Following the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s sensationally successful final year on the air, Playmates began making plans to draw that toy line to a close, after which a new “generic” range of Star Trek toys would include characters from Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and even the movies.
The fifth wave was a very minor supplement to the fourth wave, adding the long-awaited Tasha Yar figure (as she appeared in her first season uniform; an incredibly rare Yesterday’s Enterprise uniform variation was released a year or so later), and the only toy ever created of the late Mark Lenard’s trademark Vulcan character Sarek.
The final wave of Next Generation-specific characters saw a major package redesign and, again, a very small number of new characters, including Picard as Dixon Hill, Data and Geordi in their correct Star Trek: Generations uniforms (an apology for the fiasco of Playmates’ prematurely-manufactured figures from that movie in the wrong uniforms), Tapestry’s bad-ass Nausicaans, Beverly Crusher in Starfleet uniform sans doctor’s jacket, and Lwaxana Troi.
Other Next Generation characters, including some major characters and fan favorites, would eventually appear under the new toy line with the simple “Star Trek” blister cards.
