Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. It's time to catch up with some Klingons. The scene is: the Grissom team finds young Spock while their ship is destroyed by Klingons. One pic is pulled from this bit, and it's for a card I need to review for the first time...
PICTURE: What happened to the background?! Dull gray, a non-committal expression, small glimpse of a counter top... It's... not great, you guys. The lore is going to laugh at his final moments, couldn't they have sourced a pic from there? It's one of my favorite things about Star Trek III so would have gotten a better score than the 1.8 I'm giving it.
LORE: I know it's weird that he's named after a role-playing game, but Torg actually predates the West End Games original and yes, that WAS his name in the movie. He's minted as Kruge's first officer even if it's not said per se, it does fit the facts. And then there's a joke, not unlike Tahglio's, that pokes fun at the whole scene where he doesn't seem to understand the computer countdown on the Enterprise is a self-destruct device. That's at least two TMP personnel cards that are said to be dumb and stunted in their careers. Not holding it against him, so a 4.
TREK SENSE: The above-mentioned joke justifies the low Cunning, and yes, there's that whole moment that, to me, rather implies that while we understand him AND the computer, he doesn't have a working universal translator and doesn't know what it's saying. Snarly Klingons seem dumber to me, but Kruge and crew are generally quite refined and seem smarter. So this may be unfair. Otherwise, he's very much "in Kruge's crew". Leadership for being first officer, but Science, Navigation and Computer Skill are all related to the quest for the Genesis Device. Same with dishonorable Integrity; the Strength is the Klingon average. Of course, we could ask if he should have Computer Skill given that last scene. Make up your mind, Decipher. A 2.8.
STOCKABILITY: The TMP Klingons are a playable affiliation, but it means skills are spread over a relatively small group of personnel cards. That makes them all useful in a deck. So while Torg seems a bit basic with his Leadership/Navigation/Computer combo (sounds like a Fed), he's better than he seems. Even in a normal deck, the extra SCIENCE - not the most common Klingon skill - might score him a spot. Might. I'll spot him 3.4 here.
TOTAL: 12 (60%) He passed THIS performance review.
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