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| - As was with his design for Ru'afo's flagship model, the design for the battle cruiser was inspired upon on "(...)activity games I found out in the backyard. I wanted to give a whole different kind of look to their architecture, so I kind of went with yard toys - Ru'afo's ship is based on a horseshoe, the battleship is based on a boomerang, the shuttle is a yard dart, and the science vessel ... well, the front of it is sort of a badminton shuttlecock turned inside out." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 21) And, likewise, the detailing originated from a visit, some years earlier to Jerry Goldsmith's studio, "With the battle ship it was based on a flat forward flying boomerang, incorporating the Grand Piano string details that were also incorporated and established as trademark
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| - As was with his design for Ru'afo's flagship model, the design for the battle cruiser was inspired upon on "(...)activity games I found out in the backyard. I wanted to give a whole different kind of look to their architecture, so I kind of went with yard toys - Ru'afo's ship is based on a horseshoe, the battleship is based on a boomerang, the shuttle is a yard dart, and the science vessel ... well, the front of it is sort of a badminton shuttlecock turned inside out." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 21) And, likewise, the detailing originated from a visit, some years earlier to Jerry Goldsmith's studio, "With the battle ship it was based on a flat forward flying boomerang, incorporating the Grand Piano string details that were also incorporated and established as trademark detail in Ruoffo’s [sic.] ship. (...)The big highlight for me on any Trek project was to sneak over and Watch Jerry Goldsmith score the film. There was a little couch hidden under the sound board right next to the window looking into the studio and I would bring my pad over and draw away out of site from the producers that probably would have frowned upon this. HAAAA! anyways It was always a treat to talk to Jerry, he always wanted copies of my sketches for his Trek collection which Always made me giddy when he would ask what’s new today. He gave me one the sheets of music that he had written for Star Trek: First Contact and he signed it to!!! HEY-HOWDY-HEY!!! I still remember that awesome day like it was yesterday!!!" [2] Eaves started work on the battle cruiser in February 1998, after he finished up on Ru'afo's ship, and like that ship, he originally intended to have the battle cruiser fly with the forks forward, as he felt that "(...) it looked more aggressive." (The Secrets of Star Trek: Insurrection, p. 87) However, when the design for Ru'afo's ship was under evaluation, Co-Producer's Peter Lauritson predilection of having the ship fly in the opposite direction meant, that the flight direction of the battle cruiser was also reversed. Eaves has further noted on his designs, "With the battle cruiser, that was basically designed around a boomerang. It was kind of a forward reaching boomerang, and in comparison, all the ships had a kind of morph shape to them. Ru'afo's ship, if you spread it out, would be the boomerang shape, and if you would fold it in, it would be the Collector ship. So they had all kind of a similar shape, just in different proportions if spread out or vice versa. Everything we did for it was based on a kind of a flat plane. So from a forward point of view, everything was kind of horizontal in design." (Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition DVD), special feature "The Art of Insurrection") The flat, horizontal plane profiles, especially those of the battle cruiser, caused some initial concerns, but as Eaves further elaborated, "Since the Son'a are highly aggressive, I built the whole thing using shapes that reflected those tendencies–principally horseshoes and boomerangs. The resulting flatness was a concern to some, so I tried tipping it up and putting it on a vertical axis–something that doesn't happen very often with ships in the Star Trek universe. But that wound up being unnecessary, since the animatics demonstrated that anytime a ship started banking, it would no longer just be a flying blade on the verge of disappearing against the background." (Cinefex, issue 77, p. 79) The discussion about the flight direction of the Son'a ships, delayed the further refinement on the design of the battle cruiser, with Eaves starting in the mean time on the designs of the Son'a shuttle and the collector ship, before finishing up on his design work on the battle cruiser in May 1998, conceding that, "The battle cruiser is a combination of the other Son'a ships. It's big, with one prong that's similar to the science vessel's, and it's spread out like Ru'afo's ship. But instead of being a horseshoe, it's more of a boomerang." At one point, the smooth top of the ship was briefly considered as the launching pad for the Son'a shuttles, but that never came to fruition. (The Secrets of Star Trek: Insurrection, p. 89) Eaves was a bit disappointed that relatively few visuals of his design of the battle cruiser made it into the final cut of the feature, but he had an unexpected boon when one of his design sketches showed up on a related licensed product, "When the film came out I was surprised at how few shots there were of this one and it was more of distant pov so you never really got to see what the vessel was made of.(...)My Friend Mark Banning was the art director over at Cresendo records and he [k]new I was a big fan of Jerry’s music and I can’t thank him enough for putting the plan drawings of the Son'a Battle ship on the CD. That was another giddy fan boy moment." [3]
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