More than three years after their initial announcement, QMx has finally brought their Star Trek: Discovery-era USS Enterprise Starfleet delta badges into Earth orbit — just in time for the debut of Captain Pike’s own series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Originally announced all the way back in February 2019, the metal Starfleet badges were showcased at that year’s Toy Fair expo in New York City… only to shuffle off the horizon, as they’d gone “on hold” by the early part of the next year (as a QMx representative told us at Toy Fair 2020), likely waiting for the then-in-the-works Captain Pike series to be announced to the public.
While that series announcement came in May 2020, the QMx badges didn’t follow, leading fans to eventually believe that the product had been scrapped all together, and that the company perhaps was moving out of the Star Trek arena entirely.
All that changed when the badges made a surprise appearance at April’s Mission Chicago convention (sold on-site by The Away Mission) — and now they’re finally available for online purchase, set for delivery to fans later this month.
The four badge sets, comprised of a full-size magnetic delta and a smaller pin-back lapel size, appear unchanged from their original 2019 Toy Fair debut — they’re still branded as licensed Star Trek: Discovery products — and represent the four service groups aboard the USS Enterprise in the Original Series (command, science, operations, and medical).
To date, only three have appeared in use in the Strange New Worlds series; while Nurse Chapel had the red cross on her delta in the Original Series, the new-era Christine Chapel wears a sciences-division symbol on her uniform — making the medical badge a bit of a speculative design (unless it eventually comes into use down the road).
The miniature pin-backed delta badges are a nice inclusion to the QMx offering, especially for those of you who like to flair up bags and jackets with Trek detailing; at a substantially smaller size, the mini-delta pins are definitely good for day-to-day use.
Each measures just over 1.25″ in length, but retain the same build details as the full-size badges.
Compared to the FanSets Enterprise command badge released last summer, the QMx badges are nearly identical in size and weight — though while the FanSets badge seems to be a bit more color-accurate to the warmer-gold props we saw on display last month, QMx’s designs are a bit more refined in detail in terms of matching the curves of the multi-layered delta shape to the silver backing.
(For those who prefer it, FanSets badge also comes in pin-back form, which isn’t an option for QMx’s full-size badge.)
As fans start to dive deeper into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, having badges available to represent all of Starfleet’s divisions aboard the Enterprise is sure to be an appealing option for collectors and cosplayers alike — hopefully QMx will add an updated Starfleet cadet badge to its offerings soon too, for all of the Cadet Uhura fans beaming aboard.
Here are a few more photos of these magnetic Enterprise badges:
If you’re ready to report for duty aboard Captain Pike’s Enterprise, you can pick up QMx’s Star Trek: Discovery-era badges today for $19.95 each using the following links:
Command · Operations · Science · Medical
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