We’re back with another EXCLUSIVE first look at the next round of planned Star Trek model releases from our friends at Hero Collector — so check out what’s on the slate for arrival this August for The Official Starships Collection!
First up is a return to the Delta Quadrant as Star Trek: Voyager nemesis starship USS Equinox joins the scaled-up XL Starships collection!
Captain Ransom’s ill-fated Nova-class starship, which debuted in the Season 5 finale, was first released as one of the earliest subscription-sized ships back in 2014 and now comes the twenty-seventh entry in the XL lineup.
USS EQUINOX (Issue 27): A Nova-class starship stranded in the Delta Quadrant, the U.S.S. Equinox was in many ways a dark mirror to the U.S.S. Voyager. Where Janeway and her crew upheld the principles of Starfleet throughout their long journey home, the Equinox’s traumatized crew resorted to darker measures… This hand-painted XL model captures the Equinox in precise detail, just as it appeared in Star Trek: Voyager.
The embiggened Nova-class starship measures about 9.5 inches long, and will retail at $75.00 / €64.99 / £49.99.
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The next arrival to the Star Trek Universe collection will be another Romulan vessel seen in Star Trek: Picard, the “snakehead” fighter piloted by Narek during his pursuit of La Sirena after the plucky freighter escaped capture at the dormant Borg cube in “Nepenthe.”
NAREK’S SNAKEHEAD (Issue 6): A nimble, warp-capable Romulan scout vessel, the Snakehead’s small size belied its formidable armaments and cloaking capabilities. The Romulan spy Narek flew this particular starship in pursuit of Picard and his comrades aboard the La Sirena, as they fled The Artifact in search of Coppelius.
The squat Romulan one-man fighter measures about 6.5 inches long, and will retail at $54.95 / €49.99 / £39.99.
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The next entry in the Star Trek Online series of starship models is the Edison-class Federation Temporal Warship, a 25th-century update on the Discovery-era Hoover-class design.
EDISON-CLASS FEDERATION TEMPORAL WARSHIP (Issue 6): An updated vessel available to Starfleet players in Star Trek Online, the Edison-class Temporal Warship echoed the design of the U.S.S. Edison, destroyed by Klingons in the Battle of the Binary stars 150 years ago. Equipped with cutting edge temporal instruments, the Edison’s specialist scientific officers could manipulate temporal mechanics to cause subtle fluctuations in causality itself.
A smaller starship, the Edison-class measures about 4 inches in length and will retail at $29.95 / €24.99 / £19.99.
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In addition to these three new releases scheduled for August, the Hero Collector team has also unveiled its next golden XL Starships release for this summer: an 18k gold-plated Constitution-class USS Enterprise, designed in the Original Series style.
The second in the company’s line of XL-sized gold starships following last year’s golden Enterprise-D, this larger-scale (and larger-priced!) classic Enterprise model is projected to arrive at the end of June.
While smaller gold-plated versions of the classic Enterprise and Enterprise-D are available for $64.99 each, this 11-inch edition of Captain Kirk’s starship will retail for $199.99 — and you can preorder it now if you’re planning to splurge on the shiny starship.
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Finally, in a bit of a surprise piece of news, Hero Collector revealed this month that the company is moving into the holiday space with the launch of advent calendars under their Doctor Who, The Beatles, and of course, Star Trek.
For the inaugural Trek advent calendar, a Borg Cube with twenty-four small boxes of mystery merch is set to drop later this year for collectors to unpack throughout December, with only the above preview image unveiled so far.
While the company is remaining tight-lipped about product details and pricing for now, program manager Ben Robinson did offer a little bit of feedback to fan questions about the mystery boxes’ content on social media over the weekend.
There’s some really cool stuff in it, but it’s not literally the kind of thing we’ve done before – not ships or figurines. It has the same love of the franchises but there are lots of different things. I think it’s great and people will love it.
— Ben Robinson (@BenCSRobinson) May 8, 2021
We might have thought about socks…
— Ben Robinson (@BenCSRobinson) May 8, 2021
Nah.
— Ben Robinson (@BenCSRobinson) May 8, 2021
We’ll bring you more details on this new Star Trek advent calendar product as soon as we have it — but in the meantime, let us know what you think about this month’s previews, and if a holiday calendar is something you plan to add to your winter shopping list this year!