Wesley's STCCG card of the day #77

Hi, folks,

how about a card that is worth nothing by itself?

HOLO-PROJECTORS

Event, uncommon.
Plays on table. This technology allows your holographic re-creations to be projected and used on any of your ships or Away Teams. (Immune to Kevin Uxbridge)
"The hologram projector on Minos is an example of planet-based interactive holographic technology."

Too bad they didn't come up with the linking card concept in time for this card. If you could seed it, this would be great. As it stands, it is more like a lottery. Once you have it, you get great redshirts and you can access some cool personnel cards. But if you rely on it and don't get it you are doomed, as you lose the use of some key personnel. (Decipher: How about a change to this card so it may be used like the linking cards?)

Of course, this card is double valuable to our Klingon and Romulan friends. These cannot use their Holos at all unless they have Husnock ships (slow) or the Holo-Projector. The Federation can at least create a space-mission Hologram deck without relying on the Holo-Projectors (for which purpose the Fed Holo cards are well suited anyway.)

A really good thing about this event is that they made it immune to Kevin. Although I think the main purpose of this decision was to avoid rules fuss (What happens to a hologram on a planet when the projector is destroyed?) this immunity makes this the only invulnerable card in the game, so once played it stays. The only problem is to get it out, and for this downside this card is close to worthless. (You can't rely on lots of Holos for the risk of not getting your Projector and with only a few Holos the net effect of the card is too low.)

BTW: Using more than one Projector isn't that great either; you get one earlier, but all others don't do anything sensible...

Favorite combo(s):

Holo-Projectors + Betazoid Gift Box. The only way to get it to work reliably.

Ratings for : HOLO-PROJECTORS

Wesley's rating:                2.5 (8.0 if made seedable [House rule])
Conner's rating:                7.0 (If you play Klingons or Rommies)
Phil's rating:                  7.0
Michael's rating:               8.6
Owen's rating:                  4.1
Ian's rating:                   2.9
Cole's rating:                  5.0
Jack's rating:                  8.9
Jason's rating:                 8.0
Jeff's rating:                  6.7
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AVERAGE RATING:                 6.07

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