It seems like a thousand years since we spent a few days wandering through a sea of strangers at 2020’s Toy Fair exhibition in New York City — just a few short weeks before the global pandemic sent us all home for the year — but one of the newest Star Trek products we first sat at last February’s event is finally getting ready to beam down.

Showcased in a very early, 3D-printed prototype format, a series of miniature ‘green army men’-style plastic figures of the Original Series crew (and their familiar alien foes) — along with even-less-detailed, preliminary Next Generation and Discovery follow-up releases — were on display at the show.

These minifigs, labeled under FanWares and “emce toys” branding — with similar products for the Fallout game series already in the marketplace — consisted of twelve 2″-tall plastic figures in the classic ‘army men’ style, complete with small 4″ model of the original Enterprise — even in their very early state, they caught our attention!

Now, after over a year since that first sighting, FanWraps (in collaboration with Fourth Castle Brands’ emce toys) has revealed their first official look at the upcoming Star Trek Nanoforce releases scheduled for this summer — with both Original Series and Next Gen twelve-pack sets hitting stores around June or so.

Announced on Monday while we were watching the First Contact Day festivities, the “PG miniature quality” Star Trek: The Original Series Nanoforce and Star Trek: The Next Generation Nanoforce sets will each include twelve character figures (2″ tall), one starship model (4″ long), and an 11″x17″ foldout map for display use — and each set will retail at $24.95.

From the official announcement:

NANOFORCE® ENTERS THE FINAL FRONTIER!

Happy First Contact Day! We’re proud to announce our collaboration with FanWraps to produce the first official STAR TREK Nanoforce® sets!

Each set fits the standard Nanoforce® footprint, with 12 2-inch figures and a bonus 4-inch figure. Our first two sets are “STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES” and “STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION”, with crew and aliens molded in Starfleet colors, and the majestic U.S.S. Enterprises of their respective timelines in battleship grey.

These are exclusive to our longtime friends at DIAMOND COMIC DISTRIBUTORS, who’ve supplied your favorite online / mom & pop / brick & mortar shops for decades. If your favorite retailer wants to know more about them, have them contact their Diamond rep.

Along with a model of the original Enterprise, The classic Star Trek set includes Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, Lt. Sulu, and Lt. Uhura from the Enterprise crew — with the Gorn, a Talosian, an Andorian, the Salt Vampire, a Romulan, and of course a Klingon making up the alien adversary lineup.

(Fourth Company Brands noted on their Facebook page that Ensign Chekov’s exclusion was not by choice, but they only were afforded six crew slots in their Original Series set — and they hope to be able to produce a Chekov figure at some later date.)

The Next Generation set includes all seven regular crew — Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lt. Commander Data, Lt. Commander La Forge, Lt. Worf, Dr. Crusher, and Counselor Troi — along with a Klingon, a Cardassian, a Romulan, a Borg drone, and of course Q in the alien roster. (This set comes with an Enterprise-D model, naturally.)

While these previews are the only official images of the products made public so far, there’s a promise of “beauty shots, 3D digital sculpts and videos” of the Star Trek Nanoforce products as the June release date approaches.

We’ll be sure to bring you the latest information on this new Star Trek toy line as it becomes available — so keep your sensors locked here at TrekCore.