| [1E] | Star Trek: Customizable Card Game, First Edition™ |
| [2E] | Star Trek: Customizable Card Game, Second Edition™ |
| [LotR] | Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game™ |
| ABT | Altonian Brain Teaser |
| AMS | Assign Mission Specialists |
| AMS-Q | A popular deck type after First Contact was released. Using RRD to download AMS every turn, you could get 2 free personnel in addition to your normal card play. This made it possible to Q-Byass on turn 3 or 4. The deck was killed by the AMS errata. |
| ASP | Assign Support Personnel |
| ATA | Anti-Time Anomoly |
| AU | Alternate Universe. Can refer to the set, the icon, or cards with the icon. |
| BoG | Blaze of Glory |
| Borg Hunting | Self-seeding Borg Ship dilemmas and blowing them up to score points instead of solving missions. |
| BPD | Barclay's Protomorphosis Diesease |
| Brog | Alternative to "Borg", popularized in the United Kingdom. |
| BWE | Bynars Weapon Enhancement |
| Card Acquisition | A strategy of using the 34th Rule of Acquisition (usually with pointless battles, such as attacking opponent's facilities) to draw lots of cards. |
| CoW | Council of Warriors (Moo) |
| CCG | Customizable Card Game or Collectable Card Game. Alternatively, Card Carrying Geek. |
| CRP | Chain Reaction Pulsar |
| Cytherians Shuffle | Deck type that uses Cytherians and other bonus point dilemmas, combined with Wormholes or other means of completing all those Cytherians in one turn. |
| DHW | Defend Homeworld |
| DipHoLe | Personel with skills of Diplomacy, Honor and Leadership. There were many of these in the premier set. |
| DoSTC | Distortion of Space/Time Continuum |
| ES | Examine Singularity |
| FCA | Ferengi Commerce Authority |
| FPS | Full Planet Scan |
| GTTT | Going To The Top |
| GTTT-Q | Using Going to the Top to get the personel needed to Q-Bypass. It's possible to do this in one turn if you can draw 7 GTTTs (and AMS for the 2 command stars). |
| H&S | Hide & Seek |
| HQ:DM | HQ: Defensive Measures |
| HQ:FCE | HQ: Ferengi Credit Exchange |
| HQ:OWP | HQ Orbital Weapons Platform |
| IBI | Invasive Beam-In |
| IKC | Imperial Klingon Cruiser |
| KFC | Kivas Fajo Collection. Or the Kivas Fajo - Collector card. |
| LLaP | Live Long and Prosper |
| LotR | Lord of the Rings |
| MtG | Magic, the Gathering |
| MIS | Make It So |
| Nor-mada | A deck that uses a Nor's downloading ability to assemble an armada of ships very quickly. The most popular versions are Cardassian Military Freighter armadas, or Klingon K'vort armadas with Empok Nor. |
| OoM | Obelisk of Masaka |
| Oompa Loompa | A nickname that seems to have stuck with R'Mal. |
| OPU | Ore Processing Unit |
| OS | Original Series |
| OTSD | Official Tournament Sealed Deck |
| OWR | Open Wormhole Relays |
| Plans-Q | A deck type that uses seeded Plans cards to download many cards to your hand first turn. With Masaka Transfromations or Remodulate those Espionage cards can be exchanged for the remaining cards in your deck. The most efficient use of all those new cards is to STP-drop and QBypass for a first turn win. Many variants exist. This deck was killed by the limitations on downloading to hand. |
| PNZ | Patrol Neutral Zone. |
| PotOO | Plans of the Obsidian Order |
| PotTS | Plans of the Tal Shiar |
| PT | Palor Toff |
| Q-Bypass | A strategy of overcoming your own Q Dilemma, seeded last under a mission, to discard all your opponent’s dilemmas. |
| QIR | Quark's Isolinear Rods |
| QTR | Q the Referee |
| Rakal Shuffle | Named in honor of Kathy "Major Rakal" McCracken, who always managed to shuffle her most important cards to the bottom of her deck. (See Soper Shuffle) |
| RBM | Rogue Borg Mercenaries |
| RoA | Rules of Acquisition |
| RRD | Ready Room Door |
| SD2 | Starter Deck 2 |
| SFC | Stop First Contact |
| SI Lockdown | Short for Scanner Interference Lockdown. Using Scanner Interference to download lots of anti-beaming cards to keep the opponent off of planets, or to keep them on a planet at their HQ. |
| Soper Shuffle | Named in honor of Todd, who always managed to shuffle his most important cards to the middle of his deck, rendering Remodulation useless. (See Rakal Shuffle) |
| STA | Soong Type Android. Refers to either the species or the * Soong Type Android card. |
| STP | Space-Time Portal |
| STP-drop | Using the "report with crew" ability of Space Time Portal. |
| TBP | The Big Picture |
| TCG | Trading Card Game. |
| TNG | In Trek terms, The Next Generation. In game terms, Transwarp Network Gateway |
| TOS | In Trek terms, The Original Series. In game terms, Thine Own Self. |
| TWT | Trouble With Tribbles |
| VCM | Visit Cochrane Memorial |
| Vekor | Is not human. |
| WNOHGB | Where No One Has Gone Before (duh) |
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