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10/20 rule

30/30 rule
Your seed deck may contain no more than 30 seed cards (not counting missions and sites, which seed for free) and your draw deck may contain no fewer than 30 cards.

10 and 01
See Bynars card, dual-personnel card, gender.

1962 Roger Maris Baseball Card
You may not trade this artifact for another unless you are immediately able to play that artifact as your own (this does not count as your normal card play). Traded artifacts are returned to their owners at the end of the game. See in play.

1 Tribble
See once per turn.

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

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

62nd Rule of Acquisition
This event is nullified if you play or have played Scan or Full Planet Scan on any mission, or if you begin an attempt of the mission on which it is played with < 3 or > 7 personnel. Attempts of other missions have no effect on this event.

75th Rule of Acquisition
See helps.

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

You may not rescue or capture the abandoned personnel during a mission or scouting attempt or during your opponent's turn.

See damage, attribute modifiers, capturing, quarantine, ship staffing.

abduction
Cards such as Assimilate Counterpart, the Talon Drone (Three of Nineteen), or Reassimilate Lost Drone may allow your Borg to abduct a personnel. If this occurs during personal combat, both combatants cease to participate in the battle and may immediately beam away (if possible), but are still "stopped."

The abducted personnel is escorted by your Borg present and may be moved around like equipment. If the abducted personnel is ever unescorted, your opponent can rescue them with his own personnel present.

Abducted personnel are disabled, and do not participate in battles. They are not captives and are not affected by cards that affect captives, such as Rescue Captives. An abducted personnel who becomes assimilated is no longer considered abducted.

aboard
See present.

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Access Denied
See Ferengi Ingenuity.

acquired
See artifact.

actions
An action is one operation that you perform in the game. Examples of actions include playing, drawing, or discarding one card, moving a ship from one location to another (possibly passing other locations on the way), moving personnel by beaming or other means, using a personnel's special skill (except automatic modifiers), battle (from initiation until a winner has been determined and damage or deaths have been resolved), and attempting or scouting a mission.

Applying automatic modifiers (e.g., "your personnel are STRENGTH +2 where present") and checking conditions (e.g., battle affiliation restrictions) are not actions.

actions - group
An action may cause other actions to occur within itself. For example, a personnel battle includes sub-actions of creating a combat pile, individual personal combat engagements, determining the winner of the battle, and discarding killed cards. An action in place of your normal card play, in place of a card draw, etc. may also consist of several sub-actions (such as playing multiple cards under Red Alert!). This is called a group action, and until it has finished, neither player may initiate any other actions except actions that suspend play, or responses to the group action or a sub-action.

Valid responses may be made to each sub-action of a group action. For example, when a ship is reporting with crew, a player may choose to play an Energy Vortex on the ship, or on a specific personnel being reported. Likewise, you may play Android Headlock or use Hypospray's text in response to a specific combat pairing.

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

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

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

actions - just
Some actions may be initiated only just after some other action or condition has occurred, before anything else can intervene (except another "just" action). These are typically indicated by the word "just" in game text. It may be a response to another action (e.g., "just initiated," "just played"), or it may be a new action that follows the result of the other action (e.g., "just completed," "just reported"). An action may be responded to or followed by any number of applicable "just" actions.

"Just" actions always take place before non-" just" actions. This may allow or require you to initiate an action when it would otherwise be your opponent's turn to do so. For example, you initiate a planet mission attempt and solve the mission. Although it is normally your opponent's turn to initiate the next action, you may first play Particle Fountain ("play...on just completed planet mission").

actions - required
Required actions are usually indicated by "must" or "must do nothing but." There are two types of required actions, moving and non-moving.

Moving required actions include Cytherians (you must travel to the end of the spaceline), Incoming Messages (you must return to an outpost), and Conundrum (you must target and "chase" a ship).

Additional personnel and equipment may be brought aboard the ship by beaming, reporting (e.g., to a Borg Cube), or any other method that does not require the ship and crew to take an action such as docking. Personnel and equipment may not be removed from the ship by any means.

The only other action the ship and crew may perform is moving. ("Ship must do nothing but..." means "ship and crew must do nothing but...") It may not cloak, phase, or initiate battle, including a counter-attack (though it may return fire if attacked). The crew may not initiate battle against an intruder, but may defend themselves if attacked. The ship may not time travel to a time location, even with the intention of time-travelling to the end of the spaceline on the next turn (e.g., with Orb of Time).

When a moving required action states that a ship must travel at "normal speed" or "full speed," it means you must use all of its available RANGE each turn (assuming that the ship is staffed to move), including any automatic modifiers such as a Plasmadyne Relay aboard, even if this will place the ship at a hazard such as Gaps in Normal Space. You may stop at intermediate locations.

You may use Lakanta's or The Traveler's skills, Where No One Has Gone Before, Wormholes, Transwarp Network Gateways, or other such means to shorten the travel. You are not required to do so.

The ship can be affected by cards played on it or encountered on the spaceline, such as Wormholes, Gaps In Normal Space, etc.

Non-moving required actions include Samaritan Snare (you must attempt the mission, if Federation) and Conundrum after you reach the targeted ship (you must attack the ship).

If a ship is targeted by a non-moving required action, you must perform that action as soon as possible, typically as your next action. Responses to that action (e.g., battle-related cards or Senior Staff Meeting) may be played.

When your cards are required to take more than one action, you may choose the order in which to take those actions. For example, if your Federation ship affected by Cytherians is at Samaritan Snare, you may choose whether to move the ship (if you have available RANGE) or attempt the mission as your next action.

A ship under the influence of a required action remains under that influence after it is commandeered or assimilated; the new controller must complete the action.

actions - sequence of steps
Every action has three steps that must occur in order:

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

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

actions - step 1: initiation
Initiating an action may include any or all of the following, in this order:

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

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

Dilemma encounters - The initiation of a dilemma encounter is complete (i.e, it has been "just encountered" and may be responded to) once any targets for the dilemma have been chosen and you have checked to see if the crew or Away Team can meet the dilemma's conditions (if any). If the dilemma requires a trigger or specifies targets with specific features which are not present, the dilemma will have no effect, but the initiation is still complete. (See dilemma resolution.)

For example, your Away Team encounters Nausicaans. The target must be selected and you must check the Away Team's total STRENGTH to see if it is greater than 44 before you may nullify the dilemma with Interphase Generator or your opponent may respond by replacing the dilemma with a Q-Flash (using Beware of Q).

Some cards, such as Mission Fatigue and Cyrus Redblock, add a sub-action to dilemmas, randomly selecting a personnel to be "stopped" or killed before the dilemma's own game text is resolved. The dilemma has been "just encountered" and may be responded to after you complete initiation of this sub-action (choosing a target to be "stopped" or killed). If the opponent responds by swapping the dilemma for a Q-Flash, the personnel is not "stopped" or killed because no results are obtained from the dilemma.

actions - step 2: responses
After an action has been initiated and before its results begin, optional responses are allowed. A valid response must specifically relate to (modify, cancel, nullify, or prevent) the action.

For example, if you initiate a personnel battle at a site, any action that says it "plays at start of battle," occurs "during battle," "cancels (or prevents) a personnel battle," plays when an adversary is "just engaged," etc. would be a valid response. Smoke Bomb and Phaser Burns are valid responses to personnel battle. Going to the Top is not a valid response to personnel battle; although returning a personnel to hand or downloading one could affect the outcome of the battle, Going to the Top does not specifically say that it is related to battle.

Likewise, Hugh is a valid response to the attack of a Borg Ship dilemma just encountered, because it nullifies that attack. Playing Temporal Rift on the ship and returning the ship to your hand by discarding a Space-Time Portal are not valid responses to encountering a Borg Ship (or any other dilemma).

A card play or other action that may occur at any time (e.g., playing an Interrupt card, revealing a hidden agenda) is not a valid response to an action unless it specifically relates to that action. For example, a card may not be played via "Devidian Door" to an Away Team during a mission attempt or battle.

A card which says it suspends play may be played at any time (not just during the response step of an action), and may temporarily suspend any action, whether related or not. (The suspending action may be responded to normally, and after it is complete, the suspended action resumes.)

Using a special download icon also suspends play. Thus, a personnel's special download icon may be used to download a card during a mission attempt or battle, and Launch Portal may be used to download and launch a shuttle during battle. See downloading.

More than one valid response may be made to an action. For example, if I play Palor Toff, you may respond first with Countermanda to place three cards out of play, and then with Amanda Rogers to nullify Palor Toff.

Interrupts and skills that "prevent" an action may be used as a response to that action. If the action thus prevented is a card play, it nullifies that card play. For example, if I play You Dirty Rat on Anya to morph her into a rat, you may respond with Howard Heirloom Candle to prevent her from morphing and nullify You Dirty Rat. (See battle.)

When all responses are over, or if neither player chooses to respond, the action has its result.

If a properly initiated card play is nullified, any costs paid are not recovered, but all results of the card play are canceled. For example, you play Q’s Tent and I nullify it with Wrong Door. You cannot play another Q's Tent this turn (a cost of playing the card), but you do not lose the ability to draw cards this turn (part of the results of the Q's Tent).

Responses modifying targets or conditions - If a hidden agenda is activated as a response to an action, all of its effects are retroactive to the start of the initiation of the action, as if the hidden agenda had already been revealed before the action was initiated. Thus, if the hidden agenda invalidates a condition for an action, the action becomes illegal. If the action was a card play, the card returns to your hand. For example, you initiate the play of Activate Subcommands, and I respond by activating Computer Crash. Since Activate Subcommands requires a download, it is now illegal and returns to your hand.

If a condition for an action becomes invalid before the action resolves, for any reason other than the activation of a hidden agenda (e.g., through the play of another card in a Manheim effect "hiccup"), it has no effect on the initiation. For example, if you initiate the play of K’chiQ, and I close your Alternate Universe Door with a Revolving Door during a "hiccup," you can still play K'chiQ because the condition was met during the initiation and is not re-checked.

If a target of an action becomes invalid after the action is initiated, then the action is "played out" without results. If the action is a card play, that card is discarded. For example, if you target an outpost to play K'chiQ, and I then destroy the outpost with a Supernova during a Manheim "hiccup," you must discard K'chiQ.

actions - step 3: results
When an action begins to have its results, this typically causes one or more other actions to occur. For example, the result of playing Kivas Fajo - Collector is that the target player must draw three cards. Each of the three card draws is an action with its own three steps, and each may be responded to (e.g., with Subspace Schism). However, no more responses to the original action (the card play) are allowed between those actions, because Kivas Fajo - Collector's optional responses step is past and it is currently having its result.

When you play a card that is discarded after use (e.g., most interrupts), it is discarded after it has its results.

actions - taking turns
Players alternate initiating actions. You may initiate the first action of your turn. After your action has had its result or is cancelled, then your opponent may initiate the next action, and so on.

Whenever it is your turn to initiate an action, if you do not wish to do so you may "pass." You must allow your opponent ample time to initiate an action or "pass."

When an action you initiated is in its optional responses step, your opponent has the first opportunity to initiate a response; when that response is complete you may initiate a response, and so on. Whenever both players pass consecutively during the optional responses step of an action, that action proceeds to its result.

In the rare case where both players initiate an action at the same time (e.g., revealing adversaries for a combat pairing), and both players wish to respond to that action, the player whose turn it is may initiate a response first; players then alternate actions as usual. For example, if both players wish to make a response to a combat pairing (such as playing an interrupt or using a personnel's "stun" skill), the player whose turn it is may respond first.

You cannot initiate any action (including using your personnels'skills which are not automatic modifiers) during your opponent's turn except:

• you may make valid responses;
• you may play interrupts (between other actions or as valid responses); and
• you may play a card or use game text that specifies it may be used "at any time" or "every turn," that "suspends play," or that in

some other way indicates that the action may be taken on the opponent's turn.

See skills - using.

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

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

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

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Adapt: Modulate Shields
See immune, Remodulation.

Adapt: Negate Obstruction
Revised text:
Nullifies a dilemma (except a Q-related dilemma) just encountered ...
A dilemma may be nullified by this interrupt only just after it is encountered in a Borg scouting attempt. You must play another copy of the interrupt each time you encounter another copy of a dilemma that you wish to adapt to. See Q-related dilemma.

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

Any non-Borg personnel or ships obtained from an expansion pack with this incident are considered assimilated as drones (see assimilation - personnel) before you report them for duty. You may report such cards immediately (ships to any spaceline location or your Borg Outpost; personnel to any of your ships or outposts or to a planet) without regard to icons or native quadrant. If you place them in your hand to play later, you must obey all normal reporting requirements.

If you obtain Jean-Luc Picard (Prem) from an expansion pack using this incident, you may not play him immediately if you have Locutus of Borg in play, but may later perform a persona exchange with the two cards.

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

Admiral Riker
This personnel's special download requires him to be aboard your matching facility (see matching affiliation). The Reflections foil version requiring a compatible facility is a misprint (not errata).

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A Fast Ship Would Be Nice
When encountering this dilemma, you may not substitute a ship for the victim if your opponent is playing Borg. See commandeering.

affiliation
There are 13 affiliations: Bajoran, Borg, Cardassian, Dominion, Federation, Ferengi, Hirogen, Kazon, Klingon, Neutral, Non-Aligned, Romulan, and Vidiian. Each affiliation has a distinct border color (but see Captain Proton cards) and a unique affiliation icon in the upper left corner of each Personnel or Ship card (lower left corner of each Facility card). A few cards are multi-affiliation (equipment and site cards have no affiliation.) See multi-affiliation cards.

Cards from different affiliations are not normally compatible, except Non-Aligned and Neutral cards which are compatible with any affiliation except Borg. Special cards such as treaties, The Kazon Collective, Emblem of the Alliance, and Temporal Micro-Wormhole may make two or more affiliations compatible, allowing them to mix and work together.

affiliation and ship origin
Some cards, such as tactics, affect "Klingon ships," "Romulan ships," etc. These cards apply to ships currently holding that affiliation as well as ships that "originated" with that affiliation. A ship's class or lore may indicate that its origin is different from its affiliation. For example, the B'Rel, a Ferengi-affiliation ship identified in its lore as a "Klingon Bird-of-Prey," is both a Klingon ship and a Ferengi ship. The Cha’Joh is a multi-affiliation ship of Klingon origin ("Bird-of-Prey"); thus, it is a Klingon ship regardless of its current affiliation mode, but a Romulan ship only in Romulan affiliation mode (see multi-affiliation cards). A Romulan ship commandeered by Klingons is both a Romulan ship and a Klingon ship.

The Naprem (K'Vort-class "Bird-of-Prey") is of Klingon origin; the Stolen Attack Ship ("Jem'Hadar attack ship") is of Dominion origin.

affiliation and species
Cards that affect "Klingons", "Romulans," etc. apply to personnel of that affiliation as well as that species (including hybrids). Thus, Worf (Prem), K’Ehleyr, and Quark Son of Keldar (in Klingon mode) all are Klingons for Klingon Death Yell. Ba’el and Simon Tarses are Romulans for D’Tan's INTEGRITY enhancement. Miles O'Brien (Fajo Collection) will not work with Garak (in either mode), Dukat, or Evek. A "non-Klingon" personnel is neither Klingon by species nor Klingon affiliation.

Espionage cards and cards that refer to an affiliation by its icon (such as Kira Nerys) refer only to affiliation, not to species.

affiliation attack restrictions
See battle.

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

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

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Ajur and Boratus
To use their special skill, your Ajur or Boratus must be on a planet with only one other of your personnel, who has the skill of Archaeology. They are considered to be "with" the Archaeology personnel even if one of them is "stopped." Likewise, they are not "alone with Archaeology" if there is any other personnel (even "stopped"), belonging to either player, on the planet.

They may destroy only cards that are seeded face down under the mission, and only if there more than three; you cannot use the skill solely to shuffle three or fewer seed cards. See once per game, mis-seeds.

Select the three cards to be retained as for any other random selections, by shuffling the cards and allowing the opponent to select three. If the cards' ownership is identifiable, they must be concealed (e.g., by having the tournament director assist with the selection).

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Alien Abduction
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Most CUNNING Away Team member (owner's choice if tie) is held by aliens until mission completed OR 3 Leadership present.

Alien Parasites
This entry covers both the original Alien Parasites dilemma and the version included in the combo dilemma Alien Parasites & REM Fatigue, whether encountered on a planet or in space.

When you encounter this dilemma and fail to meet its conditions, the mission or scouting attempt immediately ends. At a planet mission, beam the Away Team back to the ship or facility with which they are associated, if any (if not, they remain on the planet surface) or have them reboard their landed ship without transporters. At a space mission, the crew remains aboard their ship.

Your opponent then chooses whether or not to take control of the ship/facility and the crew or Away Team. If he chooses to take control, your turn is suspended (you may not initiate actions except as normally allowed during your opponent's turn) while he temporarily controls the ship or facility (if any), the Away Team or crew which encountered the dilemma, and any other personnel aboard that ship or facility. (If any personnel aboard are already "stopped," they remain so unless your opponent plays a card that "unstops" them, such as Distortion of Space/Time Continuum; they then join the rest of the crew.) He does not control any other ship or facility at the location or any personnel who were previously "stopped" on the planet. He may not take any actions that would normally occur only during his turn, except those using your ship and crew which he controls.

Your opponent may take legal actions (see control for limitations) with the ship and crew until they become "stopped" (he may not then take any action to "unstop" them) OR he cannot take any further meaningful actions with them (e.g., he may not simply beam them up and down endlessly) OR he chooses not to take any further actions with them. Then control returns to you and your suspended turn resumes.

If the ship and crew are not already "stopped" (or if your opponent chose not to take control), the personnel who originally encountered the dilemma (and the ship, if encountered at a space mission) are now "stopped" by their failure to overcome it. The dilemma is replaced under the mission to be encountered on the next mission or scouting attempt.

If your opponent's Borg scout fails to overcome this dilemma, you must follow all Borg Away Team and battle restrictions, and the Borg may not attempt missions. You may use the controlled Borg to scout for your own current objective if you are playing Borg. If you are playing Borg and control a non-Borg ship and crew, they may attempt and solve a mission, but neither player scores the mission points.

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

Alliance Interceptor
See interceptor.

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

Alternate Universe Door
A seeded copy of this doorway allows your -icon cards to enter play. See Alternate Universe icon. You may not play or download this doorway to the table for this purpose.

You may play this doorway to nullify a Temporal Rift only during your own turn (unless downloaded by discarding a Space-Time Portal). This use is a card play that returns to your hand rather than discarding (not "showing a card") and may be affected by Energy Vortex.

Alternate Universe icon 
You may normally seed or play cards with this icon only if you have an open Doorway or other card which allows such cards to enter play, such as Alternate Universe Door, Space-Time Portal, or the Seal Rift mission. (Using "Devidian Door" to report a card also requires such a Doorway card at the time the reporting function is used.) time location also allow certain cards "native to the timeline" to report there without such a Doorway card.

If the card allowing your cards to play is closed or discarded, you may not play additional cards until it is re-opened or replaced. cards already in play or already seeded are unaffected by closed or discarded doorways. If the doorway is closed (or has been discarded) when a legally seeded card is encountered, the card still has its normal effect. However, if an earned artifact goes to your hand, you do need an open doorway to play it later.

Altonian Brain Teaser
On this dilemma, the phrase "if their CUNNING < 15" means "if that personnel's CUNNING < 15." If the affected personnel's CUNNING is less than15, any bonus points (positive or negative) scored at that location are not lost or cancelled, but are not counted in your final score for the game, whether scored before or after the dilemma was encountered. See points, Balancing Act, In the Zone, dual-personnel card.

• The points from Cytherians are affected by an Altonian Brain Teaser only at the far end of the spaceline where the points are scored, not at the location where the Cytherians was encountered.
• Music personnel are not worth points for a Ressikan Flute while at the location where the Altonian Brain Teaser was encountered, regardless of where the Flute was earned.

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Amanda Rogers
Errata:
Nullifies any one Interrupt card just played (except Kevin Uxbridge or another Amanda Rogers card) OR any one artifact other card just played as an Interrupt card.

An Artifact or Doorway card is "played as an Interrupt card" only if its text specifically says so. For example, Space-Time Portal may be discarded from the table to "play as a second Wormhole interrupt." See card types.

Amanda's Parents
Revised text:
Plays on table until any Q-Flash. Each time you play an Amanda Rogers card (except to nullify a icon card) opponent may take that Amanda Rogers (and any two other cards) from your discard pile and place all three out-of-play.

This Q-icon event appeared in two slightly different versions in the original print run. The correct gameplay is indicated above.

Ambush Ship
See WEAPONS.

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

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

ANIMAL
This classification has several important differences from other classifications. ANIMAL may not be selected as a skill or classification. In addition, ANIMALs may not

• attempt missions alone;
• meet ship staffing requirements, including the matching affiliation requirement;
• enable the use of hand weapons or initiate battles;
• commandeer, or apply their affiliation to a commandeered ship or facility;
• use their classification to staff a Kurlan Naiskos; or
• be assimilated or targeted for assimilation.

A personnel of this classification remains an animal even if its classification is removed or changed, and is subject to all the normal restrictions on ANIMALs. Otherwise, ANIMALs are affected normally by all cards.

Anti-Matter Spread
The phrase "opposing ships' WEAPONS" on this interrupt refers to ships that are opposing the ships of the player playing the card. You may not play it on behalf of the Borg Ship dilemma to reduce the WEAPONS of your opponent's ships being attacked by the dilemma.

The reduction of WEAPONS for personnel with CUNNING < 8 applies only to Ship cards, including Borg-affiliation ships. The reduction of WEAPONS to 16 applies only to the Borg Ship dilemma.

Anti-Time Anomaly
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Plays on table. Kills literally ALL personnel in play (both players' cards) at the end of your third full turn, unless anti-time anomaly destroyed first.

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

any
If a card refers to a specific Star Trek character using the word "any" (e.g., "any Miles"), it refers to any Personnel card representing the specified character, including , , and personnel (but not impersonators). Thus, both Chief O’Brien and Smiley are "any Miles;" and both Montgomery Scott and Mr. Scott (TwT) are "any Scotty;" but Odo Founder is not "any Odo (DS9)."

"Any Enterprise" is any ship with "Enterprise" in its card title. "Any Nor" is any station identified in its title or lore as a Nor (including Deep Space 9).

For equipment, "any" (or "a", "an", or "one") refers to any Equipment card (or artifact used as Equipment) designated by the given characteristics in its card title or lore. For example, "any disruptor" includes Varon-T Disruptor, Klingon Disruptor Rifle, and Breen CRM114.

For other card types (e.g., events and interrupts), "any", "a", "an", and "one" refer to any card with the designated words in its card title. For example, "Any Emblem card" includes Emblem of the Empire and Emblem of the Alliance (but not cards displaying the icons representing those emblems); "any Bynars card" includes Bynars Weapons Enhancement and Bynars Data Transfer (but not a Personnel card depicting Bynar personnel).

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

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

 ap

Aphasia Device
See quarantine.

 ar

Arachnia
See Borg (Borg-affiliation ships).

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

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

artifact
A card type representing a rare object with special powers. Artifacts must be seeded during the dilemma phase, under planet missions only, unless a card allows or requires seeding at a space mission, and you may seed only one artifact under each mission unless otherwise specified (see mis-seeds). A seeded artifact is earned when the mission is completed, not when the artifact is encountered. (The Borg must complete an objective that allowed scouting a location before the Survey Drone can acquire any artifacts seeded at that location.) "Earned" is synonymous with "acquired." Cards seeded like artifacts are earned or acquired in the same way as artifacts. See scouting locations.

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

• by completing the mission (or, with the Survey Drone, a Borg objective which allowed scouting that location);
• with a card such as The Charybdis or HQ: Return Orb to Bajor; or
• with a card that allows an artifact to be earned without seeding, such as Reclamation or Starry Night.

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence, The
See The Artificial Intelligence.

Art of Diplomacy, The
See The Art of Diplomacy.

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Assign Mission Specialists
Errata and clarifications:
Seeds or plays on table. You may download to one of your outposts up to two different mission specialists (personnel whose only skill is a regular skill) that you do not already have in play. Also, while in play, each of your mission specialists scores 5 points whenever they use their skill to meet a mission requirement. You may voluntarily discard objective at start of any of your turns. (Captain's Order. Unique.)

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

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

You decide which of your personnel present use their skills to meet mission requirements. Multiple copies of the same mission specialist may not score points for the same mission, even if multiples of that skill are required. See cumulative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assimilate Planet
Revised text:
Plays on table. Target an unassimilated, non-homeworld planet mission with a point box showing at least 35 points. Your Borg may scout that planet. After scouting complete, if you have Borg at that location, you may probe ...

See point box.

Assimilate Species
You may not target an unnamed species with this objective (e.g., Vekor, Fennim). Your opponent need not show you his personnel until after you have targeted a species. See showing your cards.

Assimilate Starship
Revised text:
Plays on table. Target an opponent's ship. Your Borg may scout that ship. (Whenever no active Borg aboard target during your turn, you may beam one scout aboard.) After scouting complete, if your Borg have Computer Skill aboard that ship, you may probe ...

See active, showing your cards.

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

assimilation - facility
See assimilation - planet.

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

• Its affiliation changes to .
• Its gender becomes irrelevant to the Borg.
• Its classification (if any) becomes its first-listed regular skill.
• It retains any existing subcommand icons. If it was non-Borg-affiliation, its staffing ability changes to a subcommand icon, as follows:

  Old Staffing	New Icon
  Neither icon

  A drone will never have more than one copy of each subcommand icon. For example, if Seven of Nine is assimilated as a drone, her icon is lost rather than converted.
• Its attributes adapt to service the collective based on its subcommand icons, as follows:
  
  icon sets INTEGRITY to 7
  icon sets CUNNING to 7
  icon sets STRENGTH to 7
  
  Any attribute not set by a subcommand icon is set to 5.

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

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

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

Your Collective is limited to one counterpart (or personnel targeted as such) at a time. While any personnel is targeted to become a counterpart, that personnel may not be assimilated as a drone and is excluded from all such selections. Dual-personnel cards may not be targeted for assimilation as a counterpart. A counterpart may be converted to a drone with He Will Make An Excellent Drone.

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

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

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

If your Survey Drone, Sixteen of Nineteen, is on the planet when it is assimilated, it may acquire any seeded artifacts. If not, any artifacts (or cards seeded like artifacts) are placed face up on the planet and may be later acquired by your Survey Drone or by any non- personnel present.

Mission attempts may not be made at assimilated planets, and the mission affiliation icons become irrelevant (facilities requiring a matching affiliation icon may no longer be built there).

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

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

  Old Requirement	New Requirement
  Other icon
  Other requirements	Irrelevant

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

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

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

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

ATTACK bonus
A feature of tactic cards. In a ship battle, the ATTACK bonus on your current tactic (if any) is added to the total WEAPONS of your ships firing to calculate your ATTACK total. The ATTACK bonus is not an attribute enhancements. See battle - ship.

attempt
Non-Borg affiliations may make mission attempt and commandeering attempts. Borg may make scouting attempts (see scouting locations).

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

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

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

attribute modifiers
If more than one card modifies an attribute of a ship or personnel, add or subtract first, then multiply. (The order in which the cards were played is irrelevant.) For example, if you have both a Plasmadyne Relay (RANGE and SHIELDS +2) and a Kurlan Naiskos (all attributes x3) on the U.S.S. Enterprise (9-8-9), which also has Strafing Run on it as a damage marker (all attributes -1), its attributes would be:
RANGE and SHIELDS: (9 + 2 -1 1) x 3 = 30 WEAPONS: (8 - 1) x 3 = 21.
However, if a card or rule changes an attribute to a specific value (rather than adding or subtracting), treat it as if the changed value were printed on the card. For example, if Data (8-12-12) is affected by Frame of Mind (sets attributes to 3-3-3) and has a phaser (STRENGTH +2), his STRENGTH will be 5. Rotation damage to a ship, which reduces its RANGE to 5, is a rule that sets a value rather than modifying it.

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

An attribute is considered reduced (for cards such as Abandon Ship! or U.S.S. Enterprise-B) if it is affected by a card that says it is reduced (e.g., Baryon Buildup), is -X (Vole Infestation), or is "disabled" ("Pup"), even if it is also affected by a card that enhances that attribute by the same amount (Plasmadyne Relay). Also, the RANGE of a ship that has rotation damage applied is reduced. A ship that "cannot move" (Menthar Booby Trap) does not have its RANGE reduced. Attributes may not be reduced to less than 0. An undefined attribute may not be modified.

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

 aw

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

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

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

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

All your compatible personnel aboard one ship or facility (at one site, if a Nor), or on one planet (outside a facility or landed ship) form a single Away Team or crew, except personnel who are "stopped," disabled, or in stasis, who form a separate group during your turn. When a dilemma "stops" some of your personnel, they temporarily form a separate Away Team or crew which does not participate in the mission attempt. See dilemma resolution.

Any such separate groups automatically rejoin with other compatible Away Teams or crews present when your turn ends.

An Away Team can be associated with only one ship or space facility at a time. If you beam Away Teams from multiple ships or facilities to the same planet, you must designate which single ship or facility the new combined Away Team will be associated with.

An Away Team remains associated with the ship it beamed (or disembarked) from until they board another of your ships or space facilities, become associated with another ship by joining that ship's Away Team, or are separated by the departure of the ship or the Away Team from that location (including the ship time-traveling into the future via Temporal Rift). For example, if you play Memory Wipe on your ship, beam an Away Team to a planet, and move the ship to another location, those personnel revert to their normal affiliations.

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

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