Wesley's STCCG card of the day #319

Hi, folks,

now that I'm finished showing the Red Card to a few netiquette breakers on the BBS, I could as well show you the Red Card. Ah, meant to say show you THE red card.

KITRIK

Personnel, Klingon, uncommon QC.
Integrity 6
Cunning 7
Strength 6
MEDICAL, Exobiology, SCIENCE, Cybernetics, Music, Staff Star (+).
"A Klingon physician. Has a research laboratory and clinic at the Klingon outpost on Maranga IV. Plays the part of 'Molor' in the annual Kat'baval Festival."

So the circle is now complete. The Federation has a great rare dual classification card (Data), the Romulans have a great rare dual (Taris), the non-aligneds have a great rare dual (Roga Danar), the Klingons have a great ra- waitasecond! This is not rare! What did they think here? An uncommon Klingon with a dual classification and three useful skills on top of that? What universe is this? (The STCCG universe, dork). Ah, well, let's stick with it for the moment and accept this card at face value.

From classifications, we have a male Vekor. SCIENCE plus MEDICAL. Not too shabby, especially since the Klingons didn't have too much great support in either area (except for Kurak). But even not counting skills, there's one thing that makes Kitrik superior to Vekor: his Integrity of 6, which means he's invulnerable to Firestorm and (due to his 7 Cunning) also to Thought Fire. If it weren't for that odd Cunning number that makes him vulnerable to Hunter Gangs...

But there are still these skills. Now what is a SCI/MED guy good for? Right, getting rid of Dilemmas. And just for fun, when we have a Dilemma solver, we get Exobiology as a bonus, protecting our Diphole(TM) characters from a misplaced Zaldan and untimely Coalescent Organisms. And while we're at it, even being male is an important asset for Kitrik. Just as a defence against those nasty [COTD or Rakal-review reading] players who prefer to prefix a Barclay's disease with a Female's Love interest to get rid of a MEDICAL. Now that's the Dilemmas. But there's more to this game than solving Dilemmas. Scoring points for example. Like with a Ressikan Flute (Um, how many Klingon musicians are there?). Or getting cards into play so you can actually start doing missions (like Soong-type Androids). How does it sound to you to just play 5 personnel cards on your first turn because of good old Kitrik?

So Kitrik is of help when preparing to solve missions, just before doing so and even after doing it. And for actual mission requirements? Pretty much zip. But that's what the rest of your deck is for.

Favorite combo(s):

Kitrik + 4 Soong-Type Androids + Sensitive Search. Who said you can't solve a heavily Dilemma'ed mission on your first turn?

Ratings for : KITRIK

Wesley's rating:                8.7
Cole's rating:                  8.4
Data's rating:                  8.8 
Drew's rating:                  9.7
Gowron's rating:                8.3
Hal's rating:                   9.0
Jack's rating:                  6.7
Mot's rating:                   9.25
Nanite's rating:                9.5
Nog's rating:                   8.0
Nouwa's rating:                 7.0
Picarde's rating:               8.0
Q's rating:                     7.5
Ranger's rating:                7.5
Rothspar's rating:              4.5??!!??!!??!!?
Tebok's rating:                 9.5
Tony's rating:                  9.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 8.2

PS: Diphole = Diplomacy + Honor + Leadership. Annoyingly common skill combination ;-)

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Wesley Crusher
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