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. Despite being one of TNG's best episodes, Decipher only made one card from "The Measure of a Man"...
PICTURE: Interesting! We get a close-up of Data's medals and it's up to us to match the medals' names in the lore with what we see in the frame Riker's holding up. All the medals are different and some sport some nice designs. I especially like the Saturn-like pin in the upper left-hand corner. The "Federation icon" makes for a nice splash of color just where it's needed. The image is somewhat marred by an almost invisible (but controversial) Easter Egg of Gene Roddenberry's reflection in the glass. Points: 3.9.
LORE: A nice little list, but that's all it is. Interesting, but makes no effort to explain the card in terms of how it functions in the game. A 3.
TREK SENSE: Bleh. The title itself really shouldn't point to Data, especially given what follows. Are we to believe Data got all those medals for fighting? I don't think so. Gowron's Medals, sure. Data's, not so much. The rest, to be fair, works. You always get points for accomplishing some goal. Here, the goal is to win a battle. Only the leader gets the points since they probably commanded the mission (it requires a leader to battle). The medals are a very personal thing, so the points go away if you ever lose the personnel. Some sense, but they chose the card's title badly... a 3.1.
STOCKABILITY: Planning to battle? Put a couple of these in your deck to get rewarded for it. The Dominion, for example, are slow to start, but great fighters. They'll need those extra points to pass their enemies who probably have a head start by the time they reach the Alpha Quadrant. And with Jem'Hadar, you're pretty sure of winning most battles. Now, replace the Dominion with any other affiliation and cut/paste this last paragraph, cuz even the Federation started looking at battling in a new light in the later game environment. A promising 3.5.
TOTAL: 13.5 (67.5%) Anything to do with battling started getting hotter and hotter when the new personnel battle rules came out in First Contact, and then Blaze of Glory.
I've always been disappointed that this is the only card to come from the best episode of the first two TNG seasons. Both the guest stars should have had cards made, and a couple of dilemmas could have come out of it too.
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