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. And finally, the eponymous card of the episode we've been looking at...
PICTURE: There are a couple of instances of cards in the Premiere set whose colors have been shifted from blue to purple. This is one of them. On the show, the strange space was a nice, glowing blue. On the card, it's this awful lilac. Bleh. Christmas lights, wet kleenex and purple. Baaaaaaad combination - a 1.
LORE: First, the title HAD to be made into a card. It's just so classic. No one can hear it and not think of Star Trek. The rest of the lore is pretty simple... a 3.1.
TREK SENSE: Gets iffy at this point (if it wasn't already). The title suggests a place, but this isn't a spaceline location. It also suggests a way to get where no one has ever been. In actuality, it sends us to the other side of the spaceline, where people have probably already been. Just a circle around this tiny part of the universe, not anything like Galaxy M-33 or the "strange space" pictured. Even if we assume that the Traveler takes you somewhere weird and brings you back at this "other end" (NOT what happened on the show), the problem is compounded by the fact that you can't use this to get to other Quadrants (they are part of their own spaceline). So the Traveler isn't too powerful in this instance. I guess this is Kozinski's work without the benefit of the Tau Ceti alien, eh? No go: a 1.
STOCKABILITY: Less and less useful, what with the Gamma and Delta Quadrants in the game. Not only aren't different Quadrants part of the same spaceline, but their presence shortens the Alpha Quadrant to a point where it's easy enough to get from one end to the other without WNOHGB. Add to that the sheer number of ways to get places (high RANGE ships and RANGE boosts, Wormholes, The Traveler, ships that report directly to spaceline, etc.) and you've got a card that's being left in the dust. Since the original set, has dwindled to a 2.5.
TOTAL: 7.6 (38%) Youch! Good thing the lore was deemed adequate. :-( !
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