EMvTW 126: USS Princeton NCC-59804 (Niagara class)

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The U.S. Eaglemoss webstore was a bit of a P.I.T.A. over the last two months.  While I admit that I have been extremely busy since my last review (of Alice) back at the end of June, what with being let go from a 19 year old job, moving to a new temporary apartment (for the next year), and setting my son up in a new school district because he all of a sudden decided to come live with me full time... <HEAVY SIGH> ...I still would have gotten some new stuff written, had it actually been available.

While this next model was available on time last month, it's partner model, the Eymorg Starship was MIA until sometime early last week.  What finally did me in was when the webstore released the next two issues, for August, as well as the Voyager Concept, but STILL did not have he Eymorg ship.  I am not a patient man, and eventually bit he bullet and bought that missing model on eBay for an extra $10, as well as caught up with the other ships through the Eaglemoss' site.  Surprise, surprise, no magazines came with the Voyager model, and much to my dismay, no magazines with this month's models (Tholian Webspinner (23rd Century) and OV-165)?  But wait!  There;'s more!  Apparently, as of early this week, you can now also get next month's models too.  I ordered them and will be very annoyed if they are missing magazines as well.

I go on that little side-track to simply say that this month will be a treat as it appears that I will be bringing you a total of SEVEN reviews, practically back-to-back.

Anyway... enough of my ranting... let us take a look a the first of this next batch of reviews, the USS Princeton (NCC-59804), a Niagara class starship.

We are first introduced to this type of starship via a partial glimpse in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode called "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II".

Ravenclaw Class

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What do you get when you mash up a 23 century Romulan ship with a 23rd century Klingon ship?

I saw a very similar design in a model builder's FaceBook group, and HAD to try my hand at it.

U-34 Cricket Class Prototype

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The U-34 Cricket Prototype was an experimental precursor to the 23rd Century Romulan Bird Of Prey.

Only two of these style of ships were known to be built.  One of them was re-purposed and converted into a tramp cargo ship.  The second ship was presumed lost but was later discovered in a boneyard and was salvaged and rebuilt to original specifications.

EMvTW 125: Alice

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The second model released by Eaglemoss this month was a little ship named Alice.

We are introduced to this little ship in the Star Trek: Voyager episode called "Alice".

EMvTW 124: SS Emmette (Emmette Type or Ganges Class)

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A new month is upon us and it brings with it two more Eaglemoss models for review.  The first of these models is the SS Emmette.  The Emmette was shown to us during the opening credits of the Star Trek: Enterprise series.

My collection of this ship is rather small and only consists of the Eaglemoss model and a wanna-be MicroMachine variant.

EMvTW Special 13: Klingon Battle Cruiser (AKA Warbird Class)

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I pre-ordered the next special and it apparently has come in the mail already.  Which means that this issue of Eaglemoss vs. The World is going to talk about Special # 13, the Klingon Warbird from the alternate universe.

While this type of ship is first mentioned in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode called "Broken Bow", we don't actually get to see one in action until the movie Star Trek (2009).  In fact, we only get to see these ships during the Kobayashi Maru scenario when Kirk cheats his way to a victory of the "No Win Scenario".

EMvTW 123: Romulan Science Vessel

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Next in line for this month's batch of reviews for Eaglemoss vs. The World is yet another kitbash.  Issue number twenty-three is the Romulan Science Vessel.

We are first introduced to this ship in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode called "The Next Phase".