LEGO the final frontier. This is an amazing replica of the original U.S.S. Enterprise in LEGO. It is even more amazing when you consider that it was built so that all of the little studs are not visible. It was created by LEGO wizard and Star Trek fan Chris Melby.
He used 18,000 LEGO bricks and worked on it for 8 months. It measures over five feet long and these images just blow me away. Too bad we don’t have any official LEGO Star Trek sets.
Etsy seller Nerdscapes is all about just that. Nerdscapes. The seller takes thrift store art and modifies each piece into nerd works of art that never existed before, but that we all want to own and admire.
The Blue Boy and Pink Lady paintings become a Sandperson and Admiral Ackbar. How about AT-ATs in the Alps? The TARDIS and Daleks in a landscape? A painting of the original Star Trek Crew, with Wesley Crusher dreaming that he is Kirk? There’s something for everyone here and it is all fun. Even Firefly in the old west.
The original miniature model of the USS Enterprise is a national treasure as far as I’m concerned. It is now being readied for display in its new home in the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
It is currently at the Udvar-Hazy Center, where it is being looked over by the restoration team to see what needs to be done. They are looking at how well it has held up, how well past restoration has fared and generally scrutinizing her. Recently the Center had an open day, where people could check out the Enterprise model and so we have some cool images like the ones seen here. After all of these years, she remains a beautiful ship.
Etsy seller Bricknut has some fun and cool LEGO Star Trek figures, just in case you have a LEGO Enterprise bridge that needs to be manned. You can get Riker,Worf, Geordi LaForge and Captain Picard. They are pretty unique and would look great on any geek shelf.
Do yourself a favor and check out his other LEGO figures while you are there. The seller also has several Marvel and DC characters. Hopefully they will add more, because I would love to see what he can do with Doctor Who characters.
If the ancient Egyptians worshiped Comic Book characters and Sc-Fi icons the way we do, this is exactly what their tombs would look like. Illustrator Josh Ln created this series of geeky hieroglyph style art and very appropriately calls it “Hero-glyphics”.
Best of all, you don’t need to be an Indiana Jones type to decipher them. I mean it’s pretty obvious that Han shot first and that Kirk battled the Gorn. If you like what you see, you can even buy prints from his Society6 store.
You don’t see too many quality Star Trek items for the kitchen, but Etsy seller BlueFireEngraving offers a really cool cutting board and some coaster sets. The coaster sets feature images of the history of the USS Enterprise. They are made of bamboo and you get 6 coasters.
The cutting board also shows the history of our favorite starship. Just don’t get too absorbed in the various Enterprise ships while you are chopping vegetables. You don’t want to cut yourself.
These fun and retro minimalist posters come from Reddit user Noble-6, who wanted to feature the prominent captains with each of their ships. They are pretty awesome, no? Well, you can actually buy them here.
They would look great all together on one wall. Awesome stuff.
Star Trek The Next Generation’s Data was on a constant quest to discover what it means to be human. His attempts at humor never quite hit the mark, but he was more human than he knew. Cosplayer Critical Miss celebrates the android in this fun cosplay.
“I recently attended a Nerdlesque show and was supposed to perform a song, however I came down with a cold and was not able to sing. I still went and of course, needed to do a costume. I was actually supposed to do my song as original Data, and decided to make a gender bend to go to the show. I was quite pleased with the results of how the makeup turned out. This will definitely be a costume I break out again. I also love the emotion chip is working picture.”
Yep. That emotion chip sure is working. It looks like Data has found a friend in that Pinball machine.
Photographer-Pose4Effect Photography
via Geek x Girls
Ask anybody what their favorite original Star Trek episode is and 9 out of 10 people will answer, “Mirror, Mirror”. It is an amazing episode that turns everything on it’s head, taking Kirk and crew to a parallel universe. This cosplay based on the classic episode comes from Thunderfairy and we love it. Photography by Phenrriz Fotografia.
She stars as a crew member from that parallel universe and even gets to hang out with bearded Spock. Well done! This is some nice eye candy. Of course I’ve always been partial to that colorful bridge set.
This ongoing LEGO chibi micro contest is fun. Not to mention all kinds of cute and creative. Below are just some of the neat Sci-Fi vehicles that LEGO fanatics have created in chibi style. These are all done in micro scale. Some of the entries get really creative.
I’m always impressed at what people can make with LEGO. You’ll see several famous vehicles that you recognize from TV and movies, just much much smaller and much much cuter. I especially like that Landspeeder.
