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Ultimately, Captain Kirk was forced to take the Enterprise into the black hole to defeat the Cygnans, a decision that sent the starship and its crew backwards in time thousands of years and into orbit around Earth. As the planet was pulled into a black hole, the USS Enterprise must also face off against the Cygnans, the alien race responsible for the disappearance of the Titans. The excellent detail (down to shiny boots) and an impeccable paint job (reference the gold leaf wrap on the uniform’s sleeves) combine with Art Asylum’s perfect facial sculpt (capturing the youthful features of actor Leonard Nimoy) to deliver a figure that is an awesome addition to a collection.As written by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, the film was set after the five-year mission depicted in the series, and involved Starfleet competing with the Klingons for claim to the supposed homeworld of the mythical Titans, a technologically advanced race, long thought extinct. What’s it worth: Star Trek fans really get an affordable masterpiece from Diamond Select Toys with Mr. For example, Star Trek: The Key Collection, Volume 1 (averaging $20 online) collects the first eight issues of the sequential art created by such legends as writer Len (Wolverine) Wein and artist Alberto (Turok) Giolitti. Read all about it: Nostalgia buffs of the original show should hunt down the trade paperbacks of the rare 1960s Gold Key comic books (collected by the now-defunct Checker Book Publishing) - expanding upon Gene Roddenberry’s universe. Kirk gets an extra set of hands and extra set of solid legs, both of which could work in a scenario if owners wanted to have the captain and his first officer fight one another. By the way, the sculpt of suave actor Ricardo Montalban as Khan is dead-on.Ĭapt. The display base is as perfectly cheesy looking as one might find on the set from the 1967 show. The articulated Kirk figure wields a pipe as he crouches in position to slug a statue of Khan, who is sprawled across a control panel on the U.S.S. Kirk diorama from Diamond Select Toys ($24.99). It’s worth mentioning the equally slick Capt. The second requires using the kneeling legs along with open hands and a grimacing Spock head to capture the scene of the Vulcan using a “mind meld” to feel the creature’s anguish.Ī nice touch includes a removable piece of the Horta, exposing grey matter and its injury suffered from an errant phaser blast. An owner attaches a head sculpt that reveals his very focused personality. Diamond Select Toys' Captain Kirk pushes Khan in a set based on the Start Trek episode "Space Seed." (Photo by Joseph Szadkowski / The Washington Times)Ī more configurable statue than action figure, he hangs out (with some help from pegs) upon a diorama showing part of the Janus VI cave and the misunderstood Horta creature who looks like a beaten bombe cake.įirst, after simply fitted with the rigid standing legs (that attach to the torso through a ball joint), he holds a phaser in one hand and other hand can grasp one of two included tricorders (open and closed and each with a strap).(Photo by Joseph Szadkowski / The Washington Times) Art Asylum sculpts a decent likeness of actor Ricardo Montalban as Khan in the Diamond Select Toys' Captain Kirk figure set.Spock based on the Star Trek episode ÒDevil in the Dark.Ó (Photo by Joseph Szadkowski / The Washington Times) Diamond Select Toys' Captain Kirk clobbers Khan.

Spock aims his phaser at Captain Kirk before he starts singing another Elton John song. Spock studies the the Horta based on the Star Trek episode "Devil in the Dark." (Photo by Joseph Szadkowski / The Washington Times) Spock, from the Star Trek episode ÒDevil in the Dark.Ó (Photo by Joseph Szadkowski / The Washington Times) Spock compared to actor Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock performs a mind-meld to feel the pain of the Horta.