Yesterday we got our first glorious look at the first-ever Lego Star Trek set: the Enterprise -D from The Next Generation . It’s a big, wonderful set, a fun replica of an iconic ship, and it has all the minifigures you’d want to display around it. But hopefully it’s not the first and last Star Trek to come (especially because of its hefty price tag).

Star Trek has the potential to be so much more than a one-off like so many of Lego’s collaborations and be a line as expansive and rich as Star Wars is for the brick builder—and definitely more than just display models of Trek ‘s iconic ships that forget that we don’t live in its post-scarcity society. As cool as those massive, pricey replicas can be, Star Trek sets could be so much more than ship models. For almo

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