Also due in November, the larger sized
Star Trek Universe collection(ad), which will include ships from all the current production era live action series, gets to issue nine. So far the series has focused exclusively on the ships of
Picard season one, but this issue finally offers up the promise of a mixed collection, with the first
Discovery ship to join the run, the
Section 31 Deimos class(ad), one of the Section 31 fleet from the end of season two.
Eaglemoss have previewed this ship would be coming as part of the series, but I still raised an eyebrow at seeing it was coming now; a super obscure background ship coming ahead of all the exciting new 32nd century designs, or indeed the completion of the initial wave of Picard ships, seems odd right?
Well, maybe not: There's only one Picard ship Eaglemoss have teased as still to come in the initial run, a Romulan design, and four of the preceding six releases have also been Romulans, so maybe Eaglemoss just wants to offer a bit of variety?
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| Synth ship, not yet confirmed for the collection |
There are a few more
Picard ships they could yet make (but haven't previewed any of them yet): The Artifact Borg Cube, which surely would be a special if they do it?. The Synth fighters (which per
STO are also called Deimos class), which would have been a good option for sure. The Soong-Synth orchids, which I'd be surprised if Eaglemoss do considering they generally stay away from more delicate and lifeformy sort-of-starships. Plus a handful of minor background smallcraft, which who knows maybe Eaglemoss will do some time - See
my article on the ships of Picard for a rundown of everything there could be - In short, they're running out of major
Picard ships and maybe want a break from Romulans.
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What about
Discovery season three? Well maybe they're just not ready yet? And on top of that Eaglemoss likes to do little sub-collections (the
First Contact fleet, the Wolf 359 fleet, the Excelsior concepts, etc), so this new release completes the run of Section 31 ships previously offered as part of the separate
Discovery starships collection, a dangling thread they maybe couldn't resist.
What this makes me wonder more is, when will Disco season three ships start to come? On top of the above mentioned Picard ships, there's also a handful of unproduced earlier Discovery ships waiting for attention; might we get more of those before Eaglemoss work out how to delivery floating detached nacelles?
Meanwhile, back in the realm of the classic
Trek series, there's a lot of exciting news of ships that have been confirmed! After a year's hiatus, the line of bonus releases to the original
Starships Collection has now resumed, with the first of those beginning another one of those sub-collections, the Kelvin timeline fleet. The three most prominent designs from
Star Trek: The Future Begins are coming over the next couple of months; the
USS Newton(ad),
USS Mayflower(ad), and out now, the
USS Armstrong(ad). The back of the box "coming soon..." preview from that new release has revealed a whole load more ships on the way!
We already knew about the
USS Valiant concept art Defiant class(ad), but newly revealed are several ships from
Voyager,
TNG, and even
TOS: The Kazon Crusier, Steth's Benthan coaxial warp drive ship, a Talarian observation craft, and Nomad!
There are a fair few ships of the week, and even recurring designs, that Eaglemoss didn't manage to make before the original 180-issue run concluded (the prominent Kazon ship one of the most egregious omissions), so this renewed run of bonus issues should help fill in some notable gaps. So far the three Kelvin ships and the Defiant-concept are scheduled for just about fortnightly releases. These newly revealed ships add another two months of releases, if that pace holds, so we could in effect be seeing the original Starships Collection resuming here, just without the option of subscription. Long may it continue; there are many more ships from the older series I'd still like to see!
Finally, looking to Eaglemoss: Hero Collector's other sort of starship series, if you're a regular reader you'll know I've been following progress on the Build the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D model kit part work(ad) via the in-depth build videos from World of Wayne. The latest video covers pack eight, which is mostly dealing with more bits of the saucer, and part of the neck:
