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. The Last Outpost yielded 10 cards in all, but this is the one you wouldn't necessarily place there unless you were a big TNG fan...
PICTURE: A fairly simple shot of the finger puzzle, probably enhanced by computer to show so much detail. It's ok, if not spectacular. A 2.9.
LORE: A good summary of an inane subplot. The "fascinating" harks back to Spock, and to Data's early days as a Spock proxy. A 3.
TREK SENSE: What Trek Sense? There's some, but not much. First it requires an android to hit. I can believe a naive android like Data, Lal, et al. would fall prey to this kind of absurdity. But would Juliana Tainer or Lore stuff their fingers into the puzzle? Lore? Really? You think so? How about non-androids? Wouldn't Alexander want to play too? Then, there's the whole matter of the stopping effect. Why is the entire away team stopped? Are they just standing there laughing at the droid like at the end of a Scooby-Doo episode? Androids are stopped for possibly longer. The more androids there are, the longer they stay stopped. Nice little mathematical equation, but no common sense here. And really, an android should be able to rip the puzzle to shreds with its strength, no? This wouldn't be a dilemma in the "real" world. A 0.7
SEEDABILITY: An android hoser which will always work if your opponent carries an android, but never will if he doesn't (obviously). You might consider it a good lead into Shot in the Back, to make sure a personnel does get killed, but here's the thing: that would work against a multi-android away team, but not with one that has only one. It's not a filter, the mission does not continue, and your opponent may as well wait for his androids to solve the puzzle before continuing on. After all, androids are great mission and dilemma solvers (if not Chinese puzzle solvers) and this CFP is part of a combo, no? So, not much more than a delaying tactic in most cases, but if there's Soong-type abuse in your region... A mitigated 2.5.
TOTAL: 9.1 (45.5%) Solve this one by yourself... it's not a very good card.
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