Review: 10356 Star Trek The Next Generation – U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D from LEGO® Icons

For Black Friday this year, LEGO® Icons goes bold(l)y where no one has gone before. With 10356 Star Trek: The Next Generation: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, we get the first LEGO® Star Trek licensed set ever. 

Bringing the Enterprise D seems like the obvious choice, given the popularity of The Next Generation (TNG) among Star Trek fans and overall TV viewers. But it also brings challenges and problems.

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10356 Star Trek: The Next Generation: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D

• Release date: Black Friday, 28 November 2025
• Pieces: 3600

Price: 

• US$ 399.99 on LEGO.com US
• CA$ 489.99 on LEGO.com Canada
• GB£ 349.99 on LEGO.com UK
• AU$ 599.99 on LEGO.com Australia
• NZ$ 649.99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
• DE€ 379,99 on LEGO.com Deutschland
• NL€ 379,99 on LEGO.com Nederland
• FR€ 379,99 on LEGO.com France
• PLN .99 on LEGO.com Polska
• NOK 4599,90 on LEGO.com Norge
• DKK 2999.95 on LEGO.com Danmark

Other countries click here

 

For me, as a Trekkie since early childhood, Star Trek has accompanied me in many ways including a huge influence onto my AFOLdom and my own creations – so finally having official LEGO Star Trek sets and minifigures is a dream come true for me.

Parts

The Enterprise D has got it all – we have stickers, prints, new moulds (many minifigure-related) and some cool recoloured parts.

Minifigures

There are nine minifigures in this set – from left to right (titled as in the opening sequence of TNG): Lt. Geordi La Forge, Lt. Worf, Counselor Deanna Troi, Lt. Commander Data, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, Cmdr. William Riker, Guinan, Dr. Beverly Crusher and Wesley Crusher.

What I especially like is that all figures have an appropriate accessory that matches their personality or their role on the Enterprise.

Lt. Geordi La Forge

Geordi is the chief engineer aboard the Enterprise, and his appearance is defined by his iconic visor. He always has his utility case ready for any kind of repairs.

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Reddish Brown (6531953)  
• 1x Torso in Black with Yellow Starfleet uniform print and hands in Reddish Brown (6570237)

Lt. Worf

Worf, the grim (and sometimes grumpy) Klingon, is the chief security officer aboard the Enterprise. He comes with a new headpiece featuring his TNG iconic hairstyle and the typical Klingon forehead ridges. He also comes with his baldric that he wears over his Starfleet uniform. 

As head of security, the Phaser Type 2 (a new print on that piece) is a fitting accessory – although as a fan of the Klingons in Star Trek, I wish they had given him a Bat’leth. 

• 1x Hair in Black with Klingon Forehead Ridges in Reddish Brown (6601016)
• 1x Minifig Head with print in Reddish Brown (6531963)
• 1x Torso in Black with Yellow Starfleet uniform and Klingon baldric print and hands in Reddish Brown (6571045) 

Counselor Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi, half human, half Betazoid – a telepathic race – is the ships counselor, advisor and moral compass to Captain Picard and most known for her complex (on and off) relationship with Commander Riker. She comes with a freshly printed Personal Access Display Device (PADD). 

Her hairpiece is a recolour and the torso has a unique print.

• 1x Hair in Black (6570131)
• 1x Torso in Medium Lavender with Print and hands in Light Nougat (6570127)

Lt. Commander Data

Data (be mindful with the pronunciation) is an android, constructed by Dr. Soong. While he is superior to humans, his only intention is to become human. He tries to whistle, learn humour and make relationships. A special relationship is his furry fellow – Spot – for whom he even writes poetry. 

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Tan (6531948)
• 1x Torso in Black with Yellow Starfleet uniform print and hands in Tan (6569911)

I initially wondered why Data's “skin” is made in the tan colour. While it works well in the final figure and blends well with the yellow of the uniform, I thought a Glow in the Dark White would have been awesome as well – making the skin really pale.

Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

The center of the cast – and literally on the figure display stand – is Jean-Luc Picard, the baldy (pun intended) and stoic captain of the Enterprise – the flagship of Starfleet. Among his many interests are exploration (a Picard family tradition), Shakespeare (Patrick Stewart is well known as a Shakespearean actor) and archaeology. While struggling with interactions, especially with children, he becomes a role model for them and has his dedicated “Captain Picard Day”. Naturally, he comes with his favourite beverage – undoubtedly "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot", as he dictates it to the food replicator. 

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Light Nougat (6531956)
• 1x Torso in Black with Red Starfleet uniform print and hands in Light Nougat (6570745)

Picard is the only minifigure in this set who comes with only one face. Without a hairpiece to cover, this does not come as a surprise. And, to be honest, it fits the stoic character to have only one expression on his face.

Cmdr. William Riker

William T. Riker, the forever-first officer, the “number one”. He comes with a brick-built trombone, the first ever to appear in a set.

• 1x Minifig Head with print in Light Nougat (6531961)
• 1x Torso in Black with Red Starfleet uniform print and hands in Light Nougat (6570745)

Guinan

The El-Aurian fugitive Guinan is the bartender in “Ten Forward”, the bar/restaurant aboard the Enterprise D. El-Aurians are known to be good listeners, so a perfect match for the role. She is also an advisor to Captain Picard, and his fencing partner.

Her hat / hair piece is a new mould developed for the character.

• 1x Hair in Black with Dark Purple hat (6544455)
• 1x Minifig Head with print in Reddish Brown (6531954)
• 1x Torso in Dark Purple with print and hands in Reddish Brown (6570614)

Dr. Beverly Crusher

Beverly Crusher is the chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise (except for her temporary replacement in Season 2 by Dr. Katherine Pulaski). Her dead husband Jack was Picard’s best friend, but over time she developed some love interest for the captain. She always has a medical tricorder to hand. 

Her hair is a recolour.

• 1x Hair in Dark Orange (6569871)
• 1x Minifig Head with print in Light Nougat (6531944)
• 1x Torso in Black with Blue Starfleet uniform print and hands in Light Nougat (6569901)

Wesley Crusher

Wesley is the son of Beverly Crusher, an (honorary) ensign aboard the Enterprise. To some he is a child prodigy; to others an annoyance – which may be the reason to include a head with a screaming childish face. He wears his iconic grey sweater with coloured striping on the shoulders. His accessory is a small portable tractor beam, which he uses in the first episode (excluding the pilot).

• 1x Torso in Light Bluish Gray with Red, Yellow and Blue colour stripes and hands in Light Nougat (6570619)

New moulds

There are five new moulds; four of them minifigure parts, and the other is one more curved slope in a year of curved slopes. 

• 4x Slope Curved 1x10x1⅔ with cutouts in Light Bluish Gray with Window and Trench pattern (6568568)

• 1x Hair in Black with Dark Purple hat (6544455)
• 1x Hair in Black with Klingon Forehead Ridges in Reddish Brown (6601016)

Recolours 

Nine elements have been recoloured for this model, and pleasingly, seven of nine are non-minifigure pieces.

• 1x Minifigure, Shield Elliptical in Light Bluish Gray (6558993 | 92747) – First opaque colour for this part
• 2x Road Sign 2 x 2 Square with Open O Clip in Light Bluish Gray (6558990 | 15210)
• 4x Wedge 4 x 1 Left and Right in Light Bluish Gray (6539829 | 5415 / 6539830 | 5414)
• 2x Hose, Rigid 3mm D. 10L / 8.0cm in Flat Silver (6559058 | 75c10) 
• 4x Slope, Curved 1 x 4 with Rounded Ends in Transparent Red (6544454 | 4045)
• 1x Minifigure, Utensil Stein / Cup with Molded Dark Brown Drink Pattern (6570653 | 68495pat0004)

• 2x Slope Curved 1x8x1⅔ with cutouts in Light Bluish Gray (6558995 | 7217), and more are included with printing

• 1x Hair in Black (6570131 | 1987), an all-black recolour of the many multicoloured, transparent and opalescent styles that Izzie from LEGO® DREAMZzz has worn.
• 1x Hair in Dark Orange (6569871 | 1879), originally Dark Brown for Ms. Marvel from 2022, and also used in Bright Pink for the Enid mini-doll from LEGO@ Wednesday in 2024.

Other parts of interest

Many parts appear here in the highest quantity in a set so far:

• 40x Slope 10 6 x 1 in Light Bluish Gray (6508016 | 4569) 
• 18x Arch 1 x 5 x 4 Inverted in Light Bluish Gray (6310881 | 30099) 
• 17x Wedge, Plate 6 x 4 Left and Right in Light Bluish Gray (6262083 | 48208 / 6262082 | 48205)
• 14x Plate, Round Corner 5 x 5 Macaroni in Light Bluish Gray (6430583 | 80015)
• 14x Wedge, Plate 4 x 2 Left and Right, Pointed in Light Bluish Gray (6306729 | 65426 / 6306728 | 65429)
• 12x Plate 3 x 3 Corner in Light Bluish Gray (6547152 | 77844) 
• 6x Slope 18 2 x 1 x 2/3 in Light Bluish Gray (6493586 | 5404)
• 32x Brick, Modified 1 x 2 x 1 2/3 with Studs on Sides in Dark Bluish Gray (6514456 | 80796)
• 20x Slope 18 2 x 1 x 2/3 in Dark Bluish Gray (6533800 | 5404)
• 36x Plate, Round 2 x 2 with Rounded Bottom (Boat Stud) in Tan (4278422 | 2654)
• 25x Plate 2 x 2 in Medium Azure (4625032 | 3022) 
• 20x Technic, Plate 1 x 5 with Smooth Ends, 4 Studs and Center Axle Hole in Blue (6280384 | 32124)
• 14x Plate, Modified 2 x 2 with Bar on Bottom in Bright Light Orange (6484950 | 5066)

These two parts have the second-highest quantity in a set to date:

• 14x Slope, Curved 2 x 2 Inverted with 2 Recessed Studs in Black (6458098 | 1750)
• 5x Wedge 3 x 2 Left and Right No Studs in Light Bluish Gray (6375808 | 80177 / 6375815 | 80178)

These five are 2025 recolours, so still relatively rare:

• 6x Bracket 1 x 2 - 2 x 1 Centered in Black (6530055 | 4585) – also highest quantity in a set
• 3x Slope 45 2 x 4 with Cutout without Studs in Black (6567221 | 5540) – also highest quantity in a set
• 22x Slope 14 4 x 1 in Light Bluish Gray (6558989 | 5654) – also highest quantity in a set, second appearance of this part after 75419 Death Star this October
• 2x Tile, Modified 1 x 2 Wedge Left and Right in Light Bluish Gray (6558800 | 5091 / 6558799 | 5092)
• 17x Brick, Modified 1 x 2 x 1 2/3 with Studs on Sides in White (6544445 | 80796) – also highest quantity in a set.

 

These two are having a comeback after many years:

• 2x Wedge 8 x 3 x 2 Open Left and Right in Light Bluish Gray (6558994 | 41750 / 6558992 | 41749) – second appearance in 2025 after a 12-year hiatus
• 2x Hose, Rigid 3mm D. 43L / 34.0 cm in Flat Silver (6314440 | 75c43) – second appearance overall, was only one time included in the 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina of 2020

New Prints

• 2x Windscreen 6 x 4 x 1⅓ Canopy Sloped Sides in Trans Light Blue with Deflector print (6568571 | 3384)
• 1x Slope 10° 6 x 8 in Black with USS Enterprise Name Plaque (6568570 | 4515)
• 1x Tile, Modified 6 x 12 with Studs on Edges in Light Bluish Gray with U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D print (6568566 | 6178)
• 1x +1 spare Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3 in Light Bluish Gray with Phaser Type 2 print (6568565 | 54200) – with that spare, you can build a second Phaser
• 1x Tile 1x2 in Light Bluish Gray with (medical) Tricorder print (6568567 | 3069)
• 1x Tile 1x2 in Light Bluish Gray with PADD print (6568564 | 3069)

• 8x Slope Curved 1x8x1⅔ with cutouts in Light Bluish Gray with Window and Trench pattern (6568569) 

Sticker sheet

Like most large sets, we also have a sticker sheet here, to be applied to 21 parts in total.

Sadly, a spelling error was not picked up on, in sticker #15.

The build

The LEGO Enterprise is separated, like its TV counterpart, into the saucer and the secondary hull. 

You start with the secondary hull, which basically consists of two mirrored halves that are connected by some ball joints, some tiles and LEGO® Technic axles, with the deflector assembly placed in front. It is a straightforward building process and does not offer spectacular techniques.

 

Same goes for the warp nacelles, which are the final touch on the secondary hull. They consist of three bigger assemblies, with the grey and transparent red tip of the bussard collector on the front as smaller assembly.

Before you continue with the saucer, you must assemble the stand on which the model sits and which holds the balance between the heavy saucer and the secondary hull. It is a generic stand; to be honest, I’d hoped for something more elegant.

The second part of the set is the saucer section. The elliptical shape was solved by using brick-built panels sitting on an octagonal frame. The first half of the assembly is about the construction of said frame. Once finished, it will be placed directly on the secondary hull/stand before continuing with the smaller panels. I have assembled everything with the saucer detached, so that also works fine.

You then go on with the task of building out 16 smaller panels in total that are attached to the frame by clips. Because the individual panels themselves are small, building them all one after another doesn’t feel too repetitive.

After placing all panels into their slots, you build the “covers” on the underside of the saucer, since the dish on the underside has a smaller radius. It is the same principle as on the saucer panels, so a bit of repetition here.

Final touches are the slopes on the outside edges of the saucer. These pieces that give the Enterprise its characteristic elliptical shape when looked at from above. In addition to that you add flat silver hoses on top of the saucer; these are the phaser strips. 

The finished ship is, without a doubt, impressive – especially by means of its size and appearance. Sadly, it is not as smooth and flawless as its TV counterpart. 

While I absolutely love having an official Star Trek licensed set, I have my issues with the set – or to be precise, with the LEGO Enterprise as a model. Some of my issues might be nitpicking and some of them might be caused by the fact that I am very familiar with the source and the reference material, as I have spent a lot of time creating LEGO Star Trek MOCs, also prototyping the Enterprise D at some point. 

The following points are mainly focused on comparison between the TV Enterprise D and the LEGO version.

First and most obvious is the saucer. Sadly, it is not smooth and rounded. Depending on which angle you are looking at it, it either feels decently round or utterly boxy and full of visible edges, especially on the underside of the saucer. This is mostly caused by the octagonal frame of panels. A frame grid based on 16 instead of 8 panels would have achieved a much smoother saucer.

The upper side of it done better and conceals the octagonal panel frame better than the underside does. This is caused by the fact that the phaser strip on top helps to break the optics. Furthermore, wedge plates on the top of the panels, right behind the phaser strip, were used to create a second layer of roundness to the saucer. The underside is lacking those features. 

Overall, the whole ship – but particularly on the saucer – is missing characteristic details, such as the escape pod hatches, the phaser strips on the underside, but most of all windows. Only the rim of the dish has these, but they're missing from the upper and lower sides of the saucer as well as on the secondary hull. All these elements help to define the look of the Enterprise and give it its characteristic appearance of having black and white windows over the entire ship. They also help to elevate the craft from being just a plain grey ship (like the other big universe has).

The deflector in front of the secondary hull does not look right. On TV, the ship has two blue glowing oval shaped circles with red glowing inlays. The stripes that the LEGO set has on the windscreens is not representing the deflector itself, but the glowing light reflection from the ship's hull surrounding it. This looks to me more like the one on the USS Voyager, for instance. 

My other issue with the deflector is the way the windscreens are attached to the model: they are just added to the underside a black plate. On the finished model this looks flat, and directly captures the viewer's attention. A different colour to conceal this part would have been beneficial. 

The warp nacelles are not tapered, so they look clunky and too straight, depending on your viewing angle. Especially if you look at them full-frontal, you'll see that the bussard collectors are too small compared to the nacelles behind them. From the rear angle, the warp nacelles are looking correct.

A smaller, more debatable point is the colour of the phaser strips. While flat silver is not technically wrong, in reddish brown they would have added a bit more colour to the model. In the series – this applies also to other Starfleet ships in the universe – the phaser strips tend sometimes to be more grayish, sometimes more brownish. I prefer the latter one, because it is more visible from a distance.

Another point that had me wondering: why is dark tan used in the model? I know it is a typical LEGO strategy to make models visually more appealing, but there is no tan on the Enterprise apart from the escape pods, which are missing. I find it visually more irritating than helpful, because they make the ship look weathered.

Conclusion 

Firstly, I can’t overstate how happy I am that there are official LEGO Star Trek products now, especially with the amazing minifigures. Launching the Enterprise D as a first set and ship was an obvious but also bold choice that brings its problems. My above-mentioned points of criticism reflect that. 

The finished Enterprise looks good from some angles, but from other angles, not that great. From the rear the ship looks like its TV counterpart and is pretty true to reference. The fact that the official LEGO page for the set shows these rear perspectives almost exclusively emphasizes that in my opinion.

The cover shot selection for the box art was not the best choice in my opinion. While it tries to emulate the classic "hero" shot of the Enterprise in the series (two-thirds frontal from below; a view that allows the saucer to appear oversized and the remaining ship smaller), the LEGO Enterprise shows all or most of its flaws directly on the box – the boxy saucer; flat; and lacking details such as escape pods, Phaser strips and windows.

Contrasting this, the minifigures are great and, for me, the highlight of the set. They are lovingly created and transport the charm of the beloved characters from the series. 

The separation function is also magnificently simple, and great fun. Who better to show it to you than the set's designer?

While I will dismantle the ship and maybe use the parts to create my own Enterprise MOC, I will keep the display stand as it is.

For Star Trek fans, or just Trekkies like me, I can recommend this set, especially when you buy it on launch weekend with the paired Gift with Purchase, 40768 Star Trek Type 15 Shuttlepod™(see my review of the Shuttlepod GwP). At US$399.99/ £349.99/ 379.99€/ AU$599.99 this is certainly a big investment, but the minifigures would be enough to tip me into buying this set – since they might be expensive on the secondary market. 

I see a lot of potential for future sets and hope we will see a lot more in the coming years. There are enough Star Trek series and movies with plenty of hero ships to build, or to paraphrase Jean-Luc Picard here, the alphabet has a lot of capitals left for naming Enterprise starships. I could also envision diorama-like sets of the bridges and figure busts of various Star Trek races. Like the Vulcan philosophy, we have here “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” to build Star Trek LEGO. 

Available midnight Friday 28 November 2025

 

 

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