Here is a ship which I couldn’t remember from the series as being a stand out but looked amazing as a model and then did the research and watched the episodes it appeared it again just to see it. So I did and I just had it have it. I am talking about the Klingon Augment ship as seen in a couple of episodes of Star Trek Enterprise.
Laneth’s starship was a type of small warship in the service of the Klingon Empire under the command of a Klingon Augment, Lieutenant Laneth. It was armed with disruptors. In 2154, Laneth’s starship attacked and destroyed a Rigelian freighter that kidnapped Phlox from Earth. The Klingon ship then transported Phlox to the Qu’Vat colony.
Later, Laneth’s starship engaged Enterprise NX-01, which was analyzing the freighter’s debris. During the engagement, a boarding party was dispatched, and planted a computer virus on board Enterprise. In the process of the raid, one of Laneth’s crew members, Marab, was captured while attempting to return to his ship. In the final draft script of “Affliction”, Laneth’s starship was described as “a small, sleek alien vessel.” That description was followed by a bracketed note which pointed out, “Although we don’t know it, this vessel is a new type of Klingon ship.” “Affliction” teleplay writer Mike Sussman once remarked, “The reason that ship exists was because we wanted to hide the fact that the people beaming aboard Enterprise were Klingon.”
This configuration of Klingon ship, which is similar to a 22nd century style of Klingon Bird-of-Prey, was designed by John Eaves. When the Klingon Augments’ ship first appeared, it wasn’t meant to look recognizably Klingon at all, so as to initially conceal the identity of the ship’s Klingon crew members. As a result, Eaves was asked to make the vessel seem as if it might be Klingon without looking too familiar.
Because there had been so many Star Trek productions and associated spacecrafts by the time Laneth’s ship was designed, giving it a completely new look was challenging. “It was kind of like I had writer’s block. I didn’t know what other shapes to do!” John Eaves exclaimed. He began the design process by drawing three rough concept sketches. One of the illustrations, showing quite a familiar Klingon design with wings and an extended neck, was immediately rejected for looking too familiar. Another of the designs demonstrated a style that was much smaller and more compact, while also resembling Goroth’s starship from ENT Season 2 offering “Bounty”. The design of this vessel was thereafter influenced by John Eaves reacting to his “artist’s block” by heading to the Paramount mill, which was somewhere new and different for him to look for inspiration. He later recalled, “They had this long level that bowed in the middle – you’d hang it on a string and it would give you a floating level – and that was where the shape for this ship came from.”
So there you have it, not too much background information – infact I don’t think we see the inside of the ship much during it’s appearances in the two episodes. So I hope you enjoy the pics and here is the unboxing video.