Borg

"In their collective state, the Borg are utterly without mercy, driven on by will alone; the will to conquer. They are beyond redemption, beyond reason"

- Jean Luc Picard

Yup, you got to love them Star Trek cyborgs known as the Borg, from their contributions to pop culture with the oft-repeated line: "Resistance is Futile", and of course Jeri Ryan, not forgetting their role in making later day Trek series (especially The Next Generation and Voyager) a whole lot more interesting.

Public enemy number 1 (at least in Star Trek), also happens to be my favourite sci-fi race/faction, and having said that, I managed to successfully bid on Ebay for a Borg Cube model produced by Furuta and it arrived Tuesday afternoon.


Part of Furuta's Star Trek Federation Ships and Alien Ships Collection Volume 3: Beta, the Borg Cube is the fourth addition to my collection, which currently consists of the USS Grissom, the Excelsior and Spock, all three are from the Alpha set.

USS Excelsior - Figurine Review

I remember seeing the USS Excelsior (NCC-2000) for the first time in the movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and at that time, I thought it looked better than the Enterprise-A. The Enterprise-B shown in the movie Star Trek: Generations is also an Excelsior class star ship but it pales in comparison to the Enterprise-D.

Nevertheless, the Excelsior makes for a pretty fine figurine. Produced under license from Paramount Pictures by Furuta under its "Federation Ships & Alien Ships Collection Alpha", it is one part of a set of five. This collection includes the Shuttlecraft Galileo, the USS Grissom, the Phoenix (Star Trek First Contact) and a head bust of Spock.

Back to the figurine itself, its pretty detailed, and you can see the ship's numbers on the end of each nacelle, and the ship's numbers on the saucer dish. This sort of micro text is pretty amazing and the stand and metal plaque rounds up this particular figurine.