Get ready for Christmas with festive new Star Trek pins, jumpers, and face-masks

Christmas approaches, and several Star Trek licenses have started getting into the festive spirit, with a wide range Star Trek themed apparel to choose from this year. Continue below for plenty of Christmas jumpers, and the inevitable Christmas face masks. But first...

FanSets have revealed the artwork for their Star Trek Christmas pin for this year, which features none other than a jolly Christmas badgey. The first of I am sure many badgey badges to come! He'll be available in December.

Trek-wear: New skirts, scarves, hats, sportswear, bathrobes, and novelty T-shirts

Got your wardrobe ready for the winter? Well don't forget to add some Star Trek flare, with some of the latest releases - Although you might need to layer up (or enjoy summer in the southern hemisphere), as a lot of what's new is T-shirts! Continue below to check out all the latest Trek-wear, starting with something that definitely is ready for the cold:

New from ThinkGeek, Starfleet officers from both the 23rd and 24th centuries can keep warm with new Starfleet winter gear. Here's the TNG uniform styled hats and scarves:

New Trexels drinking vessels

Icup, makers of novelty kitchenalia, including a number of previous TOS themed releases, have expanded their Star Trek range with some new Trexels releases. The pixelated forms of Kirk and company can now be found on the side of a set of four twelve-ounce glasses:

And a landing party about to meet the Gorn also features on a plastic cup, which has a screw on top and reusable straw!

Trek-wear: Enterprise-ring, T-shirts, uniforms, and props

New trek stuff to wear! First up, a new licensee was revealed at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention; RockLove will be producing Star Trek jewellery, and previewed a quirky two-part Enterprise ring in a merchandise presentation at the convention. TrekMovie got this shot from the show:

Also a bit shiny is Her Universe's new T-shirt, which features the TOS title with a metallic edge and spacey interior. The design is available from ThinkGeek, as is another new ladies design, featuring some Gold Key style-art:

More retro designs can be found in the latest additions to Plastic Head's apparel range for the UK market. There are lots of designs, mostly based on TOS, including some Trexels and few TNG too - They offer T-shirts, as well as jumpers and bags.

You can see a few more examples from the Plastic Head range after the jump, as well the latest uniform replicas from Anovos, and some new prop reproductions.

New game on the way, Star Trek Timelines

Games developer Disruptor Beam have announced they are working on a new Star Trek game, coming at an as yet undetermined future time to Apple, Android, and web-browsers. Star Trek Timelines is set to pull elements from across the prime-timeline universe. At this stage there are few details about exactly what the game will involve, but they have indicated it will have some similarities with their existing Game of Thrones game, with an emphasis on dialogue driven story telling, and crafting, and for the new Star Trek game, an extra focus on exploration. They have laid out their plans for the game in a blog post, including a summary of how they intend to pull different aspects and time periods of Star Trek together:

Temporal anomalies, mirror universes and time travel have been recurring themes throughout all the Star Trek series and several of the films. This will form the basis of Star Trek Timelines, and gives us the opportunity to explore a lot of “what-if” scenarios: what if Spock and Jean-Luc Picard got to serve on the same ship? What would it be like to have members of the mirror universe’s Terran Empire on your crew? This game will allow you to join forces with your favorite characters from across the many eras and universes from Star Trek lore—and then make decisions that impact the future of civilizations, star systems and the galaxy itself.

They have also noted their aims for gameplay, making it clear they don't want to be just about running around and shooting stuff:

Let’s talk for a moment about what Star Trek Timelines won’t be: it isn’t a first-person shooter or a MMORPG-oriented environment where the action is about running around and blasting everyone with your phasers. There are already Star Trek games that feature first-person action—and we also feel that a combat-oriented game wouldn’t really capture the vision of Star Trek. Instead, we’re going to focus on giving you beautiful vistas of outer space, artistic renderings of your favorite characters, and a conflict mechanic where science and diplomacy are just as important as your ability to fire photon torpedoes. This means that some aspects of the game will be more “abstract” than you’d experience in a first-person perspective game – but we think it’s the right way to create the right experience for Star Trek.

You can read more about what they hope to achieve, on their blog. They've also released this tease trailer:



Continue after the jump for a look back at a couple of other recent Star Trek mobile games:

Awesome new video game style Trek shirts

A new bunch of retro video game inspired Star Trek T-shirt designs from Trevco have appeared on Amazon. A couple of them also use the Trexels characters, including the best of the bunch, a most excellent Star Wars parody, "Kirk Phased First" (though I think he's accurately using his bamboo cannon there):

You can also help Worf select his weapons:

They've invented a Star Trek arcade game for another, called Tribble Trouble (which I really hope someone decides to make as a browser game or something):

And then there's a big pixely Worf head, because he's "Every Bit a Warrior" (get it? hahaha, hehehe):

Trexels, Star Trek pixelated

CBS have been building up a nice little collection of Star Trek stylised sub-brands in recent years. I've looked QUOGs several times before, and recently collected up the uses of their new crew renderings. I've yet to examine perhaps their most stylised take on Trek though, Trexels.

Trexels are Star Trek characters, ships, and settings, presented in pixelated form; the Trek of vintage video games. Michael DeFelice, who worked for CBS on several Star Trek design projects, describes them as follows in his portfolio:

The array that Trexels has to offer will identify to the Star Trek fan while feeling fresh at retail. This bold style gives off a look of a retro video game with the bright and quirky pop of comic book art.

Trexels appear to have arrisen as an art project by John Martz, who, with Koyama Press, offered a fine art print featuring 235 characters, which was released in 2010:

A little while later CBS seems to have picked up the idea and have released at least two further posters, now with the Star Trek font (and CBS copyright notes) added on. There's a collection of TOS characters:

And a condensed history of Star Trek. The labels on this one should please Trek-lit fans, as they used the names of the Federation Presidents and foreign ambassadors established in the novels:

As with all CBS's image collections these are also starting to crop up in other forms. So far there are at least three T-shirt designs from Trevco. The TNG crew on the bridge:

The TOS crew exploring a strange new world:

And fully embracing the computer game style, press A to transport:

This could be just the start though, the portfolio of Michael DeFelice that I mentioned earlier also features concepts for applications of Trexels to all sorts of things. My favourite is the big phaser shirt, very cool:

DeFelice's portfolio also features designs for interiors and ships that have yet to appear anywhere. Have a look at those after the jump: