It’s always a convention weekend somewhere, and right now our friends over at Eaglemoss / Hero Collector are on site at the MCM Comic Con in London, showing off some of the next additions to the ever-growing Official Starships Collection fleet of Star Trek model ships, warping into your sector this summer.

First up is the next entry in the larger XL Starships line, the Danube-class runabout as seen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Unfortunately it seems the company has not chosen to make this the long-lived USS Rio Grande, but instead have set this to be a scaled-up version of the 2014 release USS Orinoco, complete with attached sensor pod and roll bar.

Following the Orinoco is the second Excelsior-class starship in the XL Starships series — following the Enterprise-B — the titular USS Excelsior (NCC-2000) as seen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

While the model on display was noted as being presented with an unfinished paint scheme, the blue rings around the edge of the saucer section — missing from the Enterprise-B model — are a welcome sight and hopefully will stay in place for the final release.

Moving on to the Star Trek: Discovery line, another member of the Klingon fleet is on the way: the dragonfly-like Klingon Raider, seen in Season 1 episodes like “Choose Your Pain.” This model includes a transparent canopy, a nice touch which matches the digital version of the ship seen on-screen, and a pair of flight wings which stretch out from the central hull.

Of note, this model is expected to have some assembly required if you purchase it — because of the delicate nature of the ship’s wings, they are expected to be packaged separately from the main model in the box, for buyers to clip them in place upon arrival.

Returning to the Star Trek feature films, Shinzon’s Scimitar, the big baddie from Star Trek: Nemesis was showcased in an unfinished prototype form. The heavily-textured model is due to arrive as a special release later this year, with a darker paint wash still expected to be applied to the build to bring the ship closer to its on-screen appearance before final release.

Skewing slightly sideways, another entry in the ‘not-quite-canon’ bonus series of Star Trek ships comes in the form of the USS Altair, a starship which began life as an Doug Drexler-designed early concept for what later became the USS Voyager.

While this Altair design never made it to televised production, a digital version of the ship did make an appearance in the 2007 Ships of the Line calendar.

In addition to these display models featured at the London convention, we’ve also gotten a peak at some later ships on the way from Eaglemoss in 2019, including the Nebula-class USS Melbourne (destroyed at Wolf 359 in “The Best of Both Worlds, Part II), Cardassian freigher Groumall (from DS9’s “Return to Grace”), and the four-nacelled USS Excelsior concept design, based on a model built for Star Trek III by artist Nilo Rodis.

Keep an eye out for our next Official Starships Collection model reviews here at TrekCore, coming soon!

MCM Comic Con London model photos courtesy of Dave Combe.