In the 1st series release, the USS Enterprise, Klingon Battlecruiser and Romulan Bird of Prey were together in a single pack. In the 2nd series release, new vehicles were introduced, but instead of they themselves being in a new single pack, new and previously released vehicles were packed together, apparently a business ploy by Galoob, expecting to grab more money from its customers now that they have to buy both collections to get the new vehicles, when they already have some of the previously released vehicles. Naturally, this caused much discontent among collectors. The same thing happened for the Movies Collections and TNG Collections.
Originally, the Klingon BoP, USS Reliant and USS Excelsior comprised of a single pack in the 1st series release. As in the case of the TOS Collections, new vehicles were packed with previously released vehicles for the 2nd series release. IMHO, Galoob should have packed the new vehicles all by themselves, so that collectors don't have to spend money to buy the same vehicles again in order to get the new ones. When the USS Excelsior was first released, its decal read "NX-2000", as seen in Star Trek III. This apparently lead to a dispute between Galoob and Paramount, resulting in the relabelling of the decal to "NCC-2000", as seen in Star Trek VI. The "NX-2000" variant is now an ultra-rare item.Collections 9 and 11 also belong to the Movies Collections.
In the 1st series release, the TNG pack only included the Klingon Vor'cha Attack Cruiser, Borg Ship and Romulan Warbird. Six new vehicles were introduced for the 2nd series release, but as expected, Galoob maximised its opportunity to grab more money from its customers by arranging the collection packs such that each pack has one of the above three vehicles and two other new vehicles.
The actual USS Enterprise-C vehicle has silver gloss on the warp nacelles and on the bridge, not the light blue gloss you see in this picture.
In the picture, the decals on USS Stargazer reads "NCC-7100", instead of the decals on the actual model, "NCC-2893". It is not understood why the USS Stargazer follows the same yellow finish for the USS Stargazer model in Capt. Picard's ready room, when the starship was seen to have the same grey finish as any other Federation starship on the show.
The DS9 Collections consist of Collection 8, 10, 12 and 15. Galoob must have realised that its policy of packing new and previously released vehicles together was upsetting many of its customers. So from Collection 9 onwards, new vehicles were packed all by themselves. No more mixing.
Collection 9 is a special pack for the movie Star Trek Generations. It has the USS Enterprise-B, USS Enterprise-D (with detachable saucer section), and another Klingon BoP, this version of BoP having a different colour scheme from that of Collection 3.
Collection 11 consists of the Space Dock Shuttle, HMS Bounty Klingon BoP, and USS Farragut. The HMS Bounty is yet another Klingon BoP, but it is said to have movable wings which can flip up. The decals on the USS Farragut reads "NCC-60597", although the starship is listed as "NCC-60591" in The Star Trek Encyclopedia. The actual number could barely be seen in the movie itself.
Unfortunately, Galoob has discontinued its run of Star Trek vehicles. If not, one would have expected new collections of vehicles from future Star Trek movies, like the Son'a warships from Star Trek Insurrection, or even the Scimitar, new Romulan Warbirds, and the Argo from Star Trek Nemesis. When it was announced that the USS Enterprise-E would be released together with the Limited Edition Collector's Set 3, I had thought that models of the Borg Sphere or even the Phoenix would also be produced. However, this did not happen at all.
The VOY Collections consist of Collections 13, 14 and 16. Collections 15 and 16 were the last Star Trek packs produced by Galoob. Either by coincidence or design, Galoob ended its run of Star Trek vehicles at around the same time when the Kazons were being written off VOY. The Kazons were originally intended to be the main adversaries faced by the crew of the USS Voyager as they travelled towards home through the Delta Quadrant. Unfortunately, they proved to be nothing more than irritating space aliens who never caught the fans' imagination.
The fact that the VOY Collections featured no less than four Kazon vehicles shows that Galoob probably had an idea of the original storyline that VOY was supposed to be taking, presumably from meetings with Paramount executives. However, with the end of the Star Trek MicroMachines run, many later adversaries from VOY never got the chance to be materialized as MicroMachines models. These include the Species 8472 Bioship, USS Equinox, Krenim Temporal Ship, and even the faux-USS Dauntless.
Okay, the latter half of the VOY series showcased encounters with Species 8472, the Hirogen, as well as with the Borg. But the Borg only had cubes and spheres, and even the asymmetrical Borg ship from TNG has been generally disregarded. And if they are not going to make the sphere, we pretty much have the cube already!...
