Wesley's STCCG card of the day #96

Hi, folks,

we heven't seen a Vulcan for ... ummm ... a long time, so let's fix this:

T'PAN

Personnel, Federation, uncommon.
Integrity 8
Cunning 9
Strength 4
SCIENCE x2, Staff Star (+)
"Vulcan female. Dr T'Pan served as director of the prestigious Vulcan Science Academy. Preeminent expert in subspace morphology."

Ho-Hum. I'm always a little short on SCIENCE for the various Dilemmas, but on the other hand I'm even shorter on crew slots for my deck (playing only 13 personnel cards !) So I have to go for diversity instead of high amounts of a single skill. And worse, there are not many Dilemmas that need more than one SCIENCE. Ancient Computer is one of them, but normally 3 ENGINEER are easy to come by. Nitrium Metal Parasites is about the same case, but with 2 each of ENGINEER or SCIENCE. Nanites is no trouble for any Federation deck worth the name (Diplomacy ???) and that's it! Right, just 3 Dilemmas.

8And then there's missions. NOT ONE mission requires any SCIENCE!!! So what do I need two SCIENCE on one card for ? BTW: If playing Planet missions only, the Dilemmas aren't a threat either: They are all three Space Dilemmas. So the double SCIENCE is a total loss as far as the current set of cards is concerned (I hope AU fixes this, we really need to see a few more uses for SCIENCE than just as a Life Insurance against a few Dilemmas).

So with the second SCIENCE being worthless, this card can only fall into one slot: crappy. (Hey, don't use that Metaphasic Shields argument: I use the Nutational variant, as Geordi, Wesley, Data, Roga Danar and Dr. Reyga supply enough ENGINEERING power.)

Favorite combo(s):

I'd love to have one here, but if a card has not a single situation in which you can put it to full use...

Ratings for : T'PAN

Wesley's rating:                3.0
Conner's rating:                6.5 (Med.? You confused her with Selar ?)
Habib's rating:                 5.0
Phil's rating:                  6.0
Lore's rating:                  6.3 (What ? HE ? Look at the card again :-)  )
Owen's rating:                  2.4
Ian's rating:                   3.0
Jack's rating:                  6.9
Jason's rating:                 6.5
GoOski's rating:                4.5
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AVERAGE RATING:                 5.01

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Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

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