Galoob
Galoob was founded as Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. in 1954 in San Francisco, California and was reported to be the third-largest toy maker in the US at the time of its acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1998.  Since then, Galoob's logo has continued to appear on the packaging of a number of toys produced by Hasbro.

Aside from the Star Trek franchise, the company also licensed and manufactured toys featuring a number of other science fiction franchises, including , Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, , , , and Star Wars.

Star Trek licensing 
Before its acquisition by Hasbro, Galoob held three separate Star Trek licenses. It produced the first action figures and toys based on  in 1988, created a line of figures for  in 1989, and finally released a series of Star Trek "Micro Machines" starship miniatures from 1993 until 1997. 

The history and development of the Galoob line was featured in the  "Star Trek" episode of the Netflix series, The Toys That Made Us. In the documentary, former Galoob CEO and son of founders Lewis and Barbara, David Galoob, conceded that his company had, from the outset, made serious judgement errors when they acquired the Star Trek license, admitting, "We did not think Star Trek was a license for adults. We thought the Star Trek license would sell to the kids", thereby underestimating the vast adult collector fanbase that desired sculpted accuracy, rather than the emulation of Kenner's stylized Star Wars toys.

Consequently, its action figure lines were not only small, but were judged inaccurately-molded and had to endure a number of errors during production and release. "It just never really hit its stride at retail," Galoob added, (and) "never was anything like Star Wars, and ultimately we dropped it."

David Galoob's assessment notwithstanding, the wide-ranging and highly lauded Star Trek Micro Machines sub-line from the mid-1990s became very popular among Star Trek collectors for years, despite performing below the company's sales expectations at the times of their release. (see below)

Star Trek: The Next Generation releases

3-3/4" action figures

Series One
 Captain Jean-Luc Picard
 Commander William T. Riker
 Lieutenant Commander Data*
 Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
 Lieutenant Natasha Yar
 Lieutenant Worf

Series Two
 Q
 Ferengi
 Selay
 Antican
 Ensign Wesley Crusher*
 Romulan*

Vehicles
 Ferengi Fighter
 Shuttlecraft Galileo

Other toys
 Die-cast  (with detachable saucer section)
 Phaser Weapon
 Die-cast Ferengi Battleship *

General Mills releases 
Galoob also provided Star Trek starship toys for a number of General Mills breakfast cereals in the US and Canada, as a cross-promotion for its TNG toy line.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier releases

Action figures
 Captain James T. Kirk: "Captain of the USS Enterprise"
 Spock: "Science Officer of the USS Enterprise"
 Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: "Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise"
 Sybok: "Mysterious rebel leader of Nimbus III"
 Klaa: "Klingon captain in search of battle"

Micro Machines 

Star Trek Micro Machines were plastic miniatures produced by Galoob from 1993 to 1997 as an extension to their pre-existing and wildly popular  toy line. Most of these models were less than three inches long, were pre-painted, and all came with transparent display stands.

The first releases were three-packs packaged in transparent bubbles attached to printed cardboard cards, known as blister packs. In size, the miniatures were comparable to the (commonly 1:3900 scale) pewter gaming miniatures made by FASA and Task Force Games. And indeed, a pewter-colored collector's series release (no. 66072) was also issued in 1995 to reinforce the kinship between the two product lines. In total, 52 unique molds were created for the Micro Machines Star Trek line and 93 deco variants were released.

Galoob produced vessels from The Original Series, the movies, ,  and . The first two editions featured ships and stations from TOS, the movies, TNG, and DS9. When the third edition ships were launched in 1994, some new ships were packaged anew with ships from the first editions. The third and fourth editions featured more ships from TOS, the movies, TNG, DS9, and early seasons of Voyager and were mounted on restyled cards.

Special ships were also manufactured, available only as parts of three 16-piece "Collector's Edition" box sets, in which all the models were combined, including ships from , such as the  and the . Other collector sets featuring silvered and bronzed versions of the ships were also issued. Five vessels were individually released in 1995 as part of a promotion for the fourth edition re-release of the three-pack series, and were simultaneously released in mainland Europe. 

Continental Europe saw the official release of the Micro Machines in 1994 (all mounted on a DS9-style card), tied in with the three-pack third edition, and apart from the tri-lingual text on the packaging differed form the US packaging in that it was sub-licensed to Ideal, whose logo was also printed on the front of the packaging. Unlike the third edition, the fourth was in packaging, save for some minor language imprints and the lack of the numbering on the front, virtual identical to the US version. All European editions merely stated Star Trek on the bottom on the front of the packaging, as opposed to the US versions that specified which series was pertinent.

Micro Machine Collections

Additional European Micro Machine 3-pack variants

Trivia 

 The USS Excelsior miniature was released with a NCC-2000 registry and also was printed with a NX-2000 registry. The latter is rarer.
 The yellow-painted USS Stargazer model, first released in 1994 in three-pack set 66106, is actually not that of the starship but is based on Captain Jean-Luc Picard's ready room display model (NCC-7100), though it has the correct registry number. 
 Likewise, the Kazon fighter of set 66128 is that of the studio model as it was originally delivered to Paramount Pictures and before it was decided to have it modified into its ultimate onscreen configuration.
 The USS Saratoga was a reuse of the mold for the USS Reliant, with a slightly different paint scheme and the roll bar removed.  However it lacks the sensor pods that the Saratoga had in .
 Some silver colored Micro Machines of the Starfleet ships, most likely from the pewter series, were used as part of the San Francisco Presidio Starfleet Headquarters maquette building, first seen in  and used several other times throughout DS9 and VOY.

 On the packaging for Collector Set Two, the descriptions for the USS Farragut and USS Defiant refer to the TOS ships bearing those names, rather than the ship models in the set.
 In the TNG Season 6 DVD-special feature, "Dan Curry Profile", it was revealed that Star Trek Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry, an Original Series fan, collected Star Trek Micro Machines.
 In 2013, former Galoob art department employees Jim Fong and Robert DiGiacomo provided extensive details and archival photographs from the development of the Next Generation toy line to TrekCore.com. Numerous cancelled products and previously unseen prototype designs were covered in these three articles. 

A number of Star Trek Micro Machines starships were also retailed by Namco in Japan and carried its brand logo on the windowbox packaging. The boxes also bore the Galoob and Tsukuda Hobby logos.
 The Micro Machines line was quite popular in its day, and the format has also been employed for rival franchises such as Alien, Babylon 5, Marvel Comics, Predator, Starship Troopers, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and The Terminator. In the cases of Star Wars, Alien and Starship Troopers, several items packaged in the Micro Machines releases were compatible with their respective outings in Galoob's larger-scaled "Action Fleet" toy line, and therefore complementary. The Micro Machines logo was also printed on the packaging of many Action Fleet and Titanium Series (die-cast starship lines, typically scaled at a size in-between the larger Action Fleet and the smaller Micro Machines outings) releases, with the latter series also incorporating the Battlestar Galactica, and Tranformers franchises.
 The license for larger-scaled Star Trek (toy) ship models passed to Galoob's successor, Playmates Toys, which, envious of the success Galoob had enjoyed with its Action Fleet toy line (particularly for Star Wars), unsuccessfully tried to emulate the formula with the Star Trek: Strike Force line in 1997.

See also 
 Star Trek starship miniatures
 Star Trek model kits

External links 
 
 
  – Star Trek Micro Machines page
 ,  and 
Collectible companies