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Star Trek CCG Tenth Anniversary Contest #8:
The Many Faces of The Next Generation
December 14, 2004 – RESULTS
It's easy these days to forget that Star Trek CCG actually started
out as Star Trek: The Next Generation CCG. But the first three
sets were in fact all based on just that one series. Even the First Contact
expansion, which drew on a movie instead of a TV series, was still about
the Next Gen characters. This contest focuses on the seven main characters
("bridge crew") from that series: Picard, Riker, Data, Worf, Geordi,
Crusher, and Troi. To be more precise, it focuses on the actors who
played those characters, and all the personnel cards they appeared on.
Why that fine distinction? All seven of the bridge crew have appeared on
multiple personnel cards. Some of them are different versions of the character's
main persona; some are Alternate Universe versions; and others are impersonators,
Mirror Universe versions, or even holograms. In addition, some of the actors
portrayed completely different characters who got their own personnel cards.
For example, Brent Spiner played not only Data, but also Lore, among others.
The Prizes
1st place: A complete 18-card Necessary Evil foil subset, plus
a First Edition foil Kivas Fajo – Collector.
2nd place: A complete 9-card Second Edition Premiere foil set,
with the Martok signed by actor J.G. Hertzler, plus a First Edition tournament
foil (random selection).
3rd place: 8 assorted foil cards: 2 from the Necessary Evil foil
subset, 2 from the Second Edition Premiere foil subset, 2 from First Edition
Reflections, and two First Edition tournament foils.
4th-10th place: One Second Edition Premiere foil (random selection)
plus one First Edition tournament foil (random selection).
The Answers
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Which character's actor appears on the most personnel cards?
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Originally I thought the answer to this was unequivocally Data (Brent
Spiner), with a total of 17 personnel cards including all versions of
Data and his holodeck characters, plus Lore and Dr. Soong. However, I decided
it is questionable to include Data's Body, which does not actually show
Brent Spiner (one assumes) but rather a headless "body." Now,
arguably the character could be said to have been played by Brent
Spiner (i.e., once the head was reattached), but since the actual card does
not show Spiner, it's ambiguous at best. If we discount Data's Body, that
leaves Brent Spiner tied at 16 with Worf (Michael Dorn), who has
not only a couple of AU versions but also played his ancestor Colonel Worf
in a movie. So I accepted either Data or Worf as correct. Both just edged
out Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard), who only has 15 personnel cards to
date.
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Which one appears on the most personnel cards in a single set?
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Data (Brent Spiner) was the clear winner here, with four characters
in Holodeck Adventures: Sherlock Holmes, Carlos, Eli Hollander, and Frank
Hollander. In fact, he also had three character cards in Necessary Evil
– Data, Pinocchio; Data, Loyal Brother; and Lore, The One – while
the most cards anyone else had in a single set was two.
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Which one appears on the most dual-affiliation cards?
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Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) is the only one to have two dual-affiliation
cards: Major Rakal (Rom/Fed) and The Trois (Fer/Fed).
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Two of the characters' actors have appeared on more non-Federation
personnel cards than Federation. Which one has the highest proportion of
non-Federation to Federation?
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Worf (Michael Dorn) has 10 Non-Federation and only 6 Federation
cards. Data (Brent Spiner) was the runner-up, with 8 Federation cards (counting
the [Fed] icon on Data and Picard) out of his 16 or 17.
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Which one appeared on two personnel cards in First Edition Premiere?
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Riker (Jonathan Frakes) played both William T. Riker and Thomas
Riker.
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Which one went the longest before getting his or her second personnel card?
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La Forge (LeVar Burton) had to wait until First Contact to get his
second card. Picard, Worf, Troi, and Crusher got theirs in Alternate Universe,
and Data got his in the Two-Player Game.
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All seven of the characters appeared on at least one personnel card
in each of these sets: First Edition Premiere, First Contact, and Second
Edition Premiere. Which is the only other set to include all seven characters?
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Enhanced Premiere squeezed all seven (along with a few other characters)
into six dual-personnel cards, some more than once.
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Six of the seven appear on personnel cards in Necessary Evil. Which
one did not?
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Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).
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Several First and Second Edition sets had only one of the seven in it
on a personnel card. Which character held this distinction the most times?
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Worf (Michael Dorn) was the only one to have a card in The Trouble
With Tribbles (Non-aligned Worf), Mirror, Mirror (Regent Worf), The Motion
Pictures (Colonel Worf), and Fractured Time (First Officer and regent of
the Alliance).
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What is the most affiliations that any of these character's actors have?
Count Non-aligned as an affiliation, and count dual-affiliation cards as
two separate affiliations. (For example, a character with [Fed], [Klg],
and [Fed/Klg] cards has a total of two affiliations.)
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Picard, Troi, and Riker have each had four different affiliations.
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The Winners
We received 127 entries for this contest, of which 49 got
all the answers right (33 naming Data for #1 and 16 naming Worf). The first
three places were selected randomly from those 49, and the remaining places
from all entries. Congratulations to:
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1st
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Lorne Kates
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Richmond Hill, ON
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2nd
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Mike O'Reilly
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Hudson, OH
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3rd
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William Purcell
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New York, NY
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4th
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Jeroen van Delft
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Den Haag, The Netherlands
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5th
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Andrew Boger
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Warren, MI
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6th
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Kyle Baxter
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Omaha, NE
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7th
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Ryan Yaeger
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Snyder, NY
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8th
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Andras Toth
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Budapest, Hungary
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9th
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Jamison Baty
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Charlottesville, VA
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10th
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Dustin Westfall
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La Habra, CA
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Your prizes will be shipped in approximately 8-10 weeks. If
you have any questions, please direct them to webmaster@decipher.com
and specify by title exactly which contest you are enquiring about.
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