The Nacelle Company has stoked the excitement of Star Trek fans over the six months, since first announcing their plans to create a line of franchise action figures in October — and then opening up preorders for their first wave of releases in February, and announcing the forthcoming Wave 2 lineup over this past weekend.
Unfortunately, Nacelle’s new products have only been available for preorder in the United States, due to their licensing agreement… until today, that is! This morning, Nacelle announced that fans in Canada, the UK, Germany, and Australia have gained access to the company’s new Trek action figures, starting with the first eight releases.
Fans are still going to have to wait a bit for it to arrive, but today Paramount+ has released the first teaser trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3!
The new teaser trailer is the third video preview for the show’s long-awaited return, but this time we are getting our first glimpses into the many genre-defying episodes that are set to make Season 3’s ten-episode run the most varied to date.
In Season 3, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of season two’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn. But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit and resolve.
An exciting twist on classic Star Trek, Season 3 takes characters both new and beloved to new heights, and dives into thrilling adventures of faith, duty, romance, comedy, and mystery, with varying genres never before seen on any other Star Trek — including a murder mystery, a rom-com, and a documentary-style episode.
You can see snippets where the Enterprise crew appear in what seems like a 1950’s sci-fi serial, an unexpected morning-after romantic moment between Spock (Ethan Peck) and Chapel (Jess Bush), the crew gathering for supper in Captain Pike’s (Anson Mount) kitchen, and Pelia (Carol Kane) tackling an analog engineering challenge by running telephone wires through the ship — thanks to her Lanthanitecollection of old-school telephones, no doubt.
Chapel in the 1950’s sci-fi setting. (Paramount+)Ortegas in the 1950’s sci-fi setting. (Paramount+)Kirk in the 1950’s sci-fi setting. (Paramount+)Kirk, Ortegas, and Chapel in the 1950’s sci-fi setting. (Paramount+)A resort inside Starbase One. (Paramount+)Spock and Chapel in bed. (Paramount+)Dinner in Pike’s quarters – note the food cubes on his island counter. (Paramount+)Pelia with old Earth telephones. (Paramount+)M’Benga, Ortegas and Una on the party line. (Paramount+)
There also seem to be raging Klingon zombies (??), a resolution to the “Hegemony” cliffhanger involving the Gorn, and what seems to be a 1970’s-era holodeck murder-mystery involving the entire crew.
Regarding that holodeck — remember, the Enterprise had a holographic rec room in the Animated Series,so the technology definitely exists around the Strange New Worlds era… but hopefully the one seen here is off-ship someplace, either on Starbase 1 or at another location.
Kirk and the Enterprise crew in the murder mystery. (Paramount+)Spock and La’an power up a familiar holodeck grid. (Paramount+)Uhura, Pike, La’an, M’Benga, Ortegas, and Chapel in the murder mystery. (Paramount+)M’Benga and Chapel in the murder mystery. (Paramount+)Pike in the murder mystery. (Paramount+)Pike watches as a Klingon ship descends. (Paramount+)You don’t want to hang around this Klingon too long. (Paramount+)A Klingon with a whip. (Paramount+)M’Benga runs for safety. (Paramount+)
Martin Quinn joins the Enterprise full-time as Montgomery Scott in Season 3, and we also get a first look guest stars Rhys Dharby (who is dressed suspiciously like Trelane), and Patton Oswalt arrives aboard the Enterprise wearing Vulcan ears.
Scotty and Uhura on the bridge. (Paramount+)Rhys Darby in the Enterprise lounge. (Paramount+)Patton Oswalt as a Vulcan. (Paramount+)
The fancy gala appears to celebrated the centennial celebration of the United Federation of Planets — setting this season in 2261 — and the party’s bartender looks like a three-armed Edosian, a species who was only previously seen in the Star Trek animated series.
A three-armed Edosian bartender. (Paramount+)
Hopefully Paramount+ will finally get around to telling us when Season 3 will be hitting our screens sometime soon, as the show has already begun active production on Season 4 — and you can be sure that we’ll share that scheduling news here at TrekCore the moment it is announced.
Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount (Pike), Rebecca Romijn (Number One), Ethan Peck (Spock), Jess Bush (Chapel), Christina Chong (La’an), Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura), Melissa Navia (Ortegas), Babs Olusanmokun (M’Benga) and Martin Quinn (Scotty), along with guest stars Carol Kane (Pelia), Rhys Darby, Melanie Scrofano (Batel), Patton Oswalt, Cillian O’Sullivan (Roger Korby), and Paul Wesley (Kirk).
Check back to TrekCore often for the latest in Strange New Worlds news!
Just a month after The Nacelle Company opened preorders for its first wave of Star Trek action figures, it’s time to learn about the second wave of character releases coming later this year!
Joined by Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer, Nacelle founder Brian Volk-Weiss — who we interviewed on WeeklyTrek earlier this month — took the stage at WonderCon today to talk about the company’s Star Trek ambitions, where he unveiled the next ten characters coming to action-figure sizing.
Nacelle had already disclosed the headliner from Wave 2 a few weeks ago, when they showed off a prototype of Captain Kirk from Star Trek: Generations (figure #9) during New York Toy Fair — and today they have expanded on that announcement with a look at the expected Nexus-fantasy accessories coming with the Kirk figure: his breakfast eggs and dill weed, an axe and stump to chop firewood, and (incredibly) a horse to ride.
Captain Kirk from STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. (Nacelle Company)Kirk with prototype accessories. (Nacelle Company)Kirk with prototype accessories. (Nacelle Company)The horse, of course. (Nacelle Company)
Nacelle has also confirmed that they’re expanding future waves to ten figures, up from eight figures in the initial roll-out — which means today there are still nine additional characters to tell you about!
Captain Kathryn Janeway from “Year of Hell” (#10) is next, with the figure expected to come wearing her signature purple-grey tank top from that episode. The Star Trek: Generations love will continue with as both Worf (#11) and Geordi La Forge (#13) will come wearing their 19th-century sailing ship uniforms from the early part of that film.
It’s only fitting that T’Pol (#12) will be this wave’s Star Trek: Enterprise character, following her recent Star Trek: Lower Decks appearance, and she’ll be wearing her Season 3 blue uniform — but she’s not the only pointed-eared character in this set, as Valeris from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (#14) and the Romulan Commander from “Balance of Terror” (#15) will join her.
Somehow, Playmates Toys never got to her: Nacelle will introduce the first Carol Marcus from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (#16) figure in their second wave. Ferengi fans are sure to be pleased by the inclusion of Ensign Nog (#17) as this wave’s Deep Space Nine character, and then Wave 2 will conclude with the green-skinned Ari bn Bem (#18) from The Animated Series episode “Bem.”
The ten Wave 2 action figure releases. (Nacelle Company)
We don’t yet know what accessories will come with these next figures, but based on Nacelle’s first set of characters, you can bet they’ll be very specific — and somewhat unpredictable!
We’ve got a pair of Star Trek collectible preorders for you on this sunny Saturday afternoon — starting with the next set of action figures from Master Replicas!
Ensign Mariner and Captain Worf. (Photo: Master Replicas)
Both figures retail at $25.99 and measure 4.5 inches in height. The Mariner figure comes with a Lower Decks-era Starfleet phaser and padd, while Worf includes the bladed kur’leth weapon introduced in Picard.
These figures join the previously-announced Admiral Picard and Strange New Worlds Spock releases unveiled in February; all four of the initial action figures are expected to ship in the third quarter of 2025.
Part of the company’s new “REPLICART” product line, this electronic Enterprise features active lighting and bussard collectors — powered by a USB-C cable and managed with a paired remote control.
From the Hiya Toys website:
This brand new REPLICAart Series U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 figure, measures 38cm in length. It is based on the iconic design from the 2009 film, Star Trek, meticulously replicates the NCC-1701’s appearance and intricate details.
Charging device integrated into both the bottom of NCC-1701 and stand. By using a Type-C charging cable to stand or NCC-1701, lights with different effects can be triggered via switch.
With a touch on the bridge’s sensor area, three lighting modes are instantly activated. Moreover, the interactive design between NCC-1701’s Bussard Collector and the lighting system, allowing you to recreate various scenes from the movie.
Hiya’s prototype electronic Enterprise, seen at SDCC 2024. (Photo: TrekCore.com)
We saw a protoype of Hiya’s Enterprise at last summer’s San Diego Comic Con (above), where the unpainted starship was displayed with active lighting effects inside a glass display case on site — and from their new product photos, the design has only been improved with new hull markings and painted display stand.
The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks arrived on Blu-ray last week, so today — in what is likely one of our last pieces about the series for quite a while — it’s time to check out the Season 5 release, along with the special full-series Steelbook collection!
The two-disc Blu-ray set contains all ten episodes of Lower Decks’ final outing — “Dos Cerritos,” “Shades of Green,” “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel,” “A Farewell to Farms,” “Starbase 80?!,” “Of Gods and Angles,” “Fully Dilated,” “Upper Decks,” “Fissure Quest,” and “The New Next Generation” — along with a single behind-the-scenes interview feature to round out the release.
As with past seasons, the Season 5 collection has a number of commentary tracks to shed additional light into the making of Lower Decks — including words from “Fully Dilated” special guest star Brent Spiner, as well as all four primary cast members on the series finale.
508 “Upper Decks” — Mike McMahan, Fred Tatasciore (Shaxs), producer Brad Winters, writer Megan Treviño
510 “The New Next Generation” — Mike McMahan, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noel Wells, Eugene Cordero (Rutherford)
The single non-commentary bonus feature is the annual Lower Dectionaries interview(25:24), which combines on-camera interviews with series creator Mike McMahan and actors Tawny Newsome (Mariner), Jack Quaid (Boimler), Eugene Cordero (Rutherford) and Noel Wells (Tendi) talking about the events of the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
The Steelbook set comes nicely packaged in a slip case featuring a swath of images from all five seasons, which will help protect the Steelbooks from scratches. Each outer face of the two metal cases showcases one of the four Lower Deckers, with the Season 3 “crystal face” artwork filling out the internal face of each Steelbook.
It’s disappointing that the Blu-ray discs have to be stacked inside each case — Seasons 1, 2, and 3 are in one Steelbook, with Seasons 4 and 5 in the other — but that’s the only real negative about the full-series package.
With the end of Star Trek animation for the foreseeable future, we’ve got a great giveaway courtesy of the folks at Paramount Home Entertainment!
This contest has ended and our winners have been notified.
Our grand-prize winner will win both Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 andStar Trek: Prodigy Season 2 on Blu-ray, and two runner-up winners will get their own copy of Lower Decks Season 5 on Blu-ray.
All you need to do is complete the below form by Friday, April 5 and you’ll have your shot at a free copy of each of these two fantastic Star Trek seasons — and we’ll contact the winners after the entry period closes.
(Unfortunately, we must limit this giveaway is limited to entrants in the United States.)
Best of luck to all!
Keep checking back to TrekCore for the latest in Star Trek franchise news!
This Friday afternoon finally brings long-awaited product announcement for fans of the Original Series — as The Wand Companytoday has finally announced final details for their in-production Star Trek: The Original Series electronic tricorder replica, first announced all the way back in June 2020.
Completed tricorders at the manufacturing location. (Photo: The Wand Company)
In a new update shared to their newsletter subscribers, the company has confirmed that completed tricorders are now rolling off of the assembly line at their manufacturing site and getting ready to ship to The Wand Company’s UK facility for distribution to fans through their Amazon UK storefront. (They also note that additional sales will follow through both the IGN store and StarTrek.com at some point following Amazon UK availability.)
Here’s how they’ve described the planned sales process, which will include a firm two-tricorders-per-customer order limit.
After some considerable thought, we have decided to bring the Tricorder from the factory into the UK and use Amazon to fulfill everyone’s orders. Please don’t worry, even if you’re not based in the UK, it [will still be] perfectly easy to order through Amazon UK.
Initially at least, we plan to bear the significant additional cost of airfreighting the Tricorders from the factory to the UK in order to get things moving for you as quickly as possible. We believe that in the current, somewhat volatile market, this combination of air freight and availability from Amazon offers both you and us the quickest and most reliable way to finally bring the Tricorder home to you.
We will be bringing the Tricorders into the UK as soon as they are completed, in a number of waves, and placing them into stock on Amazon UK as they arrive. As each wave is placed in stock and becomes available to order, we will email those who have registered their interest with us (in the order in which they registered) to let them know that they can purchase their Tricorder. (Note: we will do our best to use the first registration date for those who registered multiple times.)
Once each wave has sold through, the Tricorder may temporarily go out of stock, and for a limited time, it may not be possible to place an order. However, as further waves arrive and we load more stock into Amazon, we will be continuously monitoring the Amazon UK Tricorder listing to see when the stock becomes available to order again.
As for the big question on everyone’s mind: what about pricing? Impressively, The Wand Company remains committed to keeping costs to a quite reasonable $350 USD price point (£324 GBP, including VAT, for UK buyers).
Here’s what they’ve got to say about pricing, tariffs, and other international concerns:
Throughout the development, we have kept in mind the balance between functionality and cost, and have done our best to stay true to our company goal of providing products that are not only as good as they can be, but are also great value for all fans to enjoy.
The final price, although slightly higher than we had initially envisaged, will be the $350 USD [plus shipping/taxes, as applicable] that we most recently suggested in our newsletter. On the Amazon UK listing, the price will be shown as £324 GBP. This price includes VAT for our UK customers.
For those buying from the US or other countries, Amazon will deduct the VAT from the price, so it will not be charged, and the price (before shipping and US Sales Tax for US customers) will be £270 GBP, i.e. approximately $350 USD at current exchange rates. (Please note that as the exchange rate fluctuates the exact amount will differ).
Due to the current regulations regarding import duty, a single Tricorder order to the US falls under the “de minimis” rule, so will not incur any import duties (tariffs), although please note that the situation regarding import duties is rather fluid at the moment and might be subject to change.
For other territories, such as Europe, the order may be subject to the corresponding import VAT and duty rate, which Amazon will calculate at the time of ordering.
TrekCore’s own Jim Moorhouse with TWC’s tricorder prototype at SDCC ’24. (Photo: TrekCore.com)
All that said, as of today’s announcement, preorders are not yet live for this highly-anticipated product — but with finished builds coming off the assembly line, it’s likely that The Wand Company will finally start taking fan orders for their Original Series tricorder quite soon.
Longtime Star Trek comic publisher IDW this week announced a trio of new limited-run tales set in different eras of the final frontier.
July brings Star Trek: Red Shirts, a five-issue story centered around a group of Original Series-era security officers, written by Christopher Cantwell and illustrated by Megan Levens.
Variant cover art by Chris Shehan, J.J. Lendl, and Declan Shalvey. (IDW)
From IDW’s announcement:
Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of their nefarious hands.
They face threats not only from their faceless enemies but from the brutalizing elements and wildlife of a planet far from home. The red shirts’ lives and Starfleet’s sanctity are on the line…and no one is safe.
“STAR TREK: RED SHIRTS is in honor of the nameless vaporized, incinerated, and otherwise blown apart, where they’re the main characters of a STAR TREK-style suicide mission unlike any other. We will get to know these ensigns and lieutenants intimately before they are likewise crushed, disrupter’d, and sucked into space. Who will survive? Will any? And what is the true nature of their planetside mission to hunt down mysterious spies? This is a major melody Original Series-era story in the key of Death, one I’ve wanted to tell for years, equal parts fun and harrowing, subversive and celebratory of the boldest tunic color one can wear in Starfleet—security red.” – Christopher Cantwell
“STAR TREK: RED SHIRTS is a dream project for me, offering the opportunity to draw an entirely new cast of Starfleet officers… and then to kill them off in delightfully horrific ways! From crusty veterans to fresh-faced (not for long!) ensigns, these new heroes are charging headfirst into strange new worlds, and finding that sometimes they’re just full of strange new ways to die.” – Megan Levens
Cover art by Travis Mercer and JP Jordan. (IDW)
Next is Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Destruction, a five-issue series which begins in August, which is written by Robbie Thompson and illustrated by Travis Mercer.
From IDW’s announcement:
It’s classic adventure tale with plenty of twists and turns as the crew explore an ice-covered planet and the scary secrets that are lurking deep beneath the surface…. Featuring beloved characters First Officer Una Chin-Riley, Security Officer La’An Noonien-Singh, Science Officer Spock, and Nurse Christine Chapel – plus, a new adorable robot sidekick named D6!
“As a lifelong fan of Star Trek (TOS forever!), I was absolutely thrilled to get the call from editor extraordinaire Heather Antos to pitch on a Strange New Worlds miniseries,” shares Robbie Thompson. “Working on the fourth season of the Paramount+ series has been a dream come true and I’m so excited to play in this sandbox further and be a part of the amazing line of TREK comics IDW has created. I’ve been a fan of Travis Mercer’s storytelling from afar, and it’s been a blast working with him and the rest of the team. We’re taking the SNW crew to one of the scariest and coldest corners of the universe, and I can’t wait for Trek fans everywhere to see the cosmic horrors we’ve cooked up!”
“After reading what Robbie has in store for the Enterprise crew, there was no way I was going to pass up this opportunity!” said Travis Mercer. “The entire team is bringing you a story that’s about to make Strange New Worlds a lot stranger! Strap in folks!”
Cover art by Angel Hernandez and Charlie Kirchoff (left). (IDW)
Finally, September brings Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming, a five-issue series celebrating the Kate Mulgrew-led series’ 30th anniversary. Written by Tilly and Susan Bridges and illustrated by Angel Hernandez, this story takes place just after the closing moments of the Voyager series finale “Endgame.”
From IDW’s announcement:
Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager are back for one final mission before they head home. The limited comic series aims to offer the final resolution that fans have been waiting decades to witness.
This story picks up just moments after the final shot of the series! The final shot of the Emmy award-winning series featured the iconic ship approaching Earth before the screen goes dark… But what if just moments after that, there was one last emergency?
“We’re so incredibly excited to be writing STAR TREK: VOYAGER – HOMECOMING,” says co-writers Tilly and Susan Bridges. “As lifelong Trekkies, we’re delighted to be part of Voyager’s 30th anniversary celebration. We can’t wait to give Janeway and crew one last adventure… will everything go smoothly? Well, this is Voyager… who’s to say (we are, but we’re not gonna spoil it, where’s the fun in that?). We all spent seven years getting to know and love this crew, and it’s an absolute honor to be part of the team that brings them home.”
“I’ve been working on STAR TREK projects for many years and I’ve had the opportunity of participating in incredible stories and being part of exciting adventures,” adds Angel Hernandez. “I’m sure this is going to be one of those special moments that will be part of the wonderful history of Voyager, and it is an honor for me to be part of it.”
The three Star Trek comic stories will be available in comic book shops around the United States, online, and through the IDW app beginning in July. They will be the second half of 2025’s primary Trek comic offerings, following May’s Star Trek: Omega one-shot which will conclude the currently-running Star Trek: Defiant and Star Trek monthly series.
Keep checking back to TrekCore for the latest in Star Trek franchise news!
For the first time, fans of the original Star Trek series can obtain a full-sized replica of the famous gold-colored dedication plaque from Captain Kirk’s starship Enterprise!
Master Replicas this week unveiled their next Trek product, a 15-inch full-scale recreation of the bridge-based dedication plaque for the Constitution-class USS Enterprise seen throughout the Original Series. Of course, the ship was labeled as Starship-class on the plaque itself, as the Constitution-class designator was not introduced until years later.
The new 15″ plaque replica. (Master Replicas)
While fans for many years were able to buy a smaller-scale 9-inch version of the plaque produced by the now-defunct Eaglemoss company, this new edition is the first time a full-sized replica has been produced for general purchase.
The specifications, typeface, and layout of the plaque replica was determined by longtime Trek artist Mike Okuda, for both the smaller Eaglemoss edition and the new Master Replicas 15″ reproduction.
The plaque on display behind Captain Kirk. (CBS Studios)
In addition, stick around to hear Ross’s predictions for upcoming Star Trek action figures included in Nacelle Company’s second wave of releases, and Alex’s opinion that — despite a rumble that William Shatner may return to Star Trek from the man himself — we probably shouldn’t get our hopes up.
WeeklyTrek is available to subscribe and download each week on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify— and we’ll be sharing the details of each new episode right here on TrekCore each week if you’re simply just looking to listen in from the web.
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Master Replicas’ new earthenware mug replica is a more durable take on the painted-grey Styrofoam cups used on the Original Series sets, perhaps most notably seen in “The Trouble With Tribbles” where Captain Kirk receives his lunch with a Tribble in his cup — and of course the company is including a Tribble with this mug if you’d like to recreate that well-known moment.
