Wesley's STCCG card of the day #270

Hi, folks,

How about an old ship that's now a new card?

U.S.S. STARGAZER

Ship, Federation, rare(?) QC
Range 8
Weapons 7
Shields 6
Requires 1 Command(*), 1 Staff (+). Tractor beam, Once each game, may be taken from discard pile to hand.
"Captained by Jean-Luc Picard on a historic 22-year mission of exploration.Thought destroyed in 2355 at Zeta Maxia until returned by DaiMon Bok."

At first sight, this ship does not seem that good. 8/7/6 isn't really what you expect for two icons when you can have an 8/7/8 common Nebula for the same price or a Klingon 8/7/7 at even one less command icon. But maybe the special abilities catch it. And this ship has two of them. One is the obvious one printed in the game text box. Though this is not a gamebreaking one. Granted, you can get this ship back when it is destroyed (but where do you get a new crew from) or discarded by Ship Seizure (sometimes somebody even plays with this card - can cause lots of trouble with careless players). But IMHO the best use of this ability lies in taking one less card damage from a Static Warp Bubble or TAK. When having to discard and only waiting for a Traveler or Kevin, discard the Stargazer and take it back once the threat to your hand cards is over - one less card lost as this retrieval costs you nothing.

And the other ability? Hidden in the lore lies the tidbit everybody would have wanted to see on the Enterprise: The capability of using the Captain's Log with our good old Jean-Luc Picard. And this way, you get a new ship with 8/10/9 and a crew requirement of 3 cards that can at least move if it has only two of them aboard. And looking at it this way, the once so crappy Stargazer does no longer look that bad. She'll never be the flagship of STCCG but then, they also won't mention her in the same sentence as Yridian Shuttles and Miranda-Class ships.

Favorite combo(s):

- C'mon, you know exactly what goes here ;-)

Ratings for : U.S.S. STARGAZER

Wesley's rating:                6.5
Allen's rating:                 8.7
Cole's rating:                  8.5
Data's rating:                  8.0
Gowron's rating:                ---
Hal's rating:                   9.0
Jack's rating:                  7.5
Lakanta's rating:               6.5
Nanite's rating:                9.0
Nouwa's rating:                 7.5
Picarde's rating:               ---
Q's rating:                     6.0
Ranger's rating:                ---
Ray's rating:                   6.2
Tania's rating:                 ---
Tony's rating:                  9.0
Wa'Qah's rating:                ---
Drew's rating:                  7.5
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AVERAGE RATING:                 7.7

Yuck, this is getting scary! 18 raters! (That happens when you use an older list and include the new ones on it and send it out - all the old guys come back and then the usual dropout rate fails to occur ;-) )

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