Fifteen of Seventeen

The Countermeasure Drone is one of the most potent tools you have in facing dilemmas. No wall dilemma need ever stop you more than a turn with a Countermeasure Drone on your side. Just download the necessary Adapt: Negate Obstruction at the end of the turn when you were stopped. Next turn, adapt and nullify.

Don't always wait until trouble is staring you in the optical implants, though. There are several dilemmas that are particularly nasty against the Borg (Cytherians, for example). Make sure that only one copy of these bad dilemmas will bother you per game by downloading an Adapt with your Countermeasure Drone. Hold onto it in case you should face that card again.

Countermeasure Drones are also great against a sudden invasion of your Borg ship. Download the Adapt: Modulate Shields to render your opponent's phaser or disruptor irrelevant.

Combos:

• Countermeasure Drone + Adapt: Negate Obstruction: Shaka is irrelevant. Primitive Culture is irrelevant. Cardassian Trap is irrelevant. Maglock is irrelevant.
• Countermeasure Drone + Adapt: Modulate Shields: Phasers are irrelevant. Disruptors are irrelevant. Varon-T is irrelevant.
• Countermeasure Drone + Interlink Drone + your Hive: Coalescent Organisms are irrelevant. Alien Labyrinths are irrelevant. Birth of "Junior" is irrelevant. Ancient Computers are irrelevant.