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The History of Star Trek CCG: Enhanced First Contact
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May 24, 2004
"New Borg counterparts and a new card type take your Star Trek
Customizable Card Game Borg deck designs to the next level of Borg perfection!...
Resistance is more futile than ever..."
– Package copy
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Released
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January 13, 1999
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Design Team
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Bill Martinson, Tim Ellington, Sandy Wible
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Product Configuration
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12 premium cards
4 "assimilation overlays"
4 different package facings. Each tuck box contained 4 First Contact booster
packs plus 3 fixed premium cards (1 assimilated counterpart plus two other
cards) plus a tiny rules card
12 packs per display box (3 of each facing)
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New Features
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 New
card type: Incident
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Highlights
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Four new CGI assimilated counterparts for use with Assimilate Homeworld.
Mylar overlays to mark assimilation of personnel.
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Packaging
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Factoids
- Although the set released in January 1999, the copyright date on the
cards and packaging is 1998.
- Crew Reassignment was originally planned for Enhanced First Contact
but was "reassigned" to The Dominion expansion when it was decided
to make all the EFC cards Borg-themed.
- Gowron of Borg and Bareil of Borg were the first personnel cards to
have V.I.P. as a skill.
- The four counterparts – officially authorized by Paramount and
created by Decipher's art department as an extension of the storyline
of the TNG episode Parallels – were the first cards to have
a property logo that wasn't for an actual Star Trek property. These
cards belong only to the Star Trek Customizable Card Game.
- The drone, Incident, and Event cards and the assimilation overlays were
in fixed combinations with specific counterparts, listed on the back of
the packages so you knew what cards you were getting in each pack:
- Dukat of Borg, Population 9 Billion – All Borg, Nightmare,
counterpart overlay
- Gowron of Borg, We Are the Borg, Add Distinctiveness, communication
drone overlay
- Tomalak of Borg, Six of Nineteen, Sphere Encounter, navigation drone
overlay
- Bareil of Borg, Eleven of Seventeen, Service the Collective, defense
drone overlay
Notable Cards
Arguably one of the most disturbing images in the Star Trek universe,
Nightmare was one of the brand-new Incident cards and a nightmare of a resource
deprivation card. Primarily a Borg card, it could also be used by non-Borg
players who had a Borg Ship dilemma on the spaceline.
 
Though all the assimilated counterparts gave Borg players additional options
(beyond Locutus of Borg) for assimilating homeworlds without first snagging
a counterpart from the opponent, Gowron of Borg was particularly appealing
for his special skill allowing his hive to initiate battle regardless of
current objective. Even with its once per game limit, it was a valuable
ability for the battle-restricted Borg. Gowron of Borg also holds the distinction
of being selected as one of the four box topper foils in Reflections.
Links
Card
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Enhanced First Contact Rules Notes PDF
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