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Broken Links [BL-A1-5] Ambassador Picard to Favorite Son

Another round of dream cards for the Star Trek Collectible Card Game, but the next 40 cards will be different. Instead of being cards I designed in the late 90s, given graphics for the first time, these are original to TODAY. They're "broken links", cards referenced (or sometimes just implied) by other cards in the A's (what I called the Apocalypse Rising expansion) that I never got to make back in the day. Either I didn't get to the entry in the Encyclopedia, or I screwed up and forgot to make a promised card due to the time it took to get to whatever point. So imagine this as a 40-card product that fills in the gaps and makes all the cards playable, much like Decipher's own All Good Things 40-card 1st edition finale did.

BROKEN LINKS:
[1] Ambassador Picard
[2] Annie Myers
[3] Arranged Marriage
[4] Captain Paris
[5] A dilemma that turns Personnel into Taresians

NOTES: 
[1] Referenced as a native of the Anti-Time (Future) Time Location [A200]. Once there, he can download one of the other locations (Past or Present) to help with the strategy. He can also download Anti-Time Anomaly, though its effects are suspended if the Time Locations are in play. Cantankerousness allows him to solve Reunion, which makes perfect sense. Source: "All Good Things..."
[2] Referenced as personnel belonging to the Deadwood program [A158]. Source: "A Fistful of Datas"
[3] Evidently, this was supposed to relate to "Haven" (the source I finally picked), but could have worked for "Cost of Living" (maybe) or "The Perfect Mate", but I missed my chance on the first two. I did make a card called Arranged Love Interest (what a clunky title) in the C's, but it's not the same. The gender stuff seems parochial today, but this matches other love interest-type cards in the game at that point. You could use it to get a free personnel download, though it would then be vulnerable to attack or capture (especially if seeded at a space mission). Arranged Marriage is referenced on Ariana [A275] whose source is also "Haven".
[4] The stated matching commander of the U.S.S. El-Batani [A61], a "younger" version of Admiral Paris (but not young enough to be AU, at least not in the source episode "Persistence of Vision" where i guess he's already a Vice-Admiral - I manipulated the uniform at least). He creates another Broken Link - Owen Paris - which will also slide into this batch of Broken Links (as played by the more recognizable Richard Herd).
[5] The Captain Alben card [A68] gives him the ability to kill Taresians, but seeing as there would be very few of these, I stated my intention to create a dilemma that would turn personnel INTO Taresians, obviously sourced from the episode "Favorite Son". Then I got to the F's and did no such thing. That's what repairing Broken Links is all about.

Next up: More Anti-Time and Food-serving options.

Cards: Ambassador Picard, Annie Meyers, Arranged Marriage, Captain Paris, Favorite Son

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