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. We skip over the bits where Grissom's away team beams down to Genesis and McCoy goes to Mos Eisley's (no cards), and pick things up when the crew hijack the Enterprise, with this first of three cards pulled from the sequence...
PICTURE: Noble bearing or just pretentious? You decide (I'd bet on the latter). It's a good bust shot overall, though with no fireworks. A 3.2.
LORE: Though there's funny stuff here, how many of us would have liked a Doogie Howser, M.D. reference in the lore or game text? Ah well... what's here is good though, descriptive and fun. A strong 4 at Styles' expense.
TREK SENSE: As a captain, he gets Officer and Leadership fairly easily, though that last skill might be in dispute being that he was kind of a fool. Yet, men followed his orders, and he was given a state-of-the-art ship to command. Since he worked on the design and building of the ship, his Engineer is very acceptable, as is the Physics required to work out a new mode of warp travel (transwarp). His relatively low Integrity is due to his rather immature competitiveness with the Enterprise and his arrogance. He gets low Cunning because he was made a fool by Scotty, and his vaunted transwarp drive didn't work. As for Strength, I don't dispute that he was an aggressive kind of guy, but 8 seems a bit much. Not too much to rail against, though some kind of special skill might have been nice. 4 is fair.
STOCKABILITY: There are a LOT of Federation personnel, so would you use Styles outside of a CF deck? 3 skills might not be enough. In a CF deck, he makes for a fair backup to Captain Sulu as matching commander of the Starship Excelsior, seeing that you might keep the Sulu persona in Lt. mode for the RANGE boost to the Enterprise. The Excelsior can be boosted to 8-9-10 levels using Plaque and Log, and with Styles' ENGINEER, he can use Construct Starship to download it no matter who later commands it. That's about all he has on Sulu, who has all the other skills and more. Indeed, all his skills are fairly common in the Fed CF subset. Good STRENGTH, but lame attributes otherwise... The Excelsior stuff may be worth the 3 I'm giving him.
TOTAL: 14.2 (71%) Now if only transwarp drive had worked...
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