Qapla'! - It is rumored that a Qapla' banner like this one was presented to the Vulcan ambassador to Qo'noS by Gowron's eldest nephew. Awarded on the eve of the Kot'baval Festival, it is one of the highest honors a non-Klingon can receive for service to the Empire.

Qapla' banners appear throughout Klingon culture. One example is a valuable gamepiece, bearing words often attributed to Kahless, in a customizable card game which is sweeping Qo'noS. In case you don't have your universal translator handy, here's how to decipher this card:

INTERRUPT
SUCCESS!

When threatened, fight. When in doubt, surprise them. Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight. Real power is in the heart. A Klingon does not run away from his battles.

If an opponent attacks you, during that battle your Klingons with Honor add INTEGRITY to STRENGTH. (Not cumulative.)

Sisters of Duras - This personnel card is dual-affiliation as well as dual-personnel (two personnel in one card). Dual-personnel cards always count as two personnel, but only one card. Any result which happens to one of the individuals on your dual-personnel card automatically happens to the other, including bonus point adjustments.

Occasionally, dual-personnel cards cause group limits to be modified. For example, suppose one or more of your personnel have been selected, either by choice or randomly, and a limit is in effect (e.g., "one personnel," "two strongest members in Away Team," "three Youth," "maximum of 4 unique crew members," "STRENGTH > 27 from up to four Away Team members"). If one of your dual-personnel cards in the group is causing the group limit to be exceeded, your opponent must choose one of two options: increase the limit to accommodate the excess, or require that the group selection process be repeated. However, if the limit is one, it is always increased to two automatically.

Spot - This extremely independent cat does not recognize anyone (or any affiliation) as having authority over her, and thus she is Neutral. Although Neutral is not an affiliation, Neutral cards can work with any affiliation except Borg. Whenever Spot is not "pouncing," her STRENGTH is undefined and thus treated as zero. Like other ANIMALs, she may not attempt missions alone or staff ships.

Whenever Spot is killed (Pfssst!), if she has any lives remaining she immediately pops back to life at the same place (Meow!) but is "stopped." Any cards played on Spot (e.g., Mask of Korgano, Brainwash) are not nullified by her first eight deaths. If Spot dies aboard an outpost or starship being destroyed (and she has any lives remaining), she comes back to life in the vacuum of space, only to suffocate and come back to life again over and over until her remaining lives are gone. Pfssst! Meow! Pfssst! Meow! Pfssst! Meow!...

Tallera - This personnel is the first triple-affiliation card. Triple-affiliation and dual-affiliation cards are collectively referred to as "multi-affiliation" cards.

U.S.S. Pasteur - This ship has special equipment (not a personnel) providing the equivalent of one MEDICAL skill. This MEDICAL may be used as one of the seven "personnel types" required by the Kurlan Naiskos. The U.S.S. Pasteur also has a new "nemesis" icon (see the entry for I.K.C. Chang).

While all gameplay in this collection was developed by Decipher and TGS, the visual image of the Black Hole card was inspired by an idea from one of our players, Helge Blohmer a.k.a. "Wesley Crusher." The image of Persistence of Memory is licensed from and used under authorization of the estate of Salvador Dali (c) 1998 Demart Pro Arte, Geneva / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The image of Roger Maris is licensed from used under authorization of his estate. The New York Yankees logo is licensed from and used under authorization of Major League Baseball (c) 1997 MLB. No product development assistants were harmed in the production of this collection.

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