Starfleet Academy Rings
Lisamarie Gemma Babik
Did anyone else receive the mailer from Josten's for a Starfleet Academy
class ring?
They look COOL!
They are made out of 10k or 14k gold with a polished black onyx inset.
One side of the ring has the UFP symbol and the other has the starfleet
academy symbol. There is a communicator thingy (shape) inlaid in the
onyx.
Men's 10k/14k rings are $325/$395. Women's 10k/14k rings are $250/$295.
There is a 9-month payment plan available (bringing a women's 10k ring down
to just $25.00 a month!)...
The rings look really sharp.
The orderline phone number is: 1-800-523-0124, from 9:00a.m.-9:00p.m.
According to the flyer, this is a "limited edition offer" and they can
only guarantee acceptance if you place your order by November 11, 1994.
I have no affiliation with this company...I just thought there might be
other people out there (like me!) who think this would be a really cool
thing!
-Lisamarie Babik
P.S. Josten's makes high school class rings, and the quality I have
seen on them has been very fine...
Omar Hussain
I think it's great, it shows Star Trek is still growing.
Scott Neily
: That's amazing. So even Jostens is getting into star trek commercialism.
: I think it's great, it shows Star Trek is still growing.
No, it shows that Trek has infinite possibilities for crass commercialism...
Mr Cosmic
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Sashi Alexandra German
(Lisamarie Gemma Babik) writes:
>Hmmm....I haven't seen any other posts about this yet....
>Did anyone else receive the mailer from Josten's for a Starfleet Academy
>class ring?
>They look COOL!
>They are made out of 10k or 14k gold with a polished black onyx inset.
>One side of the ring has the UFP symbol and the other has the starfleet
>academy symbol. There is a communicator thingy (shape) inlaid in the
>onyx.
LisaMarie --
I happen to be wearing one of those rings as I type! I will admit that I am
a 'ring' person, and the rings I wear I never take off. I purchased the
Josten's Starfleet Academy class ring about a year ago or so. It IS a
bit pricey, but it IS done by the same people who make class rings for
others.
It's matter of whether or not women want to pay $250-$300 and if men want to
pay more than that for what is truly a classy ring. Very conservative --
not obnoxious looking in any way.
LL+P,
Sashi German
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Sashi Alexandra German
Actually, Scott --
I don't think there is anything we can do to stop Paramount from the
somwahat endless series of merchandising excapades... however there are
two things we should keep in mind:
1) A lot of what Paramount liscences is NOT CRAP. As much as we don't want
to accept it, the Josten's rimgs are very high quality -- not plastic crap.
T-shirts are usually very solorful and interesting to look at. The ties are
often quite interesting AND can be worn at work. The blankets are very neat
to have and do not fall apart after 1 night. Generally Trek merchanise is
good quality stuff. I would be more inclined to complaint about the barely
adequate quality of the Pocket book novels over the years... talk about
rip-offs.
2) I once asked legendary Star Trek fan Bjo Trimble a question about all this
merchandiseing stuff. I thought she would be against it -- was I WRONG! She
said there was NOTHING wrong with merchandising IF you GOT what you PAID FOR.
She said if you DON'T, THEN you've been ripped off.
I somewhat agree with her, but I am kind of sick with what I see. The last
Creation con in Valley Forge, PA was just amazingly commercial, where someone
even had a table with a big sign "Star Trek Birthdays." Come on!!
LL+P,
Sashi German
Trek the Internet newsletter
Scott Neily
: Actually, Scott --
I too, am somewhat sick of the Trek Merchandise Overexposure campaign
Paramount seems to be running. I suppose it all relates to the
"mainstreaming" of Star Trek. Trek used to be for people who were just a
little off center - so-called "normal" people (i.e. "people who had a
life") did not go to Trek conventions, publish/contribute to Trek 'zines,
and did not attend regular meetings with other Trekkers to discuss
various Trek related things. Now, Trek is as mainstream as Mom and apple
pie. What was once a unique phenomenon in world culture (i.e. people
across the planet with one basic thing in common - a certain degree of
devotion to Trek), is now one more mass market trend.
Trek is now entrenched in the conciousness of the world. Its popularity
may one day wane, only to resurface a few years later as another wave of
nostalgia grips the Hollywood Money Making Machine, but it will never
truly go away. It will always be the fans, and I mean the real fans, not
just the casual viewers, who strive to keep Trek alive in one form or
another, not Hollywood. It's just that now, it's the "in" thing for
people everywhere to like Trek.
Sure, most Paramount approved Trek products are of a certain quality.
The problem is with the proliferation of products, somewhere along the
line, the quality will eventually become diluted, and that's when Trek
will become one more fad past its time. Yes, Trek should grow (more or
less like it is now) but only under controlled circumstances and only a
little bit at a time. To do otherwise is both greedy and dangerous, and
right now, Paramount is very close to being found guilty on both counts.
Keep on Trekkin'
Mr Cosmic
Tony Rowley
>In article <373psh$e...@wsu-cs.cs.wayne.edu> lmb...@rocdec.roc.wayne.edu
>(Lisamarie Gemma Babik) writes:
>>Hmmm....I haven't seen any other posts about this yet....
>>Did anyone else receive the mailer from Josten's for a Starfleet Academy
>>class ring?
I just got my *second* flyer for this... See below for the disposition
of the first flyer I got... [grin]
>I happen to be wearing one of those rings as I type! I will admit that I am
>a 'ring' person, and the rings I wear I never take off. I purchased the
>Josten's Starfleet Academy class ring about a year ago or so. It IS a
>bit pricey, but it IS done by the same people who make class rings for
>others.
I'm not wearing mine at the moment, but my size 13 ring is sitting in
its velvet box upstairs... Jostens made a size 16 ring for a friend of
mine and didn't charge him extra, surprising considering that he bought
the 14K version...
>It's matter of whether or not women want to pay $250-$300 and if men want to
>pay more than that for what is truly a classy ring. Very conservative --
>not obnoxious looking in any way.
Heck, hobbies are expensive. Besides, one only lives once... [grin]
I found my ring to be well worth the investment.
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Philip Giunta
As I purchased my college ring from Josten, they also sent me circular
for the Starfleet Academy ring. As I really am not a jewlery person I did not
order one (hell, I only wear my college ring on special occasions). But they
were rather nice and seemed finely detailed.
The fact that Sashi never takes her rings off would explain the lack of blood
circulation to her head. JUST KIDDING, SASHI!!!!!!!!
Terrence Howard
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