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Original K'Vort Class Concept - via Mike Okuda on Facebook

Dukhat said:
The prevailing attitude of the VFX people for TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT (and even TOS to an extent) with spaceship shots was to

1. Use stock footage first;

2. Film new footage of an old model if stock footage couldn't be used (and then use that stock footage whenever possible;

3. Build a new filming model ONLY if there's no possible way the first two options would work.

They weren't too overly concerned with how the fans perceived the shots or had any real intention of having the fans' imaginations come up with something different than what was shown on screen. Other than maybe changing up the colors of the ships in post-production and adding some little bits here and there to suggest a different ship than when it was used for the previous aliens-of-the-week, most of the ship shots were the same, no matter what alien race was using them, what time period it was, or what part of the galaxy it was taking place in.

While I suppose that's not a huge deal for aliens-of-the-week, the Klingons at least should have been given better shrift. The Ferengi had failed as the main villains, the Romulans were being reintroduced, and Worf was becoming a more popular character and the Klingons' relationship with the Romulans were a part of that. Between the Pagh from "A Matter of Honor," the three BoPs from "The Defector" and the K'Vort class from "Yesterday's Enterprise," there definitely should have been a new Klingon filming model built much earlier than the Vor'cha.



I agree that those ships should never have been shown in that manual, especially since it made things even more convoluted by pointing out that they weren't actual ship classes, but parts of ships cobbled together as if the IRL kitbashing was actually a thing in-universe, which is absurd based on the different scales for each of the components used.
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Your assessment of those 3 steps is so true. That drove what shots they created for early TNG. Everything needed to be reusable. Even the Excelsior was filmed with the intention of stock footage. They eventually abandoned that and used more new footage as it became easier to make, but the concept to start with was as much stock as possible. Just look at TOS. When they needed another Starship, they almost never used anything new, just stock. That is what Roddenberry and Justman were going to do with TNG.
 
"When it becomes less expensive to do more, we'll do more. Add it to the want list, because we're keeping an eye on how the hardware and software change!"
 
I would have liked it if they came up with a whole new design when they did the re-mastered version of "Yesterday's Enterprise" as opposed to the scaled-up Birds of Prey we saw. That being said, the casual viewer probably doesn't give a crud about specific ship designs.

That being said, I'm not too crazy about the K'vort concept design that was shown earlier. The Vor'cha is a much better design!
 
publiusr said:
While that is quietly being worked on…I think it was also meant for Kronos One…I often wondered what happened to the “Bounty” after its splashdown.

Some concept art from ST VI may answer that.
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-iv-klingon-bird-prey-what-happened/
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One early version of the script had Kirk reassembling his crew for the Gorkon mission. Scotty was in a hangar with a bunch of Engineering students showing them the KBOP and what he had learned from it.
 
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