That ship during the opening credits?

[Photon]

The shipping thats crossing the top of DS9 when Rene's name is flashed, what was it? Speculation? I've never seen it on any Trek whatsoever.

 

[Clym]

do you mean the one with the blue lights, or the wierd triangular-box shaped one?

 

[Clym]

I always wondered if the lights that flash when the repairmen are repairing the station (when Meaney's name comes up) spelt out something in morse code....

 

[yenny]

To me it look like a DY type starship. Probably either the Dy.900-1000 class.

 

[Michael]

I always thought that it is some kind of freighter. And as the blueish light often suggests: A starfleet freighter. But I really dunno. You're right, the model was not used again; at least not as far as I know. I quickly searched for some hint to it on the DS9 season four DVD set special features (since the title sequence was new then). But no-one ever looses a word about it. Sorry.

 

[SonicRanger]

This one?

http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=72&pos=13

Yeah, I haven't spotted it anywhere else nor seen any diagrams or photos.

 

[Photon]

That would be it

At first, I thought it might be of Bajor.

 

[Kirby]

Re: That would be it

Huh, I've never even noticed that ship before.

 

[nx1701g]

Re: That would be it

That ship is, I believe, a freighter. I've always believed that it is the ship Morn uses for his shipping business. The did say in an episode the a Lurian Freighter was at the station and they used that scene in the regular episode.

 

[Photon]

Re: That would be it

Good job NX-I'm buying that one.

 

[NathanielM]

It is one of those small long range freighters that was protrayed in about the first part of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The one that delivered Commander Spock to Enterprise.

Although I don't remember it being in the opening credits of DS9...

HMMM! Time to dig out the DVDS

Nathaniel

 

[toughlittleship]

Its a cool looking ship. I remember Mike Okuda talking about the opening sequence somewhere, it was the one where he mentioned the Nebula class ship at the start is called the Leeds.

 

[Haytil]

NathanielM said:
It is one of those small long range freighters that was protrayed in about the first part of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The one that delivered Commander Spock to Enterprise.

Although I don't remember it being in the opening credits of DS9...

You mean the warp sled?

I don't think so - the warp sled didn't have large lights like that at all, nor was it shaped the same way.

 

[Clym]

what's this little ship at the bottom left?

 

[Photon]

No click on Sonic's link. That's it.

 

[Haytil]

Clym said:
what's this little ship at the bottom left?

That's a work bee, little pod ships used to carry maintenance workers around to do repairs on the outside of ships and stations.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Work_Bee

 

[nx1701g]

Different ships present in different shots (Season 4)

Runabouts: USS Orinoco, USS Rio Grande, USS Rubicon (Assumed because of ships assigned at beginning of Season 4)

Nebula Class: USS Leeds

Freighter (During Rene): Assumed to be Morn's Freighter

Support (During Michael Dorn): Work Bee (Triangular Shuttle)

Docked Ship: Bajoran Starship

USS Defiant

 

[votd]

The scale of some of those ships is dubious, the Defiant leaves the docking ring and moves past a pylon, looking quite large; yet we see a nebula class starship docked on a lower pylon dwarfed by the station, I wish they'd have picked a scale and stuck with it.

 

[Starship Freak]

I´ve seen this ship discussed countless times in various forums, and noone knows for certain what it is. It has to be a physical model, ds9 used cgi later on didn´t it? Either way, someone has to know what this ship is.
I like it a lot actually. And although the blueish nacelles indicate a starfleet ship, this is not for certain. Why not an ore-freighter that has been converted from it´s former use by the cardassians to ship ore to ds9?