Lego’s 3,600-Piece Star Trek Enterprise Is the Holiday Gift to Buy This Year

It is impossible to overstate just how big an impact Star Trek: The Next Generation had on an entire generation of kids growing up in the 1990s. I watched every episode with my mom. When I walked into my friend's house after school, a gigantic cardboard cutout of virile, bald Captain Jean-Luc Picard greeted us in the hall. I followed Wil Wheaton, who played precocious teen Wesley Crusher, on social media well into my twenties. My son (I am not lying about this) is named Wesley. My husband thinks we named him after the explorer John Wesley Powell. We did not.

All this is to say that I now know exactly what my family's big Christmas present is going to be this year. Today, Lego unveiled the Icons Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D set.

The detailed replica of the ship comprises 3,600 pieces and includes nine minifigures, each with its own accessory. All the important folks are here: Picard, Riker, Worf, Data, Geordi La Forge, Deanna Troi, Beverly and Wesley Crusher, and the bartender, played by Whoopi Goldberg (who didn't really register with me because I didn't understand what bars were back then).

You can make Riker and Troi fall in love all over again when Riker plays his tiny trombone! Remember when it was apparently really sexy for all men to play large brass instruments? Deanna's hair looks amazing, as usual. The Wesley Crusher figure has a portable tractor beam! It also comes with a display stand with an information plaque and a minifigure display title.

You can purchase the Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D on November 28 for $400. If you purchase the new set between November 28 and December 1, on Lego's website or at a Lego store, you will also receive the Type-15 Shuttlepod as a gift with purchase. Excuse me, I have to mark this on my calendar and go faint now.

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