[Morgan]

This was the find of 2019 for me, a figure that until this year the Trek collector community didn't even have a clear photo of. This is Crusher with pog on a 7th season Canadian card, which is how some of the 1993 release figures with pogs were sold in Canada. In addition to Crusher, there were also Lore, Guinan, Ambassador Spock and Vorgon on 7th season cards released in Canada -- all of these were released in Canada toward the end of the second wave of 1993 run. Out of these the Lore and Guinan are the easiest to find, Vorgon is a little more difficult, and Ambassador Spock is tougher still.

Crusher is the most difficult to find out of this group of five, and up until I bought this figure I hadn't even seen it in real life or in a quality photo -- all we had was some grainy photo from eBay back from ages ago.

Some estimate that less than 5,000 figures each out of the Lore, Guinan, Spock, Vorgon and Crusher group were produced for the Canadian market on 7th season cards, and given their sparse presence on the collector market at the moment that seems like a very high estimate. And it was probably very uneven among those five figures too, as Lore and Guinan can be found with a few months' work, while others take a couple of years to be spotted on eBay or Kijiji.

In 2019, the number of Crusher figures still in the box is probably below 50 -- just because otherwise we'd have seen more photos or something. And it's clearly just a fraction of that whole Tapestry Picard/Yesterday's Yar/Barclay trio, because those were stockpiled by scalpers back in the day and never opened. The Crusher figure itself was not a chase figure, and this packaging variation was virtually unknown in the U.S. back in the day. The big action figure stores had no clue about Canada beyond the Sarek/Troi on pog figures, so there was no reason for anyone to stockpile Crushers on 7th series cards. So they were all just bought and opened up.

Curiously enough, Canada also received a bunch of DS9 figures on these 7th season cards, and also a bunch of 1995 release figures with Data and Geordi from Generations, along with a couple of others. All of their numbers were also pretty limited, and they also appear to have been unevenly distributed.