Star Trek: TNG Action Figures  - JCPenney Christmas Catalog - 1993

 

    Oh yesssss! I'm not going to be a poseur and say that I was or am a fan of Star Trek in any of it's incarnations. That said, I can admit that I've seen more episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (hereby known as ST: TNG because we're tight like that) than any other. The reason is simple: syndication. It's 6 PM, you're a pre-teen sitting in front of the TV, it seems like nothing is on but news and...fine, we'll watch Star Trek. Plus, I married a ST: TNG fan, so if it's on when we're flipping channels, we'll typically stop and watch.
    In 1993, before Scott Bakula ruined it for everyone else, the Star Trek franchise had hit its high note with TNG. Even I knew that. These action figures are the proof. Have you known anybody with a Capt. Janeway figure? OK...besides a sci-fi geek? TNG was about as mainstream as Star Trek gets. I'm sure that kids all over America were begging for these things come Christmas morning, leaving one kid really psyched to get the A-list set (Set 01) and his sibling feeling totally gypped by getting the B-list set (Set 02). I don't know what Geordi did to get banished to Set 02, but it must have been bad. And, for the record, that looks nothing like Q. By the way, I'm sorry that Data and Borg Picard got a little blurred. JCPenney likes to stick its coolest stuff near the crease.