STAW: These Are The Voyages Unboxing

I'm pretty sure the new errata'd card completely replaces the old card. So slot layout and all text transfers over.

Leah Brahms should maybe have been a ? Card. She only appears as a hologram and one of Geordi's very many dodgy dates. Great detail to have her along side the galaxy though. An it will be a nice card on the Galaxy.

Not that anyone runs Dreadnaught, but Ro laren would nerf that ship because it can't have a captain.

I think Tuvok is from the Lakota. I have the hood and Cairo but I don't have that OP tuvok.

I think the feeling we will get with the new lower decks cards, (and what I want to try) is assign one "senior" crew member to a fed ship, and the rest be lower deckers, that way it somewhat fits with how away missions or b plots work in some episodes with a senior staffer watching out for the lower decks.

Phlox's ability is not quite the same. Old Phlox could be used when your ship was on AUX (important for the NX-01) the new Phlox is a free action, meaning he will not work well with Enhanced Hull Platting.

The new Excelsior bizarrely works well with the old Captain Sulu card.

Putting Sulu with the Obstruct ability on DS9 or ships with an over size base 😂 🤔

I love the crew Captain flip over cards idea. This is so the right way.
However I did notice they didn't do this with Geordi. An they could have done it with Hayes and give us a reworking of the Hayes Captain.
Wonder if that was deliberate. But happy I have this on order. It's a great thing.

Card number 38, at minute 38! (38:36) "Our Main Man Jellico"! And the crowd goes wild!!!
I'm not sure why I love this guy so much. he plays such a good semi-villian in shows, but whats fun about hi in TNG, is he is absolutely painted like a villain, however he didn't actually do anything wrong and his command desictions save the day. A truly unsung hero. I remember buying the Cairo for him and high yield photon torpedoes. Not a particularly good ship, but I liked his character.

Oh it just dawned on me this is a new Picard 9. I was wondering why we didn't get a Kirk 9 in this set, I thought perhaps they were leaving the 9's for older fans but its nice to have a new one. The thing I like most about Picard 9 was the game more or less said: "This is the strongest a captain is allowed to get" and never made one quite as strong in such a universal way.

I think you can do some naughty things with the tractor beams. Move one ship about four times put about four evade tokens on it. Put old Kor on it so you have to attack it. 😂
Naughty.

I been giving these some thought. New Admiral Kirk means we can now build an Akira class with a decent crew compliment. Spector for example. 🤔 It was always a limiting factor on Akira's. Very interesting.

I specifically asked about if the erratas/replaced cards would turn formerly single sided cards (like the old Cpt Spock and Crew Spock) into double sided cards and Stephen responded with "These are update/balance changes to the cards." So since no objection was given to the concern about making single sided cards double sided, that would point to the old Enterprise E now being "double sided" as much as I feel like that is not the intention of the errata, but the information we received says 'maybe/probably'. I hope we can get a more clear answer eventually, but I didn't want to keep bothering Stephen about it. He seemed busy enough.

Oh the skill 8 Kirk who converts disables into time tokens, with Ezri Dax on the B will be RAD!!!

Good stuff for the upgrades , they are showing how great the ships are going to be if they keep up with attack wing. Really doing the game justice and making each new pack worth the price no argument on that. Such good stuff.

I gotta say , I dig the throw back golden paint for the collector sake , for play sake I think I’ll mostly use my other ships if I can as it’s a bit wild with how gold fingery they are. They do make it easy to distinguish between like models however.