That’s the craziest part to me. It would be one thing if this toy was a tie-in made when the show was still on the air or something, but this was sold in 1976!
Also, you could put other crew member’s names on the helmet instead of Spock’s if you really wanted to do anything with this toy other than thank Grandma and never take it out of the box again.
They were going through a few different movie scripts at the time. Interestingly, a rejected one was about a black hole that threatened to consume reality, not dissimilar to the prime timeline part of '09.
The animated series ended in 1974. This was before my time, so pure speculation, but Star Trek was likely still in the minds of kids of the appropriate age for the toy.
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