The Ultimate Star Trek Shirt

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This smiling "autographed" picture of Leonard Nimoy is believed to be from a series of store appearances promoting not toys but what I have deemed the most incredible piece of Star Trek merchandise ever.


What follows after the jump is madness, be warned.

First, let's get the company name out of the way, Huk-A-Poo. Huk-A-Poo is the name for wonderful disco shirts and blouses, I've probably featured hundreds of their products over the years but none this incredible.

Behold the Huk-A-Poo Star Trek disco shirt in all it's wonderful glory. We could have just taken pictures of the shirt and left it at that but no, we went the extra mile here.

I enlisted the aid of my pal Corey to recreate a vintage faux catalog shoot.

The classic Mr Spock model kit pose, did I mention absolutely no one batted an eye while we did this?

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[jwyblejr]

Call me crazy but I want that shirt. The scene above the Enterprise is what sells it for me.

[monitor_ep]

Om my Vulcan, that is one crazy shirt. And I kinda want one.

[mego73]

I know the references they used:

That publicity photo of the 3 foot Enterprise on a sky background.
Publicity photo of Kirk and Spock
Star Trek Gold Key issue #20

http://curtdanhauser.com/St20.html

They copied a couple poses out of the scene with McCoy and Scotty in space collecting gas samples.

[palitoy]

I know the references they used:

That publicity photo of the 3 foot Enterprise on a sky background.
Publicity photo of Kirk and Spock
Star Trek Gold Key issue #20

http://curtdanhauser.com/St20.html

They copied a couple poses out of the scene with McCoy and Scotty in space collecting gas samples.

That's bizarre, I was reading that very issue last night. Kind of a chilling look into my sad social life.

[EMCE Hammer]

Why didn't you show me that shirt!!!!!!!! I was trying so hard not to judge you as I walked by that I completely missed it. I think the pants had me half hypnotized. Is that yours or Corey's?

[David Lee]

I this... I have been waiting to see this since MM... That shirt is so bad to the bone it hurts... the faux shoot just makes it even more awesome... Great work! I know you guys had to be rolling when you were doing it. Like two kids making a latenight comedy cassette tape...

Dave

[Earth 2 Chris]

Man, that looked like a lot of fun. The shirt is hideous...and that's what makes it so great. I'd so wear that to work on Casual Friday (which has evolved into Ugly Shirt Day).

Chris

[Wee67]

I'm glad to see there were plenty of ways to make women ignore you back in the 70's, too.

BTW, I love that that photo is from Two Guys. I have an absolute fixation on stuff from that store.

[HardyGirl]

I'm a chick and I want that shirt.

[slats7]

Hard to believe they made that for an adult.

[David Lee]

Hard to believe they made that for an adult.

I am pretty sure your not an adult if you wear that shirt....

[mego73]

The artwork is nearly as bad as the Star Trek sheets I used to have.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1976-Star-Trek-Twin-Sheet-Space-Ship-Hard-to-Find-Perfect-Fabric-/121140452956?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c34889e5c