Over the past several weeks, I have rediscovered my love for the 1988 Galoob Star Trek The Next Generation toy line. It's hard to explain why I've chosen to invest more time, money and energy in this collection, and, even more surprising, why I would give it the best display case in my toy room. When you compare them to The Vintage Collection, Boss Fight Studio, or Marauder Task Force, it's hard to see how they could possibly compete based on modern standards. So why *do* collectors often re-visit toy lines that, for all intents and purposes, are outdated, deprecated, or stagnant? For me there's usually some kind of external prompt... perhaps a new movie that has come out, a documentary that has been released, a lengthy conversation with a fellow toy collector, a rare find at a toy show... that sort of thing. In this particular case, for me, it was the announcements about Hiya's upcoming 1:18 scale Star Trek (2009) toy line. I have all of them on preorder for my personal collection, and I have already created space for them using the older Playmates Star Trek (2009) playsets. This prompted me to rewatch all of the Star Trek movies. It was all down hill from there. I got all of my old Star Trek stuff out and started placing it on shelves in various combinations. It was then I realized that, for me, the magic lied with the Galoob figures and the 3.75-inch Mego figures from Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979). So I put those back out along with the 5-inch scale Playmates shuttlecraft and engine room on the TNG side (they scale better with 3.75-inch figures anyway) and I finally tracked down a vintage Mego Star Trek The Motion Picture Enterprise Bridge Playset for the TOS side. Since then I've been buying up duplicates, adding soft goods and accessories to create variants, adding super cool cardboard backdrops from Cardboard Galaxy, and just generally having a really good time with two lines from 1979 and 1988. And right now I think they're the best figures in my entire collection. Mileage varies, but it's always, always fun to get re-excited about a toy line from times past and to update it and bring it forward into today.