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The History of Star Trek CCG: Reflections: The First Five-Year
Mission
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May 6, 2004
This collection of foil versions of Star Trek CCG's most outstanding rare,
premium, and preview cards was a major source of excitement at DecipherCon
2000.
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Released
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October 18, 2000
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Product Configuration
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100 foiled "classic" rare cards (4 URF - 50 SRF - 46 VRF) More
information on the rarities
4 box topper foils + 1 case topper foil
More information
on the toppers
18-card booster packs (1 foil + 17 assorted cards from Premiere through
Dominion)
30 boosters per display with 1 box topper foil
6 displays per case with 1 case topper foil
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Highlights
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Seven of Nine (case topper); URFs Jean-Luc Picard (Premiere), Borg Queen
(First Contact), U.S.S Defiant (The Dominion), and Future Enterprise (Alternate
Universe).
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Packaging
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Factoids
- The 100 rare cards to be foiled were selected according to a variety
of criteria, including placement in a player survey, image suitability
for foiling, gameplay (cards that would stay in play on the table where
the foiling could be appreciated had an edge), and diversity of affiliations.
- The range of expansions from which the foils were chosen was cut off
with The Dominion, since Blaze of Glory already had a foil subset.
- The case and box toppers were chosen from cards that were not eligible
for the 100-card foil set (which was all rare cards) because they had
appeared only in a preview or premium version or – in the case of
100,000 Tribbles (Clone) – appeared after the Dominion cutoff.
- Because the foils were reprints, the opportunity was taken to implement
existing errata and correct typos wherever possible. For example, Premiere
missions that had been declared in the rules to belong to later-established
regions of space had the regional information added to their lore; and
Major Rakal got "Deanna Troi" bolded in her lore.
- In addition to errata, many cards had slightly updated templates and
reflowed text.
- Two cards that appeared to have errata unfortunately had had errors
introduced into their text: Kira Nerys and Admiral Riker. The original
versions, however, were the correct ones. Evan Lorentz explained
how this occurred.
- The non-foil cards in the packs came from a variety of sources, including
booster packs, Two-Player Game decks, Deep Space Nine starters, and even
a few boutique products like Enhanced First Contact.
Notable Cards
The big chase card: Seven of Nine. Although she appeared as a preview in
The Dominion, the "final" version would not show up until The
Borg expansion. Available only as the topper in a full case (six displays)
of Reflections, the foil Seven of Nine proved elusive to many collectors.
("The Borg" version shown.)
 
Some cards just plain look great as foils. And that was definitely an important
criterion for selecting the cards to be foiled for Reflection, perhaps particularly
so in the case of missions which will be highly visible on the spaceline.
Quite a few of the early missions were rather ho-hum images, but Investigate
Rumors was anything but that. Eye-catching in its original Deep Space Nine
form, the foil practically glowed.
Links
Reflections Expansion
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Foil
card list
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