10 Star Trek Toys That We Loved

The nostalgia is really starting to kick in. After Mego, and now Playmates on the list, we've already got more GOATs than a colony on Bringloid V. Founded the year The Original Series was first broadcast and known for their Cricket doll and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merchandise, Playmates didn't start making Star Trek toys until the early 1990s. But, as noted in The Toys that Made Us: Star Trek, Playmates did something revolutionary — they actually marketed to Trekkies! (Appealing to fans? Radical!)

With the accuracy, detail, and sheer diversity of their action figures, Playmates quite literally changed the game. Step right up, get your 'Tom Paris Mutated Beyond the Transwarp Barrier' action figure with "three mutant offspring," 'ere! These 'toys' were for the collectors and not just for kids.

Before plastic Paris and the salamander babies, Playmates first released its Star Trek: The Next Generation collection in 1992. The figures in it were Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Riker, Lieutenant Commander Data, Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, Lieutenant Worf, Romulan, Gowron the Klingon, Ferengi, and Borg, each accompanied by a host of accessories so intricate Playmates seemingly forgot about Beverly (who only got her own figure for the first time in 1993).

From 1992 to 1999, Playmates brought out over 400 Star Trek action figures from across the series, returning briefly in 2009 with a set from the Kelvin-verse, and then again from 2022 to 2023 for Star Trek: Discovery, a re-issue of the classic TNG figures, and a limited run of Star Trek: Prodigy figures. Sadly, that looks to be it for Playmates and Star Trek action figures for the foreseeable future. The company will now be focussing only on new ships and roleplay items.