The card is fine. It doesn't force you to include anything. Wall dilemmas force you to include skills: you're never getting past that
Navigational Hazards if you didn't stock any Stellar Cartography. The random aspect of
Quantum Incursions makes it not a wall. If you didn't stock the
or Empathy that
this attempt says you need, then you try again next turn, and usually get different (therefore easier) requirements.
I once hit the part four times in a row
Simply put, welcome to probability. Randomness is an inherent part of this game (notice the shuffling?), and always has been. Failing the randomness of this card is even less punishing than with many other cards. With this, if you fail because of bad luck with the randomness, you're only stopped. Now consider
Seismic Quake, or
Ornaran Threat, or
Close Call. Each of these is passable with the right people ... but first, those people need to survive the random selection. These are dilemmas where you might fail only because of the bad luck with the randomness ... but at the end of that failure, you're left with not only a stopped team, but also a dead personnel.
I don't even use this card anymore. I like my combos to have a reliable amount of effectiveness, and with the teams I've seen, this is frequently passed on the first attempt.
Now, I'm not saying that we absolutely cannot change it. A lot of changes have been proposed, and I find some of them reasonable. I'm saying that IMO a change is not
needed.