Last month we brought you the first look at Hero Collector’s initial Star Trek: Picard fleet offerings — Captain Rios’ La Sirena and Captain Riker’s USS Zheng He, both coming this April — and today we’re looking ahead to May 2021 where the Star Trek Universe line expands both in number and in size!
Seen on-screen in “Absolute Candor,” May’s first Star Trek Universe starship is the antique Romulan Bird of Prey owned by the Beta Quadrant warlord Kar Kantar. The 23rd century Romulan ship battled with La Sirena over planet Vashti, until Seven of Nine arrived and helped neutralize the vessel in her Fenris Ranger strike ship in the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard.
ROMULAN BIRD OF PREY — An antique Romulan starship owned by the warlord Kar Kantar, this Bird-of-Prey terrorized shipping throughout the Qiris Sector. A retro callback to the classic Romulan designs of the Original Series, this Bird-of-Prey met its end when it attacked La Sirena with Jean-Luc Picard aboard.
This Bird of Prey measures about 8.5 inches in width and will retail at $54.95 / €49.99 / £39.99.
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The second release for May 2021 is another edition of La Sirena — this time, the Star Trek: Picard hero vessel joins the larger-scale XL Starships fleet, with an 11-inch version of the Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter set to warp into orbit.
LA SIRENA (XL) — This XL model captures the signature ship of Star Trek: Picard, the La Sirena! A red-and-white Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter hired by Jean-Luc Picard, the La Sirena was helmed by Captain Cristóbal Rios, an ex-Starfleet officer himself, and served as home to Picard’s crew in their search for Doctor Bruce Maddox and Soji Asha.
This bigger edition of Captain Rios’ starship means a bigger price tag, so this 25th entry in the XL Starships Collection will retail at $75.00 / €64.99 / £49.99.
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The next entry in the Star Trek Online series of starship models is the Shran-class Federation Light Pilot Escort, a small but versatile ship with powerful engines that lend it great speed and maneuverability. Its advanced maneuvering systems compliment special targeting systems that exploit vulnerabilities found in the aft sections of most starships, making the Shran-class a formidable opponent to larger, slower ships.
SHRAN-CLASS FEDERATION LIGHT PILOT ESCORT — A versatile starship available to Starfleet players in Star Trek Online, the Shran-Class Light Pilot Escort was designed to meet a variety of wartime requests, from cost efficiency to flexibility to sheer firepower. After a variety of prototypes, the completed ship evolved into a successor to the Magee-class, built to the modern standards of the 25th century.
The Shran-class ship will retail for $29.95 / €24.99 / £19.99, and measures approximately 4.5 inches in length.
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Finally, in addition to the three new starship models scheduled for May, more hardcover reprints of classic Star Trek comic tales are coming from The Official Graphic Novels Collection.
Included are the Star Trek: The Next Generation Manga tale Boukenshin, the Original Series / Next Generation crossover story Convergence, and the DS9-era Starfleet Academy saga Between Love and Hate.
#135 – Star Trek Manga: Boukenshin
The crew of the Enterprise-D face four new challenges—all rendered in the style of Japanese mangas.Presenting Tokyopop’s manga edition based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which brought back popular Trek scribes David Gerrold and Diane Duane, along with writers Christine Boylan and F.J. DeSanto.
#136 – Star Trek TOS/TNG: Convergence
When aliens alter history to eliminate the Federation, the Enterprises of two generations must unite to stop them! This volume presents a quartet of special issues from DC Comics: Star Trek: The Next Generation Annuals #4–6, as well as a rare Brazilian Star Trek comic from Editora Abril.Originally published in Jornada Nas Estrelas #5, this story was adapted from the classic TV episode “The Return of the Archons”.
#137 – Starfleet Academy: Between Love and Hate
Omega Squad comes face to face with the First Cadre and an insane Klingon cadet, in the final issues of Marvel’s Starfleet Academy series—plus, as a bonus, Cooper’s notes for the unseen chapters.Meanwhile, Telepathy War concludes Marvel’s franchise-wide crossover, and Mirror Mirror, from Tom DeFalco, Mark Bagley, and Larry Mahlstedt, returns readers to the mirror universe.
Each of the republished graphic novel hardcovers run from 170-235 pages each, and will retail individually for $19.95 / €16.99 / £12.99.
In addition to these new starships and graphic novel collections arriving later this spring, Hero Collector also released this week their newest Star Trek Illustrated Handbook — this time focusing on the hero station and starship of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Starbase DS9 and the USS Defiant.
You can pick up your copy today from Amazon (US / UK / Canada) and support TrekCore with your purchase.
Stick around for looks at more from Hero Collector and the Official Starships Collection, as well as reviews of the XL-sized, three-nacelled USS Enterprise-D from “All Good Things…” and and the Regula One station from The Wrath of Khan in the coming weeks!