10 Star Trek Toys That We Loved

10. (Official) Star Trek Helmet

Oh, the 'Official' Star Trek Helmet aka 'Spock's Helmet'! It's as notorious as it is hilarious — the ultimate in 'so bad it's good'. Sure, the toy had absolutely nothing to do with Star Trek or Spock, aside from having those words plastered on it, but does that matter? Time itself has been the judge and ruled no. Thanks to Star Trek: Lower Decks, the 'Space Fun Helmet' is also now canon as an in-universe collectible of the infamous Collectors Guild, and, perhaps more appropriately, as an item of contraband of one Beckett Mariner.

The history of the Helmet is as odd as you might expect. As recounted in Netflix's The Toys that Made Us: Star Trek, in the late 1960s to early 1970s, toy company Remco had started "label-slapping" Star Trek and 'Astro' on and in front of a whole range of their existing toys, giving the world the 'Star Trek Astro-Buzz-Ray Gun,' the 'Star Trek Astrotank,' and the bug-eyed 'Star Trek Astro-Helmet'. In 1976, it was Enco Industries who followed suit with the iconic disaster that is 'The Star Trek (Space Fun) Helmet'. It wasn't just Spock you could slap on the front either. The helmet came with Kirk, McCoy, and Scott decals too.

In a final twist, in 2019, Ethan Peck unboxed and donned the Helmet for StarTrek.com. Finally! The toy no longer wears the wearer; Spock wears it! "There's the vintage tissue," as Peck said. The toy has come full circle, in flashing light and pulsing sonic sound! Ultimately, we can't help but love it, if only for the sheer bonkers audacity of it all.