Star Trek™ Generations U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B Ornament With Light
$34.99
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Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the movie “Star Trek Generations” with this Christmas tree ornament featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B. Press the button to illuminate the warp nacelles and deflector dish on this Excelsior-class vessel that was notorious for being the ship upon which Captain James T. Kirk lost his life—or did he? Battery operated.
Key Features: Press the button on the Magic Light ornament to illuminate features on the starship.
Additional Details: Plastic Christmas ornament features hanger attachment.
Includes: One 2024 Keepsake Ornament in gift box for easy gift giving, preservation and storage. Requires three (3) LR41 replaceable batteries (included).
Star Trek™: Strange New Worlds Captain Christopher Pike Ornament With Sound
$21.99
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“Our mission? We explore.” With those words, Captain Christopher Pike set the tone for the crew from his center seat of the U.S.S. Enterprise as they began their duties in “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” Press the button on this Christmas tree ornament to hear memorable lines from the show as the Federation starship makes the jump to warp speed. Battery operated.
Key Features: Press the button on the Magic Sound ornament to hear dialogue. Ornament plays memorable lines from “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.”
Additional Details: Plastic Christmas ornament features hanger attachment.
Includes: One 2024 Keepsake Ornament in gift box for easy gift giving, preservation and storage. Requires two (2) LR44 replaceable batteries (included).
The Star Trek Storytellers which ran from 2020-2022 are available again on Hallmark.com. The discontinued series is being offered at a 25% discount off of MSRP. It appears the entire line is being offered except Dr. McCoy.
Fun Fact: the entire @Hallmark Mirror Mirror Storytellers set, including Magic Cord can fit inside the box for the Enterprise Tree Topper. pic.twitter.com/IYAYJkG5iH
Five Storytellers ornaments are still available on Hallmark.com at a deep discount. Kirk, Sulu and Scotty are all available for $8.74 for a very limited time.
Hallmark.com has the entire Star Trek Storytellers line up available at half price. It is a great opportunity to pick up anything missing from your collection including a much more affordable Enterprise Tree Topper.
This is the complete list of Star Trek ornaments (and snow globe) available at Hallmark stores in 2022. Six of the Star Trek Storytellers ornaments have been available in the past two years but 2022 is the last year the Star Trek Storytellers series will be available in stores.
In the California-class [line], there are three types of hull painting: there’s blue, red, and yellow.
We’ve extended the visual metaphor of the uniforms to the ships, and the Cerritos has yellow on the hull because it’s primarily a second contact engineering ship. They show up to planets that need engineering stuff done on them in order to be able to communicate with the Federation.
There’s also, you’ll see in the show, blue-hulled California class ships, which are usually deployed to places where there has to be more medical expertise, and red-hulled ships that are like for moving around ambassadors and doing more command-level stuff.
Hallmark has a long history of making Event Edition ornaments that were simple ornament repaints using previous production molds. Past repaints include:
2009 Uhura Gold (2007 Uhura Red)
2011 USS Defiant (2006 Enterprise)
2013 Kelvin Damaged (2013 Kelvin)
2016 Enterprise Pilot (2016 Enterprise Gold)
2017 Enterprise C Damaged (2015 Enterprise C)
2019 USS ISS Enterprise (2016 Enterprise Gold)
If we can just get a USS Cerritos ornament there are years worth of Event Edition repaints available. There appears to be six California-class paint schemes. The simple yellow striping that we have seen on the Cerritos and on other ships in red and blue. We also have the more full coverage paint scheme of the same three colors.
Besides the Cerritos, the other 27 known California-class ships now include…
Alhambra
Anaheim
Bakersfield
Burbank
Carlsbad
Culver City
Eureka
Fresno
Inglewood
Merced
Mount Shasta
Oakland
Pacific Palisades
Redding
Riverside
Rubidoux
Sacramento
San Clemente
San Diego
San Jose
Santa Monica
Sherman Oaks
Solvang
Vacaville
Vallejo
Ventura
West Covina
A U.S.S. San Diego would be fun for a certain pop-culture convention.
Iwould like to thank Kevin Dilmore who was kind enough to fill us in on the genesis of the Star Trek Storytellers series. Kevin has always been generous with his time and patient with my Trek ornament obsession.
I also want to urge everyone to get to their local Hallmark stores to complete (or begin) their Storytellers collection. Beginning this weekend the entire Trek Storytellers collection is available for the first time and in under just three months the Storytellers will be leaving stores forever.
I hope you enjoy this peek at what it took to bring these ornaments to your tree.
-HallmarkStarTrekOrnaments.com
You mentioned that you would begin taking question on the Storytellers beginning Friday. Well, I’m getting in line. If you have the time I’d love to hear as much as you want to say on the subject. Thank you for your time and patience with me.
Kevin Dilmore: Happy to help! Thank YOU for everything you do to raise awareness of what we do.
How are you involved with ideas and decisions in the Hallmark Star Trek line?
Kevin Dilmore
KD: Here’s a quick timeline for background. I started as a writer in Hallmark’s internal marketing and advertising studio in October 2005. In January 2013, I moved to our Writing Studio in the creative division. My friends and managers in the marketing studio learned quickly that I was a big fan of Keepsakes and migrated me toward supporting that business as much as possible. I began writing flyers and emails targeting Keepsake Ornament Club (KOC) members as well as heavy Keepsake purchasers. I also wrote all supporting materials for KOC including membership flyers and content for For Keeps, the KOC quarterly publication, which included articles, artist interviews and all sorts of fun stuff. I assisted with the creation of the 2006 Dream Book, the annual catalog of Keepsake Ornaments, and became the lead writer for the Dream Book for the 2007 through 2013 editions.
With all that I was doing, I became known to Keepsake artists and staff at all levels, and to this day call many of them my friends. By the time I was writing the Dream Book, I had been writing for Star Trek for close to 10 years as a contributor to Star Trek Communicator magazine (the publication of the official Star Trek Fan Club) and later as a fiction writer for Pocket Books. I had been asked to give my opinion on Keepsakes staff’s ideas for Star Trek ornaments and then later was asked to submit my own ideas. Given that Keepsakes usually works two years ahead on ornaments, and the first memories I have of weighing in on the line was with a couple of 2009 ornaments, that likely was when my first influences went all the way to the tree.
I do know that I was asked in 2007 about ways to support the 2009 Star Trek feature film given that we had no photos or information from the production. I knew Captain Pike was going to appear in it, so I suggested The Menagerie ornament. I also recall having a discussion with the leader of Keepsakes at the time when we first were making plans for attending Comic-Con International in San Diego. He wondered whether I had any ideas for a quickly produced ornament for that event from recent ornaments because we did not have time to produce an original sculpt. I suggested the Uhura repaint and that became his decision.
FUN FACT: I wrote the box copy for that ornament and I’m the person who screwed it up! I knew off the top of my head that Uhura wore a gold uniform in “The Corbomite Maneuver” but completely forgot that she also was on screen for a few scenes in gold in “Mudd’s Women.” Dang it! I’m still aggravated by that.
So ALL that said, in June 2022, I accepted a proposed rotation into a full-time role in Keepsakes to support the group’s editorial team. I’ve had a hand in strategic planning and editorial with seven assortments in the 2024 line, which includes dozens of ornaments. My role in planning Star Trek ornaments for 2024 is the biggest I’ve yet played. I even helped for the first time to present the line to Paramount approvers. That was a lot of fun.
How many of the PopMinded brands have the benefit of a super-fan, like you, being involved with their respective lines?
KD: When it comes to the Hallmark products that are produced as event exclusives in PopMinded packaging, they are produced by the same teams that make all of our other Keepsake Ornaments and Hallmark gifts. Hallmark is filled with super fans of many, many licenses. I’m not the only person involved in creating Star Trek products who is a knowledgeable fan of the franchise—not by a long shot. I’m just the hardest to ignore haha.
Can you remember whose idea it was for the Star Trek Storytellers?
KD: Keepsake Storytellers grew from the terrifically talented Keepsake Ornaments staff. One of the key triggers to Storytellers tripped when radio-frequency (RF) components dropped in price so substantially that they could be considered for affordable inclusion in a Keepsake Ornament (and other consumer products). I remember a conversation with Phu Dang on the Keepsakes engineering team about what would become Storytellers. He said he had devised a great capability for ornaments to interact but he doubted someone could come up with a story that would maximize that capability. I took that as a personal challenge and came up with the script for Star Wars Storytellers offered in 2017-19.
The first Star Wars Storytellers were in stores in July 2017 and within days I heard from my contacts at (now) Paramount asking when Hallmark would do the same for Star Trek. They knew darn well I would want a hand in that as soon as possible. Keepsakes staff did not want a Star Trek set to overlap with the first Star Wars set, so we aimed at a 2020 introduction and started working.
When did planning begin for the series and how does it compare with a typical ornament’s production?
KD: Mike Brush, then the editorial director for Keepsake Ornaments and a huge Star Trek fan, invited me to a brainstorm meeting for Star Trek Storytellers in July 2018. In this process, when I refer to “we,” most times that means me and Mike, and I will tell you that we would not have the set we have were it not for his leadership and story direction. I did NOT do this in a vacuum.
A Storytellers set is exponentially more complex to plan than a single ornament with a self-contained performance. Our intention with a Storytellers set is to create a compelling performance with any possible combination of participating ornaments. A set requires a separate script for each of those combinations, which can number into the hundreds.
What episodes were considered?
KD: We knew we wanted the set to include the primary seven characters as well as the U.S.S. Enterprise in tree-topper form. We knew we wanted a story in which each of the seven characters played a role that was important to the story. So, starting with the original 79 episodes, we cut to the 18 (by my count) that feature all seven characters. FUN FACT: Contributing to that number being low is Chekov’s absence from the entire first season and Sulu’s absence from many second-season episodes while George Takei was filming “The Green Berets” with John Wayne. Factor in scripts that have characters missing here and there means we’re dropping some favorites (“Space Seed” lacks Sulu and Chekov, “Devil in the Dark” misses Uhura, Sulu and Chekov; “Amok Time” has no Scotty).
Next, we needed to skip episodes with a lot of guest stars or even one strong guest star as we were not making an ornament for that character, and we also didn’t want to force the tree topper into standing in for the character with a lot of lines. Then we needed to look at episodes that drove action through dialogue more so than visuals; it’s just better for the experience. Then we trimmed back to the seven that we felt had the best representation from each of the primary characters.
The biggest internal challenge we faced was going to market with a Star Trek Storytellers set featuring characters wearing uniforms that were not their most familiar. We were able to convince everyone that fans would be able to sort that out.
How does one go about figuring out all the combinations of dialogue needed?
KD: Remember all those mathematics and algebra lessons in school? And how there always was some kid who would ask, “Are we gonna have to know this in real life?” Well, yes—if you’re going to write a Storytellers script. With eight participants, it wasn’t as simple as calculating 8! (That’s the factorial of 8, Star Trek fans, the product of all positive integers less than or equal to a given positive integer and denoted by that integer and an exclamation point.) With factorial eight, we’re talking 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 × 7 x 8 or 40,320.
No, I didn’t write that many performances because participants are not numbers. Consider a four-participant show. 4! suggests 24 performances but the 24 combinations of A, B, C, and D include redundant shows as the combo of A, B, and C is the same show as the combos of A, C, B; B, A, C; B, C, A; C, A, B; and C, B, A – follow me?
From the outside looking in, it seems as if you were tasked with writing dozens and dozens of independent stories that all had to stand on their own?
KD: Well, yeah. I wrote 295 unique performances for the permutations of Star Trek Storytellers. We had a pretty good feeling that if people were in for one that they would be in for all but we did it anyway. The greater concern I had was the possibility that an individual ornament might sell out. I didn’t want someone getting a jumbled mess because Spock wasn’t easy to find or something.
Did it feel like a writing project?
KD: Yeah, it did. A LONG one!
How much of what was originally envisioned was seen in the final product?
KD: We toyed with the idea (and for a long time) that there would be eight episodes represented in the set with each character as well as the tree topper participating in a very abbreviated version of each episode. Imagine going up to the tree and pressing each ornament’s switch and hearing:
Enterprise leads “The Enterprise Incident” Kirk leads “The Ultimate Computer” Spock leads “The Tholian Web” McCoy leads “Spock’s Brain” Scott leads “Friday’s Child” Uhura leads “Who Mourns for Adonais?” Sulu leads “Mirror, Mirror” Chekov leads “The Deadly Years”
Well, I wrote them all. Ultimately, we discarded that because of sound-chip cost and because of the barriers we knew there would be in explaining how the heck that all would work to customers in the store. It came down to selecting ONE episode and we chose “Mirror, Mirror” because it’s a terrific story and frequently named as a favorite by fans.
The only scene I wanted in our “Mirror, Mirror” performance that didn’t make it to the final cut was Kirk and Spock walking past Chekov’s session in the agony booth. Not only would it have given the Chekov ornament more to do, it’s a great moment for our Kirk to show his humanity and the mirror Spock to get a critical piece to the puzzle of what’s actually happening. But, yeah, okay, Chekov howling in agonizing pain isn’t exactly a Christmas kind of moment. 😉
Was the Enterprise tree topper a part of the Storytellers series from the beginning?
KD: Unquestionably. Even before Storytellers was a gleam in anyone’s eye, a U.S.S. Enterprise tree topper has been our most-requested product from fans.
Has the series been considered a success by Hallmark?
KD: I’m told it is considered successful, yes, which makes me very proud.
Could the series have ended prematurely had sales been poor?
KD: Not once did I hear plans that included a contingency for pulling the set before releasing every piece of it should sales not meet expectations. For this to work, three years of work needed to be completed before the first ornament hit stores; every performance was pre-programmed into each ornament. In for a penny, in for a pound, as they say.
Is it possible Hallmark would revisit Star Trek and another Storyteller series in the future?
KD: I’m confident that Star Trek’s decades of episodes and feature films provides a wide base of inspiration for future Storytellers collections. We have two separate Storytellers collections from the same Star Wars movie, right?
What did I forget to ask?
KD: That I can’t answer! But should additional Star Trek Storytellers questions end up in the comments, I’ll do my best to answer them.
As of this writing there is no word of a secret hack to unlock Chekov howling in agonizing pain. Will update as new details emerge. 😉
In July, we posted about Hallmark’s new Storyteller packaging seen in images found on the Hallmark website. At the time we didn’t know if it was something we would see on physical packages or just limited to online images. It can now be confirmed the larger artwork is on physical packaging and is slowly making its way into stock as older inventory is depleted.
2020 & 20212022
Along with the new artwork are new item numbers for the 2020 and 2021 Storytellers.
099. 2020-21 Storyteller Mirror Sulu Red Box QXI6071 099a. 2022 Storyteller Mirror Sulu White Box QXI7876
100. 2020-21 Storyteller Mirror Kirk Red Box QXI6061 100a. 2022 Storyteller Mirror Kirk White Box QXI7873
101. 2020-21 Storyteller Mirror Uhura Red Box QXI6074 101a. 2022 Storyteller Mirror Uhura White Box QXI7883
102. 2020-21 Storyteller Enterprise NCC-1701 Red Box QXI6004 102A. 2022 Storyteller Enterprise NCC-1701 White Box QXI7866
104. 2021 Storyteller Mirror Spock Red Box QXI7002 104a. 2022 Storyteller Mirror Spock White Box QXI7893
105. 2021 Storyteller Mirror Chekov Red Box QXI7005 105a. 2022 Storyteller Mirror Chekov White Box QXI7886
A 2011 Defiant ornament went up for auction in July that had a few red flags. The seven day auction was originally launched with a $350 “Buy it now” option. In less than 9 hours it had received three bids before it was listed as sold, six days prematurely, for $51. It seems the ornament was relisted on eBay by the original seller and sold for $299.
Well, I received an update today from the would-be buyer that explains how everything went down.
“This was a rip off. I bought the ornament from Nacho at first he ended the auction because he had a buy now at $350 so he ended it I paid $51 then relisted it for $299 so I was the same buyer both totaled $350 which was the buy now price. I waited 2 weeks and he never shipping it. I opened a case he then shipped it but it was not a 2011 Enterprise in fact it was a part for a RV. I don’t believe he ever had it. I got all my money back and left bad feedback warning others to stay away!”
-Stan S.
Fortunately, this buyer was able to get his money back. We appreciate him filling us in on the details.
A 2011 Defiant ornament went up for auction yesterday. The seven day auction was originally launched with a $350 “Buy it now” option. In less than 9 hours it had received three bids before it was listed as sold, six days prematurely, for $51.
UPDATE: It seems the ornament was relisted on eBay by the original seller and sold for $299. Things were certainly sketchy with this whole auction where it appears the seller tried to circumvent the system to maximize his profit. Little does the seller know, this ornament has been getting $1200 – $1900.
Hallmark’s third year of Star Trek Storytellers brings us our third version of packaging design. The 2021 Storytellers had an ornament image that was roughly 20% larger than its 2020 predecessors. The 2022 Lt. Commander Scott ornament has a large front image that takes up the majority of the packaging face conforming with the rest of the 2022 Hallmark lineup.
2022 Hallmark Store Display2022 Hallmark Store Display
Although Hallmark stores (at least mine) are stocking Storytellers in their original packaging, Hallmark’s website has photos of the 2020-21 ornaments in updated 2022 packaging. No word if this is something that will actually be available in stores or if it is simply for marketing uniformity.
For the first time since 2015, Hallmark will not be releasing a Star Trek event edition ornament. The event ornaments available will be from the Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel and Dr. Who brands.
Visit popminded.com to see a full list of event ornaments and conventions Hallmark/PopMinded will be attending.
Bring your Magic Keepsake Ornaments to life with more power, more excitement and more fun! This special cord powers up to 7 ornaments or accessories. Works only with Keepsake Power Cord ornaments from 2017 and newer. This cord is required for our interactive Storytellers collections (ornaments each sold separately).
Christmas tree ornament electrical power supply cord.
Compatible only with Keepsake Power Cord ornaments from 2017 and newer. This cord is required for our interactive Storytellers collections. (Ornaments not included.)
Powers up to 7 of the compatible ornaments. Instructions included.
Plastic power supply cord is lead-free and measures 82.75″ L x 0.94″ H x 0.25″ D.
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.
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.
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)
Kirk ornament with communicatorKirk QUOG with phaser
HallmarkStarTrekOrnaments.com is not associated with this sale.
Update:
Price reduced to $1,664.00 with new offer.Relisted price after ending unsold.Price reduced to $1195.95 with new offer.Relisted price after ending unsold (2/20).
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