TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

i was going crazy over this so I asked AI lol

Here’s the answer it gave me:

What the Evidence Shows

•  Star Trek Cereal Promotions in the Early 1990s: Cereal promotions tied to Star Trek were common, especially with brands like Kellogg’s, General Mills, and Shreddies. For example, Canada’s Shreddies cereal in the early 1990s offered unpainted starship toys, including the Enterprise-D, Klingon Bird of Prey, Romulan Warbird, and Ferengi Marauder, which came with stickers for decoration. These were small plastic models, not spoons, but they align with your memory of Star Trek-themed cereal prizes.

•  Spoons as Cereal Prizes: Cereal box prizes in the 1990s often included plastic spoons, especially themed ones. For instance, Kellogg’s offered lightsaber-shaped spoons for Star Wars promotions in the mid-2000s, which were popular and memorable. While no specific Star Trek ship-shaped spoon is documented, the concept of a themed spoon as a prize was common, so it’s possible you’re recalling a similar item.

•  Other Star Trek Collectibles: The early 1990s saw various Star Trek-themed food-related collectibles, like the 1989 Kraft “Marshmellon Dispenser” (which included a plastic spoon, fork, and belt ring as a mail-in offer) and Weetabix’s 1995 Star Trek Generations cut-out display scenes. However, none of these explicitly describe a spoon shaped like a starship.

•  Memory and Confusion: It’s possible you’re conflating a Star Trek toy (like the Shreddies starships) with a spoon-shaped prize from another promotion. For example, Nabisco’s 1958 “Spoonmen” figures, which sat on spoons, or Kellogg’s Star Wars lightsaber spoons might have blended in your memory with Star Trek imagery, especially if your grandparents had Star Trek memorabilia around. Additionally, the term “spoon heads” (a derogatory reference to Cardassians in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) might have created a mental association with spoons, though this is unrelated to cereal prizes.

I’m willing to agree with this that it might have just been a plastic, unpainted Star Trek ship I am remembering but it was shaped like a spoon so my mind mixed the two up.

Hey I have some of those!