Star Trek - Rumors & Discussion

[brickbride]

On 12/9/2025 at 10:07 PM, Felkin said:

LotR has had a few other sets in recent years in addition to the one big D2C per year, in the form of a Book Nook and some Brickheadz. Star Trek isn't a literary series (no offence, Peter David's New Frontier) but if Lego follows a similar pattern we might get some diorama sets, and a few Brickheadz too.

I'd personally love some playset locations (DS9's promenade would be a dream come true), but most Star Trek merchandise focuses on the starships for obvious reasons.

The problem with playsets is that they're mainly for kids, and - just like with LotR - there's no real target group here. Show me one kid these days who cares about Bilbo Baggins or Spock, let alone cares more about them than about Ninjago, K-Pop Demon Hunters, or what have you.

So LotR is a fair comparison. BrickHeadz would probably make sense (both Picard and Spock would be very recognisable with little effort) as would dioramas. But I wouldn't expect small playsets (only small GWPs) and I certainly wouldn't expect minifig battlepacks because if LotR doesn't get these (where there's a lot of demand) there's no reason for Star Trek to get them. And actually Star Trek is even less culturally relevant than LotR these days. LotR regularly has new stuff come out (the Rings of Power series, and the Hunt for Gollum movie reported for 2027) whereas even the Star Trek reboot had its last movie what, ten years ago?

This theme pretty much exclusively runs on nostalgia. As for future sets, the question should therefore be what is the most iconic to a certain target group (nostalgics in their mid-fourties that have the most disposable income). That's probably also the reason they started with TNG instead of TOS because the TNG target group skews younger. Also minifigs would be a main draw since that's what separates LEGO from the competition.

I'd expect us to get the TOS crew sooner or later (the series itself may be a little too old but its still the most impactful part of Star Trek, everyone knows who Spock is!) and the DS9 crew as well, and for LEGO to pick subjects that reflect this. I.e. a Bird of Prey might be an iconic type of ship but who would it be manned by - a bunch of generic Klingons? Not likely when LEGO could instead make people pay for actual beloved characters. Maybe we could get the Bounty (from Star Trek IV, which is probably still one of the most beloved ST movies) which would allow us to get the TOS crew with it.

Edited January 15 by brickbride

[Mandalorianknight]

24 minutes ago, brickbride said:

The problem with playsets is that they're mainly for kids, and - just like with LotR - there's no real target group here. Show me one kid these days who cares about Bilbo Baggins or Spock, let alone cares more about them than about Ninjago, K-Pop Demon Hunters, or what have you.

whereas even the Star Trek reboot had its last movie what, ten years ago?

They still pump out live-action star trek shows- we've had plenty over the last few years- but the fact that you either aren't aware of them or don't consider them relevant enough to mention proves your point. Star Trek still puts out content, but the new content isn't very popular at all. The LOTR comparison is also apt- though I wouldn't be shocked if the Gollumn film got a few system sets.

[brickbride]

Yeah, I've always felt that DS9 was the last "big" ST show. Voyager wasn't as popular in my circles and anything after that even less so. The reboot movies were fun for what they were but ultimately forgettable. I know we still have Lower Decks and suchlike but I would consider ST more niche these days, no longer a huge cultural phenomenon.

The same is true for LotR up to a point. But at the heart of it LotR will always be a litereary franchise, and the books are timeless classics. So I don't think it suffers as much from having no really popular new content as ST - a TV franchise - does.

Anyone can still read LotR these days and admire the beauty of the language, whereas younger audiences probably can't watch the older ST content without cringing about the special effects and some of the writing and characterisation.

 

Edited January 15 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

I know we still have Lower Decks and suchlike but I would consider ST more niche these days, no longer a huge cultural phenomenon.

I‘m not much of a Trekkie myself, but I also think ST isn‘t as popular of a franchise as it used to be, despite having multiple shows on air ^^ There‘s a reason they picked TNG over a newer show or TOS. That said, there‘s still plenty of set potential, but like LOTR, they will most likely focus on 18+ sets. I definitely want minifigs of the original crew at least!

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

The same is true for LotR up to a point. But at the heart of it LotR will always be a litereary franchise, and the books are timeless classics. So I don't think it suffers as much from having no really popular new content as ST - a TV franchise - does.

We‘ll see how well the Gollum film will do, but I‘d say the LOTR movies are also timeless classics in their own right. That‘s what the sets are based on, after all

[brickbride]

17 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

That‘s what the sets are based on, after all

Just because LEGO base their sets on a specific part of a franchise doesn't mean that's the reason people buy them. LotR is at its heart a literary franchise, and I'm sure many people buy the sets because of their love of the books, not the movies (which the sets are barely even based on, i.e. Barad-Dur doesn't appear in the movies in that form). IMO as a books fan the LotR movies were okay-ish and the Hobbit movies were pretty terrible. There's certainly room for improvement in both cases when it comes to adapting the source material.

It's not as clear-cut as you make it out to be with many other franchises, too. The HP theme is based on the movies but many people are HP fans because of the books. A lot of people buy the One Piece sets because they're fans of the anime, even though they're based on the Netflix show.

If all the newer LotR content tanks (and I fully expect "Hunt for Gollum" to be Hobbit-levels of terrible, though it might still make money given the overall dearth of new LotR content) it won't change people's fondness of the original source material. By which I mean mainly the LotR book trilogy, and that is still an enjoyable read these days. If all the newer ST content tanks, people will still have TOS, TNG, DS9 and whatever you want to count after that. But like I've said a lot of it hasn't aged particularly well in terms of special effects, writing, and characterisation. It works for a certain target group because of nostalgia - like LotR does - but unlike LotR I doubt that it can draw in new viewers these days.

EDIT: Fun fact - ever since I've written anything in this thread I'm being swamped with online ads for "ST: Starfleet Academy".

Edited January 16 by brickbride

[saibot]

On 12/12/2025 at 4:42 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

The production of a third version of the sticker sheet has been confirmed!  Now the 2nd version will likely become a collectors item due to its short-livedness

I know we just had christmas, but my replacement sheet has only just gone to the warehouse after nearly 4 weeks of initially asking for the replacement. If I have to ask for a 3rd set, could be another month or two 

[ShaydDeGrai]

I think it's a safe bet that future Star Trek sets (at least, no pun intended, the flagship ones) will be aimed at the 18+ crowd simply because people who grew up watching (and building real emotional connections to ) TOS, TNG and DS9 are all getting on in years.  Wil Wheton's kids are now older than he was when he played Wesley Crusher on TNG ( I think his youngest graduated from college recently)  More recent offerings that a younger audience is more likely to have seen, just don't seem to have resonated with the newest generation of fans the way the old series did with my generation. 

As far as models themselves go, while there have been some gems (story-wise) among the Paramount+ offerings they haven't really contributed anything truly "iconic" to the cannon (probably just because these aren't mass media shows, they fill a streaming niche for a specific pool of subscribers with eight episodes here, a nine hour movie divided into ten segments there, etc.  That's a far cry from two dozen episoded a year, every year for the better part of a decade being broadcast for free to millions of views).  The biggest thing I got out of the Kelvin-verse movies was learning that JJ Abrams really wanted to be directing a Star Wars movie instead and had no understanding why Star Trek was a different franchise with a different fan appeal, so that source material's a bit of a non-starter for a lot of die-hards.  Even Enterprise and Voyager, while their titular vessels could make interesting sets, they just aren't the ST show people tend to wax on about or active seek out from the streamers.  I see articles about DS9 and TNG show up on a near daily basis on my news feeds,  I'm pretty sure the last time I saw a mention of Star Trek Enterprise was because a former cast member had died.  All of which brings us back to TOS, TNG, DS9 and the pre-Abrams Films (which is still a pretty extensive palette to draw from).

Personally, my top choice would be Deep Space 9 itself, along with the full cast of minifigs (just like they did with the Enterprise D) - though this could raise a debate as to which Dax to include (oh well, can anyone say GWP Runabout with alternate Trill?)

 

[Frizzlefry25]

14 hours ago, saibot said:

I know we just had christmas, but my replacement sheet has only just gone to the warehouse after nearly 4 weeks of initially asking for the replacement. If I have to ask for a 3rd set, could be another month or two 

Im still waiting for my shuttle sticker sheet, sadly my set did not have one, and after trying online and multiple phone calls, they said it did not exist! So after asking them to escalate and providing the batch number I got an email saying one had been sent out and would arrive in 11-13 days, that was over 40 days ago! I think I am still hosed!

But finally ordered the Enterprise sheet, as I have been waiting to build it, as I wanted to start with the shuttle first!

 

If they wanted to sell sets with all kinds of Star Trek ships, a Midi scale line would be amazing. I think ships from all movies, shows, timelines etc. could be on the table and do well enough without building massive expensive sets.

[CF Mitch]

23 hours ago, ShaydDeGrai said:

I think it's a safe bet that future Star Trek sets (at least, no pun intended, the flagship ones) will be aimed at the 18+ crowd simply because people who grew up watching (and building real emotional connections to ) TOS, TNG and DS9 are all getting on in years.  Wil Wheton's kids are now older than he was when he played Wesley Crusher on TNG ( I think his youngest graduated from college recently)  More recent offerings that a younger audience is more likely to have seen, just don't seem to have resonated with the newest generation of fans the way the old series did with my generation. 

As far as models themselves go, while there have been some gems (story-wise) among the Paramount+ offerings they haven't really contributed anything truly "iconic" to the cannon (probably just because these aren't mass media shows, they fill a streaming niche for a specific pool of subscribers with eight episodes here, a nine hour movie divided into ten segments there, etc.  That's a far cry from two dozen episoded a year, every year for the better part of a decade being broadcast for free to millions of views).  The biggest thing I got out of the Kelvin-verse movies was learning that JJ Abrams really wanted to be directing a Star Wars movie instead and had no understanding why Star Trek was a different franchise with a different fan appeal, so that source material's a bit of a non-starter for a lot of die-hards.  Even Enterprise and Voyager, while their titular vessels could make interesting sets, they just aren't the ST show people tend to wax on about or active seek out from the streamers.  I see articles about DS9 and TNG show up on a near daily basis on my news feeds,  I'm pretty sure the last time I saw a mention of Star Trek Enterprise was because a former cast member had died.  All of which brings us back to TOS, TNG, DS9 and the pre-Abrams Films (which is still a pretty extensive palette to draw from).

Personally, my top choice would be Deep Space 9 itself, along with the full cast of minifigs (just like they did with the Enterprise D) - though this could raise a debate as to which Dax to include (oh well, can anyone say GWP Runabout with alternate Trill?)

 

Based what I frequently encounter myself on social media, I'd say this is very accurate.
Though there does seem to be a decent group of ST: Enterprise lovers that somehow claim it's the best of all series. I tried to watch a few episodes once but I just couldn't get gripped by it.
Same with DS9 for me personally. Also has a large fan base, but I wasn't hooked.
For me it's TOS and TNG with Voyager a distant third. And, to be honest, I like the TOS and TNG movies better than most episodes of their respective series  

I have to say, though, I've grown quite fond of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, depicting the Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike, with a few recurring appearances of Paul Wesley as Lt./Cpt. James T. Kirk  

 

I agree that midiscale ships would be great, but somehow I also very much love the idea of a large NCC-1701(-A) hanging from my ceiling  

Regards,
Mitch

Edited January 17 by CF Mitch

[RichardGoring]

6 minutes ago, CF Mitch said:

For me it's TOS and TNG with Voyager a distant third. And, to be honest, I like the TOS and TNG movies better than most episodes of their respective series  

I agree that midiscale ships would be great, but somehow I also very much love the idea of a large NCC-1701(-A) hanging from my ceiling  

I'm with you on TNG, although Voyager is second on my list. A few months ago I built these NCC 1701 and A variants from Skyfox on Rebrickable - LEGO MOC The Star Trek Original Series Enterprise Bundle by Skyfoxbricks | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO - they're really good and also, by lovely coincidence, scale pretty well with the Enterprise D, as they're about half the length. I wonder if LEGO will go down that route or make it them same size as the Enterprise D.

 

[CF Mitch]

20 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

I'm with you on TNG, although Voyager is second on my list. A few months ago I built these NCC 1701 and A variants from Skyfox on Rebrickable - LEGO MOC The Star Trek Original Series Enterprise Bundle by Skyfoxbricks | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO - they're really good and also, by lovely coincidence, scale pretty well with the Enterprise D, as they're about half the length. I wonder if LEGO will go down that route or make it them same size as the Enterprise D.

Gimme them! They look really great  

Good thing you brought up scale, I keep forgetting there's a tremendous size difference between Enterprise, A and then D and so on. So having the original Enterprises the same sizes as the Enterprise-D would be quite inaccurate and, to a true fan to pays attention to this, would look very weird.
For me, I don't think that will be such a problem though  

Regards,
Mitch

[ShaydDeGrai]

I remember back in the day (nearly half a century ago now) AMT (maker of the original Star Trek plastic, assembly required models) put out a kit called simply the Star Trek Space Ship Set.  The kit was made up of three (smaller than the solo model kits) original series (well, at that point the only series unless you count the animated cartoon) ships, the Enterprise (NCC-1701), a D9 Klingon Battle Cruiser*, and a Romulan Warbird displayed on a common base.

I'd love to see TLG's take on recreating a set like this.

* Fun (but useless) facts, AMT actually bought the model kit rights to Star Trek very early on in the show's existence in a clever bit of marketing/producing/fundraising on the part of Desilu Productions (Lucille Ball 's production company) The "D9 Klingon Cruiser" was designed by Matt Jeffries (designer of the Enterprise for the show)  as a model for AMT to produce BEFORE any Klingon ships had actually appeared in the show.  Later in the series when the scripts called for a Klingon ship to appear, they reused the design on screen.  The Romulan Warbird from TOS, had a very short life on screen.  Behind the scenes the SFX model had been damaged beyond repair and they didn't have enough stock footage of its prior appearance on screen to make the episode work, so they tweaked the script to say that Romulans were now using Klingon designs and used the D9 model instead.

[RichardGoring]

Had a notification that my replacement sticker sheet has been shipped. I wonder if it will be the second (also incorrect) version, or a third iteration that is fully corrected.

[Black Falcon]

19 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

Had a notification that my replacement sticker sheet has been shipped. I wonder if it will be the second (also incorrect) version, or a third iteration that is fully corrected.

Reportedly they were holding off on sending the second version after people complained about them to Costumer Care, so definitely the thrid version.