The Final Frontier? No, just the 90s Star Trek CCG
Star Trek, games, personal November 20th, 2009After more than a decade in the attic, we decided to give the old Star Trek: The Next Generation collectible card game a try. Ed’s in town this weekend (pictured below in his “Nerd Herd” t-shirt from the TV series Chuck) and he decided we should tackle the game again after all these years. After procrastinating for hours, we finally cracked the decks sometime after midnight. Needless to say, this is not a game you can simply jump right into without reviewing the rules closely. I cleaned Ed’s clock (or Romulan Outpost in this case) and we called it quits after one game.
Below is Ed building his inferior Romulan/Klingon deck.
Here I am trying to remember the rules after something like 14 years. I suppose we could have bothered to read them before playing, but that would have taken all the fun out of it. And we discovered we’re getting too old to sit on the floor for very long.
Finally, in going through my old cards we re-affirmed how insanely geeky I really am. We came across two custom cards I produced myself for the game. Check them out below. I color-copied images, then literally cut-and-pasted them together. Also, it appears I used my old Commodore 64 dot matrix printer for the text boxes. How frikkin’ hilarious! I’m such a dork! As Ed has pointed out, he proclaimed my dorkiness long before these cards were stumbled upon.
Live long and geek out!
November 20th, 2009 at 9:41 am
At least I got my revenge in Trivial Pursuit Silver Screen Edition. And you remember that old Klingon proverb, right?
“Revenge is a dish best served cold in the form of Trivial Pursuit.”
November 20th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Nerds!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:56 am
See… the truth is that it was 3am when we were playing Trivial Pursuit. Ed was getting tired and I felt really bad about DEMOLISHING him in the Star Trek CCG. So I let him win the Trivial Pursuit game. Yup… that’s why he won. It had nothing to do with the fact that I couldn’t answer ANY of those darn questions.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Dang, I have a ton of those cards at home. right next to the magic: The gathering cards. Sigh….
We played it a couple of times before we got tired of it.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I love those cards! I only played the game a few times (and it was cool too) but I liked collecting the cards anyway. I was working at a comic shop at the time and we’d hold midnight tournaments for the latest and greatest of that weeks worth of tournaments. It was fun. ‘Course, then Star Wars CCG took over…
November 20th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
ED: I was working at a comic shop at the time and we’d hold midnight tournaments for the latest and greatest of that week [and Star Trek got a couple week]s worth of tournaments.