[Faithful Reader]

It's Wednesday! We're more than halfway through the week. Since we are over the hump, let's look at a question!

Last Week: Skeleton Cruises
3-19-25 Part of Another World
3-12-24 Playably Unreleased
3-5-25 Tomorrowland II: More Tomorrower
2-26-25 Racing for Glory!
2-19-25 Desk Hugger
2-12-25 Desk Hugger
2-5-25 Idle Hands
2-5-25 The Delta Quadrantification of the Universe
1-29-25 Premiere Remastered
1-22-25 Finding Our Way: Page Wars
1-15-25 Kids These Days
1-8-25 The Lobes for an Expansion
1-1-25 What Personnel am I thinking of?

This week is going to be a little different. Specifically, I have no questions. But I do have plenty of answers.

Your answers, actually. Weeks ago I posted a poll about upcoming sets and the results are in!

What set are you looking forward to the most?

9.1% Project “Hamlet” Paranoia, Bluegill and Intelligence.
18.2% Project “Snoopy ” a colorful mix of 18 personnel, missions and dilemmas.
45.5% Project “Samuel” The Xindi.
18.2% Project “Manticore” opportunities for the Gamma Quadrant and new areas for the Ferengi.
9.2% “Year of Hell I/II” inspired set.
Starbase 74, “Outposts Scientists”

What makes it your favorite?

The Ferengi would benefit from new ideas!
2E should have more affiliations then 1E by design, they are easier to support.
New affiliation
Hopefully quality over quantity and something for everyone.
I'm curious to see what flavor the Xindi will have. I'm also interested in Outpost Scientists for the same reason.
Show me something creative with a new affiliation.
The GQ has half as many missions as the the DQ, so it ripe for further exploration.
Great story line
I’m a shameless sucker for new affiliations.
This seems to be a well-balanced and interesting set that can set up some new deck types. It doesn’t appear that anything particularly broken is coming out of playtest, which is a plus.
Less work

What set are you looking forward to the least?

54.5% Project “Hamlet” Paranoia, Bluegill and Intelligence.
9.1% Project “Snoopy ” a colorful mix of 18 personnel, missions and dilemmas.
Project “Samuel” The Xindi.
18.2% Project “Manticore” opportunities for the Gamma Quadrant and new areas for the Ferengi.
27..3% “Year of Hell I/II” inspired set.
9.1% Starbase 74, “Outposts Scientists”

What makes it your least favorite?

I'd like to see 2E be more ambitious in trying new directioms. 1E has Showdowns, it's tried block formats, etc. 2E feels a little stale, and this seems like the stalest.
Lack of interest in the paranoia cards
Sounds very federation and boring
Paranoia and Bluegill aren't concepts I've much interest in
Having playtested it, it's not my jam.
So over Voyager.
Paranoia and Bluegill are two of the worst CC developed keywords.
Least compelling
Just sounds the least evocative of the lot but I would be delighted to be wrong. I still look forward to what y’all’ve cooked up for the bluegills.
Although I would be extremely excited about the Year of Hell being incorpui to the game, I am very concerned that the mechanics as described to me privately are ripe for abuse.
Temporal Headache

Thanks for everyone who filled out the survey.