Good Card, Bad Card #44

Today America celebrated like it was our generation's 'V-E Day'. It was not, no war has ended, no soldier is coming home because a tall, goofy Muslim got shot in the head. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the son of a bitch is dead, but the "America, Fuck Yeah!" attitude is getting us into trouble. We might as well of put his head on a pike and paraded it around all our cities. I do pose one question: What if bin Laden surrendered? Would they still of shot him? This 'eye for an eye' justice rubs me the wrong way. Are we a country that exacts blood vengeance now? In other less important news, I went all the way to Ohio to lose to a deck I see all the time in Jersey. Listen, people can play any deck they want, but when you play a build that somebody else came up with you have to freely admit it. It seems some people just take decks off the internet then act like it's their deck. Just do me a favor people, just put the name of the person you hacked it from in the deck title, do that and I don't care what you do. You can't change two cards in the deck, give it a stupid new title, then act like you won a tournament yourself. On the way home I made a return to Wheeling, West Virginia. I left Columbus the next morning and it was raining, by the time I got to Wheeling, about 2 hours later, it felt like I was driving for 8 and needed a break. So I figured a couple hour poker break wouldn't hurt. After 2 hours, I got my money in the pot with the worst hand, got lucky and won back about half the money I lost on my way to Columbus. Figures, the one hand I play like a donkey is the one I end up winning. I decided to take the money and run, it was time to get the hell out of Wheeling. I have to give a big thanks to Brian Sykes, and his lovely wife, for letting Charlie and me crash at their place in Columbus. Sykes used up all his man-cred for that I'm sure. He'll probably have to take her to a chick flick movie to make up for it. For GCBC we're on to the set 'These are the Voyages'. Overall, I like this set. If it wasn't for a terrible 0-cost dilemma, that was a previous 'bad card', and a Romulan ship that needed errata, this set would've been a home run.
Good Card: Parek, Privileged Legate

Why: We all know I love 'Pimp Dukat' (Prefect), so of course I love his buddy Parek. But I also love this personnel because he's awesome. Cardassians have some skill issues, because most Cardassians are just shady scumbags with Officer and Treachery. Parek skills are a bit redundant (Cardies already have tons of archeology and exobiology), but at least he doesn't have Treachery (at least one guy not getting stopped by An Issue of Trust). But the ability to pop any skill you want from a Comfort Women is a great bargain for a 2 cost personnel. Right now he's super-awesome when you combine him with Navaar.

Bad Card: Two of Nine, Transtator Drone

Why: Borg were already Tier-1 good, then they gave them a Luther Sloan. Actually he's better than Sloan, all you have to do is put him on the bottom and then download him again next turn with Quintessence. An affiliation becomes too good when it gets too much 'offence' and 'defense'. Borg can already get through missions because they have awesome cheaters. Adapt, K & E, etc. Two of Nine gives them a defense against any event that might slow them down. They already had a way to 'steal' events with Adapt to Service Us, and that was great. So why did they feel the need to make this card?