Star Trek: First Contact (SkyBox)
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(written from a production point of view)
The Star Trek: First Contact trading card set produced by SkyBox was released in November 1996. A widevision card set, in line with SkyBox's previous film-related releases, the set comprised a sixty-card base set and five chase sets. One of the more unusual chase sets was the Blueprint Posters – these were paper inserts, rather than cards, which folded out to 9" × 7".
The single autograph card for the set featured Brent Spiner and was of extreme rarity, only appearing in 1 out of 3,600 packs (an estimated print run of 180).
In the base set, odd-numbered cards had a background of an intact Enterprise-E corridor wall, while even-numbered cards featured an assimilated corridor wall.
Two different boxes were produced for the cards: one for hobby stores, containing 36 packs, the other for Blockbuster Video, containing sixteen packs.
Base set
| Card # | Title | Card # | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Dedicated Vessel | 31 | A Ruby Kiss |
| 2 | The Nightmare | 32 | Borg in the Night |
| 3 | The Neutral Zone | 33 | Missile Complex |
| 4 | U.S.S. Defiant, Off-Line | 34 | Barclay meets a Legend |
| 5 | Borg Sphere | 35 | Reports of My Assimilation... |
| 6 | Into the Breach | 36 | Lily Meets Lt. Commander Worf |
| 7 | Zefram and Lily | 37 | Lost in the Woods |
| 8 | Borg Meteor | 38 | Suiting up for Zero G |
| 9 | Historic Date | 39 | Lieutenant Commander Data, the Rebel |
| 10 | 21st Century Civilians | 40 | Pain and Pleasure |
| 11 | Lily Opens Fire | 41 | Interplexing Spires |
| 12 | Lily Faints | 42 | Hull Fight |
| 13 | The Phoenix | 43 | Deflector Separation |
| 14 | Heating Up | 44 | True Motives |
| 15 | Sickbay Goes Dead | 45 | Objection Noted |
| 16 | Please State the Nature... | 46 | Lost Friend |
| 17 | Drinking With Zefram | 47 | Phoenix Launches |
| 18 | The Hive | 48 | Databorg |
| 19 | Firefight | 49 | Captain Jean-Luc Picard Faces the Queen |
| 20 | Lieutenant Commander Data Captured | 50 | The Return of Locutus |
| 21 | Assimilated | 51 | Sacrifice |
| 22 | Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Lily | 52 | Target Phoenix |
| 23 | Borg Drones | 53 | Phoenix Hits Warp |
| 24 | Talk of the Future | 54 | Hive Collapse |
| 25 | View From the Stars | 55 | Close Encounter |
| 26 | Borg Queen | 56 | First Contact! |
| 27 | Real Skin | 57 | Back on Duty |
| 28 | Borgified Starship! | 58 | New Friends |
| 29 | The Return of Dixon Hill | 59 | U.S.S. Enterprise Crew |
| 30 | Nightclub Entrance | 60 | Checklist |
Chase cards
| Card # | Title | Card # | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behind the Scenes (1:6 packs) | |||
| BS1 | Jonathan Frakes the Director | BS6 | Made for the Job |
| BS2 | Directing a Klingon | BS7 | Fit for a Queen |
| BS3 | With Friends Like These... | BS8 | It's Easier in Space |
| BS4 | On Location | BS9 | Lt. Commander Data and the Borg Queen |
| BS5 | Give That Borg a Hand! | BS10 | A Man Amongst Borg |
| Techno-Cel Borg Cards (1:8 packs) | |||
| B1 | Star Trek: The Next Generation Borg | B7 | Borg Queen |
| B2 |  |
B8 | Borg Alcove |
| B3 | Locutus | B9 | Borgified Engineering |
| B4 |  |
B10 | Star Trek: First Contact Borg |
| B5 |  |
B11 |  |
| B6 | Cardassian Borg | B12 | Borg Symbol |
| Enterprise Cards (1:8 packs) | |||
| E1 | Bridge | E4 | Sickbay |
| E2 | Main Engineering | E5 | Evacuation Corridor |
| E3 | Ready Room | E6 | Observation Lounge |
| Character Cards (1:9 packs) | |||
| C1 | Captain Jean-Luc Picard | C6 | Dr. Beverly Crusher |
| C2 | Lieutenant Commander Data | C7 | Lieutenant Commander Worf |
| C3 | Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge | C8 | Lieutenant Hawk |
| C4 | Commander William T. Riker | C9 | Zefram Cochrane |
| C5 | Lieutenant [sic] Deanna Troi | C10 | Lily Sloane |
| Blueprint Posters (1:36 packs) | |||
| S1 | U.S.S. Enterprise | S3 | Phoenix |
| S2 | Borg Cube | ||
| Autograph Card (1:3600 packs) | |||
| - | Brent Spiner ~180 produced | ||