You're a Star Trek fan and your home doesn't have enough Star Trek stuff? You've already got models, action figures, and posters. Well, there's a lot more. Toys, puzzles, and the first set of Star Trek trading cards since the series went off the air. And don't forget to check the Trektennial catalog, complete with all kinds of goodies from Star Trek... and some of Gene Roddenberry's other creations.
Mego, the company that makes Star Trek action figures, is making more toys these days. I have to admit that these items, which I found through New Force Comics, would have struck me as pretty neat when I was younger, but at 13 I'm a bit too old for this or the new action figures. Yes, I still look at the action figures whenever I go to Toys and Wheels in Londonderry Mall here in Edmonton, but considering my friends and I stopped playing with G.I. Joes years ago it would be hard to justify spending money on action figures now. Anyway, I still keep seeing the same characters at the store even though Mego apparently made some new aliens.
AMT is still making Star Trek model kits. I've never been too good at making models, so I haven't really kept up with new developments there. Of course I have a few of them (the Enterprise, the Klingon ship, the Romulan ship, the Shuttlecraft Galileo, and that glow in the dark UFO spaceship that isn't actually a Star Trek ship), but I'm not really that much into the models. Friends of mine have other models, like the bridge set and the new K7 Space Station. I've also noticed the Estes model rocket kits whenever I go to the hobby shop at Dickinsfield. I'm not sure I want to spend my allowance on something that could blow up or break on landing. If I did, though, the Klingon ship might be the one to go for. I love the design of the Enterprise but the Klingon looks more aerodynamic. I would definitely not buy the Star Trek Starter Kit, though. It's just a simple cylindrical rocket with Star Trek stuff printed on the side.
Now here's something I can afford. There are some new Star Trek jigsaw puzzles out this year. They're pretty easy, but they're affordable and guaranteed not to blow up.
Here's some more affordable stuff. These Topps cards are the first series of Star Trek cards since 1967. Actually, I lucked out. My mother's cousin runs a convenience store back in Pictou, Nova Scotia, and she gave me a whole, unopened box. Free. It wasn't difficult getting a full set of 88 cards and 22 stickers out of a whole box of cards. If you can't get a whole box (and it must have been worth at least $3.60) you can always do it the old-fashioned way and buy a few packs and trade with your friends.
Now this may well be the motherlode of Star Trek stuff! This is the Star Trek Enterprises catalogue. Scripts, posters, medallions, stickers, postcards, and more. Not only do they have Star Trek stuff, they have a lot of neat stuff related to other Gene Roddenberry projects. Remember The Questor Tapes and Genesis II? They were both planned as TV series, but unfortunately all we got was some TV movies. But here you can find out a lot more: writers' guides, scripts, story treatments. There's stuff that's been cancelled before being produced (Magna I, "Gene Roddenberry's first underwater sci fi") and stuff that should be on TV soon (Spectre).
Here's an example of something you can buy: an unfilmed episode story outline from Genesis II:
5008 - "Robots Return"
The advanced computer and sophisticated machinery left on a moon of Jupiter by a 1992 NASA expedition have evolved into a new form of robot life and visit Earth in search of the "God" which created their life. They meet Dylan Hunt, formerly of NASA, and consider him a messiah.
Okay, maybe it sounds a bit like Nomad in "The Changeling," but it could be cool.
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