Skills and Classifications

08/26/00

Each Personnel card has a classification (in the box directly under the picture) and skills (in the larger skills box between the lore and the attributes). The classifications represent eight personnel types, which are always printed in uppercase type. Most of the personnel types also appear as skills.

While cards with personnel types in the skills box are sometimes called "dual-classification," this is a misnomer – any one personnel may have only one classification. If a personnel type such as MEDICAL appears in the skills box, it is a skill. If a card calls for a personnel type but does not specify skill or classification, either will do. But if it calls for SCIENCE-classification, then only a classification will do.

Skills are of two types, regular skills and special skills. Regular skills are one or two words, such as SECURITY, Treachery or Tal Shiar. Special skills are either expressed as a sentence with a period ("Your Tal Shiar may report here.") or represent a special download of a card, indicated by the downward-pointing triangle icon ("t Treaty: Federation/Romulan").

I've listed here the classifications and all regular skills. When a card lets you select, add or share skills, you may select, add or share only regular skills. Special skills, including special downloads, may never be shared or added to a personnel.

Classifications (includes all Personnel Types)

ANIMAL (may not be used as a skill)
CIVILIAN
ENGINEER
MEDICAL
OFFICER
SCIENCE
SECURITY
V.I.P.

Regular Skills

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