The Galaxy-X class. The Galaxy-class Dreadnaught. The three-nacelled Enterprise.
Whatever name you know it by, the XL-sized, alternate-future version of the Galaxy-class Enterprise-D from “All Good Things…” — only seen in the 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale — has arrived at Warp 13 to the Hero Collector Official Starships Collection fleet!
For the 25-years-ahead future era Enterprise-D, the visual effects team at Star Trek: The Next Generation wanted to make the ship visually different from the “present” and “past” versions of the same starship.
In that era of physical models, it wasn’t as simple as just whipping up an alternate digital ship like in today’s Star Trek production — and they also needed to make sure the Enterprise-D filming model wouldn’t be damaged as the ship would still be required for new shots in the then-upcoming Star Trek: Generations feature film.
In the end, longtime TNG contributors Dan Curry and Greg Jein worked together to design the altered Enterprise-D using spare model parts — and eventually, Jein put together a series of plant-on, resin components including the underslung phaser cannon and top-mounted antennas for the saucer section, ‘speed fins’ below the nacelles (and phaser strips for the engines’ top sections), and the distinctive third warp nacelle.
One of the earliest entries in the Official Starships Collection — all the way back in 2013 — was a 5.5″ version of the AGT Enterprise, originally a gift to monthly subscribers and later part Hero Collector’s online web shop offerings.
Produced in with grey hull coloring, that early model was designed to replicate the on-screen appearance of the ship, compared to the robin-egg blue shades of the new XL-sized edition, which — like the XL Galaxy-class model before it — emulates the look of the original studio model used in Next Generation filming.
The new XL edition measures nearly twice the original length — the saucer section is wider than the original subscriber-sized ship is long — and the coloring is much more in line with how we’ve come to expect Starfleet ships to appear in the Hero Collector lineup.
With the exception of the “upgrades,” the majority of the XL-sized future Enterprise is identical to the XL Enterprise-D model released back in 2017, complete with the metal lower half of the saucer section, and everything else produced from injection-molded plastic.
The future add-on components — from the rigid antenna units and enhanced module surrounding the dorsal bridge unit, to the mean-looking phaser cannon mounted on the bottom of the saucer section — are very nicely molded and painted, with plenty of gold and red color splashes highlighting them.
The most recognizable part of this ship, of course, is the third warp nacelle, mounted sturdily on a central pylon which extends out from the rear of the ship. Like the other nacelles, it’s got elements of translucent colored plastic in the bussard collector and blue warp coils along the sides.
Despite it’s large size, the future Enterprise-D variant sits quite well on its included display stand, something that’s been a problem for other XL-sized releases — the larger-scale Voyager and Enterprise NX-01 ships have a tendency to fall quite easily, a problem not found with this sturdy base.
There’s truly not much to complain about with this ship; aside from a minor bit of window misalignment on the secondary hull’s neck — a carryover from the ‘regular’ XL Enterprise-D model — the “All Good Things” variant is a great addition to the larger-scale model series.
If you want to add the “All Good Things” future edition of the Galaxy-class Enterprise-D to your own personal Starfleet armada, you can pick it up today from the Hero Collector web shop for $74.95 in the United States, and while it’s out of stock (as of this writing), fans in the UK will find it retailing for £49.99.
We’ll be back next week with another exclusive look ahead to more new additions on the way to the Hero Collector Official Starships Collection fleet, so keep your sensors locked on TrekCore for all the details!