Lego boldly goes into the Star Trek universe with $400, 3,600-piece Enterprise-D
Star Trek fans who have long envied the Star Wars franchise's collaboration with Lego are finally getting something to celebrate: Lego is introducing a version of Star Trek's USS Enterprise, specifically the Enterprise-D fromStar Trek: The Next Generation.
Because we don't live in the post-money utopian society of the 24th century, the kit will cost you, and unfortunately, it's priced well into the for-superfans-only zone. The 3,600-piece starship and collection of minifigs will run you $400 when the set officially leaves spacedock on November 28.
Though the Enterprise-D is far from our favoriteEnterprise, it does make sense as a starting point for the Lego Group. The Next Generations seven-year run in the late '80s and early '90s represents a creative and cultural peak for the franchise, and a 2010s-era remaster that painstakingly re-scanned and upgraded all of the original footage and effects for high-definition TVs has kept the old episodes looking fresher than other '90s Trek shows likeDeep Space Nine andVoyager.