Micro bad guys

In the Star Trek universe, pretty much anyone who hasn't joined the United Federation of Planets is a bad guy. (Sound familiar?)

Here are Lego Hacker's "micro" versions of some of Star Trek's most notorious bad guys. In one image, a Klingon Bird of Prey circles the Ty'Gokor orbital station. In another, a slew of Jem'Hadar warships emerges from the wormhole outside the starbase known as Deep Space Nine / Terok Nor, while Cardassian Galor and Keldon class starships patrol nearby.

The design constraint of conveying a structure's essence with a minimum number of bricks can inspire inventive ways to re-use Lego pieces. For example, Lego Hacker bent two pieces from the bow of a Viking ballista to make the circular habitat ring of Deep Space Nine.

Micro starbases

In these scenes of Federation starbases from the Star Trek universe, Lego Hacker set himself the challenge of conveying recognizable structures with the fewest possible bricks.

Some of these "micros" are made with only three or four pieces.

Shown here are Miranda, Freedom, Akira, Excelsior, and Constitution refit ships surrounding Starbase 357, Jupiter Station, and the Utopia Planitia shipyards above the Martian surface.

We have engaged the (mini)Borg

Here the challenge was to re-create familiar starships from the Lego universe at a small scale.
In this view a Galaxy and Sovereign class face off against a Borg cube.

Lego Star Trek: Sabre Class starship

This Lego version of an esoteric Star Trek vessel called the Sabre Class is not an act of creative misuse per se, but a custom build based on Star Trek schematics and renderings.

Juxtaposed here is the Lego model along with official images of the original ship. Of course, the Lego version is taller, so you can fit minifigures inside.

Lego Hacker made this at age 11, and his sister helped with the rendering in Photoshop.

Engines and broccoli

Don't forget to eat your vegetables when you're done working on that engine!

Note how the diagonal parts of the engine's "belt" shouldn't fit together, but do.

Lego horse hacks

A half-dozen horses become a single hydra-horse, thanks to filling the gaps meant to be occupied by a rider with a long connector brick.

Armored equine helmets, meanwhile, can be attached to create colorful pentagonal sea creatures.

Fire spiral

Plenty of Lego sets include these flickering tongues of flame, but they are never combined together to make a larger structure.

To make this fire spiral at age six, Lego Hacker noticed that the tiny plugs at the base of each flame--perhaps leftover flashing from the molds in which the flames were cast--just happen to fit snugly between two of the flame's curved jags.


Click enough of these together in this way and you have a blazing spiral that can protect or confound Lego beings.