Celebrating Star Trek's 50th birthday, Rittenhouse Archives presents the Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Trading Cards set. Each box of this set features a 100-card foil etched base set, 2 Aliens Autograph Cards and 1 Booklet Relic Card. There will be 56 different relic cards found in the packs. This set was delayed by four weeks "due to a production issue beyond our control"

Bonus sets include: 50 card metal Star Trek Heroes (1:24), 50 card Star Trek ArtiFex (1:12) 9 card Star Trek Evolution (1:96), 9 card Ships of the Line (1:96), 18 card Starfleet Captains (1:48), 10 card Star Trek Phaser Cut (1:288). In addition there will also be one colour sketch card per case from one of 40 artists, unique original sketch cards of each of the 50 ArtiFex cards by Emily Tester, and three super rare cut signature cards featuring Gene Roddenberry, DeForest Kelley and Mark Lenard. Each case will have a Captain Archer Captain's Card as an expanson to the 4-card set produced by Skybox in 1998/9. None of the chase sets have sequential numbering.

A first for Rittenhouse Archives (at least for Star Trek cards) is the introduction of redemption cards for two of the cut atograph cards, Kelley and Lenard. The Roddenberry cut cards are inserted in packs. Steve Charendoff exlained it on the RA message board - "The redemption cards for the DeForest Kelley and Mark Lenard cut signature cards were necessary because they are oversized (5x7) and would not fit into the packs. The Gene Roddenberry cards are regular size cards, so those are in the packs. Kelley and Lenard's autographs are simply too large to fit onto regular size cards as cut signatures."

For every 6 cases purchased there is a Relic Card from the hull of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E. For every 9 cases purchased there is a Dual Autograph card signed by William Shatner and Patrick Stewart in the same style as the 35th Anniversary dual autograph card of Shatner and Nimoy.

An archive box is given for every 18 cases purchased and includes an exclusive set of 4 color printing plates used to make the front of one base set card. Archive boxes also include: at least all 60 pack inserted Aliens autographs, 5 Captains autographs, 50 card Artifex set, 9 card Star Trek Evolution set, 9 card Ships of the Line set, 18 card Starfleet Captains set, 10 card Phaser Cut set, 4 card Star Trek Stamps set, 6 Dual Booket Relic set, 2 sketch cards, 1 case topper, 1 6-case incentive Enterprise 1701-E Booklet relic, and 4 promos P1-P4. Archive boxes do NOT include, 100 card base set, 50 metal card Heroes set, 50 Single Booklet Relic set, 9-case incentive, Cut Autograph cards. There is a custom designed collector's album which contains an exclusive promo card.

I have created a separate page to show as many of the STAR TREK 50th ANNIVERSARY PACK INSERTED SKETCHES and the ARTIST RETURNS as I can for this set. I will add images as I find them.