was good before The Cage. I expect it would still be good in the interim, just not as overwhelming.
The Final Frontier is so inexplicably under-costed for what it does that I can't imagine it wasn't at least part of the problem.
Try to set up a first-turn unique ship and two unrestricted free plays of high-quality personnel, at a location of your choice, for any other era/affiliation/faction. How many seed cards does it take? More than one!
Rewrite The Final Frontier, as it is, to reference any other group in the game and it would probably make their existing play engines obsolete too.
TFF should be
one free play, possibly universal or some other condition; no ship, no second report.
There aren't any affiliation-specific reporting engines for
. With TFF brought in line, fill in the gap with something more interesting.