Here's something dating from the dawn of the CCG era, from the looks of it, just after the Star Trek: Collectible Card Game's Basic Set came out. From the off, it looks like I was interested in designing my own cards, a hobby that evolved into the graphically better made Unauthorized Doctor Who CCG. Of course, these were made using photocopies, colored and written in by hand. Here's a sample of the 16 I did find (click to double in size):
All of my designs were inspired by Next Gen tie-in novels:-Idun is a bog typical Personnel card from Reunion (her lack of flavor is how I know it was made just after the Basic Set; today, she'd be dual aligned Federation/Klingon).
-The Devil's Heart is from the novel of the same name and works with the concept of "charges", which never existed in 1st edition.
-Q-in-Law likewise takes its title from a novel. It "disables" a skill and ties into Lwaxana Troi, which also appears with Q in the book.
-The Choraii Ship is from The Children of Hamlin and should be pretty easy to overcome (Basic Set again).
-Starbase 193 is an attempt at a different kind of Outpost card (for the time) and has game text mixed in with its lore. It is featured in The Devil's Heart.
-Primitive Society has a fairly fun anti-Equipment mechanic. It's from A Call to Darkness.
These and 10 others were found in a box with a number of graphical dream cards made by others and found on the Internet (but not printed in color), each slip of paper stuck to the front of an actual (common) STCCG. All made by hand. How quaint!
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I made a few of these after learning some basic skills in Microsoft's Image Composer (their attempt at Photoshop, now part of Publisher). Made a couple from Q-Squared (Jack Crusher and Trelane) and began a few from the Original Series a few years before those expansions were announced.