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069. Lt. Hikaru Sulu (Legends #5)

No. 069
Released: July 12, 2014
Ornament: Lt. Hikaru Sulu
Series: Star Trek: The Original Series
Product code: QX9183
Artist: Anita. Marra Rogers
Original retail: $14.95
Dimensions: 4.25” H x 1.25” W x 1.25“ D
Branding: Keepsake
Material: Styrene
Packaging: White Box, Red Trim w/ Stripes
Magic: None
Power source: None
Front box text:
Hallmark KEEPSAKE
STAR TREK™
LIEUTENANT HIKARU SULU STAR TREK LEGENDS
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décoration pour l’arbre de noël
Back box text: 
One of the most versatile and reliable officers aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, Hikaru Sulu chiefly served on the bridge as helmsman, controlling the starship’s speed and relative position, as well as weapon and defense systems. He repeatedly proved himself to be a valuable resource to Captain Kirk as an expert in fields including botany, antique weapons, and judo. Lt. Sulu also demonstrated stalwart leadership whenever he took charge of landing parties or was assigned temporary command of the Enterprise.
Anita Marra Rogers Hallmark Keepsake Artist
Each of the ornaments in this series features a different character from the original STAR TREK™ television series.
artist crafted
Bottom box text:

For decorative use only. Pour usage décoratif seulement.
STARTREK.COM
TM & © 2014 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MFD. FOR/FABRIQUÉ POUR HALLMARK CARDS, INC. KANSAS CITY, ΜΟ 64141
PRODUCED IN CHINA
QX9183
U.S.A. $14.95
CAN. $19.99
Pros: One of the stronger entries in the Legends series. The sculpt captures Sulu’s essence well—especially that unmistakable hairline—and honors his presence on the bridge.
Cons: As with the rest of the Legends line, the small scale limits finer details, leaving the figure feeling a bit flat up close. A little more facial definition would have elevated it.

Artist Inspirations: Legends Series

The iconic poses found in the Hallmark Legends series can be found in Trek merchandise like character standees, trading cards, figures and posters.

Left: Cardboard Standee Cutout on Amazon.
Middle: 2016 Dave and Buster’s trading card.
Right: Uhura poster.

Many of the Hallmark Legends poses can be found in the Star Trek Quotable Notables Boxed Card Set that was first available on Amazon in 2017, the year after the final Legends ornament was released.

Send the coolest greetings with this Star Trek Quotable Noteables Boxed Card Set! Each boxed set includes cards and sticker sheets of your favorite Star Trek characters. 
Characters include: Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov. Box Contents: 7 Cards, 7 Envelopes, 7 Sticker sheets.

Star Trek Quotable Notables Boxed Card Set
Left: Season 3, Episode 14 “That Which Survives”
Middle: 2010 Hallmark Legends: Kirk.
Right: Star Trek Quotable Notables Boxed Set.
Left: Likely publicity still taken on the set during ”City on the Edge of Forever”.
Middle: 2012 Hallmark Legends: McCoy.
Right: Star Trek Quotable Notables Boxed Set.
Image from “City on the Edge of Forever”.
Left: Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in a 1966 publicity still, the Legends ornament has slightly less hair and missing the front overlap on her skirt.
Middle: 2015 Hallmark Legends: Uhura.
Right: Star Trek Quotable Notables Boxed Set.
Left: Season 2, Episode 2 ”Who Mourns for Adonis”
Middle: 2016 Hallmark Legends: Chekov.
Right: Star Trek Quotable Notables Boxed Set.

Four of the seven Legends ornaments share the same pose as those that can be found in Star Trek Notable Quotables Box Set but three Legends ornaments did not as you can see below.

Top Row: Star Trek Quotable Notables.
Bottom Row: 2011 Hallmark Legends: Spock , 2014 Hallmark Legends: Sulu, 2013 Hallmark Legends: Scotty.
Left: Season 1, Episode 8: “Miri”
Right: 2011 Hallmark Legends: Spock.
Left: Season 3, Episode 14 “That Which Survives”
Right: 2014 Hallmark Legends: Sulu.

Interestingly, both Kirk and Sulu in the Legends series were modeled after moments in the same episode when the away team visited a Moon-sized planet.

Left: Season 2, Episode 6 “The Doomsday Machine”.
Middle: From the game Star Trek Timelines.
Right: 2013 Hallmark Legends: Scotty.

Scotty seen holding a Trident Scanner which was used to repair power relays. 

The term “trident scanner,” was first described almost thirty years later, in the script for “Trials and Tribble-ations,” where the device is apparently named after its general shape, which resembles a trident.

Memory Alpha

I’ll take some of the credit/blame for the standees deviations! In the design phase, when I was asked about Spock, I said something to the effect of, “Can we please NOT have him just standing there doing the hand thing?” And we didn’t. I remember being asked what Scotty could be doing, and I suggested his use of the trident scanner; it’s my favorite of his engineering tools. As for the Sulu deviation, I’m pretty confident the decision was made early that Kirk would be the only one of the seven brandishing a hand phaser. We did want each of the Star Trek Legends appear to be actively doing something, so Sulu got a tricorder. I mean, legends don’t just stand there!

A closer look should show that of all our Star Trek ornaments, the percentage depicting the use or display of a weapon is pretty low. By my (quick) count, it’s only nine:

1996—Riker (phaser)

1999—Worf (bat’leth)

2010—Kirk and Spock (lirpa)

2013—Gorn and Kirk (stone dagger)

2018—Kirk and Sulu (épée), M’Ress and Arex (phaser)

2020—Sulu (dagger), Uhura (dagger)

2021—Chekov (phaser)

We prefer not to show weapons in our Star Trek ornaments but we will when we feel it adds to the storytelling aspect of a design. Note that in 2018, the Kirk design released that year by Hallmark Ornaments substituted a communicator for the phaser he typically carries in that stance of his Quogs design, a move that was intentional on our part. Not familiar with Star Trek Quogs? Check out this link from 2009—you’ll even see the greeting card we did with them.

-Kevin Dilmore, February 22, 2022

Note: 2019—Transporter (Kirk, Spock and McCoy with phasers)

69) 2014 5th in the Star Trek Legends Series: Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu

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Another year, another Star Trek™ legend. This fifth ornament in the series features Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu from the original Star Trek series.

Product Code: QX9183

Each of the ornaments in this series features a different character from the original STAR TREK™ television series.
Artist crafted.
1.25″ W x 4.17″ H x 1.14″ D

Retail: $14.95

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