No matter what Eaves' personal preferences were, "They felt it still looked too 'starshippy,' so we got rid of that and then moved onto the 'flying brick.' They wanted something very tankerish, like an oil tanker. I kind of beveled the sides, and at one point the cockpit was at the very back of the ship, just like a tanker. So that went for a while, and then they had it moved to the front. That was the shape that Berman really liked." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. 30) Eaves later recalled on his blog: Eaves intended his final design to be 810 feet (247 meters) long. [1]