The first clean rendition of the curvy Voyager came on June 16th, 1994, allowing Sternbach to continue finding the best nacelle placement, but also showed how the smoothed hull could still be accented with interesting bits of Starfleet hardware. This provided the positive and negative details that visual effects needed to give the ship, through subtle surface texture and shadowing, a convincing sense of scale. Voyager contained nearly all of the gear present in the previous angular version, only now the surface pieces hugged the hull a bit tighter. Different items were being refined every day. With the smooth hull it was finally decided that Voyager would be a one-piece ship, with no separation system.

If there was to be a landing on a planet, it would be done with the entire vessel, about the size of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Nimitz CVN-68, crunching down on alien soil. The impulse engines were moved to the trailing edges of the pylon wings, the deck 1 module was given turbolift connector tunnels and its own reaction control system thrusters. The shuttlebay at the aft end of the engineering hull retained the flat landing deck, and gained a blended cowling over the roll-up launch door. While concentrating on all of the little hardware details, Sternbach made one fundamental error that took a week to catch, the deck 8 'equator' at the base of the primary hull blithely continued on aft to become the deck 11 wing level making Voyager look oddly flat. Early in July the final nacelle movements were completed with the 45-degree wing-up angle being approved by the producers.

Pictured here is a replica of Rick Sternbach's concept for the U.S.S. Voyager. Sold Out!

Dimensions:
Length: 5-inches

Release Date: March 2019