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A romance & science fiction connection

October 18th, 2009 | 3 Comments

I ran across something several weeks ago before my mother went into the hospital and really didn’t know what to do with it. In term of posting about it, I mean. I didn’t actually want it, myself. Seriously. No really. Ahem. :D

Then these comments by Linnea Sinclair on the Does Science Fiction Romance Need a Gene Roddenberry? post over at The Galaxy Express caught my eye:

So do we need a Gene Roddenberry? Totally, but if you think about it, we had him. He had several romance plot lines in the original Trek. Later versions had Troi and Worf, and Kira and Odo. Firefly had Mal and Inara. The visual media has NOT been romance-deficient. But watchers are not always readers, apparently.

Star Trek Movie Barbie DollsAnd I immediately knew I had to bring this out as evidence in support of what she said.

Yeah, my brain works in strange and wonderful ways. Okay, just strange ways. Oh, shut up. 

Anyway, can you believe this? Official Star Trek Barbie dolls. Well, of course, I can believe they exist but couldn’t they simply have done just Spock and Uhura? Hmmm. Why did Kirk have to horn in?

Ahem.

Oh, and I found the Star Trek Barbie dolls by way of finding the Twilight ones if anyone wants to see those, too.

I just have one other question – who is the audience for this? For either one of those sets, I mean.

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  • http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/ Heather Massey

    Thanks for the plug, Bev! And I like how your brain works.

    who is the audience for this

    SF fans like to collect things. The gadgets & spaceships are too cool to stay in the movie/book. If we like a show or movie a lot we want to see it plastered on our living room walls and displayed on our shelves in the form of collectibles.

    While these particular dolls aren’t for me, I used to collect a lot of different action figures and other paraphernalia related to various shows/films. Space & budget limitations are the only things slowing me down right now. But last year I bought a THE LAST STARFIGHTER lunchbox which dates back to the 80s. But I’ve got stranger stuff than that!

    Many if not most of the hardcore Trekkers will snap up anything like this. Throw in the legions of Barbie doll fanatics and you have mucho cash rolling into the coffers of Mattel or Paramount or whomever. Said companies can charge ten times the normal price since the products are connected to a successful franchise.

    Eh, was that TMI?! I love collecting *and* I love analyzing it!

  • http://bevsbooks.com Bev(BB)

    Well, yeah, I get the fan collecting thing. :D I guess what I was wondering about was the teenage angle. Particularly for the Star Trek dolls. And actually for the Twilight ones to tell the truth.

  • http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/ Heather Massey

    Teenage angle…meaning would teens be interested in these dolls? The Twilight dolls I can see, but I’m not sure they’d be interested in the ST ones. A few, maybe, but I can’t quite see them rushing out en masse to buy them.