The annual Las Vegas Star Trek convention kicks off next week, and as they’ve done for the last few years, pin and badge company FanSets will be bringing a number of new Trek products to debut at the event.
Fans of Star Trek: Picard will be happy to see that both the wide “Admiral Picard” pin seen in both Season 2 and Season 3 of the series will join the FanSets Star Trek delta collection, as will the dark-timeline “Confederation” version of that badge (seen on ‘dark’ Picard’s portrait).
In addition, the company will have revised editions of their black-bar and gold-bar Starfleet duty badge from the series; these new versions now feature the ridged border on the silver delta, a detail missing from the original releases.
From Star Trek: Lower Decks, the animated Section 31 delta from Season 3’s “Crisis Point II: Paradoxus” will be joining the original Lower Decks delta.
For the first time, FanSets is also adding rank pips to their lineup! They will be offering a five-pin Next Generation-era pip set, which includes four solid pips and a black-centered half-rank pip pin (used in Lieutenant j.g. and Lieutenant Commander ranks).
They will also be adding the last rank from “Future Imperfect” to their collection, with the single-gold-bar Ensign rank badge rounding out the six-badge series. (Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain, and Admiral ranks are already available.)
Other new additions to their Star Trek badge collection are magnetic editions of the classic Vulcan IDIC symbol, as well as the Star Trek: Discovery mirror universe badges; each were previously available as pin-back products only.
Fansets will also continue their character-focused “glitter” series of pins, this time adding Spock, Will Riker, Garak two their offerings, along with a Paul Stamets + Hugh Culber dual-character pin.
For those of you who pick up the company’s “poker chip” pin each year, typically an exclusive to the Las Vegas convention, the 2023 release will focus on Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — surrounded of course by dabo chips from his gaming tables.
Finally, FanSets is expanding their line of “MasterShips” display pieces — large magnet-back starship pieces which convert into a stand-up piece — with the classic USS Enterprise, and the USS Titan from Star Trek: Picard.
While all of these new products (and more, most likely!) will debut at Creation Entertainment’s 57-Year Mission Tour convention on August 3, expect them to go up for purchase at FanSets’ website after the show concludes on first- and fifteenth-of-the-month scheduling.
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