20 Extra Lego ‘Star Trek’ Units I Need After the ‘Enterprise’-D

Yesterday we acquired our first glorious look on the first-ever Lego Star Trek set: the Enterprise-D from The Subsequent Technology. It’s an enormous, fantastic set, a enjoyable duplicate of an iconic ship, and it has all of the minifigures you’d need to show round it. However hopefully it’s not the primary and final Star Trek to return (particularly due to its hefty price ticket).

Star Trek has the potential to be a lot greater than a one-off like so many of Lego’s collaborations and be a line as expansive and wealthy as Star Wars is for the brick builder—and undoubtedly extra than simply show fashions of Trek‘s iconic ships that overlook that we don’t reside in its post-scarcity society. As cool as these huge, expensive replicas might be, Star Trek units could possibly be a lot greater than ship fashions. For nearly 60 years throughout dozens of reveals and movies, there’s tons of inspiration for units that might fulfill a a number of vary of value factors.

Listed here are a number of concepts—some foolish, some much less so—that we’d recommend to Lego, within the hopes it doesn’t simply do the large fundamental ships (do these too although, please, especially Voyager, thank you).

A Tricorder

Lego’s basic distaste for specific focuses on navy weaponry may imply prop replicas like phasers or bat’leths can be off the desk—however that’s okay when Star Trek has so many iconic non-violent prop choices. There could possibly be combadges, PADDs, and hyposprays, however in fact, the plain choose is a scaled tricorder—suppose the latest Lego Sport Boy, and it may even borrow the concept of the lenticular screens used there to showcase completely different fluctuating readings as you wave it about doing all of your greatest scanning impression!

Dixon Hill’s Workplace

The holodeck offers us so many potential ideas for units, but when we needed to choose one, Picard’s holo-home away from dwelling would simply be a extremely enjoyable little construct and provides Lego an opportunity at some very distinctive alternate minifigures.

Strange Lego Units That Simply Come With a Minifigure Star Trek Away Staff

The simplest technique to cheat new Star Trek units is to simply put Star Trek minifigures in in any other case fully regular Lego strains and faux it’s simply an away group beaming down into one other loopy state of affairs. Lego Metropolis? They’ve gone again in time once more! Lego Fortress? It’s Q mucking about just like the Robin Hood bits in “Qpid”! Lego Associates? Shut sufficient to The Adventures of Flotter.

A Kal-Toh Set

Make it out of Technic items! And let folks hand over making an attempt to really perceive the foundations of Kal-Toh, and allow them to construct the ultimate wireframe piece if they need.

Lego Artwork Bajoran Wormhole

Sort of dishonest, contemplating the Lego artwork line already did a Milky Way art piece that’s kinda shut sufficient should you squint, however think about a textured, 3D artwork piece that even had somewhat microbuild Federation runabout you possibly can have floating prefer it was about to enter the opening wormhole… or possibly even a much bigger fleet of microbuild Dominion warships to copy their invasion of the Alpha quadrant.

The Thomas Riker Transporter Accident

A Lego transporter room is a simple win of an concept for a small set (extra on that later). However a Transporter set the place you’ll be able to mainly pack the identical Will Riker minifigure twice? Perfection. Bonus if Tom comes with an alternate face print you’ll be able to swap round to indicate him with a goatee after he’s ripped his sideburns off.

The Delta Flyer and Different Shuttlecraft

Positive, do the large ships, however smaller ships for smaller costs? That’d be nice too. We’re already getting a enjoyable little midi-scaled Sort-15 because the Enterprise-D’s bonus reward with buy set, so why not do Voyager‘s Delta Flyer, or the traditional Galileo from “The Galileo Seven,” or one in all DS9‘s runabouts?

The Horga’hn

Consider it as a buildable artwork piece that solely essentially the most devoted would even understand is a Star Trek reference. After which consider how completely insane you’ll sound selecting it as much as present a visitor and saying, “Sure, that is my Lego Risan fertility image, thanks for asking.”

Ma’ah’s Bloodwine Farm

Lego is, in some methods, rather a lot like Star Trek broadly—units primarily based round battle exist, certain, identical to generally folks in Trek simply really want to fireplace some phasers. However plenty of the time, Lego and Star Trek alike choose extra peaceable, on a regular basis conditions which are additionally value making into examples of play. And what’s extra Lego than a pleasant little farm that simply occurs to have some very massive Targs and a few Klingons on it?

The Rekissian Flute From “The Interior Gentle”

Bonus if it comes with a show stand that could be a pair of fingers posed as if taking part in it, simply to recreate the very apparent photographs from “Classes” the place Patrick Stewart’s fingers are clearly not those taking part in the flute.

A Modular DS9 Promenade Vary

Lego has accomplished loads of units replicating metropolis streets, massive or small, and a version of DS9’s promenade may go both manner—a bigger playset construct that includes shrunk-down variations of iconic places from the most-visited part of the station, or a number of units like its Modular Metropolis builds that allow you to have lavish recreations of the Replimat, Quark’s Bar, the Klingon restaurant (and Jumja stick stand!), or Odo’s workplace, that you possibly can both have as particular person show units or join up!

Kirk vs. Gorn “Area” Battlepack

Any Lego Star Trek line would inevitably draw comparisons with the Lego Star Wars vary. And if Lego Star Wars loves one factor, it’s a battle pack: an excuse for a low-end set that has a tiny construct and some minifigures that, let’s be actual, you’re shopping for for the latter. Just a little Vasquez Rock construct, some Lego boulders, and a Kirk and Gorn minifigure? Straightforward!

A Bridge Collection…

That is maybe the obvious of all of the entries on right here—a diorama collection that offers you the bridge of every iconic ship from each Star Trek present, from the unique all the way in which as much as trendy reveals like Discovery and Decrease Decks. You possibly can even fashion it like a few of Lego’s different “set” shows from TV reveals and body it with studio lights, as should you’ve constructed the precise soundstage. Wouldn’t this be higher than having all these TNG figures within the Enterprise-D come on a easy little line stand?

… And Different Ship Departments

And that bridge collection may naturally lend itself towards playsets primarily based round particular person departments. Sickbays, engineering, Transporter rooms like we beforehand talked about, prepared rooms, and captain’s quarters—folks would leap on the likelihood for smaller-scale builds that they will really put their Trek minifigures in.

Neelix’s Galley

I do know we simply did different ship departments, however I need to give a selected shoutout to Neelix’s galley on Voyager. Lego’s accomplished loads of restaurant-style units previously; let’s have Neelix cooking up a bricky leola root stew!

The Enterprise Lineage Ship Cupboard

Not to attract one other Lego Star Wars vary comparability, however the galaxy far, far-off has been having a substantial amount of success with its vary of midi-scaled show fashions of capital ships in the previous few years. This might mix that concept into both a single playset that replicates Picard’s show of all of the previous vessels to bear the Enterprise title from his prepared room or a complete collection that you possibly can ultimately construct such a cupboard out of your self. Perhaps with a breaking glass function?

The Baseball Subject From “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”

Lego loves having the ability to resell you a personality in a variant outfit, and this’d be an unbelievable alternative (and it’s simple to solely reuse a few legs and torsos for the Niners uniform). All you want is a baseplate detailed up right into a area, and possibly somewhat buildable dugout and a stand part to dump poor Rom on. Death to the opposition!

A Buildable Crimson Angel Go well with

Lego has accomplished a bunch of buildable “motion determine”-style units, each when it comes to poseable show items or extra literal motion figure-style items throughout its strains, and Discovery‘s angel go well with would make an ideal candidate for both. Hell, should you made it the latter, you possibly can in all probability simply repaint the Courageous New World Captain America one they did, however they need to put a bit extra effort into the catalyst that catapulted Discovery into Star Trek‘s vivid future.

A Borg Dice

Okay, certain, to be correctly correct it’d should be lined in tiny little bits to recreate all of the greebling particulars. However it’d even be actually humorous if Lego launched a large dice of darkish gray 1×1 bricks and referred to as it a day.

A To-Scale Optolythic Knowledge Rod

It may even include its little carry case! A easy construct for Trek followers of all ages to recreate iconic moments from one of many biggest episodes of Star Trek ever made, from doing all of your greatest “It’s a pretend!” impressions to questioning if all it value you was the life of 1 Romulan senator, one felony, the self-respect of 1 Starfleet officer… and possibly like $10. I don’t find out about you, however I’d call that a bargain.

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