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 vital beloved Starfleet flagships of all time.

This morning Lego confirmed what many had anticipated after that transient tease of a minifigure Captain Picard just a few 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 duplicate of the Enterprise-D is a trustworthy 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 extensive.

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

In fact, other than the stand that includes the technical knowledge of the Enterprise-D (and angled so you possibly can pose the ship in flight because it was typically 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 Information, 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 sequence of thematic equipment, from common Starfleet equipment like a phaser, tricorder, PADD, or an engineering equipment and a conveyable 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 perhaps Aldebaran whiskey?), and Spot the cat for Information. D’aaw!

Star Trek could dwell in a post-scarcity financial utopia, however alas, we don’t, which suggests you’ll have to cough up $400 if you’d like your personal Enterprise-D when it releases on November 28—and gold-pressed Latinum will not be a suitable various, earlier than you strive your greatest Quark.

In Ferengi spirit, maybe then, Lego will sweeten the deal if you are going to buy the set on-line or from a Lego retailer between November 28 and December 1: a buildable 261-piece duplicate of one of many Enterprise‘s Kind-15 shuttlepods (particularly the Onizuka). The shuttle will embody a gap rear hatch and even an LCARS system displaying a tremendous deep minimize: 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 can be available to preorder here later this month.

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