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Yup, Okuda says Legato did use the surviving "BoBW" models in filming the "Emissary" battle scenes. Some models had gone missing, but Okuda didn't enumerate which of them (at least the Challenger/Buran is known to have been lost, though). Apparently, there was no big effort to build all-new models: the Excelsior model to be blown up as USS Melbourne was a commercial kit, and the Miranda photographic model was slightly modified into the Saratoga, but that was pretty much it. The other stuff was filmed in whatever state it happened to be - apparently, there was no attempt made to recreate the missing model for the Challenger class, for example.
I've also asked specifically about the presence of the Tolstoy and the Gage, and I'll tell if there are any news.
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So do you mean that there were actually three versions of the Melbourne: the Miarecki Nebula study, a plastic model kit Excelsior, and the studio model of the Excelsior seen in "Emissary"?
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No, he's saying that the Excelsior seen in "Emissary" wasn't a studio model, but one of the zillions of vacuform &/or resin kits available at the time.
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Right. I guess the good old photographic model for the Excelsior from STIII/TNG was used right until the moment the beam began cutting into the ship, at which point a cheap kit was substituted. The same might have been done with some other types of kits, so that we might have seen a Miranda explosion or two, perhaps also a Galaxy, but Okuda didn't mention anything of those specifically. And the reverse, of using a cheapo kit of an intact Kyushu or Springfield before substituting the existing wreck, apparently was not done.
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Okay, that makes sense. Upon watching the episode again, I can clearly see that the Melbourne getting blown away isn't as detailed as the shots of the ship moments earlier.
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