Harve Bennett, the movieвЂ™s producer, was working abroad before they started filming Star Trek II. Cole remembered how they ended up underneath. Upside DownД®xcept the nacelles looked over the saucer in their design. They eliminated the engineering hull and attached the nacelles to an extended saucer section instead. We had long postulated that the circular saucer said, вЂњThis is Starfleet navy,вЂќ and it used engines that looked pretty much like those on the Enterprise. The three came up with a compressed version of the Enterprise. Reliant concept art approved by Joe Jennings She was supposed to just stick around in the known universe and take care of things that everybody already knew about. Also, remember the Enterprise was always supposed to be an exploratory vessel where the armament was secondary. She wasnвЂ™t a lion ship like the Enterprise. She would be armed, perhaps, but only lightly. She was supposed to be a coastal and geodetic survey ship, like a buoy tender. вЂњIt was the first time a new starship had been designed since the Klingon battle cruiser,вЂќ he remembered. Jennings worked with Lee Cole and Mike Minor to design the new vessel. вЂњIn the dogfight you had to instantly recognize which ship you were looking at, so they had to look different,вЂќ he told Star Trek: The Magazine 3, #5 (September 2002).ДЄt the same time, you had to make them look like they came from the same culture and had the same technology. Production Designer Joseph Jennings worried this would make it hard for viewers to distinguish between the two ships during the battle in the Mutara Nebula. In early versions of the scrip, the Reliant was a sister ship to the Enterprise. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan would give Trekkers the first canon Starfleet ship beside the original Enterprise.

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