MISSIONS

Clarifications: Dual-Icon Missions

A few missions are Dual-Icon — that is, they are both planet and space missions.

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.

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.

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

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.

EVENTS, INCIDENTS, & OBJECTIVES

Borg Rule: Objectives, Not Missions

Unlike other affiliations, the Borg do not score points by solving missions, but by completing Objectives.

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

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 enter play, and more. Most doorways are seeded (they enter play before the game begins), but many doorways can be played during your turn.

INTERRUPTS

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 Ź— 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

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

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

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

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. Both players may use Stations freely. Each Station card specifies where it plays and what it can do.

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

BANNED CARDS

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.

SEED DECK

Your seed deck contains the cards you will use before the first turn. Your seed deck must include six Missions, 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.

Your seed deck must include exactly 6 missions, but these 6 cards do not count toward the seed deck's 30-card limit. (In game terms, they seed "for free.") 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.

Your seed deck may include up to 6 Site cards, which also do not count toward the 30-card limit.

DRAW DECK

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

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.

DOORWAY PHASE

Both players simultaneously play their Doorways (and any other cards which are seeded this phase) 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

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 — or anywhere within it.

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:

DILEMMA PHASE

In this phase, you and your opponents hide Dilemmas, Artifacts, and other cards that seed like Dilemmas (such as The Nexus) face-down under missions, where they will be encountered during the game.

Space dilemmas may seed under any Space mission. Planet dilemmas and all artifacts are seeded under planet missions. Dual dilemmas may seed under any mission. (Typically, you will seed dilemmas under your opponent's missions and artifacts under your own... but this is not the only strategy.)

You may not seed more than one copy of any card under the same mission. Any card seeded illegally at a Mission is a mis-seed and will be placed out-of-play when revealed. You may only seed one artifact per mission. If you illegally 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

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 have 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.

STARTING THE GAME

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, then place them out-of-play. Your table may look something like this:

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

The play phase now begins.

YOUR NORMAL CARD PLAY

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

ENTERING 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 is now in play. Any opponent may examine the card if he or she chooses. Any immediate effects in the gametext are played out and resolved. Cards remain in play until they are nullified, discarded, killed, destroyed, or otherwise forced to leave play.

If a card is marked "unique", its owner may not have more than one copy in play at a time, and 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: each player may have one instance of an ✶ enigma 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 only enter play if another card (typically an open doorway or time location) allows it.

Clarifications: Showing your cards

If a card is brought into play other than by seeding it or playing it as a normal card play (for example, if it is downloaded by A Change of Plans), an opponent may examine it to ensure that it is entering play legally. At the end of the game, any player may require his or her opponent to show all face-down cards to verify that they were legal cards.

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

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, Stations are usable by both players, regardless of control. Finally, 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).

Borg Rule: Borg Compatibility

cards are compatible only with other — and, since players can't stock non- cards in their decks to begin with, it's not easy to overcome this limitation.

Exception: Non-Aligned compatibility

Cards with the Non-Aligned or Neutral affiliations may mix and cooperate with cards of every other affiliation (except Borg). This makes the affiliation extremely useful, since they are able to function both as their own affiliation and as a support team for virtually every deck type in the game.

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.

DUPLICATION AND PERSONAS

Unlike other cards, Ship, Personnel, and Facility cards are unique by default: you may normally have only one copy of each ship, personnel, or facility in play at one time. 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

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, you may only have in play a single version of any given persona. A few personnel in the game (and even some ships!) have several different 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 have more than one of them in play at one time.

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

• 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 (e.g. 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 (e.g. Falcon and Ensign O'Brien)

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.

LEAVING PLAY

When a card leaves play (or is "discarded"), it is placed in its owner's discard pile, unless otherwise specified. Cards in the discard pile are stacked face-up, and their owner may examine them. 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 cannot be retrieved by any means.

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).

If a card requires you to target another card, and the target leaves play or becomes an invalid target, the card requiring the target is immediately discarded. For example, if Calloway is killed while being targeted by Rituals of the Hunt, Rituals discards.

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

When you score points from non-mission card with a point box, place it in a bonus point area on your side of the table, as a reminder of those points (unless the card remains on a target or otherwise specifies that it should remain in play). Cards in your point area are not in your discard pile and are neither in play nor out-of-play.

OTHER WAYS TO PLAY A CARD

PLAYING "AT ANY TIME"

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.

DOWNLOADING

Some cards allow you to download a card. When you download a target card, it does not need to be played from your hand. You may search through your hand, your draw deck, and any open side decks for the target. Once found, play the card to the table normally. Downloading does not count as your normal card play, but you must still follow all the normal rules for playing a card, such as reporting restrictions. Then reshuffle any decks you looked through.

When a download goes "to hand", as with Quark's Isolinear Rods, the downloaded card is added to your hand instead of entering play. If the download works "in place of one card draw", like Blood Oath, you may choose whether to play the card immediately or take it into your hand. Otherwise, you must play the downloaded card immediately to the table.

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.)

You may not download artifacts unless specifically permitted by a card.

General Quarters: The Personnel Download Limit

Personnel cannot be downloaded as easily as other cards. When you recruit specially-picked personnel (instead of recruiting personnel who are already "available" in your hand), you must locate, draft, and reassign them to your forces &mdash 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 DOWNLOAD

Tip: Suspends Play

Special downloading is by far the easiest and most common way to suspend play. Refer back to the section on actions for more on the significance of suspending play.

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.

USING SKILLS

Borg Rule: Sharing Skills

"I heard all of you, your thoughts inside my head, as if they were my thoughts. And I could see myself through your eyes."

—Chakotay

Some cards, such as Nine of Eleven (Interlink Drone) and the Borg Vinculum, allow your Borg to share skills. (Cards that allow personnel to add skills from other personnel, such as Vulcan Mindmeld or Classic Communicator, do not enable skill-sharing.) All regular skills are shared, including those that do not actually appear in skills boxes, such as the selected skill of the Borg Queen and the classifications of assimilated personnel which have been converted into skills.

As long as the conditions for skill-sharing are met, all Borg at the same location (sometimes referred to as a "hive") share their skills. However, skills are only shared once, at their highest level.

For example, you have an Away Team on a planet consisting of two Borg:

Tachyon Drone		Astrophysics Navigation
Heuristics Drone		Computer Skill Honor MEDICAL

...as well as a Borg ship orbiting the planet with the following crew:

Gibson (Assimilated)		OFFICER Navigation x2
Interlink Drone		[no skills, but allows sharing]

...then all four personnel have the following skills:

OFFICER (Gibson)

MEDICAL (Heuristics)

Navigation x2 (Gibson)

Honor (Heuristics)

Astrophysics (Tachyon)

Computer Skill (Heuristics).

However, if the Heruistics Drone is killed, Tachyon Drone reverts to his printed skills only, because (according to the text on Interlink Drone) he cannot skill-share without a Borg present. The Borg on the ship continue to skill-share, but no longer have any of the skills from Heuristics Drone (who is dead) or Tachyon Drone (who is cut off).

Sharing skills is not optional. A Borg does not have shared skills until after it reports for duty. Skill-sharing does not work between cloaked or phased ships. Special skills are not shared.

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.

GETTING HURT

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

RANDOM SELECTION

When gametext specifies that a card is to be chosen by random selection, 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.

TURNS: "EACH", "EVERY", AND "FULL"

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

You control each card you have seeded or played, 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. It is possible (through commandeering, Brainwash, Alien Parasites, etc.) for an opponent to take control of your cards during a game.

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 words “opponent’s” are 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, even if an opponent takes control of that card. At the end of the game, all cards are returned to their owners.

TIES

When a card (such as a dilemma) specifies a superlative such as “strongest,” “most CUNNING,” or “highest total attributes,” and there is a tie, the opponent of the player immediately affected by the card gets to choose (unless the card states otherwise).

To determine such things as “nearest planet” and “far end of spaceline,” compare the number of cards in each direction; if there is a tie, then compare the total span in each direction. If still a tie, the opponent chooses.

THE CUMULATIVE RULE

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 not play multiple copies of Space Boomer on Travis Mayweather at the same time. You may play one 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.

ADD THEN MULTIPLY (A.T.M.)

When numerical values, such as attributes or point boxes, are simultaneously modified by a card that adds or subtracts and another card that doubles (or triples) that value, add or subtract first, then multiply. (This is sometimes called the "A.T.M. Rule".)

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I BREAK A RULE?

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.

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.

CLOSING

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.