After showing off a bunch of new Star Trek models at New York Comic Con at the beginning of October, Eaglemoss/Hero Collector made one last stop for the year at the Destination Star Trek Birmingham convention last weekend — debuting one of the most controversial new starship designs of 2018.
The centerpiece of the convention display was the new Star Trek: Discovery-era redesigned USS Enterprise, which first appeared in the Discovery season finale back in February. The prototype model, expected to be finalized for release in the beginning of 2019, will be the first of the next wave of the larger-sized “XL Starships” line for next year.
Also announced for additional XL-sized Star Trek ships include the Danube-class runabout seen throughout Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Akira-class USS Thunderchild (NCC-63539) which debuted in Star Trek: First Contact, the B’Rel-class Klingon Bird-of-Prey, and the second Excelsior-class in the XL line — following the Enterprise-B — Captain Sulu’s USS Excelsior (NCC-2000).
Two standard-sized bonus starship models were also announced, starting with the USS Bonaventure, a starship created for the 2005 Ships of the Line calendar, intended to be a ship class produced between the Enterprise NX-01 and the Original Series Constitution-class.
In addition, Eaglemoss is expanding to the first time into the world of Star Trek Online with the Odyssey-class USS Enterprise-F.
We showed you some prototype builds of the next round of Star Trek: Discovery ship models in our New York Comic Con coverage, but now Eaglemoss has released official product images of the Malachowski-class USS Clarke, as well as two Klingon warships: the Qugh-class attack ship and the Qoj-class battlecruiser.
The company also announced that the first Discovery special release will be T’Kuvma’s massive Ship of the Dead — aka the “sarcophagus ship” — which is still being developed for production.
In addition to all these specials, there were also another series of subscription models announced, expanding that line to 144 issues. From Star Trek III: The Search for Spock comes the freighter Merchantman, along with three Next Generation ships: the Vulcan ship T’Pau (from “Unification”), the Promellian Battle Cruiser (from “Booby Trap”), and Gomtuu (from “Tin Man”).
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Finally, Eaglemoss’ Ben Robinson shared some other news on future releases in the Official Starships Collection lineup, including:
- 2019 will bring several more Trek special edition releases, including the Romulan ship Scimitar from Star Trek: Nemesis, V’Ger from The Motion Picture, and the “planet killer” from the classic episode “The Doomsday Machine.”
- Emperor Georgiou’s Terran flagship, the massive ISS Charon, will be coming as a Discovery special but is still in development.
- A special starship designed by John Eaves for the pending Deep Space Nine documentary What We Left Behind, planned for the hypothetical “Season 8” portion of the film, will be produced as an Eaglemoss model. The USS Emmitt Till, named after the young American civil rights icon, is a new four-nacelled design that will make its on-screen debut in the documentary once released to the public.
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