# Star Trek USPS stamps coming out this year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349 "2016-01-06T19:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/1 "2016-01-06T19:38:37Z")
Unlike the STAR WARS or HARRY POTTER stamps, no specific actors or characters will be depicted. > **[FIRST LOOK: Star Trek Stamps Coming for 2016](https://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-star-trek-stamps-coming-for-2016)** > > FIRST LOOK: Star Trek Stamps Coming for 2016 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/2 "2016-01-06T19:41:26Z")
I hardly use stamps nowadays. But I will be buying these. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/3 "2016-01-06T19:41:35Z")
I know no living persons are depicted on U.S. postage stamps, but surely they could have put the late Gene Roddenberry on one. Or Leonard Nimoy or Deforest Kelly or James Doohan. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/4 "2016-01-06T19:43:58Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Unlike the STAR WARS or HARRY POTTER stamps, no specific actors or characters will be depicted. > > [FIRST LOOK: Star Trek Stamps Coming for 2016 | Star Trek](http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-star-trek-stamps-coming-for-2016) The guy in the transporter beam sure looks like Kirk to me! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/5 "2016-01-06T19:45:25Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I know no living persons are depicted on U.S. postage stamps, but surely they could have put the late Gene Roddenberry on one. Or Leonard Nimoy or Deforest Kelly or James Doohan. That’s obviously Nimoy’s hand giving the Vulcan salute! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/6 "2016-01-06T20:05:50Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I know no living persons are depicted on U.S. postage stamps, but surely they could have put the late Gene Roddenberry on one. Or Leonard Nimoy or Deforest Kelly or James Doohan. I believe the tradition is that the person must be dead for ten years (excepting ex-presidents), so Nimoy wouldn’t qualify. I’m sure they’ve made other exceptions, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/7 "2016-01-06T20:14:18Z")
About four years ago, they [changed the rules](http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_109.htm) to allow stamps of living persons. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/8 "2016-01-06T21:09:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > About four years ago, they [changed the rules](http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_109.htm) to allow stamps of living persons. Thanks! Although I’m hard pressed to think of any living people who have appeared on stamps since the policy change. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/9 "2016-01-06T21:20:07Z")
Well, speaking of [Harry Potter](http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/stamps-harry-ron-hermione.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/10 "2016-01-06T21:27:50Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Unlike the STAR WARS or HARRY POTTER stamps, no specific actors or characters will be depicted. What? You mean we don’t get to vote for fat Kirk or skinny Kirk? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/11 "2016-01-06T21:35:12Z")
Not very inspired designs, I’m afraid. (Aren’t the star-streaks going the wrong way?) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/12 "2016-01-06T21:38:36Z")
Why did they decorate the Enterprise like a Christmas tree? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/13 "2016-01-07T05:22:32Z")
This just in. Paramount/CBS have issued a cease and desist order against the USPS, saying “they are trying to profit from our intellectual property.” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/14 "2016-01-07T06:13:44Z")
The Post Office will make out big on this. Think of all of the dorks who will frame and mount these and never use them. And of course there will be legions of boobs who will but them and save them because “they will be worth something some day.” As if. They will print out jillions of them. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/15 "2016-01-07T06:58:38Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > This just in. Paramount/CBS have issued a cease and desist order against the USPS, saying “they are trying to profit from our intellectual property.” Is this a whoosh, or do you have a cite for this? I’m sure these are being issued with the full cooperation of CBS and I can’t find anything online. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/16 "2016-01-07T15:13:16Z")
It’s a little bit of a whoosh inspired by what’s going on with “Axanar”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/17 "2016-01-07T20:43:06Z")
I like the new ST stamps. They have a certain retro charm. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > About four years ago, they [changed the rules](http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_109.htm) to allow stamps of living persons. They’d done it even before then: [http://old.post-gazette.com/nation/20020606postal2.asp](http://old.post-gazette.com/nation/20020606postal2.asp) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/18 "2016-01-08T02:07:35Z")
Arguably the stamps honoring the first lunar landing and the flag raising at Iwo Jima also depicted living Americans. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/19 "2016-01-08T04:08:19Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > It’s a little bit of a whoosh inspired by what’s going on with “Axanar”. OK, that went completely over my head. What’s going on with “Axanar”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349/20 "2016-01-08T04:48:58Z")
There’s a crazy thing the kids these days are all calling “Google”: [http://www.treknews.net/2015/12/30/paramount-cbs-lawsuit-axanar/](http://www.treknews.net/2015/12/30/paramount-cbs-lawsuit-axanar/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349.md?page=2)