Mot's Useless Card Review #9: K'Ehleyr

In the Diplomacy/Honor department, a Federation player has several choices: Jean-Luc Picard (Prem), William Riker, Rachel Garrett, Dathon, maybe even Lal. As for V.I.P.s, there are perhaps better choices in terms of people likely to help you out with dilemmas, Spock amd Admiral McCoy topping the list.

So why should you play with K’Ehleyr? (Besides the fact that you're a Suzie Plakson fan?) Because she's got one thing all those others don't have, one thing she shares with the one Honorable Diplomat I left off the above list. That's her main man Worf (Prem), and together with son Alexander Rozhenko you have three Federation personnel with a very unique "skill." Klingon blood.

K'Ehleyr is no more a Merry Man than Worf. She'll step up to meet an Honor Challenge. And if she dies, you can send her off honorably with a Klingon Death Yell. All of those neat little Klingon-related cards a Fed player would be hard pressed to include in a deck for Worf's sake become considerably more practical when the whole family is aboard for the ride. In particular, I can think of a few Q-icon cards I'd nullify, Mandarin Bailiff and Penalty Box to name a couple. (I once lost a game by two points on account of a Mandarin Bailiff. Grrrrr.) Meanwhile, you're not vulnerable to the Klingon Civil War as you might be if playing "the real thing." It's about as close to a dual-affiliation Klingon as there is in the game at present, and that's an advantage worth exploiting now and then. ;-)