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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989

After a less than stellar launch of their Star Trek: Next Generation toy line, Galoob released a series of five non-poseable vinyl figures from the brand new movie, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. These figures were molded onto their bases with virtually no articulation. Galoob did not produce any vehicles, accessories, or playsets for their Star Trek V line. In fact, only ERTL produced any other items from the movie, with their die-cast ships of the U.S.S Enterprise and Klingon Bird of Prey. 

For more information about Galoob’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier products, see bottom of page for a complete summary.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): Basic Figures

For their Star Trek V: The Final Frontier figure line, Galoob decided to abandon the entire concept of action figures you actually could play with and just went with five vinyl figures representing the main characters from the new movie. These figures were molded to their base with the only articulation being that you could move their arms.

Sybok

Market Value:
Boxed $25 – $40
Loose $8 – $14

Sybok
Accessories: None
Years Released: 1989
Scarcity Factor: Not hard to find, but getting tougher each year
Notes: Sybok was portrayed by Laurence Luckinbill in the Final Frontier movie, and was described as the “Mysterious rebel leader of Nimbus III”. Sybok was the main antagonist of the movie and also just happened to be the half-brother of Spock. Like the other figures in this series, Sybok comes molded in non-poseable vinyl with no accessories.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): Accessories

Galoob did not release any accessories for their Star Trek V: The Final Frontier figure line in 1989, but the ERTL toy company did release two different die-cast ships, the Klingon Bird of Prey and the U.S.S Enterprise.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): Playsets

Galoob did not release any Playsets for their Star Trek V: The Final Frontier figure line in 1989.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): Vehicles

Galoob did not release any vehicles for their Star Trek V: The Final Frontier figure line in 1989.

After a less than stellar launch of their Star Trek Next Generation toy line, Galoob was beginning to have second thoughts about taking on the Star Trek toy license. Their Next Generation line was seeing poor sales for a number of reasons, but mostly dealing with the fact that the figures weren’t very fun for kids. Star Trek toys had not had the best track record since Mego’s glory days in the early to mid 1970’s and Galoob thought they had the recipe to turn it around. They did not, but Galoob still had the rights to Star Trek and with a new movie coming out in 1989, they needed to release something without spending a lot of money. So the decision was made to create non-poseable vinyl figures that were molded onto their bases. Galoob released these “figures” as Limited Edition, which was clearly just a selling ploy because they were anything but limited. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was considered a box office and critical disappointment, along with being one of the weaker Star Trek movies made. Galoob’s line of vinyl figures was also a big failure with poor sales and very little demand. Despite the massive Star Trek name and the Next Generation television show’s big ratings and success, Galoob’s toy line struggled with poor sales due to poor design, poor articulation and poor planning of the entire toy line from the beginning. After a very brief two year run of Star Trek products, Galoob ceased production of their Star Trek license at the end of 1989.

The Star Trek V: The Final Frontier toy line was very small with only one wave of items. It contained five vinyl, non-poseable figures in total. They are not technically considered action figures because of no action, so just a series of poorly sculpted vinyl figures. The series consisted of Captain James T. Kirk, the captain of the Enterprise; Mr. Spock, Kirk’s right hand man and best friend; Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, the chief medical officer; Sybok, the main antagonist of the film and half-brother of Spock, and finally Captain Klaa of the Klingons. Galoob did not produce any vehicles, accessories, playsets or anything else for their Star Trek V line. In fact, only ERTL produced any other items with their die-cast ships of the U.S.S Enterprise and Klingon Bird of Prey. The head sculpts for the figures were pretty bad and they had virtually no articulation. This was Galoob’s attempt at marketing Star Trek towards adult collectors, but they failed to realize that you have to make things that people actually want for them to be desired.

The packaging for the vinyl figure line of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was just as plain and generic as the figures themselves. They came in a open window box, which took up most of the front. The Star Trek V logo was scrolled across the bottom of the box, just under the window. The bottom right corner of hte box contained a photo of the Enterprise crew, along with a brief description of the character inside the box. The top left side of the box featured a silver sticker with the words “Limited Edition”, but no sequence numbers which usually follow a limited edition claim. Overall, this was a poor effort by Galoob to make a new Star Trek figure line for collectors and kids. It is a forgettable line with appeal to only hard core Trek collectors.