so what is the value of this set?

2012-01-31T13:30:52.871-05:00

These cards were the first Trek cards I ever got, ...

2011-07-19T14:52:03.471-04:00

These cards were the first Trek cards I ever got, and I bought all of them a few packs at a time when they came out. It was the most exciting thing happening to me at the time (which is kid of sad when I put it that way), and I eagerly opened each pack every time I went to the store. A lof of good memories around that set! Also glad that they actually knew what they were doing when it came to episode synopses and captions. The old Leaf set would have had the McCoy cordrazine card say something like "Shocked By An Alien!" I am happy to have the empty card box for this, as well. Plus a BUNCH of duplicates.

Thanks for posting this.

"That's well before the days of digital m...

2011-07-14T20:55:36.663-04:00

"That's well before the days of digital mastering..."

Yes, if you used the phrase "digital mastering" back in the '70s, someone would have likely thought you were trying to get control over your fingers. *brrrrr-um-bum-tish*

I was about two years too late to have gotten these new back in the day. My very first trading cards were the Topps Star Wars cards from '78-ish, which got me amped up to go whole hog on the STTMP Topps cards the year after.

But I picked them up a few years ago in the wake of my conversion to original series fundamentalism, which happened around 2000, when I realized that's where my geeky heart really was. I divested myself of everything that wasn't orginal series related and started focusing my collecting there. Star Trek was really at a low point then, popularity-wise, and eBay was glutted with Trek collectibles on the cheap. I got so much stuff I had drooled over as a kid, looking through catalogues from New Eye Studio and Lincoln Enterprises and Star Tech and Star Land, for much less than I ever thought I would pay - including the 1976 Topps set, cards and stickers, for about 50 bones. Star Trek Maps, the Spaceflight Chronology, a complete set of Bantam fotonovels, an original mimeographed Star Trek Concordance, I felt like I really cleaned up.

The thing that gets me about trading cards these days is the price. When I was a kid, I could get four packs of STTMP cards, with 10 cards, a sticker, and a stick of gum that would cut your gums, for a buck. I realize the paper and printing quality and everything today have made leaps and bounds but having to pay 3 and 4 bucks for a pack of 7 cards or whatever you get nowadays still gives me sticker shock (pardon the pun).

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so what is the value of this set?

These cards were the first Trek cards I ever got, ...

"That's well before the days of digital m...