The figurines include two maxi-busts of Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh and Leonard Nimoy as Spock.

According to the Titan Merchandise press release, the Khan Noonien Singh Maxi-Bust “captures every detail of Ricardo Montalban’s indelible performance as Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, including his rugged strength, bouffant hair and every fold of his buccaneering outfit.”

The Mister Spock Maxi-Bust “celebrates Leonard Nimoy’s legendary performance as the one of the greatest Star Trek icons of all time – the unforgettable Mr. Spock. This is an incredibly detailed piece with a note-perfect, never-before-seen replication of Spock’s Starfleet uniform, tricorder and phaser.”

The polystone busts stand eight inches high and are five inches wide. Each bust will sell for $79.99, and will be available in June from Forbidden Planet and Entertainment Earth.

Hollywood Collectibles has already released a Kirk statue, and the Gorn from Arena is slated to appear next month, but a new statue has been announced, and will come in two versions.

In March, two versions of Spock, standing at his console, will be offered in a limited edition. The standard version will come in an edition of six hundred and can be pre-ordered here. The standard version of Spock at his console will sell for $224.99.

A variant version, only available at Hollywood Collectibles (pre-order), includes more of Spock’s console, and will be limited to a run of one-hundred-and-fifty pieces. This variant Spock sculpture will sell for $199.95.

Titan Collectables is also offering Trek sculptures, in this case, busts of Star Trek characters in their Star Trek Masterpiece Collection. Kirk and Picard will be available next month, and the Data bust will debut in February.

A new bust, of Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, will arrive at the end of May, and sell for $79.99. The Khan bust is a “detailed three-quarter length 8″ tall maxi-bust.”

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With the destruction of Vulcan in Star Trek XI, there will be pressure on Spock to help his race. “I would imagine (this is just speculative),” said Quinto, “his planet’s been destroyed, he feels a real imperative to rebuild his race. But he’s in love with a human. There’s probably some potential conflict in that dynamic, I would not be surprised, and I would be intrigued and excited by that if that were the case.”

Quinto trusts the writers when it comes to Spock and where the character (and his romance) will go in Star Trek 2. “I have such implicit trust in all of those guys: Damon, Bob and Alex, and J.J.,” he said. “I feel like they’re going to take us where we need to go. And we’re going to follow them whole-heartedly.”

But what about the Spock-Uhura romance? Will it survive? “I do think [so],” said Quinto. “I don’t see how they could just drop it. It may be fraught, I don’t know!”

Spock will feel the need to help when it comes to rebuilding the Vulcan race. “He’s not the only Vulcan, I think I said, ‘Of my planet’s nearly six billion inhabitants, approximately ten thousand have survived,’” said Quinto. “He’s not the only one. But the odds aren’t great. He has a bit of a cultural imperative to [help].

“I think he’s going to spend a lot more time doing the logical thing. Which is to help repopulate, help support, and help rebuild the race of people. His father was full Vulcan, and he has a responsibility there, and he loves his father very much.’

There was a time when Nimoy struggled to find acting jobs that weren’t related to the pointy-eared Vulcan character that he had made famous. “During that period (mid-1970s), I had a struggle,” he said. “I was busy. I had no problem finding work. But the work pretty much was related to the Spock character. I was, on the one hand, happy to be working because I know what it’s like to be an out-of-work actor. But at the same time I was hoping to broaden my scope, and eventually I did.”

But Nimoy came to terms with Spock and is willing to say what made Spock tick and why people were attracted to the character. “Well, I’ll tell you something,” he said. “I came to believe finally that Spock was at least as human, and perhaps more human, than any of the other characters on the show. Spock’s condition was a quintessentially human condition.

“I think that’s maybe the underlying secret to why so many people identify with him, because he had this inner life that so many people recognize, which is the struggle between our logic and our emotion; our right or left brain. We all, to some degree, have this process to deal with. Particularly young people who are in their formative years, trying to figure out how you’re supposed to function in relationships, in your career, in your personal choices. It’s a condition that’s easily recognizable.”

Why did Nimoy say “Yes” to playing Spock again after so many years? “[J.J. Abrams] asked me if I would come to a meeting,” explained Nimoy. “And this was before they started writing, I think. I met with him and his writers. The conversation, frankly, was actually moving to me, because it had been a number of years since I’d been asked to do anything with Star Trek.

“And here comes a guy named J.J. Abrams who has a lot of cachet, I thought, a very good filmmaker and his writers, and they’re telling me about their sense of Star Trek and their sense of the Spock character. I thought it was profound, frankly. I thought, ‘Wow, these guys really get it.’”

Nimoy will be appearing at the Dallas Comic Con this weekend.

The second set of Star Trek-themed Potato Heads will feature Mr. Spock and Lieutenant Uhura. This Potato Head set will be one of the first Potato Head sets to incorporate a new Potato Heads redesign.

All of the pieces used to customize the Potato Heads will be interchangeable, meaning that fans can also use pieces from the Kirk and Kor Potato Heads and from any future Star Trek Potato Heads to make their own unique character if they choose to do so.

The set will sell for approximately $30-$35. Further information, when available, can be seen at PPW Toys, where the first set of Kirk and Kor can still be ordered.

The Premiere Props auction will be held on Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3 at the Premiere Props Warehouse located at 128 Sierra St. El Segundo, CA 90245, at 11 AM Pacific Time.

Over one thousand items from various shows and movies, including some from Star Trek, will be offered to the public. Of special interest to fans of the original series will be lot #308, which contains an actual silicone latex ear worn by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. “Spock’s ears are an iconic part of Star Trek and fans across the world would love to own it,” said Premier Props’ Dan Levins. “We’ve already had lots of bids.” The ear was acquired directly from the prop master of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Other Trek items of interest include animated cels from Star Trek: The Animated Series featuring Scotty and Kirk, concept sketches and drawings, a suit worn by Armin Shimerman as Herbert Rossoff in Far Beyond the Stars, a Star Trek: The Next Generation Writer/Director’s Guide, a draft of the Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country screenplay and other items. The entire auction guide, including the Star Trek items, can be seen here.

Over a thousand items in all will be auctioned and proceeds for some of the items will go to specific charities. Fans can bid now, by heading to the following links: icollector.com and liveauctioneers.com.

“Premiere Props is the leading marketing memorabilia company to market, authenticate, package, and distribute exclusive movie memorabilia. Since 2001, Premiere Props has represented over 300 movies to date and continues to grow strong. Premiere Props works with some of the largest motion picture studios and independent distributors in the world.”

Three new sets, from three original series episodes, can be pre-ordered, with delivery expected in late October. The sets will sell for $31.98 each.

The sets, which include two figures each, are from the following episodes of the original series:

• Where No Man Has Gone Before. Kirk and Spock.
• Arena. Kirk and the Gorn.
• The Enterprise Incident. Spock and Romulan Kirk.

To pre-order any of these sets, head to the link located here, click on Products, then Star Trek, then Action Figures.

The 2011 ornaments focus on the original series this year, with one character ornament, one scene from an original series show and a ship ornament.

The character ornament is Mr. Spock. Sculpted by Anita Marra Rogers, this ornament of the Vulcan Science Officer holding his tricorder is the second in the Star Trek Legends series.

A “Mirror, Mirror” ornament features a scene from the original series episode of the same name. The scene is the Mirror Universe Sickbay and M.U. Spock is extracting information from Dr. McCoy in a mind meld. The ornament, sculpted by Valerie Shanks, includes dialogue from that scene.

Finally, Romulan lovers will be pleased with the ship ornament for 2011. Lynn Norton has sculpted a Romulan Bird of Prey. The ornament features lights in the ship’s plasma torpedo launcher and an underside decorated with a colorful bird.

The ornaments will go on sale in July of 2011.

Trek fans were surprised by the romance between the half-Vulcan Spock and human Uhura in Star Trek XI, and now they wonder what will happen now that Vulcans have become an endangered race.
Zoë Saldana (Uhura) also wonders how the romance will be handled in the Abrams sequel, hoping that the romance continues. “There was a huge acceptance and excitement with what J.J. and the writers did with that twist,” she said. “What they did was a huge gamble, and when it worked, it worked really, really well.”

But events of the movie may force a change in that relationship. “It would be interesting to see what they are going to do with it,” said Saldana. “I really hope they keep continuing to explore it, but at the same time too … I could be wrong, but I thought Vulcans only mate every seven years. So now that the planet has been extinguished, it’s kind of interesting. Can Spock mate with a non-Vulcan?”

Saldana thought that given the destruction of most of the Vulcan race, Spock might need to find a Vulcan female instead of Uhura to help perpetuate the species, because any children that Uhura and Spock might have would only be one-quarter Vulcan. “I’m not a Vulcan,” she said. “Now there’s no Vulcan planet.”

A cat with a unique foot is being compared to a certain logical race of Star Trek beings.

Spock the cat was born with a malformed paw, which looks very much like the Vulcan hand salute.

Fans in the Atlanta area on the lookout for a cat can adopt the two-year-old domestic short hair/mix female cat who is at the Atlanta Humane Society, or choose one of almost three dozen other cats.

Spock is said to have a sweet personality, and she loves to get the attention of humans by grabbing them with her unique paw.