A Bird-of-Prey can be seen at the Fleet Museum in PIC: "The Bounty".But although it is not hammered in stone, I prefer to stick to the established length of the TOS BoP. Eaglemoss gives the length of the upgraded BoP as 91.44 meters.But in the spirit of visual continuity it makes more sense to classify it as an upgrade or a related, newer class, much like the Klingon K't'inga relates to the D7. Overall, we might argue that the BoP from "Absolute Candor", except perhaps for the armament, is still the very same design as the one from "Balance of Terror". Most of these lights can't possibly be windows, owing to the rather small size of the ship (unless the size was "re-imagined", which is an idea that I refuse to even consider). Also, green Romulan-style lighting was added to the nacelles and countless small lights all over the hull, a bit like on the re-imagined D7 from season 2 of Discovery. The most significant change is the addition of very pronounced hull panels (unlike the remastered version of TOS with its slight hull plating). The ship doesn't seem to have the plasma weapon any longer but is equipped with standard disruptor cannons. The design is essentially still the same as the one of the old BoP from TOS: "Balance of Terror" the proportions are almost identical.This ship, owned by a certain Kar Kantar, attacks La Sirena in orbit of Vashti on PIC: "Absolute Candor" and gets heavily damaged, losing its starboard nacelle pylon.The Bird-of-Prey appears as an Easter Egg aboard the Narada.Ī Bird-of-Prey from the 23rd century is still in service as of 2399.The BoP also appears in TOS-R: "The Enterprise Incident", here replacing one of the previously three D7 battlecruisers. The underside with the bird depiction still looks like in TOS but now possesses a subtle hull grid too. In the remastered versions of the two TOS episodes the top side of the Romulan BoP was shown from previously unseen angles and was given a hull grid and a more metallic looking surface than we may have expected.In an early draft of "Star Trek III" Kruge steals his ship from the Romulans, but there is no mention that the Klingon BoP is actually a Romulan design too. The name is obviously the only thing the Romulan BoP has in common with the Klingon BoP. ![]() The identical ship is undeniably observable at warp speed in "The Deadly Years". Even if the Romulan BoP in "Balance of Terror" were only capable of impulse speeds during the battle, this doesn't rule out that it has come from Romulus at warp. Since Star Trek Enterprise this idea has been ultimately refuted.
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