You know what's a lot of work? Gardening. At Wal-Mart today while walking by the garden section I got the dumb idea of fixing up the yard. Its been a rough winter and I noticed the other day the rosebush and small garden area was a mess. So I bought a $10 shovel, a couple plants and went to work. Figured, how hard could it be? I quickly learned 2 minutes into it I'd need my $8 machete and $9 hatchet to take down this dying rosebush (yes, I previously purchased those items at Wal-Mart for no particular reason). That son of a bitch wasn't going out without a fight. I went into this wearing jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. I had to call a timeout, go get water and proper attire. 3 hours later I had the whole tiny garden area shovel out, made pretty and replanted. Now it's a big patch of dirt with 2 tiny plants in it. Honestly, I don't know how landscapers do it, that's some back-breaking hard work. And I did a terrible job at it. Turning our attention to GCBC, somebody on the boards asked me to do a virtual promo edition of GCBC. Since I'm going back through sets the next icon back on the trekcc.org site is for all the virtual promos. So what the hell, might as well make a stop here. 
Good Card: Engage Cloak Why: One of the perks for doing a virtual promo is that you get to take a card with a crappy image and give it a new one. Sadly it seems that they usually use a worse image. Not with Engage Cloak. This card was from Premier so it had to have a sad image from Star Trek: Nemesis. I don't hate on the movie like most people do, but I'm not a fan of the Scimitar. It's a lame ship that could've been awesome. The only cool thing about the Scimitar 2E card is that it calls your opponent a "loser" when you win an engagement. The lame image of the original is a half cloaked Scimitar. But now we have a Klingon ship, like it's supposed to be.
Bad Card: Data, From the City of Rateg Why: I don't even like this card in general, and I hate the promo even more. He's Romulan, so I could use Alternate Identity to get around paying retail for him, but I still don't want him. I don't play dissidents when Romulan, I just don't think it's Tier-1. Sure, he's got monster attribute, but Romulans can easily make that happen with Power Shift. Now let's get to the promo, they should've changed the title to 'Autistic Data'. He looks like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Main, "I'm in Rateg....definitley in Rateg. Sarek is dead, definitely dead. Fishsticks for dinner" This Data looks like BenHosp watching FoxNews, all twitchy and confused. It's ok for me to make Autistic jokes, I got a kid with a "touch of the BenHosp". It's like having a black friend....
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