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The History of Star Trek CCG: The Fajo Collection
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July 19, 2004
"No product development assistants were harmed in the production of
this collection." – Rules Supplement
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Released
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December 31, 1997
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Design Team
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Bill Martinson (lead), Jerry Darcy, Sandy Wible, Warren Holland, Ross Campbell
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Art Team
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Dan Burns, Joe Boulden, Rob Burns
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Product Configuration
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18 Super-Rare cards in special binder and slipcase (40,000 copy numbered
limited edition)
Rule booklet with background information
Poster illustrating all 651 cards issued to date
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Press Sheets
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Unknown
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New Mechanics
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Nemesis
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New Rules
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Dual-personnel rules (group limits). Nemesis rules.
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New Features
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Triple-affiliaton personnel card. Dual-personnel card. First dual card
type. First Q-icon artifact. First Neutral personnel card. First ship with
a built-in skill. New icons (shared with First Contact): Nemesis, Special
Download. New skill: Acquisition.
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Highlights
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Klingon-language card, card printed with UV-ink, ships "connected"
across borders by disruptor fire. First product sold exclusively through
Decipher/Eccentric Order (not through retailers).
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Packaging
(Click the slipcase image for a larger view and an image of the collection's
contents)
Expansion Icon
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Factoids
- In addition to rules notes explaining such things as how nemesis icons
and dual-personnel cards, the translations of Dixon Hill's Business Card
and Qapla'! into standard English, and the definition of "reverses"
for each card affected by Persistence of Memory, the Rules Supplement
contained lots of "Behind the Scenes" notes on each card.
- The Fajo Collection possesses perhaps the most extensive trademark/copyright
information for any Star Trek CCG product (or maybe even for any
Decipher product). In addition to the usual info about the rights of Decipher
and Paramount Pictures and attribution of "original gameplay"
to Technical Game Services, it also takes notice of the fact that rights
were licensed from Major League Baseball and the estates of Roger Maris
and Salvador Dali for use of the New York Yankees logo, Roger Maris' image,
and the image of Persistence of Memory; and gives credit for inspiration
for the visual image of the Black Hole card to player Helge "Wesley
Crusher" Blohmer.
- Besides the rules supplement and poster, several "collateral items"
were included in The Fajo Collection. Two coupons formatted like a doorway
card (the "Door to the Fajo Collection") and an oversized event
card (a proof of purchase called "Zibalian Bargain") were to
be used together to obtain a rebate on up to three Fajo Collection purchases.
Scans of these "cards," including the back of the Door to the
Fajo Collection, can be seen here.
Two other collateral items were adjuncts to specific cards in the collection:
Dixon Hill's Business Card came with a real
business card for the fictional private eye, while the 1962 Roger
Maris Baseball Card came with a slab of bubble gum (no, I didn't scan
the bubble gum).
Notable Cards
Six years before The Lord of the Rings TCG's Countdown Collection
saw Firefoot stick his nose out of the card frame or the Balrog's fiery
sword and whip tie two cards together across their borders, Star Trek
CCG's Fajo Collection pioneered both concepts with Spot and the nemesis
ship pair, U.S.S. Pasteur and I.K.C. Chang.
  
Links
Card list (HTML)
No official spoiler list or collector's card list PDFs were made
The Fajo Collection
Rules Supplement (PDF)
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