Borg Servo ( First Contact)
Borg nanotechnological servomechanism. Can remain dormant and undetected until activated. Typical first evidence of assimilation. Rapidly takes over its victim.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Special icons:
Unless Cybernetics and MEDICAL present, opponent (if playing Borg) assimilates one personnel (random selection). Discard dilemma.
Characteristics: assimilate dilemma, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Contingency Plan ( Resistance is Futile!)
As their cube and then their sphere were destroyed, the Borg adapted to the changing situation, single-minded, implacably persistent.
Dilemma - Space dilemma
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Place on ship; cannot be attacked by or returned to hand. Opponent may download A Change of Plans. Assimilate Starship targeting this ship is worth 35 points.
Characteristics: assimilate dilemma, place on ship, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by Roga Danar at Nov 27th, 2011 (Q1 by Telak at Nov 27th, 2011 & Q2 by propaghandi at Nov 29th, 2011)
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.
Defrosted Menace ( Broken Bow)
Preserved in the Arctic ice for 90 years, two cybernetic bodies posed more of a threat than initially suspected.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
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Unless 2 Biology, 2 Archaeology, and 2 SCIENCE present, place on mission. Now and start of every player's turn, their opponent (if playing Borg) assimilates their lowest CUNNING personnel here.
Characteristics: Countdown icon dilemma, assimilate dilemma, place atop mission, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation.
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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.
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
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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.
Lack of Preparation ( First Contact)
An Away Team that is unprepared to complete its mission will undoubtedly experience delays. Mission progress may be impossible until additional personnel arrive.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Non-Borg: Cannont get past (lose 10 points) unless you could have met mission requirements at start of attempt. Borg: Must have one , and personnel to proceed.
Requires: affiliation.
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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.
Under Fire ( Blaze of Glory)
While on a medical mission to Ajilon Prime in 2373, Julian Bashir found himself in the middle of a live combat situation.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
Immediately probe (then place probe card atop draw deck):
, , , : Kills two personnel (random selection).
Otherwise: "Stops" one personnel (random selection).
Characteristics: killer dilemma.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Launch Portal ( First Contact)
Suspends play while you do any or all of the following: download Engage Shuttle Operations or Escape Pod; download (once per game) a scout ship, shuttle or Borg Sphere to your ship with Tractor Beam; and (except during a mission attempt) launch any or all of your carried ships with crew. Discard, or place on Engage Shuttle Operations to protect it from nullification and extend its effects to scout ships.
Requires: affiliation, Tractor Beam, Borg spheres, Scout, Shuttlecraft.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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
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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.
Satan's Robot ( Holodeck Adventures)
Robotic minion of Chaotica. Warns of invaders and deals with intruders. Nearly conquered the world in the final chapter of one of The Adventures of Captain Proton.
Participates in battle like a personnel; has NO STRENGTH vs. a Borg or android adversary, otherwise STRENGTH=8. May capture any female or adversary it stuns. (Unique.)
Characteristics: "Chaotica"-related cards, Capture.
Requires: affiliation, Android "species", Hologram "species".
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
33rd Rule of Acquisition ( Rules of Acquisition)
"It never hurts to suck up to the boss."
Event
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Plays on your Greed personnel at a mission or objective opponent completed. Compliment opponent's score. If they say "thank you", score points. If not, draw up to four cards. Discard event. (Limit two per location.)
Point-Box on card: 5 bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: Rule, bonus points, -icon.
Requires: affiliation.
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
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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.
Adapt: Allocate Resources ( Resistance is Futile!)
The Borg hive mind allows assets to be quickly reassigned, bringing the entire Collective closer to perfection.
Event
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Plays on table. In place of your normal card play, you may discard this event to download any Event or Interrupt card.
Characteristics: Adapt, affiliation.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by Roga Danar at Nov 27th, 2011 (Q1 by Telak at Nov 27th, 2011 & Q2 by propaghandi at Nov 30th, 2011)
Alas, Poor Drone ( The Borg)
The Borg Queen searched tenaciously for the interlink frequency connecting the errant drones of Unimatrix Zero. Analyzing those she had discovered brought her closer to finding them all.
Event
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Plays on table. Once each turn, you may discard a or drone from hand or in play to draw one card (or two if drone was present with your Borg Queen).
Characteristics: affiliation, additional card draws.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilation Technique ( To Boldly Go - ST1E compatible)
"The previous tenant."
Replicate - Discard a card from hand. (You may discard a card from hand when you play this event. If you do, put this event in your hand instead of destroying it.) To play this event, you must command three personnel. Download an interrupt. Destroy this event.
Characteristics: manipulate your hand.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
Changed History ( Reflections II - ST1E compatible)
"They mush have done it in the past. They went back and assimilated Earth."
Temporal. Plays in your core. When you win an engagement involving your ship, you may reveal the top card of the loser's deck. If it is a personnel you do not command, you may place him or her on that ship. (You now command that personnel).
Characteristics: Temporal event.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
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
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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.
Regenerate ( First Contact)
The Borg use neural energy to collectively repair damaged biological and technological components. The Queen often serves as the focal point.
Plays to fully repair and "stop" any Borg Ship dilemma or Borg ship (nullifying any cards reducing its attributes) OR to shuffle your discard pile into your draw deck. Discard event.
Characteristics: manipulate your discard pile.
Requires: affiliation, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Retask ( First Contact)
Even a Borg cube ship can lose contact with the collective and begin marauding through space. Proper protocol re-establishment reintegrates it into the collective.
Event
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Download one ❖ Borg Cube and seven drones ( , , , , , , ) to replace any Borg Ship dilemma in play. Discard event and dilemma. Draw no card this turn.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg cube.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
We Are The Borg ( Enhanced First Contact)
"Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
Downloads two drones; discard event. OR Plays on table. Each turn, report on of your cards for free or make an additional end-of-turn draw (immune to Kevin Uxbridge).
Characteristics: play for free / report for free.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
You Have a Disease ( These are the Voyages - ST1E compatible)
"We want to cure you, but we need a better way to identify those with the mutation. Our testing method is too slow."
Plays in your core. When your unique personnel uses a skill to meet a requirement on a dilemma or mission, you may choose an opponent to discard a card from hand. Then you may draw a card for each headquarters mission that opponent commands. You may do this only once each turn.
Characteristics: additional card draws.
Requires: Headquarters, affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
❖ 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.
Unicomplex ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: BORG UNICOMPLEXTASK: Centralize all collective operations. Coordinate.
Borg Facility - Outpost
SHIELDS: no stateme
Seeds or plays at any mission with no affiliation icons. Once each turn, Borg Queen OR one unique drone OR one unique ship may report for free here.
Characteristics: Outpost, affiliation, play for free / report for free.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Add Distinctiveness ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
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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.
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.
Intruder Alert! ( Blaze of Glory)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table; nullifies all seeded Memory Wipe cards. At any time, you may capture a one- or two-person Away Team in your Ops or assimilate one personnel intruder on your Borg ship or facility if your Talon Drone is present (discard incident) OR download Intruder Force Field (place incident atop event to protect it from nullification and extend its effects to all intruders on your ships).
Characteristics: Capture.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Long Live the Queen ( Blaze of Glory)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table. Reveal (then discard) incident to do one of the following: If your Borg Queenwas just killed, download another Borg Queen. OR Prevent your Borg Queen present with your drone from being captured (drone is captured instead). OR Suspend any Regenerate while you place out-of-play from targeted discard pile up to six cards without a or icon.
Characteristics: Capture.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Population 9 Billion - All Borg ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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A Change of Plans ( First Contact)
Sensing that her plans for the interplexing beacon had been thwarted, the Borg Queen immediately implemented a new goal for the hive.
Interrupt
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Plays to do any or all of the following: discard your current objective; return it to your hand if you have Borg Queen in play; and download one Objective card.
Characteristics: affiliation, manipulate your hand.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
Anti-Matter Spread ( Alternate Universe)
Using harmless anti-matter explosions in a pyrotechnic display, acting-captain William Riker implemented a "brilliantly unorthodox" plan to confuse the Borg in battle.
Plays at start of Ship Battle. For this battle, opposing ship's WEAPONS -1 for each personnel aboard with CUNNING < 8 OR Borg Ship WEAPONS = 16 this turn.
Requires: affiliation, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Changeling Sweep ( All Good Things)
Changelings will be forced into a gelatinous state by a mid-level phaser stun. In 2372, special units were placed in many Starfleet facilities to ensure that empty rooms were in fact truly so.
Plays to "sweep" an opponent's discard pile: examine it and place any interrupt cards (except or cards) out-of-play.
Characteristics: manipulate opponent's discard pile.
Requires: affiliation.
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
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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.
Neural Transceiver ( These are the Voyages - ST1E compatible)
Communications devices integrated into all Borg allow the collective to operate seamlessly, even across large distances.
When one of your unique personnel is facing a dilemma, discard a card from the top of your deck to give him or her a skill that one of your personnel has until the end of the turn.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
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.
Three-Dimensional Thinking ( First Contact)
The Borg Queen was also on the first cube to attack Earth, even though all Borg on it were destroyed. 'You think in such three-dimensional terms. How small you've become.'
Interrupt
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Plays if you have Borg Queen or a counterpart aboard one of your ships beeing destroyed. Immediately relocate any or all crew to another of your ships in play.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Counterpart.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Investigate Incursion ( Official Tournament Sealed Deck)
Border of known space: Investigate reports of Borg presence in this sector.
Mission - Space
Mission located in Alpha-Quadrant with span: 4 and points: X.
Requirements: SECURITY + (Shelby OR Leadership + OFFICER x2)
Special Instructions: (Owner's end) X = 30 (45 if or card or Borg Ship dilemma here).
(Opponent's end) Your Borg ship may report with crew here.
Affiliations: Any crew may attempt mission.
Characteristics: Asymmetric mission, Mission.
Requires: affiliation, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Salvage Borg Ship ( The Next Generation)
Argolis Cluster Region • Small Moon: Study wreckage and crew member of lost scout.
Mission - Planet
Mission located in Alpha-Quadrant with span: 3 and points: 35*.
Region: Argolis Cluster.
Requirements: Astrophysics + ENGINEER + MEDICAL + Computer Skill
Special Instructions: * +10 if a card in play.
Affiliations:
List of "personas" for Salvage Borg Ship:
Characteristics: Argolis Cluster region, Asymmetric mission, Mission.
Requires: affiliation.
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Study Protonebula ( Holodeck Adventures)
Protonebula: Monitor emerging phenomenon and record the effects of its radiation on the crew.
Mission - Space
Mission located in Delta-Quadrant with span: 4 and points: 30.
Counts as Nebula.
Requirements: Astrophysics + Biology + Navigation x2
Special Instructions: (Owner's end) Once per game, you may download One to your ship here.
(Opponent's end) Once per game, you may download a objective.
Affiliations: Any crew may attempt mission.
Characteristics: Asymmetric mission, Nebula, Mission.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Assimilate Counterpart ( First Contact)
Objective
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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
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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
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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.
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.
Commandeer Ship ( Blaze of Glory)
Plays on your Computer Skill personnel who is aboard opponent's empty ship (except a Borg cube). That personnel commandeers ship and, while objective in play, may meet up to three of its staffing icons. OR Seeds or plays on table. Opponent may not return to hand any ship which has your personnel aboard as an intruder or infiltrator.
Requires: affiliation, Infiltrator.
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!
Post Garrison ( The Dominion)
Plays an any mission: Opponent may not attempt, scout or complete a objective targeting that mission, but may battle your cards at that location regardless of affiliation attack restrictions. If on a planet, objective nullified if you have fewer than three Jem'Hadar or SECURITY personnel on planet; otherwise, nullified if you have fewer than two staffed ships at that location.
Requires: affiliation, Jem'Hadar species.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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.
Borg Queen ( The Borg)
"We all originated from lesser species. I myself came from Species 125. But that's irrelevant now. We are Borg... Our thoughts are one... One order, one voice."
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: none
When reported, selects any skill; may change skill at start of each turn. May download any Event or Interrupt card in place of your normal card play.
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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Borg Queen ( Shades of Gray)
"Species 10026 is already adding to our perfection. You can feel their distinctiveness coursing through us, enhancing us."
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: none
Leadership Treachery When reported, selects any skill; may change skill at start of each turn.
Twice per game, may download We Are The Borg.
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.
Card logging info: Last lgged by Roga Danar at Apr 28th, 2011 (Q1 by eberlems at Jun 1st, 2011 & Q2 by Telak at Jun 6th, 2011)
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 Fifteen ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: ANTITOXIN DRONE
TASK: Analyze biological and chemical weapons. Adapt.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
MEDICAL Exobiology May download Borg Nanoprobes in place of your normal card play.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ 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.
❖ Eleven of Twelve ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: CONNECTIVITY DRONE
TASK: Monitor interlink aboard Borg vessels. Maintain.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Computer Skill ENGINEER Biology
May download Borg Vinculum here in place of a card draw.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Fifth ( The Borg)
Immature drone of Species 689, Norcadian; irrelevant designation: Mezoti. Detected Harry Kim's presence aboard her ship by the trail of playing cards he'd left.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Youth Computer Skill Biology
SECURITY Once each turn, may return to hand one of your Incident, Event, or Objective cards in play.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
List of "personas" for Fifth:
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation.
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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ 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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Four of Fifty ( Broken Bow)
Identification: Harvest Drone
Task: Identify targets in Sector 001.
Engage. Biological Distinctiveness: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Humanoid.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: none
SECURITY ENGINEER Exobiology
May download One with the Borg in place of a card draw. Orbital Bombardment OR Establish Tractor Lock
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, 22nd Century , Drone, Humaniod species.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Apr 2nd, 2017. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
Jean-Luc ( Resistance is Futile!)
Like Melville's fictional Captain Ahab, the former Borg Jean-Luc Picard burned with vengeance. Piled upon the Borg the sum of all his rage and hate.
Federation Personnel
Gender: male. Species: Human.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Classification: OFFICER
Leadership SECURITY Archaeology
X=4 vs. . Prepare Assault Teams (if with another ).
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 8 STRENGTH: 7+X
List of "personas" for Jean-Luc:
Characteristics: affiliation, Enterprise E , any Jean-Luc Picard, "Federation Flagship: Relaunched"-related personnel, Human species.
Requires: affiliation, Enterprise E .
Card logging info: Logged by Roga Danar at Nov 27th, 2011 (Q1 by Telak at Nov 27th, 2011 & Q2 by propaghandi at Nov 30th, 2011)
Jean-Luc Picard ( First Contact)
Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E. Once assimilated by the Borg. Became obsessed with their destruction. Still hears echoes of the collective.
Federation Personnel
Gender: male.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Classification: OFFICER
Leadership Navigation Diplomacy
Archaeology Sense the Borg. Make It So.
INTEGRITY: 8 CUNNING: 9 STRENGTH: 6
Jean-Luc Picard counts as "matching commander" for the following ships or facilities:
List of "infiltratos" for Jean-Luc Picard:
Jean-Luc Picard counts as "romantic partner" for the following personnel cards:
Characteristics: affiliation, Enterprise E , Captain, any Jean-Luc Picard, "Federation Flagship: Relaunched"-related personnel, matching commander, romantic partner.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Jean-Luc Picard ( Chain of Command)
Rescued Borg counterpart. After returning to his command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Picard developed a violent vendetta against the Borg.
Federation Personnel
Gender: male.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Classification: OFFICER
Leadership x2 Archaeology Navigation
While on your ship, WEAPONS and SHIELDS +4 against .
INTEGRITY: 8 CUNNING: 8 STRENGTH: 7
Jean-Luc Picard counts as "matching commander" for the following ships or facilities:
List of "infiltratos" for Jean-Luc Picard:
Jean-Luc Picard counts as "romantic partner" for the following personnel cards:
Characteristics: "Continuing Mission"-related cards, affiliation, Counterpart, any Jean-Luc Picard, "U.S.S. Enterprise"-related personnel, matching commander, romantic partner.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jun 8th, 2010.
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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ 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.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at May 1st, 2013. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
❖ 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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ 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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ One of Eleven ( First Contact)
INDENTIFICATION: Procurement Drone
TASK: Add technological distinctiveness to collective.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Bolian species.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
ENGINEER May "steal" unattended Equipment cards present. May download any one Equipment card in place of one card draw.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
• 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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
❖ 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.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Ten of Fifty ( Broken Bow)
Identification: Synergy Drone
Task: Recognize optimum performance. Coordinate.
Biological Distinctiveness: Human species.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Human.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: none
Cybernetics Attributes all +2 while sharing skills. Once each turn, may return to hand your non- Objective in play.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, 22nd Century , Drone, Human species.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Apr 2nd, 2017. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
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.
❖ Borg Cube ( First Contact)
TASK: Explore galaxy for biological and technological distinctiveness. Assimilate.
Borg Ship - Cube Class
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): Your equipment and Borg personnel may report aboard.
Point-Box on card: 45 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 8 WEAPONS: 24 SHIELDS: 24
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Tractor Beam, Borg ship, Borg cube, ❖ ship.
Requires: affiliation.
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❖ Borg Probe ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: BORG PROBE
TASK: Explore unimatrices at the borders of Borg space. Locate biological and technological distinctiveness.
Borg Ship - Borg Probe
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): May report with crew to any Delta Quadrant location (limit 3 cards aboard) if your Borg Queen in play.
Point-Box on card: 10 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 8 WEAPONS: 6 SHIELDS: 6
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Tractor Beam, Borg ship, ❖ ship.
Requires: affiliation, Mission.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Borg Queen's Ship ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: BORG QUEEN'S SHIP
TASK: Execute assignments under personal command of the Borg Queen.
Borg Ship - Borg Queen's Ship
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): May be fully staffed by Borg Queen. Your equipment and Borg personnel may report aboard.
Point-Box on card: 20 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 9 WEAPONS: 14 SHIELDS: 14
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Borg Queen's Ship:
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Tractor Beam, Borg ship.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Borg Sphere ( First Contact)
TASK: General purpose vessel. Provide contingency option when meeting resistance.
Borg Ship - Borg sphere
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Standard Equipment
Special skill(s): May be reported aboard, carried aboard and launched from any one of your Borg cubes.
Point-Box on card: 10 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 4 WEAPONS: 6 SHIELDS: 6
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Borg ship, Borg spheres, ❖ ship.
Requires: affiliation, Borg cube.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
❖ Borg Tactical Cube ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: CLASS-4 TACTICAL CUBE
TASK: Respond to incursions into Borg space. Eliminate resistance.
Borg Ship - Class-4 Tactical Cube
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): Your equipment and Borg personnel may report aboard (for free, once each turn, if a personnel).
Point-Box on card: 50 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 7 WEAPONS: 28 SHIELDS: 28
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Tractor Beam, Borg ship, Borg cube, ❖ ship.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Locutus' Borg Cube ( Blaze of Glory)
TASK: Eliminate resistance at location designation Wolf 359. Locutus of Borg commands.
Borg Ship - Cube Class
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): Your equipment and Borg personnel may report aboard. WEAPONS and SHIELDS +3 at Wolf 359.
Point-Box on card: 50 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 10 WEAPONS: 24 SHIELDS: 24
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Locutus' Borg Cube:
Characteristics: "Continuing Mission"-related cards, affiliation, bonus points, Tractor Beam, Borg ship, Borg cube.
Requires: affiliation, Wolf 359.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Queen's Borg Cube ( First Contact)
TASK: Assimilate human homeworld by direct attack, Earth date 2373. Borg Queen commands.
Borg Ship - Cube Class
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): WEAPONS and SHIELDS +3 at Earth. Your equipment and Borg personnel may report aboard.
Point-Box on card: 50 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 9 WEAPONS: 24 SHIELDS: 24
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Queen's Borg Cube:
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Tractor Beam, Borg ship, Borg cube.
Requires: affiliation, Earth.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Queen's Borg Sphere ( First Contact)
TASK: Contingency for Borg cube - Bombard Earth in the past; stop first contact. Borg Queen commands.
Borg Ship - Borg sphere
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Standard Equipment
Special skill(s): May be reported aboard, carried aboard and launched from any one of your Borg cubes. Temporal Vortex.
Point-Box on card: 15 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
RANGE: 5 WEAPONS: 6 SHIELDS: 6
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Queen's Borg Sphere:
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Borg ship, Borg spheres.
Requires: affiliation, Borg cube.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Queen's Borg Sphere ( Resistance is Futile!)
IDENTIFICATION: BORG SPHERE
TASK: Contingency vessel. Assimilate human homeworld. Borg Queen commands.
Borg Ship - Borg sphere
Staffing requirements:
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Standard Equipment
Special skill(s): May be reported aboard, carried aboard and launched from any of your Borg cubes. Optimize Drones
Point-Box on card: 20 bonus points (your opponent score points, when you play or use this card).
RANGE: 6 WEAPONS: 7 SHIELDS: 6
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Queen's Borg Sphere:
Characteristics: affiliation, bonus points, Borg ship, Borg spheres.
Requires: affiliation, Borg cube.
Card logging info: Logged by Roga Danar at Nov 27th, 2011 (Q1 by propaghandi at Nov 30th, 2011 & Q2 by eberlems at Jan 10th, 2012)
• Queen's Borg Sphere, Contingency Vessel ( Virtual Backward 2E Promos)
"You think in so three-dimensional terms. How small you've become."
Borg Ship - Sphere Class
Staffing requirements:
Ship Equipment: Standard Equipment
Special skill(s): While this ship is at a mission, each personnel aboard is attributes +1. While your Borg Queen is aboard this ship, it is staffed.
RANGE: 9 WEAPONS: 10 SHIELDS: 9
List of "personas" for Queen's Borg Sphere, Contingency Vessel:
Characteristics: affiliation, Borg ship, Borg spheres.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
Renegade Borg Sphere ( Life From Lifelessness)
Once freed from the Borg hive mind, General Korok commanded this vessel. Assisted the U.S.S. Voyager in the destruction of Tactical Cube 138.
Non-aligned Ship - Borg sphere
Staffing requirements: OR OR
Further Icons:
Ship Equipment: Standard Equipment
Special skill(s): Borg may report aboard. WEAPONS and SHIELDS +4 vs. .
RANGE: 6 WEAPONS: 6 SHIELDS: 6
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Renegade Borg Sphere:
Characteristics: "affiliation", Borg ship, Borg spheres.
Requires: affiliation, "affiliation".
Card logging info: Logged by Telak at Jun 9th, 2010 (Q1 by KlimDokachin at Jun 11th, 2010 & Q2 by Feanwulf at Jun 11th, 2010)
U.S.S. Bozeman ( First Contact)
Starship from the 23rd century. Registry number NCC-1941. Modernized to defend against Borg technology. Captained by Morgan Bateson.
Federation Ship - Soyuz Class
Staffing requirements:
Ship Equipment: Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): WEAPONS + 2 vs. Borg Ship and Borg Ship Dilemma.
RANGE: 5 WEAPONS: 8 SHIELDS: 7
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for U.S.S. Bozeman:
Characteristics: affiliation, Tractor Beam, Federation ship.
Requires: affiliation, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
U.S.S. Defiant ( Chain of Command)
Riker dubbed the U.S.S. Defiant a "tough little ship." Commanded by Worf when the Borg attacked Earth.
Federation Ship - Defiant Class
Staffing requirements:
Ship Equipment: Cloaking Device , Tractor Beam
Restriction box: Cannot carry ships aboard except shuttlepods.
Special skill(s): WEAPONS and SHIELDS +3 vs. .
RANGE: 8 WEAPONS: 10 SHIELDS: 8
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for U.S.S. Defiant:
Characteristics: affiliation, Defiant-class, Cloaking Device, Tractor Beam, Federation ship.
Requires: affiliation, Shuttlepod.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jun 8th, 2010.
U.S.S. Enterprise-E ( First Contact)
Commissioned in 2372. Sixth starship in the Enterprise line. Optimized to battle the Borg. 700 meters long. Infiltrated by Borg in 2373.
Federation Ship - Sovereign Class
Staffing requirements:
Ship Equipment: Holodeck , Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): WEAPONS + 3 vs. Borg Ship and Borg Ship Dilemma.
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", Sovereign Class, Holodeck, Tractor Beam, Federation ship.
Requires: affiliation, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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.
Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Nov 17th, 2014. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
U.S.S. Thunderchild ( Blaze of Glory)
NCC-63549. Helped Starfleet forces against invading Borg cube in 2373. Briefly commanded by Fleet Admiral Shanthi during its shakedown cruise.
Federation Ship - Akira Class
Staffing requirements:
Ship Equipment: Holodeck , Tractor Beam
Special skill(s): SHIELDS +4 vs. Borg ships and Borg Ship dilemma.
RANGE: 10 WEAPONS: 7 SHIELDS: 8
The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for U.S.S. Thunderchild:
Characteristics: affiliation, Akira Class, Holodeck, Tractor Beam, Federation ship.
Requires: affiliation, Borg ship.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
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.
10,000 Tribbles (Go) ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
Tribble
Breeds from 1,000 tribbles. Where present, mission attempts require 2 Exobiology. Cancels probing on non-Dilemma cards at (and cards targeting) this location.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
10,000 Tribbles (Poison) ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
Tribble
Breeds from 1,000 tribbles. Where present, mission attempts require 2 Exobiology. Cancels probing on non-Dilemma cards at (and cards targeting) this location.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
10,000 Tribbles (Rescue) ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
Tribble
Breeds from 1,000 tribbles. Where present, mission attempts require 2 Exobiology. Cancels probing on non-Dilemma cards at (and cards targeting) this location.
Requires: affiliation.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.