The hero starship from Star Trek: Picard joins Hallmark’s 30-year-strong Star Trek Keepsake Ornament collection this year, as the red-and-white La Sirena freighter warps in just ahead of 2021’s holiday season.
Following its debut in the Hero Collector Official Star Trek Starships Collection earlier this year, Cris Rios’ La Sirena arrives to the long-running Hallmark ornament collection to represent Star Trek: Picard, after the Discovery brought the first Secret Hideout-era series into the fleet back on 2018.
Like its Hero Collector counterpart, the Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter ship is very accurately rendered in Hallmark’s five-inch ornament, thanks to the digital source files created by the Star Trek: Picard team.
Despite it’s smaller scale, the ship still has all the detail found in the larger models from earlier this year — save for the for those of you who avoided the Hero Collector La Sirena because of its large size, this ornament falls right inline with the subscription-sized models in the Official Starships Collection which makes this a nice alternative for starship collectors.
While the red-and-white coloring on the top and sides of the ship is right in line with that other model, Hallmark’s ornament has different coloring on the underside of the ship; rather than the charcoal underside seen on Hero Collector’s models — and on the Picard television show — the Hallmark ornament has a lighter grey underside.
It’s a curious difference, to be sure; the lighter underside may help the ornament stand out more if you hang it on a Christmas tree, I suppose. Aside from that change, the only other color on the ship is the same blue highlights around the engine intakes and rear exhaust ports.
As for the “magic” features, this year’s Hallmark offering doesn’t have any lighting effects, though this version of La Sirena does have an integrated sound chip which cycles through a handful of audio clips from Star Trek: Picard’s first season — all from Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), though it would have been nice to have at least one recording of the starship’s captain, Cris Rios (Santiago Cabrera) in the mix.
Overall, if you’re a Star Trek: Picard fan, this is a nice little presentation of the La Sirena starship — and if you’re a longtime collector of the Hallmark Star Trek Keepsake Ornament series, this will of course be one to add to your fleet.
Hallmark’s La Sirena holiday ornament is available now at Hallmark.com and in stores.