![]() ![]() USS Star Empire on the cover of Dreadnought! The Federation-class on the reprinted cover of the Star Fleet Technical Manual ![]() Somewhat enigmatically though, Picard production designer Dave Blass answered with a curt and unclarified "no" to an in the meantime deleted inquiry on his Twitter account whether or not the three-nacelled shipmodels were indeed Federation-class. ![]() As Matalas' pictured showed, there were least four Federation-class models thus modified on set. A crisp behind-the-scenes bar set picture was posted by showrunner Terry Matalas on his Twitter account, and where the models were more clearly discernible as set dressings. The Federation-class models were modifications of the Collection's original configuration Constitution-class models by adding a third nacelle on top of the primary hull. These models originated from Eaglemoss Collections' Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection partwork series (identifiable by their very distinctive model stands), some of them modified such as the gold-plated ones in the left display case on the bar counter. It took four decades before another – more clearly and far less ephemeral this time – in-universe canon reference became featured in a Star Trek live-action production with the appearance of the display models on Guinan's bar counter in the third season opening episode of Star Trek: Picard. At one point, a diagram of a Constitution-class starship (pictured above) also depicts a barely visible outline above it - which the Star Fleet Technical Manual shows to be the Federation-class. The bridge monitors in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock made use of a cycling video depicting whole pages from the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph.
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