Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection
Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection is a British partwork magazine and product line, conceived along the exact same lines as its two immediate predecessors Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection and Star Trek: Discovery The Official Starships Collection, that premiered in  and was published by Eaglemoss Collections under its Hero Collector imprint. 

The line was available to the UK, EU, and US, being marketed in a number of other countries as well. Subscriptions were available to select countries, and products were widely retailed by the company's international webshops and other retailers.

Each issue includes a sixteen-page magazine (measuring 168 × 217 mm ) and a 150 to 240 mm-long hand-painted  scaled replica of a starship from  and/or .

Also featuring vessels from  as part of its scope, this line superseded the prior Discovery Starships Collection, and was expected to grow to encompass future Star Trek projects that were concurrently in production.

Received directly from the shows' VFX teams, production-used CGI studio models were adapted for use as printable 3D miniatures (and for 2D renders in the magazines) and converted into  files by Fabio Passaro's , under the supervision of Eaglemoss' Development Manager, John Ainsworth. 

Cast in  and , a number of starship designs were reproduced here (as miniatures) for the first time by any manufacturer.

Once again, Ben Robinson was the senior manager of the project and a co-author and co-editor of the accompanying magazines, which currently bore the (sub-)titles, Star Trek: Picard The Official Starships Collection and Star Trek: Discovery The Official Starships Collection.

Gift premiums had been released to subscribers and larger Special Edition starship and figurine models were scheduled. Additionally, XL Edition models of some popular "hero ships" from the aforementioned Star Trek shows were available in the Official Starships Collection.

A number of starship profile articles from this series were also published in the second edition of the Star Trek: Shipyards - Starfleet Ships 2294 to the Future reference book.

A sister publication of the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, Star Trek: The Next Generation Build The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, and Star Trek Online Starships Collection lines, it was authorized and licensed by Paramount Consumer Products.

On , the collection came to a sudden and unexpected end, when the company was forced to cease its business activities under the UK Insolvency Act – meaning a company is no longer able to pay off its debts.  Bankruptcy was declared on .

Issues

Cancelled
The assets for the following issues were already produced and scheduled for a 2022 release,  but cancelled nonetheless due to the  bankruptcy of Eaglemoss Collections.

Special Edition Figurine issues 
March 2022, the first 'Special Edition Figurine - Spock (Ethan Peck) Figurine' of the Collection was added to the company UK and EU webstores for pre-order with a targeted release of April 2022. It is the first in the collection to have a Digital only magazine which is accessed via the QR code within the packaging. The figurines are scaled: 1:10. 

Characters from the modern Star Trek TV series Discovery, Picard, and Strange New World are part of the Special Edition Figurines.

Bonus Edition issues
On 16 November 2021, the first two "Bonus Editions" of the Collection were added to the company UK and EU webstores, after one of them debuted at Destination Star Trek London between 12-14 October 2021. It concerned two  sister vessels of the USS Zheng He, the  and the , both part of the fleet that forced the Romulans into a stand-off in , the first season finale of . Each model came with its own individual livery deco and was retailed with the same generic Inquiry-class magazine as gift issue USS Toussaint (listed below). The releases for the European webstores were limited to 200 copies each.   They were added to the US webstore on 30 November 2021 as shop exclusive limited editions.

Pin badge set 
First previewed as a forthcoming retail product through the company's US webshop in early 2021, this set is also distributed as a gift premium.

Limited Edition prints
The line's first Limited Edition print began to ship to UK subscribers in July 2021 and is limited to 850 copies. EU subscribers began to receive the print between issues 4 and 5, in an edition limited to 3500 copies. The second print was released along similar lines in November 2021, though this time around limited to 570 copies for the UK and 2500 for the EU. A third print was released on 10 March 2022.

Each 30 × 40 cm (including the border around the 19.5 × 26.5 cm image) print's artwork was created by DIS starship designer Ryan Dening, and is reproduced on 310 gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper, also including a Certificate of Authenticity.

The subscriber email announcement claims of being subscriber "exclusives", was somewhat watered down when all three prints, now called "Giclee Art Print[s]", became offered for general sale to the public at large in the company's webstores from early November 2021 onward.

Gifts
Gift premiums are dispatched to subscribers at predetermined delivery milestones during the duration of the partwork's run and vary in different territories.

Background information 

In July 2020, the company announced that its Discovery starship line and its subscriptions would be suspended after the release of issue 33, due to production delays with the third season of DIS and the resulting lack of new CG assets.

Eaglemoss further reported in October 2020 that it planned to release more starship models from DIS in a future starships line, combined with ships from Picard and Strange New Worlds,  and later indicated that the 32nd century Federation fleet from the third season of DIS would be produced.  Additionally, a number of unused Klingon starship designs from the DIS partwork may eventually be put into production. 

In February 2021, Robinson reconfirmed that the Universe line will begin with ten ships from Picard and then pivot to Discovery vessels. Robinson had yet to receive any CG assets of starships from the Strange New Worlds production but revealed that he had received four variants (two unique physical models in two distinct liveries) of the Inquiry-class starship from PIC's producers.

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Footnotes

See also
Star Trek starship miniatures
Star Trek model kits

External links
 – defunct official international webshop
 - official collector portal (still live, but no longer maintained as 6 July 2022)
 - official YouTube playlist with model turnaround videos (live, but no longer maintained)

 – unofficial fan forum
 – Star Trek Universe index
 – De Agostini Japan page

Magazines
Collectibles