I am more than likely to believe it's ??? this in this photo:
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/wolf359/wolf359-4-1a.jpg
Also while reading MA, this caught my intention:
- Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Legato was told to film the Battle of Wolf 359 prior to the start of live-action production. With no stock footage of the battle, Legato was given free reign to make it up from scratch, so he enjoyed devising the sequence. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 17) The battle, specifically the visual effects passes, went on to be one of the first sequences filmed. (Movie Magic – "Space Effects: The Space Race") "We just made as huge a fight as we could make in our time frame," noted Legato. ("Deep Space Nine Scrapbook Year One", DS9 Season 1 DVD special features) The battle sequence was originally more complex than it ended up, however. "I had tons of debris in all the shots," Legato said. "Ships that were burning, on fire, flying past the camera." Legato even ensured that all the debris was marked with the same names as the vessels which, in "The Best of Best Worlds, Part II", are referred to as having been in the battle. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 18) The work that went into designing the battle sequence also included the destruction of the Saratoga, which was shot on a Paramount soundstage, rather than at Image G due to the use of explosives. (Movie Magic – "Space Effects: The Space Race") Filming the battle sequence took approximately thirteen or fourteen days, whereas only four days were usually used to shoot the visual effects for a regular episode. (""Deep Space Nine Scrapbook Year One", DS9 Season 1 DVD special features) After the filming was done, it was made clear to Legato that this episode would concentrate on only the start of the battle, rather than joining the starships mid-fray. As a result, he had to return to the sequence and take out all the ships that were deemed extraneous, much to his disappointment. "It was a heartbreaker," he lamented, "because it was a ton of work and very good-looking stuff." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 18)
Specifically this: 'Legato even ensured that all the debris was marked with the same names as the vessels which, in "The Best of Best Worlds, Part II", are referred to as having been in the battle. (
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 18)"
So does that mean another set of filming models were created but we have never seen them? We sort of know that the USS Valkyrie was intended to be used for BoBWII. There is potential that the Jupp, Hutzel, Bradford, and some of the other kitbashed ships from DS9 were intended as well? That should mean there is a Tolstoy out there somewhere or a Gage.