The Lego ‘Star Trek’ Set Is Right here, and It is Precisely What You Need

Open hailing frequencies to your pockets, as a result of after a brief tease throughout Star Trek Day, it’s lastly right here—Lego’s first-ever official Star Trek set, celebrating one of the crucial beloved Starfleet flagships of all time.

This morning Lego confirmed what many had anticipated after that temporary tease of a minifigure Captain Picard a number of months in the past: it’s boldly going into the world of Star Trek with a duplicate of the USS Enterprise-D, as seen in The Subsequent Era. Clocking in at 3,600 items, the dimensions reproduction of the Enterprise-D is a devoted illustration of the Galaxy-class starship, together with a detachable saucer section to recreate the ship’s means to separate into two autonomous craft and even a tiny little opening shuttle bay on the rear of the saucer, which homes two miniscule shuttlepods. As soon as constructed, together with its stand, the mannequin is round 10.5 inches tall, 23.5 inches lengthy, and 18.5 inches broad.

Lego Icons Star Trek: The Subsequent Era U.S.S. Enterprise-D Gallery

After all, other than the stand that includes the technical knowledge of the Enterprise-D (and angled so you’ll be able to pose the ship in flight because it was usually seen in TNG), the set additionally options 9 minifigures recreating the first forged of the present. You’ll get the beforehand teased Captain Jean-Luc Picard alongside Knowledge, Geordi La Forge, Will Riker, Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, Worf, Guinan, and Will Crusher (sure, he’s carrying the jumper). In addition to a separate show stand, they’ll additionally all include a collection of thematic equipment, from normal Starfleet package like a phaser, tricorder, PADD, or an engineering package and a transportable tractor beam generator, to some extra character-specific touches, like a teacup for Picard, Riker’s trombone, a bottle for Guinan (it’s inexperienced, so possibly Aldebaran whiskey?), and Spot the cat for Knowledge. D’aaw!

Star Trek could stay in a post-scarcity financial utopia, however alas, we don’t, which suggests you’ll have to cough up $400 if you need your personal Enterprise-D when it releases on November 28—and gold-pressed Latinum is just not a suitable different, earlier than you attempt your greatest Quark.

In Ferengi spirit, maybe then, Lego will sweeten the deal if you buy the set on-line or from a Lego retailer between November 28 and December 1: a buildable 261-piece reproduction of one of many Enterprise‘s Sort-15 shuttlepods (particularly the Onizuka). The shuttle will embrace a gap rear hatch and even an LCARS system displaying an incredible deep reduce: the stardate 45076.3, courting it to the season 5 episode “Ensign Ro,” so it’s solely becoming that the bonus additionally features a minifigure of the feisty Bajoran ensign, Ro Laren.

The Lego Icons Star Trek: The Subsequent Era USS Enterprise-D will probably be available to preorder here later this month.

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