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    Incident Incident
    Special icons: Hidden Agenda

    Seeds or plays on table. X varies, where X = number of Red Dot 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 Borg affiliation, Drone, Borg species.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    For this incident, seed cards (which must be placed out-of-play) include missions, dilemmas, artifacts, and any other card which is only seedable (has no normal “play” function). See outside the game.

    Any non-Borg personnel or ships obtained from an expansion pack with this incident are considered assimilated as drones (see assimilation – personnel) before you report them for duty. You may report such cards immediately (ships to any spaceline location or your Borg Outpost; personnel to any of your ships or outposts or to a planet) without regard to Alternate Universe icons or native quadrant. If you place them in your hand to play later, you must obey all normal reporting requirements. If you obtain Jean-Luc Picard from an expansion pack using this incident, you may not play him immediately if you have Locutus of Borg in play, but may later perform a persona exchange with the two cards.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

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    This Card-Review article was written by Evan Lorentz and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)".

    While you may expose an infiltrator by bringing him face-to-face with the persona he's impersonating, that may be impossible if you don't happen to have Lovokimage, for example, in your Romulan deck to confront the impostor. Worse, your opponent may be using an impersonator with a different infiltration icon from your affiliation, by seeding a Memory Wipeimage to make your cards compatible with all affiliations. But by having your own shape-shifter available (Anyaimage and Saliaimage can work with everyone but Borg), you can play Caught Red-Handedimage to expose any infiltrator.

    Even if you aren't being infiltrated, this interrupt can be handy to prevent your opponent from morphing a changeling with one of several interrupts or from turning a universal Founderimage into something more sinister from his hand. And if your opponent isn't even playing Dominion, it can nullify a Common Thiefimage, keeping your opponent from killing one of your personnel if you don't have any equipment to lose.

    Combo:

    • Caught Red-Handed + opponent's You Dirty Ratimage: You needed your Founder back so you thought you'd just discard that You Dirty Rat? Not this turn...