[Morgan]

Here's a Rom (and Nog) figure signed by actor Max Grodenchik. Rom had one helluva character arc through the series, and even though this figure came out reasonably close to his likeness I'm struggling to remember seeing him in this exact suit in the series.

People forget this, but Grodenchik appeared as a Ferengi a bunch of times on TNG: he was the Ferengi in "Captain's Holiday," he also played another Ferengi named Par Lenor in the episode "The Perfect Mate," and yet another Ferengi named Gint on DS9.

What's interesting about this figure is that Nog is completely hidden behind the pog, even though I think I've seen one error figure where Nog is positioned in front of the pog. It's cool that Playmates did Nog in this fashion at all, even though, to be honest, it could have redone him later in Starfleet uniform, but we didn't really get any figures past season four or five, Worf DS9 and Capt Sisko.

The second wave of figures featured a lot of the crew in TNG uniforms, and in hindsight this seems like a massive, massive waste of figures because the cast didn't really wear them beyond one episode where, by the way, the science uniforms looked really really blue but the figures went for the green hue. But we got pretty much the whole Starfleet side of the DS9 crew in TNG uniforms as part of the second wave, minus Sisko, cause he was a mail-away. Unfortunately, this is not one of the figures that was released in Canada or Australia on first release DS9 cards, so I'm not aware of any packaging varieties of Rom. I also think this figure was a little underproduced in terms of volume: this one has foot number 004790, and I just don't remember seeing any super high numbers that I remember. So it may have been short-packed.

I remember when this wave of figures was first announced along with Sisko from Crossover, Dax from Blood Oath, Odo from Necessary Evil, along with Grand Nagus Zek, Vedek Bareil, Jake Sisko, etc, and I was very excited just as these were hitting stores. I think I bought my first example of this figure in TRU in Renton, WA, along with Sisko, Dax, and Odo, and thankfully this third wave of figures was largely immune to scalping, with the exception of Vedek Bareil, which seemed to be the chase figure. I got Grand Nagus Zek in Chehalis, WA, and the others locally in the Seattle area, including Tosk, Hunter of Tosk, and Jake Sisko. Odo from that wave was an all-time fave for me for a looong time, I still pick up examples of this figure whenever I can.