homefront VI: 48 cards, released 2015

- Crossover: 80 cards, released 2015, commencing Mirror Block

- Crossover: Supplemental: 80 cards, released 2015, containing reprints for Mirror Block

- Through The Looking Glass: 54 cards, released 2016

- Star Trek 50: 18 cards, released 2016, celebrating Star Trek's 50th anniversary

- The Terran Empire: 64 cards, released 2016

- Broken Bow: 90 cards, released 2017, commencing Enterprise Block

- Live Long and Prosper: 66 cards, released 2017, launching the new Vulcan affiliation

- Cold Front: 54 cards, released 2018

- Metamorphosis: 65 cards, released 2018

- Coming of Age: 9 new cards, 18 reprints, released 2018

- Enterprise Collection Remastered: 18 reprints, released 2018

- The Gift: 9 cards, released 2018

- Equilibrium: 11 cards, released 2018

- The Cage: 63 cards, released 2019

- Q Who?: 16 cards and 2 reprints, released 2020

- The Neutral Zone: 55 cards, released 2020

- A Private Little War: 63 cards, released 2020

- Dogs of War: 54 cards, released 2021

- OTSD Remastered: reprints, released 2021

- The Trial Never Ended: released 2021

- Second Star to the Right: released 2021

- The Motion Pictures Remastered: reprints, released 2022

- Paradise Lost: released 2022

- Nemesis: released 2023

- Ships of the Line: released 2023

- Showdown: Four Lights: released 2023

Tachyon Drone		Astrophysics Navigation
Heuristics Drone		Computer Skill Honor MEDICAL

Gibson (Assimilated)		OFFICER Navigation x2
Interlink Drone		[no skills, but allows sharing]