Category Archives: Legend Series

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.

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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)

By the Numbers: How Does the Legends Series Stack Up on the Secondary Market? Fall/2021

The Legends series was a series of six character ornaments released annually from 2010 through 2015. In 2016, a Chekov ornament was released in limited quantities that was “inspired” by the Legends Series.

Prices are an average of  prices found on Hooked on Hallmark and  The Ornament Factory as of 10.01.21.

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.

73) 2015 6th in the Star Trek Legends Series: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura

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While most recognized as a communications officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, Nyota Uhura proved herself skilled as skilled and dependable in performing a variety of functions on the starship’s bridge. Captain James T. Kirk frequently relied on her calm demeanor and sharp intellect for important missions away from the ship as well. In her off-duty hours, Uhura was well regarded among her Enterprise crew mates as an accomplished singer who took great pride in her African heritage.

Artist: Anita Marra Rogers

Original Price: $14.95

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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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65) 2013 4th in the Star Trek Legends Series: Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott

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4th in the Star Trek Legends Hallmark ornament series

Keep the holidays running smoothly with the engineering “miracle worker” of the USS Enterprise, the 4th in our Star Trek Legends series.

Artist: Anita Marra Rogers

Size: 1.375″ W x 4.25″ H x 1.5″ D

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62) 2012 3rd in the Star Trek Legends Series: Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy

 image#3 in the Star Trek Legends Hallmark Ornament Series.

He called himself a simple country doctor, but time and again he proved himself to be one of the most valued medical minds in all of Starfleet. Straight from the U.S.S. Enterprise with hypospray in hand, Dr. McCoy comes ready for your tree as the third Keepsake Ornament in the Star Trek™ Legends series.

Size: 1.25″ x 4.25″ x 1.25″

Artist: Anita Marra Rogers

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58) 2011 2nd in the Star Trek Legends Series: Mr. Spock

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Original Retail:  $14.95

Artist:  Anita Marra Rogers

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Novelty:  None

Box Text:  As first officer and science officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, the ever resourceful Spock was frequently pressed into service to explore strange new worlds.  Captain James T. Kirk’s most trusted friend and adviser, Spock performed time and again as an invaluable member of teh Enterprise crew.  yet privately, he struggled in his efforts to suppress the emotions of his half-human heritage in keeping with the ancient, logic-based teaching of his home planet, Vulcan.

Each ornament in this series features a different character from the original STAR TREK television series.

Serial #:  QX8829

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55) 2010 1st in the Star Trek Legends Series: Captain James T. Kirk

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Original Retail:  $14.95

Artist:  Anita Marra Rogers

Box Text:  To boldly go where no man has gone before is not a task for the timid.  But the brash Capt. James T. Kirk has repeatedly proved himself to be the man for the job.  As the intrepid leader of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Kirk has traveled across time and space discovering new civilizations, outmaneuvering enemies, and leaving his indelible mark on the Galaxy itself!

Each of the ornaments in this new series will feature a different character from the original STAR TREK television series.

Serial #: QX8373

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