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The History of Star Trek CCG: The Dominion

Factoids

• Two cards in the set, Fair Play and Operate Wormhole Relays, bore a mysterious new icon identified in the rules supplement as the "Referee" icon, with a cryptic note that it would "be developed in a future set." Although expected much sooner, that development wouldn't come until The Trouble With Tribbles brought Q the Referee.
• The Dominion set contained the first three of many "Chula" dilemmas, based on the Wadi game that Quark was induced to play. The Chula dilemmas were the brainchild of designer Tim Ellington.
• The Dominion affiliation was the most complicated non-Borg affiliation ever, thanks to its nativity in the Gamma Quadrant, the dependence of one of its three major species on Ketracel-white, and the infiltration abilities of many of the Founders (coupled with complucated infiltration rules).
• The four preview cards were found in place of the rare in booster packs at the rate of approximately one per display box (1:30 packs). While the black-border Worf Son of Mogh would show up within a few months in Blaze of Glory, the others took a little longer: Captain Kirk was in The Trouble With Tribbles, Seven of Nine stayed a preview until The Borg, and Admiral Riker waited until the very last First Edition set – All Good Things – to shed his preview status.
• A playtest version of T'Rul had Music instead of Exobiology, and a special skill allowing her to report directly to the U.S.S. Defiant.
• The D'deridex Advanced began life in playtesting as a universal "Tal Shiar D'deridex" and a unique version named Makar that was "once commanded by Sela." Both had staffing requirements of Cmd-Stf-Tal Shiar, and could report at the Orias System – the Makar reporting with crew. Although the unique version didn't survive the playtest, Sela did eventually get her own (unadvanced) warbird in Blaze of Glory, the Goraxus.

Notable Cards

One of Tim Ellington's evil Chula dilemmas, Chula: The Chandra, became a staple "filter" dilemma because of its unpredictability – and unpreventability.

Crew Reassignment finally redressed a long-standing grievance with the Enterprise-E icon: the inability to use that icon to fulfill an ordinary Staff star requirement. But it did more than that: it also let you report personnel with "special staffing icons" directly aboard a ship that required that icon for staffing. While that was a nice but modest bonus for the Enterprise-E icon folks, where it really made a difference was for the numerous Alternate Universe-icon personnel and ships available to almost every affiliation.

Computer Crash had been a major irritant to anyone depending on downloading or Q's Tent (i.e., everyone) since it showed up in Deep Space Nine. The uber-downloader Borg got their preventive measure in the seedable Complink Drone in Enhanced First Contact, while the other affiliations got 10 and 01 a week later in The Dominion, with 01 nullifying all Computer Crash cards in play.

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