Another round of dream cards for the Star Trek Collectible Card Game,
resurrected from the late 90s and given graphics for the first time.
Slowly, but surely, getting out from under the word "alpha"...
THE ENTRIES:
[111] alpha search pattern
[112] alpha-currant nectar
[113] alpha-wave inducer
[114] Alrik, Chancellor
[115] Alsaurian resistance movement
[111]
A redshirting wet dream. This destroys any combos, but you stand to
lose a number of personnel in doing so. When an Away Team encounters an
Artifact or other non-dilemma card, it is safe and may proceed to the
mission attempt. Source: "Basics, Part I"
[112] Its Gamma Quadrant icon necessitated a way to bring it to the Alpha Quadrant. Source: "Move Along Home"
[113]
A balanced way to counter Nightmare, I think. The rub is: you have to
have cards already under Nightmare to play the counter, and once the
counter is played, those cards likely won't come out unless you drain
your hand somehow. Now, this entry refers to something a character says
in DS9's "The Passenger", but I went with an image of the
commercially-available Star Trek White Noise Machine. So I didn't credit
any series.
[114] A number of points to discuss. 1) I aligned Alrik
with the Klingons because, according to "The Mind's Eye", Valt Minor and
Krios lie in the Klingon Empire (plus, he gives us another Chancellor
to report to The Great Hall!). 2) His immunity means that he is excluded
from such random selections. Source: "The Perfect Mate"
[115] Source: "Resistance"
And now: Let's go to the Altair system...
THE ENTRIES:
[116] Alsia
[117] Altair III
[118] Altair IV
[119] Altairian Conference
[120] Altarian encephalitis
NOTES:
[116]
It would have taken forever, but had I gotten past the letter M, the
Vlugta asteroid belt would have gotten a mission. Alas. Source: "Rivals"
[117]
This is the planet where Riker didn't allow Captain DeSoto to beam down
(the reason why Picard chose Will as his #1). Referenced in TNG's
"Encounter at Farpoint"
[118] Clarification: the one personnel may
have more than two levels of MEDICAL. The Carrington Award is featured
in AtoZ. Source: DS9's "Prophet Motive"
[119] I placed the conference
at Altair VI since a) it is obviously on one of the Altair worlds and
b) it is part of Star Trek canon (mentioned in "Amok Time" and The Wrath
of Khan). There is no canonical reason to place it at this location,
except not to make it one of the other named planets in the system. The
game text uses what happened in TNG's "Conspiracy" later, as this was
just where Rixx and Picard met prior to the events of the episode.
[120]
On the second function: an "earlier" persona is one that has an earlier
copyright notice. Thus, FC Picard could become Galen, Locutus or
Premiere. If persona in play is the earliest possible, this card may not
be played on it for this effect. When the same date appears (the two
Garaks, for example), you may replace one with the other. Source:
"Future Imperfect"
We keep doing it all. Or "Al____", at any rate...
THE ENTRIES:
[121] Altec
[122] "Alter Ego"
[123] Alterian chowder
[124] "Alternate, The" (no card required)
[125] Altine Conference
NOTES:
[121] The mission for Straleb will be called Prevent Secret Marriage. Hehehe. I guess I didn't want to create Regions if I didn't have to. Source: TNG's "The Outrageous Okona"
[122] A Holodeck could be disabled through some as-yet unseen card or Vole Infestation. The image had to come from "Alter Ego", even though, in retrospect, Janeway's affair with a citizen of Fair Haven would have been better. Or Geordi with faux-Brahms. Hm, this happens a lot, doesn't it?
[123] It DOES count for dilemma, interrupt, event, etc. resolution, however. Examples of uses: Turn Mendon into a Klingon and Death Yell him; turn Sela into a Bajoran and boost her INTEGRITY thanks to opponent's Emissary; turn Mogh into a Cardassian and have him pass unharmed through a (space-seeded) Cardassian Trap, etc. Sisko ordered, but never got, this meal in "Armageddon Game". The pic is what you get when you ask Google for "alien chowder".
[124] Already exists as the dilemma Berzerk Changeling (The Dominion expansion).
[125] Source: "Suspicions"
Next: When in doubt, say something is "Alvanian"...
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