Tomorrow kicks off 2019’s Destination Star Trek convention in Birmingham, England, and as always, the UK-based Hero Collector brand will be on site to debut the latest new releases — an announce some upcoming plans — for the Eaglemoss line of Official Starship Collection models and more!

While all the biggest news will be coming out of Sunday morning’s “Hero Collector Presents…” panel — and there’s some good stuff on the way, so stay tuned for our Sunday post-panel roundup of still-secret announcements! — the weekend’s line-up starts Friday and runs through Sunday afternoon (local time)!

First up, starship designers Rick Sternbach and Ryan Dening will join longtime Eaglemoss boss Ben Robinson in a pair of panels covering Sternbach’s work through his Trek career, and Dening’s time working on Star Trek: Discovery.

Rick Sternbach will appear on the Voyager Stage on Friday at 16:00 (4:00 PM), and Ryan Dening will present on the Excelsior stage on Saturday at 14:45 (2:45 PM), with Robinson moderating both panels.

In addition, Sternbach will also be presenting a solo panel on Star Trek starship design on Sunday at 12:00 PM on the Excelsior stage.

Both artists will also appear throughout the weekend at the Hero Collector booth (photo above by Ben Robinson) for signings.

The main event, however, arrives Sunday at 11:30 AM, where Hero Collector’s Chris Thompson, Eaglemoss’ Ben Robinson, designer Ryan Dening, and more hit the Voyager stage for the big “Hero Collector Presents…” panel, where the crew will be discussing recent releases, as well as revealing their plans for the next several months of Star Trek debuts.

In addition to the panel, the Hero Collector booth will also be home to the year’s convention-exclusive model — the cloaked USS Defiant (above) which debuted at New York Comic Con earlier this month — as well as their special cover edition of Star Trek: Year Five #6 created by model photographer Nils Walter Khan.

If you’re going to be on site, you can also expect to see some first looks at a number of new Star Trek model releases — which, thanks to Hero Collector’s UK home debut in-country first — including the ISS Charon from Star Trek: Discovery, another round of Trek shuttlecraft, an early look at the XL-sized Deep Space 9 station and Klingon D4 battlecruiser, and the SS Conestoga from “Terra Nova.”

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The newest shuttle pack — which includes Janeway’s armored shuttle from “Endgame,” the Sphinx work bee, the Defiant shuttlepod from “The Search,” and the Hawking-style shuttle from “Star Trek: Generations” — is already starting to arrive for collectors in the UK, with some fans sharing photos on social media this week.

Be sure to check back to TrekCore on Sunday after the “Hero Collector Presents…” panel to learn all about the new announcements out of Birmingham, and to get your first look at what’s to come from Hero Collector and Eaglemoss as we beam into 2020!