Star Trek™ Customizable Card Game™ GLOSSARY

in play – A card is “in play” if it
• has been played or seeded face up; or
• has been exchanged for a card already
in play; or
• has been activated by turning it face
up (hidden agendas); or
• has been encountered like a dilemma
or during a Q-Flash; or
• has been earned or acquired like an
artifact (unless placed in the hand for
later play);
AND it has not left play.
A card in play may leave play by being
discarded (to the discard pile, bonus
point area, The Next Emanation, etc.),
placed out-of- play, re-seeded (e.g., with
Q-Type Android), relocated as a marker
(e.g., a completed objective such as
Assimilate Homeworld), or returned to a
player’s hand, draw deck, or side deck; it is
then no longer “in play.” (A card such as
Jem’Hadar Shrouding may also specify that
certain cards are not in play.) Any cards
placed on (or under) or played on (or
aboard) that card are treated likewise
(except cards which are exchanged for a
card in hand or replaced by another card,
and cards which are protected from Borg
timeline disruption; see exchanging
cards, Stop First Contact).
Thus, a Personnel card is “in play” whether
reported for duty, exchanged for another
persona version, or recovered from an
earned Cryosatellite. The personnel aboard
a Cryosatellite are not “in play” until the
Cryosatellite is earned and the personnel
come aboard the ship. Personnel who are
captured, in a Penalty Box, under The
Nexus, “held” by a dilemma, or “lost” to
Thine Own Self, are still in play.
Game text may say that a Personnel card
placed in the point area is in play for
uniqueness only – if non-universal, you may
not report another copy of that personnel
(or another version of that persona). Cards
in stasis or in a Temporal Rift or Time
Travel Pod are also considered in play for
uniqueness only. The skills and other
features of such cards may not be used.
For example, Kai Opaka placed in your
bonus point area with Duranja does not
prevent Orb artifacts from being nullified;
while in a Temporal Rift, 10 and 01 cannot
nullify Computer Crash and The Emissary
does not enhance the INTEGRITY of
Bajorans in play. However, you may not
play another copy of Kai Opaka, 10 and 01,
or The Emissary (or any other version
of the Benjamin Sisko persona) under these
conditions.
When a personnel or ship leaves play, all
previous effects on that card are cancelled
(except use of a once per game function).
If the same card is reported again, treat it
as if it were a new copy of the card being
reported. For example, replayed cards are
“unstopped,” a ship is undamaged and any
RANGE used this turn is restored, a
personnel is no longer affected by Frame of
Mind, and one who has already “walked”
this turn can walk again. When an effect
depends on another card “in play” or when
another term not specifying “present,”
“with,” or “location” is used, it may benefit
from either player’s card (unless “your”
or “opponent’s” is specified, as with
Ressikan Flute or Flaxian Assassin).
Examples:
• Your opponent’s Kareen Brianon
enhances your Ira Graves’ skills.
• Your K’nera scores points if either
player’s Korris or Konmel is killed in
battle.
• Disabled cards and cards in play for
uniqueness only cannot trigger such
effects.
In the Zone – For this incident, the
points you score during a turn are the net
total of positive and negative points scored.
The points that do not count toward
winning are the last positive points scored
during a turn in which you score more than
50 points. For example:
• You complete a mission for 45 points.
Later that same turn, you complete a
Cytherians dilemma for 15 points, for
a total of 60 points. 10 of the 15
Cytherians points do not count toward
winning.
• Reversing the previous example, you
complete a Cytherians dilemma and
then solve a 45-point mission on the
same turn. 10 of the mission points do
not count toward winning.
• Continuing the second example, you
then score -5 points from The
Higher... The Fewer in the same turn.
You now have a net total of 55 points;
5 of the mission points do not count
toward winning.
The effects of In the Zone, Intermix
Ratio, and Altonian Brain Teaser are
independent; each one could affect the
same points. If you are affected by more
than one of these cards, evaluate your
points that count toward winning for each
card separately; the lowest total is your
current “points that count toward
winning.” Example:
• You are affected by both Intermix
Ratio and In the Zone. You solve a
mission for 30 points and earn a
Ressikan Flute with 9 Music personnel
in play. Your actual score is 75. For In
the Zone, 25 Ressikan Flute points do
not count toward winning, for a
“winning score” of 50. For Intermix
Ratio, 15 points do not count towards
winning, for a “winning score” of 60.
In the Zone thus limits you to 50
points counting toward winning.
• Next turn you score 15 bonus points
for a total score of 90. For In the
Zone, 25 points still do not count
toward winning, for a “winning score”
of 65. For Intermix Ratio, 30 bonus
points do not count toward winning,
for a “winning score” of 60. Now
Intermix Ratio is the card that limits
your score to 60 points toward
winning.
incident – A card type similar to an Event
card. It may play on and affect another
card, or may play on the table to have a
widespread effect on various aspects of the
game. Most incidents have a lasting effect
(unless the card is nullified or discarded
according to its game text). A seedable
incident may be seeded during any seed
phase unless otherwise specified. Playing
an Incident card uses your normal card
play.
Incoming Message – Federation, etc. –
See outpost.
Incoming Message: Attack
Authorization – If you use this interrupt
to attack your own ship when using a Battle
Bridge side deck, you may draw and use a
current tactic. The single current tactic
applies to both the attacking and defending
ships. However, if either of your ships is
damaged, damage is applied as usual from
your opponent’s Battle Bridge side deck (or
rotation damage if he has no side deck).
See battle – ship.
infiltration icon
– Your personnel who has a
diamond shaped infiltration icon may
infiltrate your opponent’s cards, if your
opponent is playing that affiliation, in one
of two ways:
• It may report to your opponent’s side
of the table, to a compatible facility
(regardless of quadrant); or
• It may report for duty normally, and
infiltrate later in the game, during
either player’s turn, if present with an
opponent’s crew or Away Team
compatible with that affiliation.
If your opponent is not playing that
affiliation, you may not infiltrate his cards
with that personnel. See playing an
affiliation.
When your personnel starts infiltrating, its
affiliation changes to match that of the
infiltration icon and it becomes an
infiltrator.
• The infiltrator is part of your
opponent’s crew or Away Team, but is
still under your control. For example,
your opponent may not treat the
infiltrator as “his personnel” to benefit
from his hand weapons. (Your
infiltrator may not take your
equipment into your opponent’s Away
Team.)
• Your opponent may not treat your
Infiltrator as an intruder (e.g., his
cards cannot initiate battle against
your infiltrator, and vice versa).
However, you may treat your
infiltrator as an intruder for cards such
as The Walls Have Ears.
• Whenever any of the opponent’s
personnel present take any action
(e.g., beam, attempt a mission, initiate
a personnel battle), your infiltrator
may choose whether or not to
participate (or to contribute to ship