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Highlights
- Launch: Lego has released its first official Star Trek set, the USS Enterprise-D.
- Details: The model contains 3,600 pieces and features a detachable saucer section.
- Minifigures: The set includes nine minifigures of the main cast from The Next Generation.
- Price: The set will retail for $400 and is set to release on November 28.
Open hailing frequencies to your wallet, because after a brief tease during Star Trek Day, it’s finally here—Lego’s first-ever official Star Trek set, celebrating one of the most beloved Starfleet flagships of all time.
This morning Lego confirmed what many had expected after that brief tease of a minifigure Captain Picard a few months ago: it’s boldly going into the world of Star Trek with a replica of the USS Enterprise-D, as seen in The Next Generation. Clocking in at 3,600 pieces, the scale replica of the Enterprise-D is a faithful representation of the Galaxy-class starship, including a detachable saucer section to recreate the ship’s ability to separate into two autonomous craft and even a tiny little opening shuttle bay on the rear of the saucer, which houses two miniscule shuttlepods. Once built, including its stand, the model is around 10.5 inches tall, 23.5 inches long, and 18.5 inches wide.
Lego Icons Star Trek: The Next Generation U.S.S. Enterprise-D Gallery
Of course, aside from the stand featuring the technical data of the Enterprise-D (and angled so you can pose the ship in flight as it was often seen in TNG), the set also features nine minifigures recreating the primary cast of the show. You’ll get the previously teased Captain Jean-Luc Picard alongside Data, Geordi La Forge, Will Riker, Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, Worf, Guinan, and Will Crusher (yes, he’s wearing the jumper). As well as a separate display stand, they’ll also all come with a series of thematic accessories, from general Starfleet kit like a phaser, tricorder, PADD, or an engineering kit and a portable tractor beam generator, to some more character-specific touches, like a teacup for Picard, Riker’s trombone, a bottle for Guinan (it’s green, so maybe Aldebaran whiskey?), and Spot the cat for Data. D’aaw!
Star Trek may live in a post-scarcity economic utopia, but alas, we don’t, which means you will have to cough up $400 if you want your own Enterprise-D when it releases on November 28—and gold-pressed Latinum is not an acceptable alternative, before you try your best Quark.
In Ferengi spirit, perhaps then, Lego will sweeten the deal if you purchase the set online or from a Lego store between November 28 and December 1: a buildable 261-piece replica of one of the Enterprise‘s Type-15 shuttlepods (specifically the Onizuka). The shuttle will include an opening rear hatch and even an LCARS system displaying an amazing deep cut: the stardate 45076.3, dating it to the season five episode “Ensign Ro,” so it’s only fitting that the bonus also includes a minifigure of the feisty Bajoran ensign, Ro Laren.
The Lego Icons Star Trek: The Next Generation USS Enterprise-D will be available to preorder here later this month.
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