This is what happens when you use someone's ebay photos. ;)

The Animated Series is what really got the merchandise ball rolling in 1974. The AMT model kits were on the market while TOS was still on NBC, and the FX crew used the Enterprise kit to make the damaged USS Constellation for The Doomsday Machine.

I had nearly all the Mego stuff, except for that sweet Mission to Gamma IV playset. (Why the heck they didn't just call it Vaal, I'll never know!) Half of the Aliens subset of action figures were dead on likenesses, the other half made you wonder what someone at Mego was smoking. The company making the retro Mego Trek figures rectified that, as well as finally making Sulu and Chekov figures. I had to make Uhura and Scotty man the helm when I was 8.

Fans have it so good with the affordable prop replicas made today. Someone at Mego was really into that blue color scheme. ;)