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The eight-foot refit model

The studio models that represented the Constitution-class USS Enterprise were slated to be modernized and redesigned after the production of Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Animated Series. Starting out with traditional physical studio models, digital versions were also used to represent ships of this class in the Star Trek franchise.

Ralph McQuarrie, best known to the public for his stunning production designs for the Star Wars films, was hired by Ken Adam to help develop the designs for the new Star Trek: Planet of the Titans movie, ultimately abandoned to make way for Star Trek: Phase II, the new television series. Although the design used the same elements as the original design, saucer shaped primary hull, warp engine assemblies and a engineering secondary hull, the secondary hull was flattened and wedge shaped, providing a radically different look, one not unlike the Star Destroyers McQuarrie designed for those films.

Their Enterprise design, however, was abandoned, and Roddenberry asked Matt Jefferies to update the famous starship to reflect the refit that would be part of the Phase II-series' back story. During June 1977, Jefferies' re-designed the engine nacelles from tubes to thin, flat-sided modules, and tapered their supports. He also added the distinctive photon torpedo launch ports on the saucer connector.

Did You Know that the Whorfin-class ships, SS Lakul and SS Robert Fox, were the first fully computer-generated ships to appear in a Star Trek movie or series?

Today in Trek history Today is Friday 19 Apr 2024 1919 Sol Kaplan is born. 1930 Rhodes Reason is born. 1935 Herman Zimmerman is born. 1937 Elinor Donahue is born. 1939 Star Shulman is born. 1946 Mary Jo Slater is born. 1948 Thomas Knickerbocker is born. 1954 V.E. Mitchell and Tony Plana are born. 1959 Paul Nakauchi is born. 1960 Robert Tyler is born. 1961 Jimmy Romano is born. 1962 Andrea Dopaso is born. 1963 Tim Ransom is born. 1965 Tad Atkinson is born. 1967 First script draft for TOS: "Metamorphosis" is submitted. 1968 Story outline for TOS: "Spectre of the Gun", titled "The Last Gunfight", is re-dated to this date. Ashley Judd is born. 1969 The Third UK Story Arc concludes in Joe 90: Top Secret #14 with the fourth of four installments. 1980 Charles Seel dies. 1981 Lisa Michelle Cornelius is born. 1988 The score for TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris" is recorded at Paramount Stage M, conducted by Ron Jones. 1989 Sixth day of filming on TNG: "The Emissary". 1991 Fourth day of filming on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. 1993 Eighth day of filming on DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets". Sixth day of filming on TNG: "Descent". 1994 Sixteenth day of filming on Star Trek Generations. Fourth day of filming on DS9: "The Jem'Hadar". 1995 Seventh day of filming on DS9: "The Adversary". 1996 Tenth day of filming on Star Trek: First Contact. 1999 Sixteenth day of filming on DS9: "What You Leave Behind". 2000 VOY: "Live Fast and Prosper" airs. 2001 George F. Slavin dies. 2012 Seventieth day of filming on Star Trek Into Darkness. 2016 Virginia Kearns dies. 2017 Brett Davidson and Janet Stout die. Unspecified year Kathryn Lyn is born.	Production timeline Timeline Calendar
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