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. Next up is Picard's old girlfriend...
PICTURE: Jenice is at the Café des Artistes where Picard will always remember her. I like the vegetation behind her, and it's all very shiny. A good locale ups the card to 3.1.
LORE: Eeech. Did they write this one up during Premiere and only use it, without revision, in Q-Continuum? There's the usual stuff about romantic liaisons, and then it just stops. Plenty of room for the Café, or her adventure on the Enterprise. Anything! But no, a terrible 1.5.
TREK SENSE: Is her husband enough of a renegade for them to not be Federation? It's always odd when a human isn't Fed, especially one from Earth. She's a Civilian, that much is sure. The bonuses to one male present is standard for characters who are largely love interests and not much more. This little two-timer would give +4 to her husband (to which she is dedicated), but she might (to use a translated French-Canadian expression) put the lead in someone else's pencil. Did she leave a lot of broken hearts like Picard's around the galaxy? As a Non-Aligned, there's no limit to the species she can have had as a lover. I have some reservations, and this is the ability that makes sense! The other one, the anti-Ressikan deck one, is Easter Eggish. The 4 Music personnel is a reference to the actress' membership in the 1960s musical group, The Mamas and the Papas. There were - you guessed it if you didn't know it - four of them (two Mamas, two Papas). This has NOTHING to do with Jenice herself (gee, they might've done something with the extra lore space to justify it). An even better Easter Egg would have been to allow only parents (personnel with children in their lore) to use the Flute. The Staff icon is present because she did assist her husband in his time experiments. How about giving her a little SCIENCE or Physics skill? Or Computer Skill, at least? Or is she just giving him a massage as he slaves away? The attributes are fine, however, with some pretty average human Integrity (won't leave her husband, but might have thought about it), high Cunning (has to follow Manheim's experiments) and low Strength (basically a damsel in distress). I appreciate the joke, but not the best of matches to the TV character. A 2.6.
STOCKABILITY: Are you afraid of Ressikan decks (those that acquire a Ressikan Flute, then proceed to only report Music personnel to score all remaining points)? You can use Jenice as a walking, talking Event to help curb any abuses. No more than 20 points from a Flute is a good effect if you expect musical cheese. Fringe benefits: She's a Civilian for use with your own cheesy colony strategy and she'll boost one of your males. +2 everywhere to your Picard (or whoever), or +4 to your Manheim. Her stats are nothing to write home about, and no skills to help pass any dilemmas. She's a requirement to pass Security Precautions, but that dilemma's has been totally supplanted by Berserk Changeling and in any case, are you not carrying hand weapons? Considering there are other ways to deal with a Ressikan Flute deck (like killing off the wimpy musicians during their concert), I'd have to say Jenice qualifies for the big Binder in the Sky. Barely a 2.
TOTAL: 9.2 (46%) She wasn't too hot in the episode either...
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