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076. Ensign Pavel Chekov (Legends #7)

No. 076
Released: July 9, 2016
Ornament: Ensign Pavel Chekov
Series: Star Trek: The Original Series
Product code: QXE3161
Artist: Anita Marra Rogers
Original retail: $15.95
Dimensions: 3.125” H x 2.625” W x 2.125“ D
Branding: Keepsake
Material: Styrene
Packaging: White Box, Red Trim w/ Asterisks
Magic: None
Power source: None
Front box text:
Hallmark KEEPSAKE
STAR TREK
ENSIGN PAVEL CHEKOV STAR TREK™ LEGENDS
christmas tree ornament | décoration pour l’arbre de noël
Back box text:
Most kids love eating cotton candy, but not Anita Marra Rogers. She used to delight her siblings by sculpting wads of the sugary treat into little circus animals. After nearly 30 years as a Keepsake Artist, there’s still a touch of sweetness in every ornament she creates.
Anita Marra Rogers
This ornament inspired by the Star Trek™ Legends series was issued in limited quantities and first available at the 2016 Keepsake Ornament Premiere event.
MFD. FOR/FABRIQUÉ POUR HALLMARK MARKETING COMPANY, LLC KANSAS CITY, MO 64141
MADE IN THAILAND
artist crafted
Bottom box text:
For decorative use only. Pour usage décoratif seulement.
STARTREK.COM
TM & © 2016 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
QXE3161
U.S.A. $15.95
CAN.$20.99
Additional information:
In his command gold uniform, the young navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise is featured in this ornament inspired by the Star Trek Legends series of Keepsake Ornaments. This will be offered in limited quantities beginning at the 2016 Keepsake Ornament Premiere event. Inspired by the Legends series.
Pros: The previous year’s Uhura ornament was declared the final entry in the Legends Series, leaving Chekov as the only core cast member left out. Thankfully, Hallmark made it right—this ornament is labeled “inspired by the Star Trek Legends Series,” giving the beloved ensign his due.
Cons: This would mark Anita Marra Rogers’ 33rd and final Star Trek ornament—a bittersweet sendoff for a legendary sculptor in the line.

Yeah, someone I know made a bit of a fuss over Chekov being left out of the series. It was a decision that had been made based on lower than anticipated sales, and when that someone learned of the decision too late to help get it reinstated for the following year, that someone threw a fit. That someone said no fan or collector would trust Hallmark to finish out a crew in a series again if we did six cast members without doing at least the seventh (resigned to the likelihood of extending to nine being near impossible). When told later it couldn’t happen because the series had been announced as ended, another fit commenced saying our credibility was on the line here and that fit lasted until a path to adding Chekov—the “inspired by” path—was settled upon.

You’re welcome.
-Kevin Dilmore

Artist Inspirations: Legends Series

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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)

2016 Hallmark Convention Print Ad

76) 2016 Ensign Pavel Chekov

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To to be released at the 2016 Keepsake Ornament Premiere in limited quantities. This is “inspired” by the Legends Series but the 2015 Uhura was the last in the Legends Series.

Ensign Pavel Chekov — In his command gold uniform, the young navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise is featured in this ornament inspired by the Star Trek Legends series of Keepsake Ornaments. This will be offered in limited quantities beginning at the 2016 Keepsake Ornament Premiere event.