" The VFX guys always wanted deep shadows and detail lines to help make the ship look authentic on screen," said Eaves. The use of modern visual effects meant the updated design would not have worked with the smooth hull style from its TOS predecessor, anyway. This was key to him modifying the ship, as it made the design appear slightly older, though also dynamic. Next, John Eaves opted to add further segregation to the parts of the hull, segmenting them where one section could be seen joining another. " I followed his lines a little bit." ( Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 27, p.
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10) " I didn't want to veer too far from it, but I wanted to do a phase prior to The Original Series version," reflected Eaves. ( Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 27, p. He knew the Bird-of-Prey he was designing for Enterprise needed to pay homage to Chang's equivalent. Remembered Eaves, " Immediately the consensus was to retro-out Wah Chang's original design for our episode." One reason why Eaves was a suitable candidate to assume this task was that he was very familiar with the history of Star Trek design. Eaves took his cue from the earlier-depicted, 23rd century version of the Romulan Bird-of-Prey, which had been designed by Wah Chang and featured in Star Trek: The Original Series. He was hugely excited to be presented with the opportunity of designing a new starship for such a long-established alien race as the Romulans. The responsibility of designing this style of Romulan Bird-of-Prey, the first new Romulan ship to appear on Star Trek: Enterprise, was given to Concept Artist John Eaves. In the script of "Minefield", this type of ship was described as "a spooky-looking craft, there's something bird-like about its design (we will later learn that this is a Romulan vessel of the era)." A subsequent description in the same teleplay referred to the ship as an "ominous-looking craft." ( ENT: " Minefield")Īppendices Background information When Enterprise subsequently went to warp, the two remaining Romulan ships did not pursue. Enterprise eventually left the system after retrieving Captain Archer and armory officer Lieutenant Reed, following detonation of a cloaked Romulan mine safely away from Enterprise. Later, two more of these ships decloaked and ordered Enterprise to detach its hull plating or be destroyed. Although Enterprise's quantum beacons proved successful in penetrating the mines' cloaks, they were useless against the more advanced cloaking devices used by the Birds-of-Prey. To prove the Romulans' point, the Bird-of-Prey fired two warning shots at the Starfleet vessel, and Enterprise commanding officer Jonathan Archer ordered helmsman Travis Mayweather to activate Enterprise's quantum beacons to avoid hitting any of the cloaked mines. The Romulan commander hailed (on audio only) and ordered the Enterprise crew to leave or be destroyed, though Enterprise's translator failed to lock onto the Romulan language. A vessel of this class decloaked and approached Enterprise, as it had unknowingly trespassed into Romulan space.
Vessels of this configuration were first encountered by Starfleet in 2152, when the United Earth starship Enterprise NX-01 inadvertently encroached upon a Romulan-claimed star system, which was protected by a field of cloaked mines.
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