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The impending 2nd Edition for Star Trek CCG brings on thoughts of twos
things that come second, new versions, pairs, duality... So how about
some "2"-themed contests to pass the time? For the moment the
prizes will be 1st Edition booster packs from recent expansions, but as
the 2nd Edition gets closer we'll be offering some 2nd Edition prizes.
There always seems to be a lot of hoopla about "the first" of
anything: the first baby of the year, the first person to hold a position,
and so on. This contest, on the contrary, focuses on the second in
various areas of Star Trek CCG. Answer the five questions below correctly
and you may win 10 assorted booster packs of Star Trek CCG! Three winners
will be selected at random from all the correct, valid entries received.
The Answers
These questions were apparently quite a bit more difficult than I had anticipated,
so I'm going to go into detail on the answers. For reference, here's a list
of release dates for the earlier sets (from the Star
Trek CCG Product Timeline a bit outdated, since it hasn't been
updated since December 2000, but this contest didn't involve anything that
late):
Premiere Edition (November 1994)
Alternate Universe (November 1995)
Q Continuum (October 1996)
First Anthology (June 1997)
First Contact (December 1997)
The Fajo Collection (December 1997)
Away Team Pack (May 1998)
OTSD (May 1998)
Deep Space Nine (July 1998)
Starter Deck II (December 1998)
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1.
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The Premiere set contained nine different card types, but soon others began
to appear. What was the second card type to be added to the original
nine?
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The nine original card types were Artifact, Dilemma, Equipment, Event,
Interrupt, Mission, Outpost, Personnel, and Ship. The Alternate Universe
expansion added the first new card type, Doorway, and Q-Continuum had the
second new card type: Station. Although stations became a subtype
of the Facility card type in the Deep Space Nine rules, there was no Facility
card type when Station cards appeared and they were listed as a new card
type in the Rules Supplement. Q-icon cards were never considered a new card
type; in fact, the Rules Supplement specifically stated that the cards were
interrupts, events, and dilemmas. (Many people said Objectives; however,
First Contact also introduced Time Locations, so neither could be considered
to come before the other.)
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2.
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Name the second version of the Jean-Luc Picard persona to be published.
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The first version of the Jean-Luc Picard persona was, of course, Jean-Luc
Picard (Premiere), even though personas had not yet been defined as such.
When they were defined in Q-Continuum that set included the
second version: Galen. Although Lt. (j.g.) Picard appeared in Alternate
Universe, he isn't (and wasn't) a version of "the Jean-Luc Picard persona."
He's the only version of the Lt. (j.g.) Picard persona. Locutus of Borg,
named by many entries, was in the Fajo Collection.
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Name the second dual-personnel card to appear.
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The first was Sisters of Duras, in The Fajo Collection. The second didn't
show up until Deep Space Nine Jake and Nog. (Quite a few people
confused dual-personnel with dual-affiliation, naming Stefan de Seve.)
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In which product did the second Ferengi-affiliation card appear?
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The card itself was the answer to the previous question, Jake and Nog (they're
Federation/Ferengi), so the product was Deep Space Nine. The first
Ferengi-affiliation card was another dual-affiliation card, the preview
Quark Son of Keldar in First Anthology. Ferengi Trading Post was in Starter
Deck II.
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What was the second Star Trek CCG product to have one or more dual-affiliation
cards?
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Dual-affiliation cards made their debut in Alternate Universe, with two
Romulan/Federation personnel, Major Rakal and Stefan DeSeve. The next product
to have any was not, as many believed, The Fajo Collection or Deep Space
Nine; there were in fact two dual-affiliation personnel in First Anthology,
Quark Son of Keldar (Klg/Fer) and Garak (Car/NA).
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The Winners
495 valid entries produced only 17 with all five answers correct.
The three randomly selected winners are:
Dustin Westfall
La Habra, California
Brady Miller
Pleasanton, California
Rutger Schonis
Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
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