Our 2019 ToyFair coverage continues with a look at what’s on the way from gaming company Looney Labs, who broke into the Star Trek arena last year with their Fluxx card game.
As we reported back in January, the company will be expanding their Trek Fluxx line into the Bajoran sector this year, with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Fluxx set to arrive later this spring.
While the packaging is still being signed off by CBS’s licensing team, they were able to show us some final, approved card game artwork featuring some of DS9’s more familiar faces, all part of the Fluxx set.
The Deep Space Nine Fluxx game is expected to hit stores around April or May 2019, but don’t think this will be the end of the line, as we learned that a Star Trek: Voyager edition of the game is also being tentatively planned for 2020.
(We’ll bring you more info on that game if and when it is formally announced.)
The Looney Labs team also gave us an exclusive preview of another new Star Trek card game they have in the works, based off of their existing line of Chrononauts games: ChronoTrek, which brings together every single temporal anomaly and time travel event from across the franchise into one clock-bending game.
In ChronoTrek, a time-travel game similar to Chrononauts but set in the ‘Star Trek’ universe, each player becomes a ‘Star Trek’ character with a unique identity and a secret mission.
During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using time travel to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up artifacts, coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself.
Explore the history (and alternate history!) of the entire ‘Star Trek’ universe in this version of Chrononauts. Try to alter history to restore your specific timeline! Maybe you need to ensure that the Federation gets founded, or just retrieve the Orb of Time and some tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
While the game does exclude both the Kelvin Timeline and Star Trek: Discovery, ChronoTrek weaves together famous and often-forgotten Trek temporal hijinks into one gameplay adventure — including moments from episodes like “City on the Edge of Forever,” “Time’s Arrow,” “Past Tense,” “Future’s End,” and “Carpenter Street” — while players must struggle to maintain the integrity of the Trek timeline.
While artwork and official release details are still being ironed out, we expect ChronoTrek to be ready for players by August, just in time for the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas.
We’ve got more ToyFair 2019 coverage coming, so keep checking back to TrekCore throughout the week!