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On the bottom of the box there is a short narrative of the Romulan ship depicted by the kit and the Star Trek episode in which it debuted. There is colorful artwork and printing on all five sides of both the top and the bottom of the box. Since Round2/Polar Lights began re-releasing the original AMT Star Trek kits and pressing forward with new kits, the packaging has been part of the experience.
Romulan bird of prey series#
I would like to thank Round2/Polar Lights for releasing this great, newly designed Romulan Bird-of-Prey (BoP) kit in The Original Series (ToS), Star Trek genre and for providing this kit to IPMS USA for review. Round2/Polar Lights has introduced a new kit of this mysterious Romulan ship in 1/1000 scale to go along with their line of other Star Trek kits in the same scale. Once the weapons fired, the great bird of prey disappeared again leaving only the image of a predatory bird that could attack and then retreat into the darkness. When the ship became visible, the image of a great orange bird of prey could be seen on the lower hull of the ship. Because of the power required by the plasma weapon however, the ship had to un-cloak before they could fire. The enemy ship could electronically cloak itself from sensors and from being visibly seen. In one particular episode “The Balance of Terror”, the crew of the Enterprise was forced to respond to attacks on Federation outposts along the Romulan neutral zone, made by a new and unseen enemy with sophisticated, as yet unknown weaponry. Suffice it to say, that TV show, while great science fiction on the surface, hit all of the major political topics of the time including the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The original Star Trek TV series, in the 1960s, set the stage for TV science fiction drama in many, many ways - too many to go into here.