Two Trading Card Sets spotlighting science fiction/fantasy TV shows: one old series and one new series, have just been released by Rittenhouse Archives/Sci-fi Hobby.
To be perfectly honest I wasn't that impressed when Star Trek Voyager first
aired. The premise sounded promising: a
starship transported to the far side of the universe and even at top light
speed it would have taken the captain and the crew nearly 75 years to return to
Federation space.The first year or two the stories were good, but none of them really stood out. However, by the third year Voyager caught its breath and picked up steam and as a result the TV series found its creative legs and consistently turned out excellent episodes.
Looking back Voyager had a lot of firsts: a woman Captain, a half Klingon/Human woman as chief engineer, a holographic doctor, an alien Cook and Morale Officer, a Borg Science Officer, a black Vulcan First Officer, a mixed crew of renegades and Federation personnel, an alien telepath whose lifespan was only seven years, a Helmsman/Weapons Officer who was an alternate universe version of the original Helmsman/Weapons Officer, a bad boy Federation washout as a Navigator and a spaceship with a biopac brain.
Voyager and its crew took on the Borg, Q, hostile aliens, alternate timelines and dimensions and even had time for some retro-Holographic adventures.
The "Quotable" Voyager Trading Card Set consists of 72 Base Cards ( I assembled one full Set and put a huge dent in a second) that come in 24 Packs with five Cards per Pack in one Box. One hundred and forty four memorable quotes come on the Cards along with full color photos of the characters who said them.
Three Autograph Cards are guaranteed in each Box (mine are Leigh McCloskey, Kathleen Garrett and Don Most). All of the Cards are printed both sides on heavy coated card stock.
Randomly inserted Cards include:
- 9 Best of the Holodeck Cards (1:12 packs) (2 for me)
- 9 U.S.S. Voyager Ship Cards (1:12 packs) (2 again)
- 10 Starfleet's Finest Cards (each sequentially numbered to 399) (1:48 packs) (zip)
- 9 Star Trek Voyager Communicator Pin Cards (each sequentially numbered to 225) (1:96 packs) (3 per case) (zip again)
The Warehouse 13 Season 3 Premium Pack Trading Cards come with six Cards per Pack.
Each contain two Episode Cards, two Relic Cards (mine were worn by Aaron Ashmore and Jaime Murray), one Artifact Card (Pavlov's Bell is mine) and one Autograph Card (Kate Mulgrew is mine).
Only 200 Boxes of the Cards have been produced so hurry up and get yours before it is too late!