He was hugely excited to be presented with the opportunity of designing a new starship for such a long-established alien race as the Romulans. The responsibility of designing this style of Romulan Bird-of-Prey, the first new Romulan ship to appear on Star Trek: Enterprise, was given to Concept Artist John Eaves. In the script of "Minefield", this type of ship was described as "a spooky-looking craft, there's something bird-like about its design (we will later learn that this is a Romulan vessel of the era)." A subsequent description in the same teleplay referred to the ship as an "ominous-looking craft." ( ENT: " Minefield")Īppendices Background information When Enterprise subsequently went to warp, the two remaining Romulan ships did not pursue. Enterprise eventually left the system after retrieving Captain Archer and armory officer Lieutenant Reed, following detonation of a cloaked Romulan mine safely away from Enterprise. Later, two more of these ships decloaked and ordered Enterprise to detach its hull plating or be destroyed. Although Enterprise's quantum beacons proved successful in penetrating the mines' cloaks, they were useless against the more advanced cloaking devices used by the Birds-of-Prey. To prove the Romulans' point, the Bird-of-Prey fired two warning shots at the Starfleet vessel, and Enterprise commanding officer Jonathan Archer ordered helmsman Travis Mayweather to activate Enterprise's quantum beacons to avoid hitting any of the cloaked mines. The Romulan commander hailed (on audio only) and ordered the Enterprise crew to leave or be destroyed, though Enterprise's translator failed to lock onto the Romulan language. A vessel of this class decloaked and approached Enterprise, as it had unknowingly trespassed into Romulan space. Vessels of this configuration were first encountered by Starfleet in 2152, when the United Earth starship Enterprise NX-01 inadvertently encroached upon a Romulan-claimed star system, which was protected by a field of cloaked mines.
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