See part 1. I DID find the other Star Trek Collectible Card Game cards I made back when there was only the Basic Set to be had, based on Star Trek TNG novels. Photocopies, colored pencils, handwritten script... Here's another batch of 5, and it makes me realize the first 6 I had posted were posted because they were the best ones. Look at this lot:
But I'm still going to try and use today's digital tools to recreate the cards to look all glossy and official.
First up is the giant Romulan ship from "The Romulan Prize" by Simon Hawke. You can tell it's an early design, because it's just not powerful or interesting enough to be worth the extra staffing. But it was big and powerful in the early game environment.
The other card from "The Romulan Prize" is the Syrinx's matching commander, and hilariously, I called his Treachery skill "Treason" on the original (fixed it). I have a vague memory that I was making that mistake all the time back in the day.
A mission based on Howard Weinstein's "Exiles", and I must have thought myself pretty clever to include a shuttle in the requirements. That kind of thing was rare on the original missions.
An effect mentioned in T.L. Mancour's "Spartacus", I had to find a new image for it because it's not on the cover. Still looks familiar, so I think I poached it from a different book. Went looking in my boxes of Star Trek novels, and it's not them, so probably some other sci-fi novel, but I just can't go through every book box to find out which one. There'll be another Spartacus-related card in the finale batch.
When reading a synopsis of "Doomsday World" (Carter, David, Friedman, Greenberger), I couldn't make sense of whether I purposed the Sullurh Fleet correctly. So the lore is a big guessing game. I guess it can still act as a generic alien fleet dilemma.
So that leaves five, and I'll show them in a few weeks. Heck, I'm not even sure I know where each of them is FROM. Diminishing returns incoming!
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