[Morgan]

Here is one my favorite 7th season release figures, or two figures I should say: Gowron in ceremonial attire, Canadian market version. This was, for some reason, a hard to find figure back in the day despite the fact that there were apparently plenty of them.

These two are numbered 9060 and 5515, and being Canadian-market versions they have 31-figure backs with a yellow DS9 advert box in addition to the French text on the front.

The figure itself is a pretty clever remake from existing parts, but they sold it really well. (If you think about it for a second, this was a bit of a cop-out since this was the second Gowron figure being made, instead of someone like K'mpec, Duras, or half a dozen other arguably worthy Klingons to be made into figures). Still, it's reasonably screen accurate, even though Robert Reilly did not have Michael Dorn's height or physique (which was kind of obvious in the show) and he was a reasonably recurring character to warrant a figure. This is a more realistic Gowron than in the 1992 debut release, and this version is arguably what should have been done in the first place.

It would have been nice is this version had a Skybox card, so despite having two versions of Gowron the manufacturer got out of including a card or pog. The accessories here are also standard issue Klingon stuff. But the 7th season release had a lot of "parts-bin" figures.

I was starting to collect these figures (not these exact ones) right as this release was on store shelves, and needless to say there were plenty of figures like Picard and Data as Romulans (of course), as well as Riker as a Malcorian on store shelves. But figures like Barclay, Hugh, Esoqq and Gowron were nowhere to be seen. I think the single best store find for me was Q in Judges Robes, prices for which at the time were actually kind of steep -- hard to believe now.