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The History of Star Trek CCG: The Motion Pictures
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April 5, 2004
Star Trek CCG goes to the movies, with cards from all nine Star
Trek movies to date (through Insurrection) plus the Voyager
episode "Flashback" which recreated some scenes from Star Trek
VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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Released
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April 17, 2002
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Design Team
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Evan Lorentz, Joe Alread
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Product Configuration
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131 cards (1 UR - 50 R/R+ - 40 U - 40 C)
11-card expansion packs (1 R - 10 mixed C/U)
30 expansion packs per display
No rules supplement or card list insert
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New Mechanics
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None
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New Features
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Classic Films icon (formerly the Excelsior icon); new region of
space (The Briar Patch); first ship persona (Starship Enterprise) and first
universal persona (Starship Constitution)
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Highlights
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Cards from all 9 movies plus the Voyager episode Flashback; James
T. Kirk, Captain Spock, Khan; 3 dual-affiliation cards with alternate border
colors; more Klingons than in any set since premiere.
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Packaging
Expansion Icon
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Factoids
- George and Gracie was the first Neutral personnel card and first ANIMAL
card since The Fajo Collection's Spot, and the only dual-personnel ANIMAL
card ever created.
- The Motion Pictures was the only expansion set to include more than
one time location.
- The Klingon Krase got his name as a Klingon-sounding anagram of the
Romulan Keras and Vulcan Sarek – all three were played by actor Mark
Lenard.
- In the most complex anagrammed card title ever, Mark Tobiaston was created
by designer Evan Lorentz from the three previous Star Trek characters
played by the same actor: the Romulan MIROK (Next Generation), the Bajoran
Kira TABAN (Deep Space Nine), and the Vulcan TOS (Enterprise).
- Although all nine movies up to the release were represented, First Contact
had the fewest cards with just one – but only because the First Contact
expansion was all from that movie.
- Because no cards had previously been made from the other eight movies,
the designers had to create eight new property logos – more than
for any other set, and more than all the existing property logos that
had appeared on Star Trek CCG cards to date!
Notable Cards
Perhaps the award for most unusual card title ever seen in Star Trek
CCG (or any other CCG, for that matter) should go to God – or to be
more precise, "God", a dilemma in The Motion Pictures. The image
is from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and represents the energy being
Sybok and the Enterprise crew found at Sha-Ka-Ree. Without this dilemma,
of course, there never would have been the opportunity to create an interrupt
with the marvelous function "Nullifies 'God.'" (What Does God
Need With a Starship?)
  
And in the category of "Lore most likely to be unquotable on the Decipher
message boards" we have I Hate You. One of the many cards in The Motion
Pictures which used a quote from a movie as its lore, this dilemma's less-than-polite
lore emanated from a punker's boom box.
Links
The Motion Pictures
Expansion Page
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