So he took his time and he skipped no detail, but Probert's result (as realized fully in Tobias Richter's 3D model) is a stunningly beautiful, blow-me-out-of-the-water work of art. Mind you, Probert was never bound by Sternbach's constraints - he had all the time in the world, he didn't have to adhere to a budget, and he didn't need to be concerned with how much trouble his design might present to a model maker with a vacuum-forming machine. Along comes Andrew Probert back into the picture to complete the job he never got the opportunity to do with the show. Sternbach's C fits the motif of an Enterprise, and I won't change that opinion now. I've always liked Sternbach's 1701-C, not necessarily as a refinement but as a vessel representative of trying to do bigger things while staying conservative and true to principle. Thus the primary hull was made perfectly circular the engine nacelles were extruded from simple rounded rectangles and the pylons were L-shaped instead of wings. While the TNG production crew did take extra time on "Yesterday's" since it was not your ordinary episode, they still couldn't take a whole month, so Sternbach was tasked with creating a viable vessel that fulfilled the basic principles of Probert's original design while still being relatively easy to build as a model. By that time, Probert's seat as senior illustrator was being filled by Rick Sternbach (who would later design Voyager). The first time the Enterprise-C was realized for a model was for the third season episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" (the show I've always considered TNG's true "pilot episode"). This essentially became the "Ambassador."
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Probert had also created a simple painting for a ship that could be seen from a distance, perhaps not having to be made into a full shooting model - an older ship that borrowed the ideas he built into the observation room model.
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That left only one ship, the 1701-C, to have to imagine, so he worked out a very serious design that blended elements of the Excelsior and his own Galaxy class. When creating the well-known set of relief-style Enterprise evolutionary ships for the famous wall in the 1701-D observation lounge, it was Probert who decided that the 1701-B should be an Excelsior class vessel. Here's the story: During the principal design phase for The Next Generation, the senior illustrator was Andrew Probert, who designed the Enterprise-D.