Add Distinctiveness

Promotion card from Enhanced First Contact (1998)

Points: X

Seeds or plays on table. X varies, where X = number of 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.

Special-icons: Hidden Agenda  Borg-use-only

Strategy notes

'crosslinks' - Add Distinctiveness

See Borg related cards in strategy area.

Strategy article

Card Extra from Evan Lorentz

Rule notes

Official Runlings:

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 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 (Prem) 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 from: Rulebook Glossary (08/2002)