Very cool and very detailed, nice lighting once again. Ever since Playmates announced this thing back in the day (and then backed off those plans quite quickly) I wondered how they would have handled detail and scaling issues.
By the way, if you ever think of switching materials, there are soft plastics out there that can be cut with heavy-duty wirecutter-type scissors. They're just a few microns thicker than credit cards, basically and they can be superglued and painted. Even plastics of that thickness can be cut with regular scissors, with some effort, but if you have heavy-duty scissors that'll cut through metal sheeting you're set.
I'm not surprised Playmates didn't produce it for a variety of reasons: the transporter playset was quite poorly received and Playmates complained about having tens of thousands of unsold playsets in their warehouse, plus the price & shelf space would have made this difficult for stores to justify. All the retailers at the time wanted peggable items so stuff like the bridge playset, (something like 80 percent of all trek stuff was bought by collectors) was an extravagance for stores to actually stock.
I think if they had produced Ops it would have been awfully scaled down, like the bridge, and the thing would have been like at least $45.00 in stores. Adjusted for inflation to 2018, that's basically unbuyable unless you're a scalper or an adult. But hey, Kenner had electronic AT-ATs that were priced at, like, $79.00 new in the late 90s?