Star Trek, The Butterface Generation

I saw these four two at the flea market and even though I don't collect much Star Trek, something about them caught my eye and once I had them in my hands I just couldn't cleavage myself away from them!

Lursa and B'etor are a pair of Klingon sisters who...oh hell I don't even remember. I did follow TNG religiously back in the day, but little about these ladies sticks in my memory besides...well...the obvious.

The back of the package indicates the sisters are from the influential Klingon House of Duras and caused the Federation all sorts of headaches and probably other uncomfortable feelings too.

B'etor is the younger sister and the more attractive of the two, at least in action figure form. That means she's only a two-bagger: one bag over her head and one over your own in case hers breaks.

Playmates in their heyday: The details on their action figures, along with the plethora of accessories - hell, you even get a stand and a mini poster with this figure! That simply does not happen in this day and age, especially at the modest price point these figures commanded.

B'etor may have the cuter face but Lursa clearly has nicer...eyes. Yes, eyes. Up there. She has eyes. You may not have noticed.

These ladies were too cheap to pass up, and of course the terrible sexists jokes just materialized out of nowhere the second I spotted them (perhaps they were beamed down from the 1960s Enterprise. Kirk would be proud.) and reproduced like Tribbles, screaming out to be put down in a blog post for all the world to judge me on. Be kind. I had no control.

I do wish I had paid closer attention to Playmates' Star Trek offerings back in the nineties. I had a couple from the original series, and a couple from DS9, but I didn't actively collect them. I've avoided getting into a Playmates Star Trek collection thus far but hey, they are pretty cheap and easy to come by nowadays, and with these sisters to spark my...interest...once again, this might be the start of something (dare I say it?) big!

Star Trek Kre-O Blind Bag Minifigures and Codes!

In anticipation of Star Trek: Into Darkness, Hasbro via their Kre-O line has already released multiple building block sets - as well as a series of Blind Bagged minifigures!

I used the 'squeeze method' to find the two I needed: A Klingon and a Gorn (or is it just Gorn? Mr. Gorn perhaps? Maybe Ms. Gorn? I don't know.)

Gorn is pretty impressive. He has the 'Alien'  build that makes him a great extraterrestrial minifigure, as well as great custom fodder.

He also has a very cool weapon.

'Bring it on, Captain Jerk!'

Of course I also had to have the Klingon. He has that ubiquitous Klingon weapon that I don't feel like looking up right now, as well as a cool jacket.

He's apparently also wearing a helmet, which may be the new Star Trek's way of bridging the smooth headed Klingons of the original series with the lumpy headed Klingons of TNG.

FIGHT!

Each package has a unique set of two numbers on the back upper right of the package, which leads with '30711' on all of them.

The Klingon was 30711 08 and Gorn was 30711 09. Or maybe it was the other way around, I got the packages mixed up when I opened them. Regardless, you will be able to tell because Gorn has those massive legs, and their weapons are unique too. So you might have to squeeze a little bit, but not too much ;)