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I never liked the Enterprise D. The main saucer was always too big and the engines too small for me. On top of that, the inside looked too much like a resort. I know the ship was designed to carry families, blah, blah, blah. Hey, Kirk would never take that crap! The ship was designed to whup alien butt, not to be used for a 'little training cruise'... funny how it always works that way. When the Enterprise E premiered in 'First Contact,' I swooned. Finally, a sleek, nasty, powerful ship that was a monster!(At lteast, that's what we're lead to believe from seeing the E-E swoop past the Defiant in the opening battle sequence.) Naturally, Playmates created a large version of the ship to go with the movie toy line. Although the ship was ok, it could have been so much better.
What I love about the piece are the scale and the stand. The ship is larger then the Enterprise D toy, as it should, and comes with a neat stand that holds the ship at a cool angle for display. One thing I would improve is the sound chip on the ship. Like the other Playmate Star Trek ships, there are sound effects; an annoying red-alert alarm, a gargly impulse engine sound, and the sound of the ship cloaking. ...CLOAKING???!??!!! Ummmm...oh well, we'll let that slide. Why not replace the impluse sound with the roar of the engines going into warp? I've always loved that 'whooooooooosh CRASH' effect. And let's replace the red-alert siren with the sound of phaser fire and photon torpedoes launching. Next, since we've got all these electronics in the ship already, how about putting in some additional lighting effects, such as the engines and navigational deflector. and maybe lights for phaser strips and photon torpedo tubes which light when the weapons fire. Finally, let's add moving shuttle-bay doors with removable, miniature shuttles.
Ah... now THAT'S an Enterpirse Capt Picard would be proud of.