Every year, like time and tide, death and taxes, and the New England Patriots caving in skulls at any given Superbowl; I had a long standing tradition with in my family.
Every year, both my sister and myself receive a Christmas ornament from our parents. And every year for the past ten-plus years (well, since the Next Gen. Enterprise-D), I always asked for the ship ornament by Hallmark…until this year.
After three years of struggling against it, Hallmark made a ship from…THAT show produced by ‘THEM’ :
http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mvrojo/ornaments.htm
Now, I make no bones; people ‘round these parts know my feeling about the whole issue of that piece of…IT of a sad-attempt at science fiction (the Xindi alone would have Darwin [the scientist, not the dolphin] screaming at the top of his lungs: “this is EVOLUTIONLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!”…and he’d be right).
Sadder still is the fact that my local Hallmark store is closing after all these years. The owners retiring, and no word as to if he’s going to sell the franchise. So no ship this year, and maybe next year as well.