10 Times Star Trek Reused Ships And Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice

9. Mercenary Ship/Miradorn Raider/Taresian Ship

Star Trek Raider
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The distinctive vessel that debuted in the episode Vortex is perhaps best recognised as Arctus Baran's Pirate Ship, despite that being its second appearance. The Miradorn Raider, Theta-class, was designed by Robert F. Delgado, and was labeled as an 'alien ship concept' or a 'raptor'.

The design, striking as it was, inevitably returned. Gambit sees Picard and Riker taken captive aboard the vessel, which at this point is described as roughly 1/4 the length of the Enterprise-D. For this instance, there may actually have been an on-screen explanation as to the reuse of the design. With Baran commanding a mercenary crew, they may simply have stolen or paid outright for a Miradorn-raider.

What is a little harder to explain is the return of the vessel in the Delta Quadrant. Here, it takes the form of a Taresian ship, making it another reused studio model to appear in the episode Favorite Son. The ship saw no adjustments, either in outward design or relative scale, to suggest that this was simply a similar shape of a ship - at least the Romulan Science Ship went through a colour change!

 
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