LEGO® Star Trek is happening: the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D™ from the 1987 to 1994 TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation has been officially revealed!
Watch as Set Designer/Captain Hans B. Schlömer and Graphic Designer/Commander Crystal Marie Fontan from The LEGO Group reveal LEGO® Icons 10356 Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D™ for the first time ever back in September at Fan Media Days in Denmark, and read further details from when I spoke to them afterwards.
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10356 Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D™
- Release date: Black Friday, 28 November 2025
- Pieces: 3600
- Ages: 18+
Price:
- US$ .99 on LEGO.com US
- CA$ .99 on LEGO.com Canada
- GB£ .99 on LEGO.com UK
- AU$ .99 on LEGO.com Australia
- NZ$ .99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
- DE€ ,99 on LEGO.com Deutschland
- NL€ ,99 on LEGO.com Nederland
- FR€ ,99 on LEGO.com France
- PLN .99 on LEGO.com Polska
- NOK ,90 on LEGO.com Norge
- DKK .95 on LEGO.com Danmark
- Other countries, see the end of this article
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Designer interview
I also had the opportunity to ask them some more questions later that day.
New Elementary: What does Star Trek mean to you both?
Crystal Marie Fontan: To me, the essence of Star Trek is just kindness. You know, like in every every episode, there's some sort of moral that you can learn, or something like that. But it's always like, respect and kindness through their storytelling, right? So that's one of the reasons why I love Star Trek so much, and the cool spaceships,
Hans B. Schlömer: I grew up with Captain Kirk on black and white TV. Since working on this, I've rewatched the entire show The Next Generation, then went on to Deep Space 9, the whole shebang. And now I'm on Voyager, and yeah, it's not the first time I've done that.
New E: So did you just absolutely jump at this opportunity?
I heard that somewhere downstairs, somebody was working on something, but I thought, that project is never gonna happen, never. And then I joined LEGO® Icons, and...
New E: Good timing!
Crystal: So I think that this has been an idea for a long time, not just from the LEGO Group, or from internal design. This is definitely one of the peaks of my career, to be a part of this project at The LEGO Group. I'm not a part of this project [team]. I'm actually in a different project. I didn't beg, but I kind of begged.
Hans: After I sunk my claws on this project, I said, we need Crystal here!
New E: Why did you choose the Enterprise D, which surely is the hardest of all of the Enterprises?
Hans: I'm not so sure. You basically have two options: the classic Enterprise, even though you'd have to decide TV or a movie version for that one. I guess we went with this one because it's the more recent?
Crystal: In reality, we designers are not really involved with what's going to get chosen. Of course, I bet they've done research on what would be the most engaging for the fans, and at least in my opinion, The Next Generation really touches with a lot of people from all ages, and especially me as a millennial, because this was the first Star Trek I was exposed to.
New E: I'm so glad the saucer removal function is included, this happened in episode one, then it never happened again, did it?
Hans: The saucer did detach again, in the movie Star Trek: Generations. The Battle section exploded, but the saucer crashed and was later recovered. And then, by Commodore Geordi La Forge as a hobby, he restored the Enterprise, and good thing he did, right?
New E: It's swell for us. Or we'd never have the LEGO set. So these two new bows, they've got a lot of cutouts; this little stepped effect?
New E: So you maybe could have gone further on this one than just these 1x2 cutouts?
Hans: We could tell our tech guys, "oh, this is what we want", but we would prefer that they tell us how it needs to be for stability and material thickness, and all that. In the end, you make it work.
New E: Make it so. Why is there a little bit of dark tan here and there?
Hans: It's something I do. It also makes our Building Instructions people very happy.
Crystal: When you look at the reference of the Enterprise – because Hans had a kind of 1:1 – you can see there's different panelings on the Enterprise.
Hans: It depends on which season of the show; they change the model later. I'm not sure if you ever noticed that at one point, the thickness of the rim changes when they swapped to a different model. But then there were some episodes where they went and used old stock footage. So it's a bit confusing, but it's not too obvious.
New E: What are we looking at in terms of stickers and prints?
Hans: So, we have some prints, as much as we could afford. Because when you do a product, you have challenges that we need to adhere to, in a production sense. I call it resource management. You can't print everything, so you have to pick and choose. And in this case, we knew [from above the model] would be the display position, but what we did not know is which angle we would pick for the box. This classic shot from from below is an odd angle, but it shows you most of the ship... from any other angle, something is hidden. So this is the best angle. Maybe we should have printed these two [underneath].
Crystal: I think it was really important for us to get some of that detail going from the reference and then, but also with a healthy balance of like studs for the LEGO® DNA, so it won't look too clean and crisp, right? So we decided to put the emphasis on these windows [on the rim]. It's really important to have that detail. And it's not an easy feat – yes, okay, it's a bunch of squares, but you have to align them perfectly, and also to make it canon to the reference. And then also, we wanted to emphasise the detailing of the characters, because this is the first time that we do the most beloved crew in Star Trek history, in my personal opinion. We really wanted to give them accessories too. We don't want to over-do it with the detailing, because we thought that the uniform itself was very prominent, with the colours.
New E: Hans, you mentioned in the presentation that cantilevering the saucer was a huge challenge. Were there technical challenges in the Battle ship as well?
Hans: I think the biggest technical challenge was how to join the two halves (of the Battle ship]. This essentially a cut line [down the centre] here, so it's two halves – left and right mirrored. But then you have to put them together. And when you build tube side against tube side, there are some special rules – you can't just lock across, because technically it doesn't fit. Still, I found a legal way to do it. You will see there are some transparent elements; look what they do when you build.
New E: Crystal, you mentioned that the deflector dish was a huge challenge, can you tell us more about its development?
Crystal: We've done this technique before, where we're printing on the backside of an element, on Big Ben with the clock face – but it's not common. We've never done it on this element, which has some little ridges because it's a windshield. So that was the first challenge; how do we do this on that element? I worked with the printing department to figure out what my parameters were and then from there, I did many, many iterations of this. Then we had many iterations of how to suggest that glowing effect, but also the Engage effect. So this is what I came up with. It's kind of a cool illusion.
New E: Yes, did you ever consider putting lighting in it? Or is that just not an option?
Hans: There was really no space inside. It's solid brick stacking and plates – mostly plates.
New E: No LEGO® Technic framework?
Hans: Not really. Plates. I've done enough internal frames!
379.99€/ £349.99/ US$399.99/ AU$599.99
Our thanks to Hans, Crystal and the whole adult engagement team for putting this opportunity together.
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Global prices
Here is what the Enterprise costs around the globe:
- Australia 599.99 AUD
- Austria 379.99 EUR
- Belgium 379.99 EUR
- Brazil 3799.99 BRL
- Canada 489.99 CAD
- China 3299 CNY
- Croatia 389.9 EUR
- Czech Republic 9699 CZK
- Denmark 2999.95 DKK
- Estonia 399.99 EUR
- Finland 379.95 EUR
- France 379.99 EUR
- Germany 379.99 EUR
- Greece 399.99 EUR
- Hong Kong 3049 HKD
- Hungary 159990 HUF
- India 39399 INR
- Ireland 379.99 EUR
- Israel 440 EUR
- Italy 379.99 EUR
- Japan 54980 JPY
- Latvia 399.99 EUR
- Lithuania 399.99 EUR
- Luxembourg 379.99 EUR
- Malaysia 1699.9 MYR
- Mexico 9499 MXN
- New Zealand 649.99 NZD
- Norway 4599.9 NOK
- Poland 1649.99 PLN
- Portugal 379.99 EUR
- Romania 1982.76 RON
- Singapore 559.9 SGD
- Slovakia 389.99 EUR
- Slovenia 389.9 EUR
- South Africa 7699 ZAR
- South Korea 509900 KRW
- Spain 379.99 EUR
- Sweden 4799.9 SEK
- Switzerland 399 CHF
- Taiwan 14299 TWD
- The Netherlands 379.99 EUR
- Turkey 19199 TRY
- Ukraine 19299 UAH
- United Kingdom 349.99 GBP
- USA 399.99 USD
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