In what has become an every set tradition, Mark Rosewater has shared a teaser for what players can expect to see in Magic: The Gathering Star Trek. These teasers are always partial information and share hints of mechanics, names, creature types, and more.

With over 20 years playing Magic, and having watched basically every live action Star Trek production and spent too much time thinking about things in that universe, Let's break down Mark Rosewater's Star Trek teaser and see what is coming to us from the Federation and other denizens of the Star Trek universe.

• A Star Trek ship cameos a mechanic that it shares a name with.

There are only a few options here for Star Trek ships. The first hat comes to mind is the USS Constellation, which would match the Constellation mechanic which focuses on enchantments - an odd mechanical fit, and its not a particularly notable ship. USS Discovery is pretty close to the Discover mechanic, and the fact that discover is inside discovery might make it fit. The USS Valiant (the ship that was crewed by cadets), would also work with the Valiant mechanic.  

• A new card that lets you look at the top card of your library and cast a particular subset of cards from it.

This seems likely to be spacecraft, a type that premiered in Edge of Eternities, and has already shown to be used to represent Star Trek ships.

• Some creature tokens in the set: 1/1 colorless Borg, 3/3 colorless Illusion, 0/1 white Human, 2/2 black Romulan, 1/1 red Officer, 2/1 red Klingon Warrior, and 2/2 red and green Worm.
• Four cards with the word “twice” in its rules text.
• A new card that lets you search for any number of cards in your library with its name.
• A new card that can make you lose the game.

This is almost certainly related to the card name in the teaser Kobayashi Maru Scenario, the no-win scenario test that was famously revealed in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, with Kirk cheating it.

• Some counters in the set: charge, finality, peace, promotion, and quest.

No confirmation that Ensign Kim will be unable to have promotion counters placed on him has been confirmed at this time.

• A new card that lets you play cards from outside the game.

Wishes premiered originally in Odyssey block, and have occasionally reappeared since. They all let you get subsets of cards from outside the game, with the most extensive use being with Strixhaven's Learn mechanic.

• A card that doubles your life total and the number of cards in your hand
• A card that allows you to survive at 0 life.

After that came some rules text snippets:

• “Tap seven untapped Officers you control:”

Officer is a creature type premiering in Magic: The Gathering Star Trek, being used for a variety of characters based on what has been revealed.

• "choose a number between 0 and 10.”
• “You can’t sacrifice Treasure tokens.”

This feels likely to be tied to a ferengi, given their love of holding onto valuables.

• “If an Equipment or Spacecraft entered the battlefield under your control this turn,”
• “create a token that’s a copy of that creature, except it has changeling.”

This is going to be a clone type of card, but the mechanic of changeling almost certainly means it will be representing a Shapeshifter or Changeling, one of the leaders of the Dominion, who were prominent in Deep Space Nine.

• “If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.”
• “CARDNAME’s base power and toughness become 7/9.”
• “Sacrifice any number of lands you control,”
• “You may cast this card from exile.”
• “if a triggered ability of that creature triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.”

Following that are some creature types from the set:

• Creature – Tribble
• Creature – Wraith

This is likely one of the Pah-Wraith, an opponent of the Bajoran gods, the Prophets, who are antagonists later in Deep Space Nine.

• Creature – Whale Officer
• Legendary Creature – Vulcan Advisor

There are a number of Vulcans it could be, but it seems most likely to be Spock's father, Sarek, who served as a diplomat for the Federation. 

• Legendary Creature – Ferengi Noble

This feels most likely to be the leader of the Ferengi, the Grand Nagus. There are a few we see, particularly in Deep Space Nine, but the main one seen is Zek, and that would seem to be likely teased here.

• Legendary Creature – Shapeshifter Detective

This is going to be Odo from Deep Space Nine, as he is a Changeling, and a detective.

• Legendary Creature – Ooze Horror

Ooze's aren't common in Star Trek, but there is one particularly notable Ooze type legendary creature. Armus was a black oil-like substance who in the Star Trek The Next Generation episode Skin of Evil killed the Enterprise's security officer Tasha Yar.

• Legendary Creature – Romulan Human Rogue

While Tasha died there, due to time travel shenanigans in the episode Yesterday's Enterprise, in an alternate time line she went on the Enterprise-C in the past, where she ended up as a Romulan captive. There, she eventually had a child with her captor, who would in the present menace the Enterprise-D and E captained by Jean-Luc Picard. Called Sela, she was a military leader in the Romulan Empire, and key in their efforts to destabilize both the Federation and the Klingnon Empire. 

• Legendary Artifact Creature – Android Rogue

This is almost certainly Data's 'brother' Lore who is an ongoing antagonist of the Enterprise, and Data in particular.

• Artifact – Communicator Equipment

Finally, we have some card names in the set:

• Kobayashi Maru Scenario

As mentioned above, this is the name of the No Win Scenario that is used by Starfleet as a test of cadets to see how they react when there is no good options. 

• Live Long and Prosper

This is the famous Vulcan phrase used.

• The Measure of a Man

There are saga's in the set named after episodes, and The Measure of a Man is a season 2 episode of The Next Generation, where Data's rights are adjudicated before an impromptu court, with Picard representing Data, and Riker forced to represent Bruce Maddox. In the end it is determined that Data is Sapient and can't be forced to be Maddox's labrat.

• Red Alert!
• Romulan Bird of Prey
• Rules of Acquisition

The rules of acquisition are the rules that guide Ferengi society, and are all about acquiring wealth. They are essentially holy documents to the hyper-capitalist Ferengi.

• Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

Captain Picard's favorite drink.

• Transporter Malfunction

An episode staple, which happens in many cases of technology going awry.

• Vulcan Mind-Meld

The signature Vulcan psychic ability to share minds or interrogate information.

• Warp Speed

And that's all! We have more information coming next week, as the Twitch/Youtube debut for the set will be on October 20th at 1PM Eastern.