I don't think DTRM or tNS really looked at all the options available to the card "I've Been Waiting For You".  Honestly, without the following tech, the card would be relegated to discard bins.

I had this great idea while I was in the shower this morning-- it may seem a little too Olav for some, but considering the source, I think that's to be expected.

I've been thinking about the various ways in which you can report personnel-- and I realized that almost all of them are "Once Per Turn" and that is a real shame. It makes my job much harder.

The real shame of it is that with Vic to set things up, it is currently possible to draw an insane number of cards using the Mr. Mr. Redux that I brought up on the list here.

At any rate, I looked at every manner in which personnel can be reported... and found a loophole that I don't think anyone has used yet!

Here's how the deck will run... (Partial decklist, annotated)

On turn one, QIR for Mr. Quark, report him to the Husnock OP using crossover. Set off the DH for Galia, beam him down, download Mirror Ferengi shuttle. Set off ASP/TMW downloads.

STP the D'Kora to hand. Play the Holodeck door to grab Vic (who will sit on the Husnock ship.) Four pregame download personnel (other than Mr. Quark) attempt the
mission, hitting the four self seeds.

Download 2 X Goddess of Empathy + 2 X Thermal Deflectors.

Now that the Misters are safe to go, run the Chula: the Lights trick 17 times. You now have 68 useless Misters in hand and can't be scorched. Drop the obelisk to draw a
new hand, which inevitably will include 30 holograms, 30 I've been waiting for you, at least 2 kevins, and an EMH programme.

Kevin your own Godesses... now, before you get scorched you can suspend play to report the EMH, and suspend play to swich him with a hologram from your hand, suspend play to report him, suspend play to switch him for someone in your hand... repeat 30
times. By the time the Scorched hand can hit you, you have dropped to four cards in hand.  // see note at end

"Please state the nature of the card gaming emergency"

Essential Seeds:

Husnock Outpost
Husnock Ship
Holodeck Door (seeded on Dkora)
Ferengi Trading post
Dkora Marauder
STP
AMS
ASP
TMW
QIR
4 Self seeded "Stops one personnel" dilemmas
Chula the lights
DH
Crossover
Children of the light
Obelisk of Masaka

Essential Draw Deck/Q-tent components:
Galia
Hidden Fighter
Mirror Ferengi Shuttle
Two different AMS personnel (preferably N/A)
ASP personnel (preferably N/A)
Dr. Telek R' Mor
Vic Fontaine
Mr. Brunt X 17
Mr. Nog X 17
Mr. Rom x 17
Mr. Quark X 17
Obelisk of Massaka X 3
Goddess of Empathy X 3
Thermal Deflectors X 3
EMH programme X 4
I've been waiting for you X 30
Various Holograms X 30
Kevin Uxbridge X 4

Alternately, one could run a cheaper version of this deck that uses an Empok Nor mass download followed by STPing all the equipment to hand before the Obelisk/Transformations. The point is that with enough card drawing power, the combo "I've been waiting for you"/EMH is one of the best card play engines available.

--Olav

// Editor's note: since this article was written, the rules committee has returned with the following ruling.  As a result, I'm not sure how you're going to avoid scorched hand.  (The following comes directly from an email from Major Rakal) 

OK, I've talked to the rules committee, and here's the way it would work.

Player 1 suspends play to download the EMH. He then suspends play to
play I've Been Waiting.

Once that card play is initiated, player 2 suspends play (i.e.,
during the response step to the play of I've been Waiting, before the
results begin -- the actual exchange of cards) to download a Referee
card.

Player 1 presumably has more I've Been Waiting copies in hand (he has
to for this to work). OK, he can suspend the announced action of
using the QtR text (to download a Ref card) to initiate the play of
another I've Been Waiting.

Player 2 now announces the download of a Ref card again, suspending
play again. Note that the QtR is not discarded until *after* the Ref
card is downloaded, and so it is perfectly legal to announce you are
suspending play based on that card which is still in play. He keeps
repeating this every time Player 1 tries to play another I've Been
Waiting, after the IBW play has been initiated, until all of player
1's IBWs are on the table, suspended.

At that point, Player 2's last announced QtR download resolves, he
plays Scorched Hand (player almost certainly still has more than 12
cards in hand, because he hasn't been able to download any more of
those exchange holograms), and player 1 loses most of his hand. If he
still has any holograms left he can resolve one IBW. The rest will be
discarded, because the EMH that those cards targeted for an exchange
is no longer there, so they fizzle.

All the rest of Player 2's announced QtR downloads now fizzle,
because he has already discarded the one QtR he had. But that's OK,
because he only needed one of them to work.