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The History of Star Trek CCG: The Timeline

Updated July 19, 2004

The history of this game we call Star Trek CCG is more than the history of its product releases – it's the history of a community. A host of designers, players, tournament directors, Ambassadors, writers, personal website creators, rules gurus, and others have contributed to that community over the last ten years. This timeline is a summary (necessarily an incomplete one) of milestones and events in the ten-year history of our favorite game. Starting with the current year, 2004, and moving back through time, we'll periodically add detail pages for each year and expansion until we reach the point where it all began, with photos, articles, and other related content wherever available.

This history has been reconstructed from Decipher archives (sadly, most of the pages from the early years of decipher.com no longer exist), my personal files, interviews with members of the community, and various other sources. Some events have been dated only very approximately (marked ~), and I welcome more precise information from anyone who can provide it. I also welcome corrections, additions, and contributions of additional content such as personal STCCG reminiscences and jpg photos (though I can't promise to use every submission). Please send any communications to me at webmaster@decipher.com.

Join us as we begin the ultimate trip down Star Trek CCG Memory Lane!

Kathy (Major Rakal) McCracken
Star Trek CCG Intelligence Officer and Tal Shiar Agent
decipher.com Webmaster/Web Writer/Web Content Manager

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Bold = Second Edition
~ = Date approximate      = Addition/correction since previous update
Click on a year to go to that section of the timeline.
2004  |  2003  |  2002  |  2001  |  2000  |  1999  |  1998  |  1997  |  1996  |  1995  |  1994  |  1993

Milestones and Events

Products and Promos

More details for 2004 so far

Dec

 

Reflections: The Second Five-Year Mission

Nov

 

 

Oct

 

 

Sep

 

 

Aug

The 2004 World Champion – who will it be?
DecipherCon 2004 at Gen Con Indy

Fractured Time

Jul

 

 

Jun

Product plans into 2005 announced

 

May

 

Apr

 

Tenth Anniversary Collection

Mar

 

Necessary Evil

Feb

Tenth Anniversary celebration launches

 

Jan

 

 

More details for 2003

 

Dec

 

 

Nov

 

 

Oct

 

 

Sep

 

Call to Arms

Aug

 

 

Jul

Matthew Frid wins first Second Edition World Championship
Brian Schrader wins final First Edition World Championship
DecipherCon 2003 at Gen Con Indy, Indianapolis, Indiana

All Good Things

Jun

 

 

May

The long-postponed All Good Things set is announced

Energize

Apr

 

Second Edition Foil Subset

Mar

 

 

Feb

 

 

Jan

STCCG Second Edition Maiden Voyage Tournaments begin

 

More details for 2002

 

Dec

 

Second Edition Premiere

Nov

Franklin Kenter wins 5th World Championship
DecipherCon 2002, Chesapeake, Virginia
First appointments to Decipher Hall of Fame

 

Oct

Worlds Apart launches "face-lifted" Star Trek Online CCG

 

Sep

 

 

Aug

 

 

Jul

Second Edition announced

 

Jun

 

 

May

"Project Trek" begins to explore a possible new ST TCG

 

Apr

Brad DeFruiter joins STCCG design team

The Motion Pictures

Mar

 

 

Feb

 

 

Jan

 

 

More details for 2001  

Dec

 

Holodeck Adventures

Nov

DecipherCon 2001 and World Championships cancelled in wake of 9/11

 

Oct

Olav Rokne becomes first STCCG player to break 2000 (sealed deck)

 

Sep

 

The Borg

Aug

Kathy "Major Rakal" McCracken joins the web group

 

Jul

Voyager Demo Tour begins (through September)

 

Jun

Ian Vincent becomes first STCCG player to break 2000 (constructed deck)

 

May

Mirror, Mirror scenario tournament series ends

Voyager

Apr

 

 

Mar

Scrye readers name STCCG #3 Greatest CCG of All Time

 

Feb

DigitalDeck launches Star Trek Online CCG

 

Jan

Mirror, Mirror scenario tournament series begins

 

More details for 2000

 

Dec

 

Mirror, Mirror

Nov

 

Enhanced Premiere

Oct

Eric Johnfauno wins 4th World Championship
DecipherCon 2000, Orlando, Florida

Reflections

Sep

 

 

Aug

The Tribbles CCG launches along with STCCG expansion
Kathy McCracken (Major Rakal) returns to rules guru position

The Trouble With Tribbles

Jul

 

 

Jun

 

 

May

 

 

Apr

 

Mar

 

Second Anthology
U.S.S. Jupiter (in Star Trek: Armada)

Feb

 

 

Jan

 

 

More details for 1999

 

Dec

 

Rules of Acquisition

Nov

Mike Harrington wins 3rd World Championship
First DecipherCon, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Evan Lorentz joins STCCG design team
License is expanded to include Original Series and all movies, extended through 2005

Oct

 

Sep

 

 

Aug

Blaze of Glory pre-release at Gen Con is largest STCCG event to date with 100 players

Blaze of Glory

Jul

 

 

Jun

Evan Lorentz (Mot the Barber) becomes STCCG rules guru
Return to Farpoint tournament series ends

 

May

 

 

Apr

 

 

Mar

Regional designations revised (21 regions + Neutral Zone)

 

Feb

Return to Farpoint tournament series begins

 

Jan

Michel Albert launches Siskoid Space website and begins the AtoZ series

The Dominion
Enhanced First Contact

More details for 1998

 

Dec

 

Starter Deck II

Nov

Bill Chien wins 2nd World Championship, Virginia Beach, VA
Michel Albert begins Siskoid's Rolodex series

 

Oct

 

 

Sep

 

 

Aug

 

 

Jul

 

Deep Space Nine

Jun

OTSD tournament event series begins, with Fajo Collection prizes

 

May

 

Official Tournament Sealed Deck
Away Team Pack

Apr

 

 

Mar

David Bowling wins first ISOWC

 

Feb

STCCG Regional structure expanded and renamed

 

Jan

Kyle "The Traveler" Heuer joins Decipher as STCCG's "on the road" promoter
First Contact Demo Tour begins
Kathy McCracken (Major Rakal) becomes STCCG rules guru
~Chris Heard launches Star Trek CCG Academy website (becomes Unicomplex Computer Core ~Aug 1998)

 

 

Dec

~Evan Lorentz starts his series of Borg articles

First Contact
The Fajo Collection

Nov

David Bowling wins 1st World Championship, Las Vegas, NV
~"Copernicus" founds Where No One Has Gone Before, STCCG online gaming magazine

 

Oct

 

 

Sep

Chuck Kallenbach joins STCCG design team

 

Aug

 

 

Jul

Tim Ellington joins STCCG design team
Marcus "The Emissary" Certa joins Decipher, managing Ambassadors and in-house STCCG promotion

 

Jun

STCCG gets its own full suite of message boards

First Anthology

May

Decipher Exhibition Tournament Weekend, Rochester, NY
Silver-border Collector's Tin cards become tournament-legal
First Independent STCCG Online World Championships (ISOWC) begin on Wesley Crusher's STCCG Online Headquarters

 

Apr

~Sanctioned tournament structure implemented with 8 regions
First "fly-in" playtest for STCCG (First Contact)

 

Mar

 

 

Feb

Helge Blohmer founds Wesley Crusher's STCCG Online Headquarters (becomes Kedanya Station May 1998)

 

Jan

First 18 accepted to Ambassadors program
William "Sandy" Wible joins STCCG design team

Introductory Two-Player Game

 

Dec

Kathy McCracken founds Major Rakal's Romulan ST:CCG Home Page (later becomes Major Rakal's Tal Shiar headquarters)
Evan Lorentz begins Mot's Useless Card Reviews series

 

Nov

New license with Paramount announced
Ambassador program announced
Kathy McCracken begins Major Rakal's Romulan Reviews series

 

Oct

 

Q-Continuum

Sep

David Bowling wins first National Championship
Star Trek 30th Anniversary Celebration, Huntsville, AL

 

Aug

 

 

Jul

 

 

Jun

 

 

May

decipher.com redesign includes first message boards (some shared with Star Wars CCG)

 

Apr

 

 

Mar

 

 

Feb

STCCG gets in-house rules expert Jason "Q" Winter

 

Jan

Allen Gould founds The Ultimate STCCG Reference website (becomes Tribblenomicon ~Dec 1999)

 

 

Dec

 

Alternate Universe – Dec 8

Nov

Bill Martinson joins STCCG design team


Oct

Production planned to cease at end of 1997

Collector's Tin (silver border Premiere) – Oct 18

Sep

~BradyGames Player's Guide published

~Data Laughing

Aug

 

Jul

 

 

Jun

 

~Premiere Unlimited Edition "beta"
(3rd printing) – exact date unknown

May

~Helge Blohmer begins Wesley Crusher's Card of the Day series

Warp Pack – May 26

Apr

www.decipher.com launches

 

Mar

 

 

Feb

 

Jan

 

 

 

Dec

 

Premiere Unlimited Edition "alpha" (2nd printing) – Dec 12

Nov

Star Trek: The Next Generation CCG launches
DAnswerMan begins answering rules questions online

Premiere Limited Edition (1st printing) – Nov 10

Oct

 

 

Sep

 

 

Aug

Star Trek:TNG CCG previews at Gen Con

 

Jul

 

 

Jun

 

 

May

 

 

Apr

 

 

Mar

 

 

Feb

Star Trek: The Next Generation CCG debuts at Toy Fair

 

Jan

 

 

 

Dec

Decipher acquires license from Paramount to create and publish Star Trek: The Next Generation CCG

 

Nov

Game designers Tom Braunlich and Rollie Tesh begin exploring a media license-based CCG, eventually approaching Decipher CEO Warren Holland with their concept

 

 

 

 
 

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