William T. Riker
By W. Marc Crusher
The new Riker is one of the Bridge crew members who definitely gained from the revision. A second Leadership replaces Navigation, a skill you should never have a desperate lack of, considering Gibson who is a Navigation x2 mission specialist. On the other hand, the additional Leadership is a great asset in overcoming a pesky (or self-seeded) Q. William Riker even allows for an interesting six-person away team capable of beating Q - add five Exocomps and a Lower Decks (thanx to Reg Barclay for this cool combo ;-) )
The Download is also one of the more usable ones in a Federation deck - Hugh might be a nice card to do something about the Borg Ship, but you'll have to tent for him before you meet the Borg. With a quick Anti-Matter Spread downloaded from your tent or deck you can at least survive a Borg attack in the typical Federation ship (same goes for a Borg Cube - apart from the Queen and Locutus all personnel aboard it have CUNNING <8, so the typical Retasked cube will suffer -7 or more to its WEAPONS, enough to have an Enterprise D or E survive the attack). Riker as a living anti-Borg life insurance. Definitely the first Riker I'll put into my decks if the theme fits.
Here is what Riker used to look like! :)
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