Crisis ( The Dominion)
The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E faced concurrent problems in 2063. The Borg required Picard's attention while Riker and the away team worked with Cochrane on Earth.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
To get past requires Leadership (or and icons) in Away Team and an OFFICER-classification personnel (or 2 Borg) aboard your ship at this location.
Characteristics: wall dilemma.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Denevan Neural Parasites ( Mirror, Mirror)
Deadly flying parasites decimated the populations of Levinius V, Theta Cygni XII, Ingraham B, and finally Deneva, where they killed George Samuel Kirk and his wife, Aurelan.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
Attacks half of Away Team (random selection, round up). You may protect one selected personnel for each phaser, disruptor, or unselected Borg present; others are killed.
Characteristics: killer dilemma.
Requires: disruptor, phaser, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Hate Crime ( Deep Space Nine)
Outraged by a crime on Deep Space 9, Bajorans defaced Odo's security office. The xenophobic vandals were quick to judge the "shifter" simply because he was different.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Special icons:
Place on a non-Borg personnel who is the only member of its species present (opponent's choice). That personnel may not use any of its skills.
Characteristics: Countdown icon dilemma, murder OR crime -related dilemma.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Hero Worship ( The Motion Pictures)
"Doctor Cochrane, I know this sounds silly, but can I shake your hand?"
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
"Stops non-Borg crew or Away Team members with the most and fewest icons. (In case of ties, "stops" all tied personnel.)"
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Invasive Procedures ( The Borg)
Srivani researchers covertly boarded U.S.S. Voyager in 2374. Using a phase variance to avoid detection, they performed invasive, and sometimes fatal, medical tests on the crew.
Dilemma - Space dilemma
Special icons:
Unless a Borg OR MEDICAL, CUNNING > 35, and a phaser or disruptor present, place on ship; quarantined. Each crew member loses first-listed skill and is attributes all -2.
Characteristics: Countdown icon dilemma, place on ship.
Requires: disruptor, phaser, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Kazon Bomb ( Voyager)
Tierna's "rescue" by the Voyager crew was part of an elaborate ruse. The Kazon was on a suicide mission, carrying a chemical injection that would convert his blood into a powerful explosive.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Unless 3 SECURITY and CUNNING > 35 OR 2 SECURITY and any tricorder OR 3 Borg present, kills all personnel present who have printed STRENGTH < 7. Discard dilemma.
Characteristics: killer dilemma.
Requires: Tricorder, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Mission Fatigue ( The Dominion)
When under extreme stress, even highly trained veterans can experience lapses in judgment. Miles O'Brien and Worf fought each other while they were besieged by Jem'Hadar in 2373.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Special icons:
Unless Empathy and Leadership present, place atop mission. Each subsequent dilemma or Q-Flash seeded here first "stops" one non-Borg personnel present (random selection).
Characteristics: Countdown icon dilemma, place atop mission.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
New Essentialists ( Blaze of Glory)
The New Essentialists Movement asserts that decadence and complacency are eroding the foundations of the Federation. Worf was temporarily swayed by this group while on Risa.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
Unless INTEGRITY > 40 and 2 Honor OR CUNNING > 40 and 2 Treachery present, place one non-Borg Away Team member (random selection) atop draw deck. Nullify with Jamaharon.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Primitive Culture ( First Contact)
First contact requires caution, subterfuge or force. Solkar's historic visit to Earth was peaceful, but Federation/Klingon contact in 2218 would ignite a century of hostilities.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
To get past, requires 3 Vulcan OR Anthropology and CIVILIAN OR Vorta and 4 Jem'Hadar OR 2 Tal Shiar OR 2 Obsidian Order OR Arquisition and 2 Greed OR 6 Klingons OR 4 Borg.
Characteristics: wall dilemma.
Requires: affiliation, Intelligance - Tal Shiar, Intelligence - Obsidian Order, Borg species, Jem'Hadar species, Klingon species, Vorta species, Vulcan species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
The Weak Will Perish ( The Borg)
During brief telepathic connections, Kes learned the purpose of Species 8472's invasion of the Delta Quadrant. As the Borg discovered, they were quite capable of carrying out their threats.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Kills five ❖ Borg drones present (random selection) and each personnel present who has printed STRENGTH < 5. (Immune to Adapt: Negate Obstruction.)
Characteristics: Species 8472-related dilemma, killer dilemma.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Topological Anomaly 4747 ( Straight and Steady)
Invasive program created in 2368 by Data and Geordi La Forge to cause the total system failure of the Borg Collective.
Dilemma - Space dilemma
Special icons:
Borg and personnel, androids, and one ENGINEER here (random selection) are placed in stasis. Cure on your next turn with new SCIENCE arriving or when countdown expires.
Characteristics: Countdown icon dilemma.
Requires: Android "species", Borg species, Hologram "species".
Card logging info: Logged by Roga Danar at Oct 27th, 2010 (Q1 by KlimDokachin at Nov 5th, 2010 & Q2 by Telak at Nov 7th, 2010)
Transwarp Network Gateway ( First Contact)
Doorway
Special icons:
Seed one during facility phase on any spaceline end OR play on any spaceline location where you have a Borg. Any player may play a Transwarp Conduit (or another copy of this doorway) to allow moving any or all of that player’s ships from this Transwarp Network Gateway to another. OR Downloads Transwarp Conduit (discard doorway).
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: Outpost, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Borg Data Node ( The Borg)
Borg information storage unit containing assimilation logistics, sensor telemetry, and vessel movements. Voyager salvaged these from the wreckage of a destroyed probe in 2375.
If present with a Borg, once each turn, may download one Adapt card to hand OR glance for 10 seconds at crew of any one ship or top card of any player's draw deck.
Requires: Adapt, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Borg Vinculum ( The Borg)
Functions: Process and disseminate information relevant to the collective. Establish transneural connections between drones. Purge individuality; bring order to chaos.
Equipment
Special icons:
If your Borg present, all your Borg at this location present with a Borg share regular skills (each has every such skill at highest level). (Immune to Disruptor Overload.)
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Activate Subcommands ( First Contact)
The Borg have huge numbers of available drones which normally perform internal functions for the collective. When a task is pending, some of these drones are activated.
Event
Special icons:
Downloads one Borg drone, one Borg drone, and one Borg drone. Discard event and draw no cards this turn.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Cranial Transceiver Implant ( The Borg)
Borg implant that interprets and logs all instructions sent to a drone. Operates on an array of transpectral frequencies capable of transmission across hundreds of light-years.
Event
Special icons:
Plays on your drone; it is CUNNING +2. If a Borg, once each turn, you may download any objective OR discard your current objective.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Ocular Implants ( First Contact)
In 2371, Geordi La Forge received implants allowing him to see without his Visor. They include enhanced capabilities such as infrared and zoom focus over 500 meters.
Plays on your Borg, android or any Geordi. Once each turn where present, may glance for 10 seconds on either one Away Team OR botton seed card of mission.
Requires: affiliation, any Geordi, Android "species", Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Starting Over ( Homefront IV)
Kathryn Janeway offered the disconnected drone Seven of Nine a new life free from the Borg Collective and the chance to rediscover her humanity as Annika Hansen.
Discard your hand, then draw the same number of cards. If you have a Borg personnel in play, draw two extra cards. (No draws may be converted to downloads.) Discard event.
Characteristics: manipulate your hand.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at May 30th, 2014. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
Starting Over ( Captain's Log - ST1E compatible)
"I'm offering you freedom from the Collective, and I assure you we'll do everything we can to help the transition."
Count the number of cards in your hand and discard your hand to draw an equal number of cards. Then, if you command a Borg personnel, draw two additional cards. Destroy this event.
Characteristics: manipulate your hand, additional card draws.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
The Line Must Be Drawn Here ( First Contact)
"...And I will make them PAY for what they've done!"
Event
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. Any player who plays Amanda Rogers, Kevin Uxbridge or Q2 loses 5 points, even if playing Borg. (Cumulative. Immune to Kevin Uxbridge.)
Textual description about -5 bonus points (either player score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: bonus points.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
"We Are the Metrons" ( Cold Front)
Having pursued their Gorn adversaries into Metron-controlled space, the crew of the Starship Enterprise was forced to resolve their conflict on the Metrons' terms.
Seeds on your mission. If each of your missions has exactly one affiliation icon and all match, all non- cards at this mission have attack restrictions of that affiliation.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Jul 29th, 2018. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
❖ Borg Outpost ( First Contact)
TASK: Construct Borg vessels. Disseminate acquired resources. Parameter designation Delta Quadrant.
Borg Facility - Outpost
Special icons:
SHIELDS: 48
Seed one at any mission with no affiliation icons OR build at such a mission (or at an assimilated planet) where you have a Borg ENGINEER. Transwarp Network Gateway.
Characteristics: Outpost, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Add Distinctiveness ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. X varies, where X = number of icons on personnel you've assimilated as drones. Also, if you are behind by 40 or more points, once per game you may open a sealed First Contact expansion pack. Play or place in hand any or all non-seed cards in that pack (non-Borg cards are assimilated or stolen, as appropriated), then place the others out-of-play.
Point-Box on card: X bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Bodyguards ( Rules of Acquisition)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. At start of any personnel battle, each of your bodyguards and leaders who has SECURITY in that battle may exclude from battle one of your V.I.P. or CIVILIAN personnel. If you have a non-Borg Leadership personnel or a drone remaining in the battle, instead of shuffling your combat pile you may pre-arrange the order in which your personnel will fight. Discard incident.
Requires: Bodyguard, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Cortical Node Implant ( The Borg)
Plays on your Borg. If a Borg, once each turn, may "transfer data" if present with a Borg Data Node: draw one card (may not be converted to a download). Also, each of your Borg with a Cortical Node Implant may, once every turn, suspend play to "regulate implants": subtract 2 from any attribute and add 2 to any other attribute until end of turn.
Characteristics: additional card draws.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Followers of the One ( The Sky's the Limit)
Incident
Special icons:
Plays on Varria III. androids and Borg cards may report to planet or in orbit; once each turn The One (or a personnel with his name in lore) may do so for free. Your androids and Borg may beam through shields of an opponent's ship at the same mission as your Borg ship, but may only battle once that turn. Your Borg are immune to Reactor Overload.
Characteristics: Beaming, play for free / report for free, -icon.
Requires: "affiliation", "The One"-related personnel, Android "species", Borg species, Borg ship.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at May 12th, 2014. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
Population 9 Billion - All Borg ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. If your Borg have completed Stop First Contact (or Build Interplexing Beacon), place incident on Earth; you may download a Borg Outpost there. Your cards may subsequently report on Earth or to that outpost; and your subsequently completed objectives targeting missions in the Alpha Quadrant score double points.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: Outpost, affiliation, Earth, Mission, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Resistance is Futile ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
Incident
Special icons:
Plays on your completed Establish Gateway, Assimilate Planet, or Salvage Starship objective. Increases objective's points by 10 while your Borg is at that location. OR Plays on opponent's Q's Planet. The 40 additional points it requires are irrelevant to your Borg while your Borg is at that location. OR Seeds or plays on table. Your Borg may report directly to your Borg spheres.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species, Borg spheres.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Service The Collective ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. Whenever your current objective targets either a homeworld OR your mission that has an affiliation icon matching your counterpart there, your Borg are not restricted from probing on same turn they complete scouting. Also, while a personnel you've assimilated as a counterpart is on your ship, that ship is WEAPONS and SHIELDS +4 against counterpart's former affiliation(s).
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Homeworld, Counterpart, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Sphere Encounter ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. Each of your Borg spheres is RANGE +4. Also, whenever opponent initiates an attempt of one of your missions that you have scouted, you may report with crew to that location any number of Borg spheres (downloading spheres, personnel and equipment as desired); each may initiate battle (regardless of your current objective) or move away.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species, Borg spheres.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
They Will Be Coming ( Engage)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds during facility phase on spaceline end (on far end from Earth, if possible); may download one ship here. Once each turn, you may report a ❖ Borg to your ship for free. Nullified if you seeded any non-Alpha Quadrant mission. (Unique.)
Characteristics: affiliation, play for free / report for free.
Requires: affiliation, Earth, Borg species.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Nov 5th, 2012. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
Adapt: Modulate Shields ( First Contact)
Borg quickly adopt countermeasures, such as drone energy shields, to foil any new weapon used against them. Remodulating an energy weapon helps only briefly.
Interrupt
Special icons:
Plays and remains on a phaser or disruptor just used to stun or mortally wound one of your Borg. Your Borg are immune to all weapons with that exact card title.
Characteristics: Adapt, affiliation.
Requires: disruptor, phaser, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Adapt: Negate Obstruction ( First Contact)
The first experience of a hazard can be as dangerous to a Borg drone as to anyone. However, the Borg soon adapt learn how to nullify it.
Interrupt
Special icons:
Nullifies a dilemma (except a Q-related dilemma) just encountred by your Borg if your Borg encountered that dilemma (or a copy) on a previous turn.
Characteristics: Adapt, affiliation.
Requires: Q-related dilemma, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Last edited by Telak at Mar 4th, 2012. One quality log by eberlems at Jun 10th, 2012. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card a second time!
Alas, Poor Queen ( First Contact)
Like all cybernetic life forms, the Borg cannot survive without their organic components. Loss of the Queen brings chaos to order.
Plays if Borg Queen (or Bluegill Queen) was just killed. All Borg (or Bluegills) in play of same player also die (Immune to Amanda Rogers.) OR Nullifies Regenerate.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
He Will Make an Excellent Drone ( First Contact)
Having apparently seduced a new counterpart to join the collective with temptations of flesh, the Queen had no further use for her old "equal."
Interrupt
Special icons:
Converts your counterpart to a drone. (Discard any Assimilate Counterpart objective placed on that Borg.)
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Counterpart, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Nanoprobe Resuscitation ( Voyager)
Seven of Nine used a Borg procedure to resuscitate Neelix in 2374, nearly nineteen hours after his death. The Collective has restored drones after almost four times that duration.
Plays once every turn to return top card of your discard pile to hand. If it is a Personnel card and you have any Borg in play, you may report it to that Borg's location.
Characteristics: manipulate your discard pile.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
The First of Many ( Nessesary Evil - ST1E compatible)
Like information and technology, Borg drones themselves are simply another resource at the Collective's disposal - and the least limited of all of them.
When your Borg is stopped while attempting a mission, discard the top card of your deck to unstop one of your other stopped Borg present. The Borg you unstop joins the mission attempt.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
Hunt Alien ( The Borg)
Uncharted asteroid belt: Stalk and kill wounded member of Species 8472.
Mission - Planet
Mission located in Delta-Quadrant with span: 3 and points: 30.
Requirements: Anthropology + Exobiology + Leadership + (STRENGTH > 40 OR Borg Nanoprobes)
Affiliations:
Characteristics: Mission.
Requires: Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilate Counterpart ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table. Target an opponet's unique male personnel. Your Borg may beam to and battle target's crew or Away Team. One of your Borg who engages target in combat may abduct target. If target is occupying a Assimilation Table, you may probe: , , : Assimilated as a counterpart. Place on target. Worth 5 points per icon while objective an target.
Textual description about 5X bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: Beaming, affiliation, bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Counterpart, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilate Homeworld ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table. Target both an unassimilated homeworld on spaceline an your matching counterpart. Your Borg may scout that homeworld. If your counterpart is at that spaceline location, you may probe:
: Assimilated. Place on homeworld. Cards of that affilation (except cards) may not report to any outpost for rest of game.
Point-Box on card: 40 bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points.
Requires: Outpost, affiliation, Homeworld, Counterpart, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilate Planet ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table. Target an unassimilated, non-homeworld planet mission with a point box showing at least 35 points. Your Borg may scount that planet. After scouting complete, if you have Borg at that location, you may probe:
, : Assimilated. Place on planet. May download one Objective card.
Point-Box on card: 25 bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilate Species ( The Borg)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table; target (name) a species. Your Borg may beam to and battle a crew or Away Team containing a personnel of that species, but may not mortally wound. At end of battle, immediately probe (draw probe card, discard objective):
: Distinctiveness added. If you won battle, and your Borg Nanoprobes or Assimilation Table present, all stunned personnel of target species present are assimilated.
Characteristics: Beaming, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilate Starship ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table. Target an opponent's ship. Your Borg may scout that ship. (Whenever no active Borg aboard target during your turn, you may beam one scout aboard.) After scouting complete, if your Borg have Computer Skill aboard that ship, you may probe:
, : Assimilated. Place on ship. May download one Objective card.
Characteristics: Beaming, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assume Identity ( Through the Looking Glass)
Objective
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. If an opponent's non-Borg ❖ personnel was just killed, place on your Founder (except Odo Founder) in same quadrant. Founder morphs to impersonate killed personnel. Founder's classification and staffing icon change to those of killed personnel. Founder gains infiltration icon(s) for killed personnel's affiliation(s). May morph back at any time (discard objective).
Characteristics: "Morph"-related cards.
Requires: Founder, Infiltrator, Borg species.
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Build Interplexing Beacon ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Suspends your Assimilate Homeworld targeting Earth, if your Stop First Contact was nullified. Target a ship. Your Borg may scout target. If your Borg are aboard target orbiting 2063 Earth, you may probe:
, : Transponder rods are now set in place.
: If transponder rods set, place on ship; Timeline disrupted in 2063 and suspended objective completed.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: "2063 Earth"-related cards, affiliation, Earth, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Divert Power ( Voyager)
Plays on table. At start of each of your turns, one of your ships with ENGINEER (or Borg) aboard may "transfer power" until start of your next turn; subtract 1 from two of its attributes and add 2 to the remaining attribute. OR Plays on your ship with ENGINEER (or Borg) and Computer Skill aboard. WEAPONS or SHIELDS are +4 until start of your next turn, then discard objective. (Captain's Order.)
Characteristics: "Captain's Order"related cards.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Eliminate Starship ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table. Target an opponent's Ship. Your Borg may battle that ship. If they destroy it in battle, immediately probe (draw probe card, discard objective):
: Wreckage. You may download Salvage Starship.
: Energy distortion. You may download Temporal Rift.
: Collateral damage. One other opposing ship present is damaged (random selection).
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Establish Gateway ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. Target a space mission with a point box, if not yet scouted. Your Borg may scout that location. After scouting complete, if you have Borg at that location, you may probe:
, : Sector cleared. Place on location. Download to here one Transwarp Network Gateway (if possible). May download one Objective card.
Point-Box on card: 25 bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Harness Particle 010 ( The Borg)
Objective
Special icons:
Plays on table. Target Omega Particle (download if needed; it is immune to Kevin Uxbridge) at your mission not yet scouted. Your Borg may scout that location. After scouting complete, if your staffed Borg cube there, you may probe:
, , : Perfection achieved. Place on location; discard Particle. Doubles point boxes of your subsequently completed objectives.
Point-Box on card: 30 bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species, Borg cube.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Let Me Help ( The Cage)
Seeds on table if you seeded at least 18 cards under opponent's missions. Love Interest dilemmas affect one additional personnel. On dilemmas with "male" or "female" in gametext (except Distraction), every printed number is increased by 1. Such dilemmas are considered Borg-related; ❖ personnel encountering them are considered male and female.
Requires: female-related dilemma, male-related dilemma, affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Jul 1st, 2019. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
Obsession ( The Cage)
Seeds on table; download a dilemma (except Borg Ship) and put it into play at a spaceline end (opponent's choice). Once each turn, your event that plays on a ship may play for free. When you destroy a card, score points equal to its RANGE + WEAPONS. Points scored from cards do not count towards Writ of Accountability. (Unique.)
Characteristics: play for free / report for free.
Requires: self-controlled, affiliation, Borg species, Borg ship.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Jul 1st, 2019. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
Salvage Starship ( First Contact)
Objective
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. Target a space mission with a point box where a opponent's ship was destroyed (or Wolf 359), if not yet scouted. Your Borg may scout that location. If you have Borg there, you may probe:
, : Place on target. May search opponent's discard pile for one ship to place underneath objective. Add its special equipment to all of your ships.
Point-Box on card: 30 bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: affiliation, manipulate opponent's discard pile, bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Wolf 359, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Borg Queen ( First Contact)
I am the beginning; the end; the one who is many. I am the Borg... I am the collective.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
When reports, selects any skill; may change skill at start of each turn. May downlaod A Change of Plans or a Borg drone in place of one card draw.
INTEGRITY: 6 CUNNING: 12 STRENGTH: 6
Borg Queen counts as "matching commander" for the following ships or facilities:
Characteristics: affiliation, Queen, Borg species, matching commander.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Computation Drone ( Call To Arms - ST1E compatible)
TASK: Evaluate analytical efficiency of Borg drones. Improve.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Keywords: Drone.
Navigation Programming
Each of your other Borg present is Cunning +1.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 6 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
❖ Eight of Nineteen ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Assault Drone
TASK: Supply enhanced combat apparatus.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS:Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
SECURITY Where present, your Borg are each STRENGTH +2. (Cumulative.)
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Eleven of Nineteen ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Bio-Med Drone
TASK: Reabsorb damaged biological components.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Biology MEDICAL Once every turn where present, may "reasorb" (place beneath draw deck) another of your Borg just killed.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
First ( The Borg)
Immature, humanoid drone. Hostile and irrational. Self-designated leader of a group of neonatal drones activated prematurely by malfunctions aboard his cube.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Youth Treachery Navigation
Biology May initiate battle against intruders. Your Borg present are each STRENGTH +3 in battle.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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❖ Five of Eleven ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Cyber Drone
TASK: Analyze suspended animation principles.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Klingon species.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
SCIENCE Cybernetics Wherever Borg in same hive, may prevent your Borg from being placed in stasis.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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Mezoti ( The Borg)
Norcadian girl being raised on Voyager. Of the four Borg children rescued from a damaged cube, was quickest in reclaiming her individuality. Likes sculpting and bugs.
Non-aligned & Federation Personnel
Gender: female. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: CIVILIAN
Youth Computer Skill Biology
Once each turn, may "unstop" your Borg present.
INTEGRITY: 6 CUNNING: 7 STRENGTH: 4
List of "personas" for Mezoti:
Characteristics: affiliation, "affiliation", Brothers and sisters, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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❖ Morik ( The Sky's the Limit)
One of many Borg disconnected from the Collective who became loyal to The One. Guarded the Federation prisoners but was easily tricked by them.
Non-aligned Personnel
Gender: male. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Classification: ENGINEER
Anthropology Transporter Skill Geology
X=number of different Borg present (limit 6).
INTEGRITY: 4 CUNNING: 4+X STRENGTH: 4+X
Characteristics: "Continuing Mission"-related cards, "affiliation", "The One"-related personnel, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, "affiliation", Borg species.
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❖ Nine of Eleven ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Interlink Drone
TASK: Expedite aptitude dissemination. Enhance.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS:Cardassian species.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Allows all Borg in this hive present with a Borg to share skills. Each such Borg has every shared skill in his highest level.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Nine of Fifteen ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: ISOTOPE DRONE
TASK: Study Particle 010. Disseminate findings.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
SCIENCE Physics Astrophysics
If you have completed Harness Particle 010, all your Borg in play are each attributes all +2. (Cumulative.)
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 7 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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❖ Nine of Seventeen ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Multiplexor Drone
TASK: Monitor multiple threat acquisition. Target.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Human species.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
When on your ship during battle, that ship may use total WEAPONS against X different targets, where X=number of Borg aboard.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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One ( The Borg)
Futuristic Borg created when The Doctor's holo-emitter accidentally fused with nanoprobes. His unique systems include reactive body armor and internal transporters.
Non-aligned Personnel
Gender: male. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: SCIENCE
Youth May beam himself through any SHIELDS. Shares all regular skills from all Borg at this location.
INTEGRITY: 8 CUNNING: 6 STRENGTH: 10
Characteristics: Beaming, "affiliation", Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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Reclamation Drone ( Call To Arms - ST1E compatible)
TASK: Recover cybernetic components from non-functional Borg drones. Redistribute.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Keywords: Drone.
Engineer Medical
When your Borg present is about to be killed by a dilemma, you may stop your other Drone present to place that Borg on top of his or her owner's deck instead.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Riley Frazier ( The Borg)
Human science officer of U.S.S. Roosevelt. Assimilated as a Borg at Wolf 359. Freed a year later when her ship was damaged. Romantically involved with Chakotay.
Non-aligned & Federation Personnel
Gender: male. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: SCIENCE
Computer Skill Astrophysics Geology
Your other Borg present are each CUNNING +2.
INTEGRITY: 6 CUNNING: 8 STRENGTH: 5
Riley Frazier counts as "romantic partner" for the following personnel cards:
Characteristics: affiliation, "affiliation", Borg species, romantic partner.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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• Second, Neonatal Drone ( Captain's Log - ST1E compatible)
Task: Irrelevant. Drone abandoned by the Collective after its ship was disabled by an unknown pathogen.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Keywords: Drone.
Exobiology Programming Science
When your unique Borg present is about to be stopped, you may discard a random card from hand and stop this personnel to prevent that.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
List of "personas" for Second, Neonatal Drone:
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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❖ Six of Twelve ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: SENTINEL DRONE
TASK: Assess defensive measures. Classify. Overcome.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
SECURITY Where present, your Borg are each CUNNING and STRENGTH +1. (Cumulative.)
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
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Third of Five ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
Identification: Tactic Drone
Task: Survey. Compile tactical data. Encode. Report.
Biological Distinctiveness: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Classification: none
Geology Stellar Cartography Biology
If on your Borg Scout Vessel, it is attributes all +2 (+4 in Alpha Quadrant). Hugh
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 7 STRENGTH: 5
List of "personas" for Third of Five:
Characteristics: "Continuing Mission"-related cards, affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Mission, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Two of Seventeen ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Unity Drone
TASK: Study biological organisms. Analyze. Correlate.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Anthropology Your Borg present with any Borg in this hive may add their CUNNING to total wherever there is another Borg in same hive.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Risky Business ( Deep Space Nine)
Remember that bug bite?... The galaxy can be a dangerous place when you're on your own.
Q-Card - Dilemma
If only one personnel in crew or Away Team, that personnel dies (erased if ); seed dilemma beneath mission to be encountered again. Otherwise, if you have any one-person crews or Away Teams anywhere in play, choose one of them to die OR lose points. (Dilemma does not affect Borg.)
Point-Box on card: -5 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
Characteristics: Q-related dilemma, bonus points.
Requires: Borg species, Hologram "species".
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U.S.S. Enterprise-E ( 20th Anniversary Collection)
IDENTIFICATION: Federation Sovereign-class
TASK: Prevent first contact between humans and Vulcans in 2063. Borg Queen commands.
Borg Ship - Sovereign Class
Staffing requirements:
Ship Equipment: Holodeck , Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): May report to Earth.
Point-Box on card: 0 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 10 WEAPONS: 9 SHIELDS: 10
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for U.S.S. Enterprise-E:
Characteristics: affiliation, any "Enterprise", bonus points, Sovereign Class, Holodeck, Tractor Beam, Borg ship.
Requires: affiliation, Earth, Borg species.
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Primary Energy Weapon ( Blaze of Glory)
Tactic
Attack value: 1 Defense value: 2
ATTACK bonus +2 if you have a Borg ship firing.
Hit = Direct hit =
Casualties: randomly kills one personnel (on a Nor, one personnel at site of opponent's choice).
RANGE: -1 WEAPONS: -2 SHIELDS: -2 HULL: -30 %
Requires: affiliation, Borg species, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Montana Missile Complex ( First Contact)
Historic Time of Earth first warp flight and contact with extraterrestrials.
Time-Location 2063 Earth
Plays on table. Seed Phoenix beneath this location from outside the game (any Zefram Cochrane may acquire it later); Borg player may download Stop First Contact. Once Phoenix has taken off or Vulcan Lander has landed here, nullifies Stop First Contact. Native to this timeline: Zefram Cochrane, Lily Sloane, Phoenix, Vulcan Lander, Solkar, Sevek, T'Shonra and Kathleen Tonell.
List of "personas" for Montana Missile Complex:
Characteristics: "2063 Earth"-related cards.
Requires: affiliation, any Zefram Cochrane, Borg species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Museum of Kyrian Heritage ( Metamorphosis)
Time-Location 3074 Kyrian-Vaskan planet
Special icons:
Exhibition of ancient artifacts and historical recreations.
Seeds on table during facility phase; any player who did not seed Ocampa planet may download a non-Borg ship here and/or Holoprogram: The Voyager Encounter. Native to this timeline: all cards with "31st-century" in lore. Once each turn, one such card reporting at this location may report for free.
Characteristics: play for free / report for free.
Requires: Holoprogram, Mission, Borg species, Ocampa species.
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