Rebuilding it All those things were in place. "I wasĬhanging colors, adding antennas, and rebooting the lights, without (Star Trek: The Official Starshipsīecause importance was still placed on budget-saving, Rob Bonchuneĭidn't spend too much time altering the ship's CG model. "but that would have just added to what was on their plates." Sinceīonchune himself was already working on the ship's modifications, he Modelers Pierre or Koji do it," noted Bonchune, Relevant computer-generated model at Eden FX. But officially it was the Romulanĭrone and that is it." (Star Trek: The Official Starships CollectionĪfter receiving the illustration, Rob Bonchune began modifying the "John Eaves wrote 'FLEA' on itĪnd that's what it became known as. "I got a sketch of that ship as a Romulan Primarily green Romulan color scheme and with the ship's surfaceĬovered in holographic emitters. The ENT art department created a drawing of the vessel's exterior in a Trek: The Official Starships Collection issue 39, pp. Matched how it had been described in the "Babel One" script. The reuse, not only owing to the quickness of its previous appearanceīut also because it looked extremely different from the ships depictedīefore, which was important because the visual uniqueness of the ship Robert Bonchune, from Eden FX, agreed with Than six years prior, though the primary motive for recycling theĭesign was to save money. Of the chaotic space hulk could be justified because its previousĪppearance had only been a fleeting glimpse of it and had been more The design from an Eden FX catalogue of all the obscure modelsĪvailable to them for potential reuse.
This was at the behest of the ENT producers, who selected The Romulan drone ship was a reuse of the chaotic space hulk from VOY: I can't really do any better than quoting directly from the wiki article for the Drone Ship, itself drawing heavily on quotes from the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection magazine. According to Memory Alpha, the answer is that this ship has been recycled not once, but twice since its original appearance as a " ship hulk" in Voy: The Fight, making a second appearance in Voy: Natural Law (as an " unnamed Ledosian ship") and then finally in Enterprise as " Romulan Drone Ship".
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