Michael played brilliantly, but I think it helped that he had played against this exact deck before. He put Dead End and Edo Probe at my MQ missions and then had Executive Authorization at one of my AQ planets. I had issues getting enough Bajoran Resistance to draw, then issues getting Multidimensional Transport Device and once I decided to burn Bareil's download on that to go to the AQ, I found the Executive Auth and had to dig into the deck for my PADD.

Eventually, I was just too far behind, given that I needed 3 missions and Michael only two and a lot of Dabo (started on turn 1). My only shot at this was when Michael tried to clear the shared space mission, had he failed I might have had a shot. But he blew right through. Turns out we both weak seeded it.

This was an interesting and close game. The first issue I had wa sagin not drawing enough Bajoran Reistance to get the draws going. I decided to red shirt my Mission Specialists instead of Bajorans (not wanting to lose what I worked so hard for) and they found a Denevan, which managed to pick both specialists. I saved one with the Gun (special downloaded in) only to have him re-die once they hit the last seed Hanonian Land Eel.

So now I was in a bad way. Without specialists, my missions only added up to 95 points. I had not drawn into Kira Taban and just tried to get whatever points I could. When it came down to it, I had an almost guaranteed win, thanks to In the Zone. I solved two missions and cleared two more. I just needed to wait one more turn to solve them both (with no issue with ITZ, since I needed less than 50), where Andrew needed to solve two more missions and did need more than 50 points.

But then time was called, and even though I could definitely win on my next turn, there wasn't one. Funny thing being, it all came down to the Personal Duty + Friendly Fire random selection. Andrew managed to pick my one dude, out of 6 or so, that did not have leadership, while two others had double leadership. So I needed to cheat for two Leadership and I didn't have mirror Tuvok in play Making that very impossible)