Back to part 2. The last batch of Star Trek Collectible Card Game cards I made back when that game was new, with only photocopies and color pencils to work with. These are cards based on relatively early TNG novels from Pocket Books. There's a reason I kept these to the end - I used images from Making Of books on some of them, meaning I didn't have an easy way to reproduce them in color.
But an attempt must still be made with today's digital tools...
First up, the cultural observer from "The Children of Hamlin" (by Carmen Carter). A simple support personnel, but with an unusually multiplied skill. Sadly impossible to smoothly remove Beverly's head there.
I thought myself pretty clever in creating a personnel card with an empty skill box, I guess. Gulliver, a holographic giant in "Gulliver's Fugitives" (Keith Sharee), is nevertheless a Medical personnel, just, according to Jonathan Swift's story, a terrible one. In the Star Trek novel, he wasn't holographic, but rather seen in a dream, but the Alternate Universe icon didn't exist yet when I designed the card. I've respected my younger self's work.
Another case of an AU personnel, I decided should be holographic for lack of foresight. "Spartacus" by T.L. Mancour proposed a race of Spartacans inspired by the historical figure.
While the lore of Background Radiation gives no clues as to its origin, the card was inspired from a detail in "Gulliver's Fugitives", which is one of the books I evidently covered.
The original image for the Maze card is repurposed from a rejected Deep Space Nine design. The concept is out of V.E. Mitchell's "Imbalance", a book I quite liked. The first expansion, Alternate Universe, gave us the concept as Alien Labyrinth.
And that's the complete set. I hope you enjoyed these throwbacks, and if you're a fan of the old Star Trek CCG, please do check out my ongoing work over at
https://stccg-atoz.blogspot.com/
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