STAR TREK..To Boldly Go Where No Monster Has Gone Before!

[Dr. Madd]

Ok guys.. Someone needs to make a Star trek bridge scene diorama with Dracula as Kirk, The Monster as Sulu, The Wolfman as Chekov, Gillman  as  Spock, And the Phantom as McCoy.

[Scatter]

I finally remembered to take a pic of my favorite Star Trek piece:

This is the 1979 Mr. Spock liquor decanter done for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". It's in excellent original condition. I've already told my daughter that when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I want to be cremated and have my ashes placed in this decanter. I promised to haunt her if she didn't do it
George

Note to self.........after George dies, never drink out of the Spock decanter which will be up for sale shortly on eBay.

[Hepcat]

Here are scans from my Topps Star Trek card set which was issued in 1976:

[Therin of Andor]

Hi all,

Lots of pics of Playmates "Star Trek" action figures and other "Star Trek" collectibles help to illustrate "Star Trek: The Complete Unauthorized History" by Robert Greenberger, a beautiful, new hardcover book that has just arrived in stores.

For those playing at home, the five featured photos from my own collection are: Arex &  M'Ress Filmation TAS customized action figures (page 58), Therin of Andor as Maltz the Klingon introducing Bjo Trimble at Eccentricon in Australia (page 135), Star Trek Potato Heads (page 135), New Zealand fan Lana Pennington-Brown's artwork of Data & Tasha on a one-off Mike McGann printed sweater (page 145) and my "United Federation of Paramount" t-shirt from Lincoln Enterprises (page 146). I received my first email accolade today, from someone who saw my Arex custom figure in the book and went Googling for my details!

I love the way the designer was able to trim and enlarge Arex and M'Ress out of this bigger pic:

Star Trek customized action figures by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
Above: Tuvix, Dr Selar, Arex, M'Ress and Trader Worf with tribbles.


Star Trek: The Complete Unauthorized History by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

[bigbud]

This is the beautiful A&BC Star Trek card set from 1969. It is a 55 card set, and is the very first full-color Star Trek card set produced. The 55 cards all depict scenes from episode #7 of the original Star Trek series "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".  It starred the very large and ominous Ted Cassidy as Ruk and the slightly clad Sherry Jackson as Andrea. There are humorous errors on the back of several cards........on card #1 Kirk is identified as ROGER Kirk......on card 2 Spock is called a mix of earthman and Martian...ha! And throughout the cards, Ruk is called Rock........here are the first 24 of the 55 set........

[Therin of Andor]

Here are pictures of my Star Trek model kits:

The Spock kit was more recently rereleased (also in a collector's tin) with the three-headed alien snake restored, but Gene Roddenberry never liked that Spock was killing an alien lifeform instead of studying it.

The original 70s sculpt was retooled in 1980 for this "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" tie-in kit. And no snake!


AMT Spock kit by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Another monster from the original series was the Mugato.


Mugato by birdofthegalaxy, on Flickr

A member of his species, Ensign Janos (named for the actor Janos Prohaska, who created and inhabited this and other monster suits in TOS), he was mysteriously sentient and working as a security guard in the "Next Generation" era. Janos' origin was eventually explained in the "New Frontier" novel series by Peter David.

He appeared on two covers of the German language translations of the novels:


Cross Cult New Frontier by Ian McLean, on Flickr

and a cameo in a comic story by Peter David:


Janos in WildStorm's "New Frontier: Double Time" by Ian McLean, on Flickr

[Hepcat]

I bought this model kit last summer at my local hobby shop, Wheels and Wings:





I'm a big fan of the Romulans so I couldn't resist this re-issue in a tin even though I already have the original in my model kit collection!

I'm now going to start looking around for a kit of this later variant of a Romulan Warbird:



It's very well designed for confronting any marauding Federation or Bajoran imperialists.

[Hepcat]

The Spock kit was more recently rereleased (also in a collector's tin) with the three-headed alien snake restored, but Gene Roddenberry never liked that Spock was killing an alien lifeform instead of studying it.

Even more bizarre was this Justice League of America Aquaman board game Hasbro released in 1967:



Why oh why is Aquaman slugging that poor octopus? Aquaman is a friend of all sea dwellers! In fact Aquaman has long had a loyal octopus sidekick named Topo:



And even if that's a rogue "bad" octopus, Aquaman can telepathically exercise mind control over all marine life. Boooo to whoever drew and whoever at DC or Hasbro approved that board game cover.

An Aquaman board game would normally be close to the very top of my board game Most Wanted list, but this Hasbro one showing Aquaman behaving completely out of character sours me.