#akira class

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The Akira-class U.S.S. Thunderchild CG model, as she appeared in the movie Star Trek: First Contact. Built by ILM. Despite looking fantastic on film, looking at the model close up reveals lots of 1990's CG crust.

The Akira-class would go on to be the inspiration for Enterprise NX-01, from Star Trek: Enterprise. Supposedly the producers wanted the Akira model used unchanged, and Doug Drexler and others had to plead to be permitted to build a new similar-but-different model with era-appropriate detailing (since ENT was set more than 200 years prior to FC)

heard the same story tooTho it would have been the DS9 version of the Model as they didn't have access/the right format for these models for DS9and had to rebuild themUSS ThunderchildAkira ClassStar TrekStarfleetFederation.