{"id":53282,"date":"2020-09-10T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=53282"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:21:39","slug":"star-trek-tarot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/09\/star-trek-tarot\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Tarot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from <em>Telekiad<\/em> is the first item in its newly-licensed product line, <em>Star Trek: Tarot<\/em>. Plus: Baum answers questions about <em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> is &#8220;the culmination of years of research and collaboration. <em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> carefully matches the seventy-eight ancient Tarot cards one-to-one with the seventy-eight classic <em>Star Trek<\/em> episodes that aired during the show&#8217;s initial run, and represents the originally-unaired<em> Star Trek<\/em> pilot episode on two bonus cards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tarot experts have helped to hone the deck&#8217;s entire design, to honor each card&#8217;s centuries of layered meanings and its many traditional and modern associations. Professional artists have created original <em>Star Trek<\/em> images and graphics for each card in a style that is a respectful of every episode&#8217;s chosen scene and appropriate for a Tarot deck. Professional card printers ensure the highest casino-quality cards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> has three different packages. All three contain the same eighty cards, with progressively more additional features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> &#8211; $29.95<\/li>\n<li><em>Star Trek Tarot With Tutorial<\/em> &#8211; all eighty cards plus a one-hundred-and-twenty page tutorial &#8211; $39.95<\/li>\n<li><em>Star Trek Tarot Limited Edition<\/em> &#8211; eighty plastic cards, hardcover tutorial, custom box &#8211; $59.95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-3-091020-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also available is the first follow-up product, a Tarot mini-deck representing <em>Star Trek: The Animated Series<\/em>. It is available in two packages, both with the same twenty-two cards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Star Trek Tarot &#8211; The Animated Series<\/em> &#8211; complete twenty-two card mini-deck &#8211; $19.95<\/li>\n<li><em>Star Trek Tarot &#8211; The Animated Series Limited Edition<\/em> &#8211; twenty-two all plastic cards &#8211; $29.95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Star Trek Tarot Limited Edition <\/em>and<em> Star Trek Tarot The Animated Series Limited Edition<\/em> will be manufactured in only a single run of 1,701 numbered units. Customers ordering both together will receive identical limited-edition ID numbers for both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To pre-order<em> Star Trek Tarot<\/em>, head to the link located <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telekiad.com\/shop\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarotTAS091020-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Creator <strong>Mark &#8220;Adam&#8221; Baum<\/strong> is a first-generation Trek fan, and was one of the attendees at the 1976 New York City Star Trek convention. Baum is a career software engineer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How long have you been a fan of Star Trek?<\/em> <\/strong>&#8220;Are you kidding? Since September 8, 1966. As a kid, I watched every episode when it first aired. I was thrilled when the local station started showing it again in afternoon reruns a few years later, five days a week. <em>Star Trek<\/em> became a regular part of my weekday after-school schedule, from middle school into high school. <em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s optimistic view of the future dovetailed with the amazing tech advancements of the day, from the space program to computers, and played a big part in my pursuing computer science into a professional career. In college, I worked on a computer system with high-res flat plasma touchscreens, public forums, email and live chat \u2014 in 1978! Decades before the modern internet era. It was like living in the future world of <em>Star Trek<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What led you to create a<em> Star Trek Tarot<\/em> deck? &#8220;I have friends in many different social circles, including some who are Tarot readers. I didn&#8217;t know much about the Tarot myself at first, no more than most people in the general public I suppose, just its appearance as a vaguely mystical item in the occasional movie or TV show. When I learned that serious Tarot practitioners sometimes create their own personalized decks, I thought it would be fun to create a handmade deck that I could give to friends as a gift. I had a light bulb idea: to create a Tarot deck that matched the seventy-eight Tarot cards one-to-one with the original seventy-eight aired <em>Star Trek<\/em> episodes. It&#8217;s a deck that I wanted. And, to my surprise, an idea that as far as I could tell nobody else had thought of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friends wanted Baum to make decks for them. They &#8220;all wanted to know where I had bought the decks,&#8221; said Baum; &#8220;so they could buy more for themselves and their friends. They convinced me to turn my fan deck into a licensed product that could sell for real. Easier said than done! When we found a way to approach the studio for a product license, they loved the unique concept of a <em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> deck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the sets are all made and ready to go, and then along comes COVID-19. &#8220;We had hoped to premiere our <em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> at the big fan conventions this summer,&#8221; said Baum. &#8220;But after COVID arrived in the spring, one by one all the summer conventions were cancelled or rescheduled. We are now taking pre-orders online, and planning to premiere our<em> Star Trek Tarot<\/em> in person at the <em>Star Trek Las Vegas<\/em> convention currently scheduled for early December.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are there any follow-up plans now that <em>Star Trek Tarot<\/em> has been completed? &#8220;The Tarot deck is structured with four suits like a playing-card deck, to which has been added a set of twenty-two unsuited Arcana cards with special meanings. We&#8217;ve already created a Tarot &#8216;deck&#8217; matching the Arcana cards one-to-one with the twenty-two episodes of the 1970s <em>Filmation Star Trek: The Animated Series<\/em>. Another wonderful fit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, we&#8217;re already being asked when we will have Tarot decks ready for other <em>Star Trek<\/em> shows. We&#8217;re looking into new deck designs, but we ask fans to be patient. Like you, we would also love follow-up decks to be made available quickly. But we don&#8217;t want our decks to become just more collectables. We want to continue to ensure that every card matching deeply honors the Tarot aspects in its <em>Star Trek<\/em> episode and vice versa.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from Telekiad is the first item in its newly-licensed product line, Star Trek: Tarot&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[10114,10115],"class_list":["post-53282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-star-trek-tarot","tag-tarot-cards"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/StarTrekTarot-1-091020.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/merchandise\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53286,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282\/revisions\/53286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}