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Star Trek “product news week” continues here at TrekCore with a look ahead to the next several months of model spacecraft coming from the Eaglemoss Official Starships Collection, with new ships coming from the earliest days of Earth spaceflight to the most recent Kelvin Timeline film!

First up is the next few months of subscriber monthly releases, beginning with a look at next month’s Hirogen Holoship (#119) from the Star Trek: Voyager saga “Flesh and Blood,” followed by the fan-favorite Miranda-class variant USS Bozeman (#120) from the classic Next Generation episode “Cause and Effect.”

Following in April will be Kasidy Yates’ civilian Antares-class cargo vessel SS Xhosa (#121), seen in Deep Space Nine’s “For the Cause,” followed by the Yeager-type kitbash model USS Yeager (#122) — a combination of Interpid-class and Maquis raider models — often seen patrolling around station Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War.

New photos of these two models were released this week via Hero Collector.

Then in May, a pair of more vertically-compact ships arrive: the Romulan Science Vessel (#123) seen in TNG’s “The Next Phase,” followed by the SS Emmette (#124), seen flying over Earth’s lunar colonies in the opening credits to Star Trek: Enterprise.

The rest of the spring and summer will bring the monthly releases up to Issue #130, with six more ships announced so far (all images via Memory Alpha):

In addition to the upcoming subscription models, Eaglemoss has also revealed their next few larger-scale special edition releases, beginning with the Star Trek Beyond refit USS Enterprise. (This is the ship that was destroyed at Altamid, not the new Enterprise-A seen at the end of the film.)

We covered some of the changes to the Kelvin Timeline Constitution-class ship back in 2016 when Beyond was in theaters, and Eaglemoss brings that final version of the ship to the collector market in March with a new model which includes some obvious changes to coloring, nacelle size, and overall structure compared to their first KT Enterprise based on the 2009 design.

Following will be the just-revealed Kelvin Timeline Klingon Battle Cruiser special, seen on-screen in the 2009 Trek film during the Starfleet Academy Kobayashi Maru simulation. Designed by John Eaves, this ship will measure approximately 8.5″ and arrive in late April or early May.

Scaling up once more, the next release from the XL Starships Collection was also revealed today, the Constitution-class refit USS Enterprise-A, which is the next release in Eaglemoss’ oversized model series.

Set to measure about 10.5″ in length, this larger version of the original 2016 model seems to have some noticeable detail enhancements and coloring adjustments, especially around the nacelles.

Watch for this one to warp into your sector around May 2018.

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Eaglemoss’ head of licensed products Ben Robinson also shared some updates on the Star Trek: Discovery line of starship models this week on Twitter, where he noted that after the USS Discovery is released — watch for our review of that ship soon! — there will be a ‘little break’ before the third Discovery-line model is released.

Robinson has previously noted how difficult it was to have the Shenzhou and Discovery models shipping during and so close to the end of the first season of the new series, so it makes sense that the third ship would need some more time to be finalized.

He also confirmed that the Discovery version of Captain Pike’s USS Enterprise will be coming from the publisher, but that we’ll need to be patient for ‘months’ as the need for secrecy ahead of the ship’s on-screen reveal took priority.

We’ll be back with more news and reviews of the Official Starships Collection soon!

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