[Danny]

Mercer

1 Mercer
Human
•Exobiology •Medical
Dissident. When your Paranoia event is about to be destroyed, you may kill this personnel to return that event to its owner's hand.
"I feel no differently about it than anyone else that I've treated."
Integrity 4 Cunning 6 Strength 4

Things of note:

He's Starfleet's fourth Exo Med personnel (and their second non-unique one), so a couple of copies provide 60% of the skills to get past the ever popular Tsiolkovsky Infection. Although his INT and STR are 4, his CUN of 6 is playable.

I can't help but feel like he's been a little shortchanged; (at the time of writing) there are three other (=<) 1 cost, 1 keyword, 4/6/4 personnel with some game text.

• One's the batshit Ezri Tigan, SoF, so I'm not sure how to compare her.
• One's the unique Quark, Resistance Informant, who boasts a total of four skills
• and the other is the non-unique Levin, who has a silver star and three skills.

Now, Quark does require a discard (so, he could be said to cost 2), but if one were to change the scope of comparison a little to 1 cost personnel with total attributes 14, Mercer still comes up short against folk like Dallan, Goval, and Temarek.

He's either a little underdone or a little over costed.

Final Score: In a Racist SF deck, where his game text can be used to stop your Terra Prime Forever from being destroyed, or be thrown under the Homicidal Expedient bus, he's a 7/10. In a regular SF deck, if you're just after someone to fill the Exo and/or Med gaps, it might be just worth just paying that 1 counter extra, and playing Errol or Nimira (better attributes, plenty of skills, and silver stars too), so a 5/10.

[Naetor]

Well, we got an answer to the just destroy it solution to Terra Prime Forever. We still don't know the personnel list, but this new affiliation has some insane verbs.