1991: Star Trek: The Original Series would air for just three seasons from 1966-1969. To celebrate Star Trek’s 25th anniversary, Hallmark releases the U.S.S. Enterprise. The ornament is hugely popular, commanding high prices from resellers. The Enterprise is the only non-Event Exclusive ornament to not appear in the Dream Book.

1992: Leonard Nimoy stars in a Hallmark commercial promoting the Shuttlecraft Galileo ornament.

1992: Shuttlecraft Landing Parties are thrown at Hallmark stores across the country. The corporate sanctioned parties included costume and coloring contests, Enterprise mobile giveaways and more.

1993: After two years of Star Trek: The Original Series ornaments the sequel/spinoff, The Next Generation, gets an ornament. It is the new Starfleet mother ship, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D. The Next Generation would air from 1987-1994.

1993: Patti Yasutake, in the role of Nurse Alyssa Ogawa, replicates the U.S.S. Enterprise-D ornament in the a Hallmark television ad. Yasutake appeared as Ogawa in sixteen episodes and two movies in the Next Generation series. She also voiced Ogawa for the Star Trek: Armada II video game.

1994: Robert O’Reilly as Chancellor Gowron, the leader of the Klingon Empire, promotes the Klingon Bird-of-Prey in Hallmark’s latest commercial. O’Reilly appeared as Gowron in twelve Star Trek episodes, four times on Next Generation and eight on Deep Space Nine. He also filmed segments for the video game Star Trek: Klingon and lent his voice to the Star Trek Online video game.

1995: Hallmark releases an autostereogram puzzle which provides a sneak peek of the coming Keepsake starship ornament. Once the puzzle was complete, one could see images of 1991’s Enterprise, 1993’s Enterprise D, 1994’s Klingon Bird-of-Prey and an early preview of 1995’s Romulan Warbird.

1995: Martha Hackett appears as a Romulan officer in their year’s Hallmark commercial to promote the Romulan Warbird. Hackett played Seska in thirteen episodes of Voyager and T’Rul in two episodes of Deep Space Nine. She also contributed to four Star Trek video games.

1996: Diecast metal is used for the first time in the Star Trek line with the U.S.S. Enterprise and Galileo ornaments to honor Trek’s 30th Anniversary. Lynn Norton sculpted the Enterprise while Dill Rhodus is credited fro the Galileo.

1996: Unlike previous Hallmark Star Trek commercials, the 1996 Voyager commercial just features clips from the series piecemealed together to make a “cohesive” narrative.

1996: Star Trek: Voyager gets its first ornament, the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656. Just a few months prior to this ornament’s release, in the second season episode “Death Wish”, Voyager is turned into a Christmas ornament by the omnipotent Q. The series aired from 1995-2001.

1997: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine becomes the fourth Star Trek series to get a Hallmark ornament with the U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205. Deep Space Nine would air from 1993-1999 but the Defiant did not appear on screen until November of 1994 in the 55th episode.

1998: Our first Star Trek movie ornament is the Enterprise NCC-1701 E from Star Trek: First Contact.

1999: On September 17th, the U.S.S Enterprise from the original Trek series was commemorated on a 33 cent United States postage stamp. Not long after Hallmark incorporated the stamp into an ornament.

2000: Three Crown Reflections blown glass Star Trek ornaments would be released from 1999-2001. Lt. Commander Worf would be Anita Marra Rogers’ tenth Star Trek ornament but her first glass ornament of the franchise.

2001: Introducing the ornament that can hold ornaments! The  Space Station Deep Space Nine ornament is designed to hold six smaller ship ornaments from this year’s Starfleet Legends and 1995’s The Ships of Star Trek.

2002: The Enterprise NX-01 soars into stores and Star Trek: Enterprise becomes the fifth Star Trek series to be honored with an ornament. Even though Star Trek: Enterprise would air for just four seasons, from 2001-2005, Hallmark would make six different ornaments credited to the series.

2003: Anita Marra Rogers and Lynn Norton come together to make The Scorpion for the movie, Star Trek: Nemesis. Norton sculpted the ship while Rogers sculpted the Picard and Data figures in the cockpit. Unfortunately, The Scorpion went under some last minute changes and Rogers‘ work goes mostly unseen. Kevin Dilmore writes “Original designs for the ornament included a transparent canopy on the ornament, but changed to match the studio model used for filming. The change came too late to alter photographs on the ornament’s retail box and other Hallmark publications, which clearly show the figures.”

2004: “The City on the Edge of Forever” ornament is the first Star Trek ornament depicting a scene. Up until this point, every ornament depicted a character or spaceship. Unfortunately, the ornament is notorious for a capacitor that overheats and causes the sound to quit working.

2005: Locutus of Borg was the last Star Trek ornament to be powered by a light cord and the U.S.S. Enterprise A was the first Trek ornament to be powered by lithium batteries.

2006: Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek television series with this authentic representation of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

2007: Recreate the sights and sounds of an epic battle scene from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” with this 25th anniversary ornament.

2008: “The Trouble with Tribbles” ornament includes Magic Motion for the first time in the Trek series. The Tribbles have a special anti-static coating to keep them from clumping together.

2009: Lt. Uhura dons a gold uniform for Hallmark’s first ever Star Trek Event Exclusive ornament, limited to 450 units. The 2009 convention exclusive ornament is a simple repaint of the 2007 Uhura in red, happily, she strikes her famous pose wearing gold in the “The Carbonite Maneuver” (S:1, E:10). The back of the Hallmark box states Uhura had only wore gold in that one episode although she had donned it previously in “Mudd’s Women” (S:1,E:6).

2009: The 30th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is commemorated with the Limited Edition Ilia Probe.

2010: The Star Trek Legends series kicks off with Captain Kirk. This annual series reunites the Star Trek: The Original Series’ core-seven, culminating in 2016.

2011: The ill-fated U.S.S. Defiant is from the third-season episode “The Tholian Web” and celebrates the 45th anniversary of the original series. It features luminescent paint that allows the ornament to glow green in the dark and had a limited run of 700 pieces. The Defiant is one of the most sought after and expensive Keepsakes.

2012: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D , released in celebration of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 25th anniversary.

2013: The Comic-Con exclusive U.S.S. Kelvin features heavy battle damage – just like during the battle with Nero and the Romulans that were from the future in the J.J. Abrams feature film, Star Trek. Limited to 1,575 units.

2014: Star Trek’s first pilot, “The Cage”, was completed on January 22, 1965 with a copyright date of 1964. Fast-forward fifty years and Hallmark introduces the Limited Edition Vina ornament.

2015: “The Needs of the Many” ornament is released and lives on in infamy as an annual holiday meme.

2016: Star Trek celebrates fifty years with six Star Trek ornaments including a shiny golden anniversary Enterprise.

2016: U.S.S. Enterprise – Featuring dialogue and music directly from the original “Star Trek” TV Series, this Keepsake Ornament depicts the iconic starship as originally built and painted for the second Trek pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. This is a repaint of a 2016 Keepsake Ornament celebrating Star Trek’s 50th anniversary.  Limited quantity of 3,450.

2016: Sculptor Anita Marra Rogers’ Star Trek Legends series concludes with a Limited Edition Ensign Chekov ornament. Rogers produced a whopping 33 Trek ornaments over her career.

2016: Lynn Norton’s Enterprise from TOS’ pilot will be his last original Trek ornament (three previous sculpts would be reused in subsequent years). Norton is credited with 37 Trek ornaments.

2016: The 50 year celebration continued in September when Hallmark displayed every Star Trek ornament released since 1991 at Star Trek: Mission New York. Kevin Dilmore explained, “The booth design was a big experiment for us, and we were assembling it until literally minutes before the convention doors opened. Some of the ornaments you see included were from my personal collection (no, I do NOT have them all!) because we weren’t able to locate them in our archives in time to get them shipped to NYC. The inserts behind the ornaments decorating our transporter chamber display were sourced from the same company that created the original material used in the transporter set construction.”

2016: A Hallmark-branded exclusive ornament featuring Maxine, the star of Hallmark’s “Crabby Road” cartoons, dressed in her finest Star Trek cosplay. Maxine has a very limited run of 100. Only 25 were made available per day for the three day Star Trek: Mission New York. The final 25 were made available at NYCC.

2017: Jake Angell sculpts the first Star Trek ship ornament by someone other than Lynn Norton in 25 years, the U.S.S. Franklin. The Franklin is notable for being the first ship capable of going Warp 4.

2017: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-C, a Keepsake Ornament inspired by the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” depicts the iconic starship with a battle-damage paint scheme as it appeared on screen.  This repaint of a 2015 Keepsake Ornament has a total production run of 3,325

2017: Captain Picard and Lt. Data reunite to celebrate Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 30th anniversary. The Next Generation cast boasts 176 television episodes, four motion pictures and a reunion season of sorts with season three of Star Trek: Picard.

2018: Two Star Trek series are represented with ornaments for the first time. Star Trek: Discovery with the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031hits stores. Discovery would air for five seasons from 2017-2024.

2018: Star Trek: The Animated Series is finally recognized with an Event Exclusive ornament. This 45th anniversary set of ornaments includes Lt. Arex and Lt. M’Ress. This ornament is limited to 2,800 pieces. The animated Trek series would air for only two seasons from 1973-1974 but these additional 22 episodes which included Star Trek’s original cast and writers would keep Star Trek in the forefront until Roddenberry could bring Star Trek: The Motion Picture to the big screen later in the decade.

2019: The “mirror universe” Imperial Star Ship I.S.S. Enterprise featured dagger-and-Earth symbols as decór, armed soldiers in every corridor, and torture chambers called agony booths to keep crew members compliant with command. Production run of 3,475.

2019: Four decades after Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Hallmark gives a tip of the cap with the Enterprise A Refit that majestically graced the big screen so many years ago. It would be defend he Federation from V’Ger and Khan Noonien Singh before it would eventually be lost during a conflict with the Klingons in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

2020: The Star Trek Storytellers series premieres four ornaments with an additional four Storytellers to be released over the next two years. These interactive ornaments would recreate the episode “Mirror, Mirror” episode scene by scene.

2020: The Tribble Keepsake Ornament is inspired by the little furry spawning aliens from the Original Series episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles.” It features a different material and color than the version released in stores in 2019 and had a limited run of 3,350 units.

2021: For just a few weeks in December eagle-eyed fans had a chance to pick up a Captain Picard ornament on Amazon that was not available in stores. The ultra-rare ornament appears to have completely skipped a mainstream release. How many are out there? Unknown. The ‘21 Amazon Picard ornament would become one of “The Big Six” most elusive Star Trek ornaments for collectors.

2021: Patrick Stewart returned to his famous role in Star Trek: Picard and we get the first ornament from the series, La Sirena. La Sirena was first captained by Captain Cristóbal Rios before Seven of Nine took ownership and finally given to Commander Raffi-Musiker. The series aired for three season from 2020-2023.

2021: Early script drafts of “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” used Romulans in their classic Bird-of-Prey warship as the film’s antagonists. When later drafts swapped Klingons for Romulans, the ship’s designation as a Bird-of-Prey remained and the craft was redesigned to reflect Klingon technology. The HMS Bounty Event Exclusive, only 3,750 issued.

2022: Including the reissued Storytellers from 2020 and 2021, Hallmark stires have a record breaking nine Star Trek Keepsakes available to the public.

2022: Strange New Worlds premiered in 202x and became the ninth series in the Star Trek franchise to be represented with an ornament. It is the latest incarnation of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. The ornament would also be recognized during Hallmark’s weekly 50th anniversary retrospective.

2022: Hallmark‘s new Star Trek Transporter Water Globe is not under the Keepsake line so it can be found in stores still in 2024. Pick one up at your local Hallmark and if you don’t have a store nearby you can go to Hallmark.com.

2023: Hallmark’s 50th anniversary of Keepsakes ornaments playing cards released. Each card represents an ornament from a particular year with the Two of Spades sporting 2022’s Enterprise from Strange New Worlds.

2023: Badgey is the ambassador for Star Trek: Lower Decks which premiered in 2020. Lower Decks would be the 10th series in the Star Trek franchise recognized with an ornament.

2023: Anita Marra Rogers retires from Hallmark after 36 years. From 1995 through 2016, Rogers created 33 Star Trek ornaments.