Highlights
- Starfield players are using the game's ship crafting feature to recreate iconic spaceships from popular sci-fi franchises like Star Trek.
- A Reddit user named willhamlink has recently created a faithful replica of the original USS Enterprise from Star Trek in Starfield, using a mod to capture its signature design.
- Starfield owes much of its existence to the Star Trek franchise, and players are constantly showcasing impressive renditions of famous spacecraft from various worlds of gaming, television, and film using the game's ship crafting suite.
A talented Starfield player is boldly going where no one has gone before in a replica of the legendary USS Enterprise from Star Trek. Starfield allows players to build their own custom spaceships to explore a vast universe filled with procedurally generated planets. This in turn has led to players remaking vessels from popular sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and sharing them on forums and other social media outlets since Starfield launched on PC and Xbox Series X/S systems in September.
It should come as no surprise that Starfield players have drawn inspiration from Star Trek as well since the long-running science fiction series reportedly served as a major inspiration for Bethesda while crafting the game’s look and feel. Fan-made tributes to Star Trek have ranged from direct recreations of iconic ships like the dreaded Borg Cube to more original craft modeled after various ships from the many movies and television shows, and it would only be a matter of time before someone decided to remake the most famous vessel to ever explore the final frontier of space.
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Reddit user willhamlink recently posted a series of screenshots showing their latest creation in action: a replica of the original USS Enterprise from Star Trek. Everything about the classic Starfleet flagship is faithfully recreated, from the disklike saucer that houses the Enterprise’s many crewmembers and their families to the glowing blue thrusters that propel it across the stars at warp speed. Willhamlink noted that they had to use a mod to help capture the Enterprise’s signature design, but other users have praised them for their work all the same.
The original USS Enterprise and its various replacements are among the most iconic spaceships of not only Star Trek but the science fiction genre as a whole. It was the primary focus of both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and fans have been able to take command of the vessel once helmed by such legends as James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard in several video games over the years. Others still have used creation tools in titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and No Man’s Sky to bring the Enterprise to life.
Now the USS Enterprise is taking flight in Starfield, a title that arguably owes much of its own existence to the Star Trek franchise the great flagship hails from. Like the far reaches of space itself, the possibilities brought on by Starfield’s ship crafting suite appear endless, with imaginative players like willhamlink constantly showing off near-perfect renditions of famous spacecraft from across the worlds of gaming, television, and film.
Starfield is available on PC and Xbox Series X/S.