First announced back on Star Trek Day in September, the new Star Trek: Lower Decks Official Starships Collection has just made its first first contact!
Launching officially in JANUARY and available for preorders for the first time today, the first ship in the larger XL-size model collection is the hero starship of Lower Decks, the California-class USS Cerritos (NCC-75567).
Set to measure in at a length of nearly 10 inches (250mm), the XL-sized Cerritos kicks off a new line of starship models from Eaglemoss/Hero Collector based upon the fan-favorite animated series which ended its second season in October.
Unlike the Star Trek Universe Official Starships Collection, which includes Discovery, Picard, the legacy Trek shows, and Strange New Worlds (once that show launches), the Lower Decks ships will be operating under its own standalone model ship series.
STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS
THE OFFICIAL STARSHIPS COLLECTION* * *
SPECIAL #1: USS CERRITOS (NCC-75567) — A California-class vessel operated by Starfleet, the USS Cerritos specialized in second contact missions, as indicated by its yellow markings. Its crew were charged with boldly going where others had gone before – following up on all the exciting first contact missions performed by other, more important ships.
Battered by meteors, black holes, giant ice formations, space pirates and parasitic grubs, the Cerritos was helmed by Captain Carol Freeman. An upstanding officer and an old friend of William Riker, Freeman took her duties as seriously as possible – often more than was healthy – in sharp contrast to her daughter, Ensign Beckett Mariner.
The Cerritos was named for the city of Cerritos, in California – a reference to its ship class. Its shuttlebay also carried a complement of Type 6A shuttlecraft, similarly named after Californian national parks – such as Yosemite, Redwood, and Death Valley.
Captain Riker’s Luna-class USS Titan has already been announced as the second entry in the Lower Decks Official Starship Collection — and it’s reasonable to assume that we’ll see ships like the Parliament-class USS Vancouver, the angular Division 14 starship USS Osler, the Pakled Clumpship Pakled, the Vulcan starship Sh’vhal, the Obena-class USS Archimedes, and many more designs from the popular show as the collection expands.
We’ll learn more about the soon-to-grow Star Trek: Lower Decks Official Starships Collection in the coming months — but in the meantime, if you’d like to dock the Cerritos at your own spaceport, the ship is available for preorder now in Hero Collector’s USA webshop for $74.95, and in their UK webshop for £59.99.