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Daelen's ship

Daelen's ship with the coaxial warp ship.

Daelen's ship was manned by Steth, as Daelen, while looking for the unnamed lifeform who stole his DNA, and his form. It was responsible for driving off two Benthan Guard fighter ships that had stopped Steth's ship in the Kotaba Expanse in 2374. (VOY: "Vis à Vis")

The creation of the scene in which Paris, in Steth's body, is confronted by Daelen's ship and a pair of Benthan fighter ships utilized CGI models designed by the visual effects company Digital Muse. Ron Moore said of the vessels, "We weren't going to see them much, just [in] a couple of shots [...] I would get sketches from Muse and pick a direction that we'd want to go, make whatever changes we felt necessary. That's what we did for both [ship classes]. We wanted to play this size thing a little bit, with the biggest one being Daelen's ship." The size differential helped make it conceivable that the arrival of Daelen's ship would intimidate the Benthan crafts into immediately departing, relieving the visual effects artists of having to create a big battle. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 30, No. 9/10, p. 90)
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