The Fanhome team running the new Official Star Trek Starships Collection are about to relaunch subscriptions (and begin single-ship order availability to fans who aren’t inclined to join the ongoing subscription program), so we thought it was time to bring you a good look at the two newest starship models arriving to collectors!
We examined the first Fanhome starship back in November — Star Trek: Picard Season 3’s hero ship USS Titan-A — and now it’s time to get up close and personal with the second and third ship in the model program.
Fanhome’s second Star Trek ship is the new USS Stargazer (NCC-82893), which was briefly commanded by Captain Cristobal Rios in the opening and closing episodes of Star Trek: Picard’s second season. The Stargazer measures in a 7.5″ in length, and as with most of these ship models, it’s constructed as a mix of die-cast metal and plastic.
A successor to the Constellation-class Stargazer seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s first season (“The Battle”), the four-nacelled design is relatively unique in Starfleet’s design language — and this gives the model four opportunities to be fit with translucent red and blue plastic, highlighting the warp nacelles when placed in front of a light source.
The model is a fantastic build, for a complicated design — two pairs of nacelle assemblies, which means twice the opportunity for alignment problems and construction issues. Our Stargazer arrived in perfect shape, without any oddly-angled engines or similar concerns.
Consistent with the other Picard ships, the hull has a great amount of detail and color, with blues and yellows popping against the neutral hull coloration, and the red ring around the saucer and under-saucer phaser strips are nice connections to the Sovereign-class Enterprise-E.
Available as part of the ongoing Starship Collection subscription program, the Stargazer will also be available for individual purchase at the Fanhome website this Monday for $65.
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Fanhome’s first entry into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds arrives with the Bellerophon-class USS Farragut (NCC-1647), as seen in the Season 1 finale “A Quality of Mercy” — where the starship was commanded by an alternate-timeline James T. Kirk — and later in the main timeline docked at Starbase 1 in “The Broken Circle.”
Designed by Strange New Worlds artist William Budge, the Farragut design is a pretty singular concept — it was originally conceived with strong nods to the Miranda-class USS Reliant from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, complete with a rounded roll bar above the dorsal hull.
Through the design process, the roll bar — which completed the circular curve between the lower nacelle struts — was eliminated, leaving a starship design that looks like it was created with leftover pieces of a Constitution-class vessel… just like how the Reliant appeared to be produced with Constitution-refit elements.
It’s a small ship that’s mostly made up of an unremarkable saucer, but the nacelles themselves are nice and detailed — complete with TOS-era ‘grills’ at the back of each engine, and red Starfleet pennants along each cylinder.
The Farragut also has an unusually-extended deflector dish, which Budge first used on his USS Archer starship in the Strange New Worlds pilot episode — it gives the Farragut model a real personality, though like the curve-strut nacelles, it makes a potential point for collector damage if the model is dropped or falls off its stand.
Like the Stargazer, the new Farragut model is available as part of the ongoing Starship Collection subscription program, and will also be available for individual purchase at the Fanhome website this Monday for $65.
The next Fanhome ships, after the Farragut, are slowly making their way to early Official Starship Collector subscribers — the Enterprise-F and SS Eleos from Star Trek: Picard are the fourth and fifth ships in the series, followed by the deadly Shrike warship as well.
As we reported last month, those will then be followed by the Luna-class USS Titan, the Enterprise-G, the Excelsior from Picard Season 2, and the USS Dauntless from Star Trek: Prodigy’s first season.
They’ve been paused for a few months while the company replenished inventory, but this week Fanhome will be re-opening the Official Starships Collection subscription program to new subscribers on Monday, March 10.
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