Add Distinctiveness
by Evan Lorentz

There are two rather.... well.... distinct things going on with this seedable Hidden Agenda. First, it provides the Borg with a means of scoring positive bonus points, a reward for doing something fairly desirable in its own right: assimilating your opponent's personnel. Now not only will your opponent no longer have those cards to work with, you will receive a point per skill dot on each. Time to pile on the Assault and Talon Drones!

Second, it provides a use for any "extra" First Contact boosters you may have (perhaps including those that come with Enhanced First Contact). If at any point you are trailing by at least 40 points, you get one chance to pop open a sealed First Contact booster pack and use any non-seed cards you find inside. Artifacts, dilemmas, and missions will be unusable, but that leaves you well over 100 other possibilities to increase your resources. And not only are non-Borg personnel and ship cards immediately assimilated, but you also get the same "point per skill dot" bonus for the personnel! You might just pick up a few mission specialists to throw away in scouting attempts.... or you may get a member of the bridge crew. (Be careful of uniqueness restrictions with Jean-Luc Picard and Locutus of Borg.) You might even get the Borg Queen herself!

Combos:

Add Distinctiveness + Assimilate Counterpart: The Assimilate Counterpart objective gives you permission to initiate battles, but abducting your target is optional. Instead, you may choose to hang around for another battle, and another, until your Talon Drones can take as many personnel as possible. Assault Drones and Lower Decks will help out here.

Add Distinctiveness + We Are The Borg: Quickly build up the Assault and Talon Drones you need to collect points from your opponent's personnel. (Either function of We Are The Borg can work well for this!)

Add Distinctiveness + a little luck: If you're already down 40 points, you have nothing to lose. In almost all cases, at least half of a sealed First Contact booster will be usable. It could be just what you need to turn the game around.