| rdfs:comment | - Ed Miarecki designed and built two Nebula-class vessels to appear in the debris field of the "The Best of Both Worlds"-episode. Okuda remembered, "Nebula-class USS Melbourne. The original version of the Nebula. Ed made us two nearly-identical Melbourne models. I destroyed one of them to create a battle-damaged ship for BOBW2. (I recall being up in the art department one evening, Dremel tool in hand, cutting up the ship, while Patrick Stewart, in Borg costume, came upstairs to use the Xerox machine. He asked me what I was doing. I showed him the model and said something like, "See what you did!") Rick Sternbach helped with the battle damage, too. And Greg Jein contributed quite a bit of wreckage as well. The other Nebula model ended up on one of the side tables in Sisko's office in DS9. I t
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| abstract | - Ed Miarecki designed and built two Nebula-class vessels to appear in the debris field of the "The Best of Both Worlds"-episode. Okuda remembered, "Nebula-class USS Melbourne. The original version of the Nebula. Ed made us two nearly-identical Melbourne models. I destroyed one of them to create a battle-damaged ship for BOBW2. (I recall being up in the art department one evening, Dremel tool in hand, cutting up the ship, while Patrick Stewart, in Borg costume, came upstairs to use the Xerox machine. He asked me what I was doing. I showed him the model and said something like, "See what you did!") Rick Sternbach helped with the battle damage, too. And Greg Jein contributed quite a bit of wreckage as well. The other Nebula model ended up on one of the side tables in Sisko's office in DS9. I think it was labeled "Melbourne," too." [2] The models, built from parts of Galaxy-class AMT Star Trek model kits, No's 6618 and 6619, differed from its later definitive appearance in that they sported two smaller warp nacelles where the sensor pod was to be positioned and that the secondary hull was more elongated. Captain Benjamin Sisko's desk top model (having made two early appearances as desktop model in TNG: "Future Imperfect" , "The Wounded" ), representing the destroyed Melbourne was retrofitted with the redesigned sensor pod after its first few appearances in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. For "Emissary" , the producers decided to use the more detailed Excelsior-class studio model to represent the USS Melbourne, thus robbing the proto-Nebula from its name and registry. Stock footage of the now nameless distressed model is present in the episode (seen in the window of Benjamin Sisko's escape pod, just as it leaves the doomed USS Saratoga), making it the only studio model, besides the original Borg cube model, to appear in both depictions of the Battle of Wolf 359 and its aftermath. Aside from the two Wolf 359 appearances, the footage of Miarecki's former Melbourne wreck model was reused to represent another wreck at the Surplus Depot Z15 in the 1991 The Next Generation fifth season episode, "Unification II" .
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