This fold caused the ship's crews to sing after an improbability field emanated from it, which the Klingons found to be dishonorable. The K't'inga-class cruiser was considered one of the most powerful warships in the Klingon Defense Forces, having entered service in or around 2259, when three ships were sent to destroy a naturally occurring subspace fold. Still, for the five bucks I paid for this toy, it’s an interesting little curiosity for my Star Trek collection.General Garkog's K't'inga-class battle cruiser in 2259 The ship itself is goofy looking and the playset isn’t going to impress anyone. I like to use Worf in the Shuttlecraft and the Gowron figure makes a nice standard Klingon flunky. I’d probably rank the Bird of Prey just a little higher than the Warbird, but mainly because of the minifigures. There’s a sticker on the back wall to create the illusion that the bridge is bigger and there are more Klingons on it. Yeah, it still kind of looks like the captain is driving a car, but these toys really do require a lot of imagination and forgiveness to work. The open flaps turn into crew stations and there’s a central captain’s chair and a little viewscreen that you can rotate to show different views. Once again, it’s tough to cram a whole bridge into this little space, but I think the Bird of Prey pulls it off better than the Romulan Warbird’s two-seater roadster configuration. Opening up the playset compartment and the Bird of Prey does a little better. It serves its purpose, but it only adds to the toy’s aesthetic problems. The Bird of Prey also has a flip down stand to keep it from toppling over. There’s a lot better paintwork on this ship than the Warbird. The coloring is pretty good too, with the hull being properly screen accurate green, the wings painted in, and the engines silver. If this thing was properly proportioned it would have looked really bad ass. Obviously, Playmates had to do this to create enough space for the playset compartment, but knowing that doesn’t make the ship look any less like it could be Playskool’s “My First Bird of Prey.” It’s a real shame too, because a lot of care went into the sculpt, particularly all the panel lines on the wings and the details in the engines. Its proportions are seriously askew, so the body is too big for the wings and the bridge. Unfortunately, as a little toy ship, the Bird of Prey doesn’t fare so well. Gowron has a little disruptor sculpted into his hand and both figures are articulated at the hips so they can sit down or stand up. The paint and sculpts are good enough so you know exactly who they’re supposed to be. The minifigures are Worf and Gowron and both are pretty impressive for such ridiculously tiny little guys.

The back panel shows photos of all the toys little features and has some trivia about the ship’s fictional specifications as well as its appearances in the various Star Trek media. The toy comes on a simple card and bubble with one flap open so you can peek inside and see what’s going on, and the two minifigures are beside it. It’s the same packaging we’ve seen for the last two weeks. If you’re keeping score, the Shuttlecraft Goddard was a pretty cool little toy all around, the Romulan Warbird looked pretty good as a ship and was kind of iffy as a playset, so let’s see how the Bird of Prey turns out… This time we’re looking at the Klingon Bird of Prey. By now I’ve probably devoted more attention to these little ships then they deserve, but when I went fishing into one of my Star Trek Totes, I pulled out three of these and I wanted to open all of them, so we might as well finish up the three. I promise, this will be the last time we look at Innerspace on Star Trek Saturday for a little while.

Klingon bird of prey paint color