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Looking at that second pic, where the ship and station are right-side up, I could swear that it's a New Orleans. If you look at the starboard nacelle (left on pic) -- you notice that there seems to be the bussard collector, and something else between the nacelle and the docking pylon. I think it's one of the weapons pods!
Furthermore, the nacelle pylon that we can see reminds me a lot of the New Orleans pylon from that Kyushu model. It sure ain't a Galaxy pylon... it's too sharp at the angle, where it should be more curved.
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Excellent work, Mike. Might also want to consider marking in the sliver of secondary hull under the nacelle struts, too, another tell-tale New Orleansism. There also could be a Stabilo-marker-pod on the starboard side... just below the starboard nacelle there's a bright strip that seems a little too out-of-place to be the starboard strut.
The evidence certainly seems to be building, guys.
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Oh, and the DS9 station model is 6 feet in diameter, IIRC. That would make this ship, what, 2 feet long? A little less, perhaps?
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You know...Okuda might be a good person to ask about all of this...
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I dunno... I imagine this could be news to Mike, as if there was a second New Orleans model he probably would have mentioned it before. Someone really needs to send a gift basket to Rob Legato.
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Spaceship models were rarely filmed together with the station, because they tend to be out of scale with DS9, which is six feet wide. The VFX people would film the station and the ship separately, then combine the two elements into a single sequence.
However, when filming DS9, they did attach rough mockups of the ship (usually a piece of white plastic/whatever that only vaguely resembles the starship in question). These are to scale with the station, and serve as reference for where the starship element will go. They are edited out in the end.
The man with a mustache and t-shirt looks like VFX supervisor Gary Hutzel, so this is probably later than "Emissary", where Robert Legato was supervising.
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Aw! A historic revelation on the history of Star Trek ships! It looks pretty darn close to the New Orleans... But what was a New Orleans doing docked at DS9? Did they need a ship for the photo, and took a model lying around from the cut Wolf 359 scenes and put it up there? Or was another scene cut that had this shp docking and offloading supplies? Plus, if it were the Ent-D model, why wouldn't it be very detailed?
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