Incredibly, with all my starship nerd knowledge, I just found out that the saucer used for the closeup scene in TUC when the photon torpedo rips through the hull of the Enterprise-A's saucer section, was a separate model built for that scene (notice the lack of the impulse crystal and impulse engine housing at the rear):
And even though you can't really tell from that photo, this saucer model was large. Like, Generations Enterprise-D saucer-crash-landed-on-Veridian-III large.
Does anyone know what eventually happened to this model? I doubt ILM kept it, since TUC would be the last time the Enterprise-A would ever be filmed.
And even though you can't really tell from that photo, this saucer model was large. Like, Generations Enterprise-D saucer-crash-landed-on-Veridian-III large.
Does anyone know what eventually happened to this model? I doubt ILM kept it, since TUC would be the last time the Enterprise-A would ever be filmed.
