[Morgan]

Here's a figure that took me a few years to track down, and one that's very rarely seen for sale. This is the duty uniform Bashir on a TNG 7th season card for the Canadian market, and is one of a handful DS9 second release figures that made it on to these cards. They included Picard DS9, Thomas Riker, Q, O'Brien in duty uniform, Dax in duty uniform, Bashir in duty uniform, but not Vash, who was never even released on DS9-specific cards.

In total, this Bashir figure was released on 4 different cards:

1. US 2nd release DS9 card with pog
2. Australian 1st release card without a pog
3. Canadian 7th season TNG card with a blue sticker and pog
4. Canadian DS9 1st release card with blue sticker and without pog

This Canadian 7th season one is perhaps the hardest to find out of the three, because I've had two Australian ones for a few years now that I actually had to get from Australia. But really, only the U.S. one is plentiful, while the numbers of the Canadian and Australian versions are not.

The phenomenon of DS9 figures on TNG 1994 7th season cards is one of the most peculiar ones, and it's believed that it stemmed from a backer card shortage caused by some subcontractor snafu.