Note too the smoothing off of what would have been the Captain's Yacht on the Enterprise-D right at the centre of the saucer. You can just make out that inlaid plastic section which is boundaried by the ventral phaser bank and the ship name is omitted with only the NCC- number in place as per most (if not all) Starfleet ships. I get it and at least the phaser strips are in place.įlip this one over and for a second you're not sure if it's the same on both sides but fear not, the belly of the ship is instantly distinguishable with the rows of escape pods littering the sides of the pill-shaped secondary hull and also across a good proportion of the saucer. The one thing that is missing from the back though - and in the magazine - is the tiny registry across the very narrow rear edge. The warp engines do feature translucent blue engine grilles and crimson bussard collectors to give that more realistic feel to the ship and with this affording the larger scale it is something that could not be avoided painting them on would have looked shoddy.