This week’s selection is the Star Trek: The Next Generation Enterprise Observation Lounge by Alan Young.
This amazing 3D model is a scale replica of the observation lounge used in the 1987-1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation series. In this fictional room Captain Picard and crew debated strategies to overcome the issue of the week. It’s quite a familiar sight to any Trekkie.
Young has posted two other similar models on Thingiverse, both related to Star Trek. One is Captain Janeway’s office from Star Trek: Voyager, and the other is the famous Ten-Forward lounge from the Enterprise.
The Observation Lounge model is designed to become a diorama, with the ability to place relevant Star Trek action figures. According to Young, it’s possible to scale the parts up or down to make the diorama fit different brands of action figures.
This definitely not a single part; instead it’s an assembly of over thirty 3D printed parts. That means it will take a bit of time to print the parts, let alone assemble and paint them.
In coming weeks we will see the end of this generation of Star Trek, as the Star Trek: Picard series concludes. During this season, Picard has brought back the characters from the original Star Trek: The Next Generation into the plot, and last week’s episode had them gathered around the observation lounge table for the first and possibly last time since 1994.
Just like this 3D model.
In celebration of the end of new episodes for these iconic characters, it’s fitting that the Star Trek Observation Lounge is today’s Design of the Week.
Via Thingiverse
