Made by Fans for Fans

STAR TREK TAROT was originally created by fans for fans. We matched the 78 Tarot cards one-to-one with the original 78 aired Star Trek episodes, and added the initially unaired pilot episode on two bonus cards. Those first few STAR TREK TAROT decks were just handmade sets, with simple DVD framegrabs and overlaid text, printed poker-sized on cheap cardstock, and given out as Christmas gifts to friends. It was our hope that our Tarot friends might learn more about Star Trek, and our Star Trek friends might learn more about Tarot.

We thought that would be that. But we were soon besiged with requests for where we had bought them, wanting more so that they could give some to their friends. Surprised that the decks were our own handmade cards, our friends urged us to turn them into a fully professional product and sell it for real.

It took us years to get there. We worked with Tarot experts to hone the deck to honor the layers of traditional and modern Tarot associations. We worked with artists to create original Star Trek imagery for each card in a style that is both appropriate for a Tarot deck, and not caricatured or cartoony but respectful representations of the original episode scenes. We worked with professional printers to insure the highest card quality. We worked with the studio to meet all of their product design, licensing, packaging and advertising standards. And let’s not even talk about Covid setbacks.

We’re proud to present a product of a high enough quality that WE would want to buy it. STAR TREK TAROT is not a joke deck or a gag gift. It’s a serious product that shows deep respect to the Tarot and to Star Trek.

After we released our flagship deck, our friends urged us to keep going. Chronologically, the next Star Trek show after the original ’60s series was the Saturday-morning Filmation animated Star Trek, which produced 22 episodes. Naturally, we had to match them one-to-one with Tarot’s 22 unsuited Major Arcana cards. This set can work as a standalone Majors-only deck, or can be mix-n-matched with our flagship deck. Then fans at conventions kept asking if we had cards for the shows THEY grew up on in the ‘80s and ‘90s. So now we’re working our way through Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with an eye on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise after that, and eventually even the new shows from the ’10s and ’20s. Our long-term goal is a Tarot card for every episode of every series, all in the same mix-n-match style. But Star Trek: The Next Generation alone will generate two complete 78-card Tarot decks plus a third complete 22-card Majors-only set! We’ll get there. Stay tuned.

By the way, the starfield and nebula featured on our card backs (and our top banner here) is real! Sometimes life really does imitate art. Check out the Hubble Variable Nebula.