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[A6-10] Ablative Armor to Acamar III

Another round of dream cards for the Star Trek Collectible Card Game, resurrected from the late 90s and given graphics for the first time. Still in the A's of the Star Trek Encyclopedia... THE ENTRIES: [6] ablative armor [7] academy commandant [8] Academy Flight Range [9] academy range officer [10] Acamar III  Ablative Armor did get its own card in the Holodeck Adventures expansion. Let's compare! NOTES: [6] My version of Ablative Armor doesn't do a thing for Dilemmas or Missions that require certain shields. In any case, Decipher's solution is clearer than mine. [7] I'm breaking a Decipher rule here by not giving him some invented name. Personnel don't generally go by title alone. Red Squad personnel would eventually be designed, but I don't think I got to make many because of alphabetical concerns. I really wanted it to say "Red Squad Personnel", but this is the first instance where my knack for slightly long game text forced me to simp...

[A1-5] 'audet IX to Abandoned

Back in the late 90s, when I was deep into the Star Trek Collectible Card Game world, one of the projects I was doing on Decipher's Bulletin Boards was a massive set of dream cards under the banner "AtoZ" (with respect to Mr. Atoz of "All Our Yesterdays"). Essentially, I took the Star Trek Encyclopedia and attempted to create an ST CCG dream card for every entry, unless the character or concept already had a card, and I think at the time, Decipher didn't have access to TOS and the movies, so those seem to be excluded as well. I got to the middle of the M's, which accounts for thousands of cards. But the thing, see, is that none of those cards had graphics. They were all just text-based. Recently, I reconnected with the ST CCG community, some of them working with the Continuing Committee, which is still making new cards. They hooked me up with excellent templates from which to bring dream cards to life. And so I've gone back to my notes a...