Valdore type The " Valdore " - type was a Romulan warbird design active in the 24th century . History . In the year 2379 , two " Valdore " - type starship s assisted the in attacking the rogue Reman warbird " Scimitar " in the Bassen Rift . Among the ships of this type was the " Valdore " , under the command of Commander Donatra . Both ships were critically damaged during the battle . ( ) Technical data . Physical arrangement . Similar in design to the warbird , the " Valdore " - type was a large , fixed - wing vessel . Ships of the class had a color scheme of dark - green or brown . With a wingspan roughly 900 meters wide , the vessel featured a large section extending forward to create a down - sloped head shape . Warp nacelle s were connected at the end of each wing with impulse engine s mounted aft . The hull was marked by distinctive " feather " shaped plating . ( ) Tactical systems . Ships of the " Valdore " - type featured several forward - mounted disruptor banks , located on each wing and some on the forward section of the ship . It had at least one forward torpedo launcher , able to fire four torpedo es for each recharge . ( ) Bridge . The command center of the " Valdore " - type consisted of a roughly circular room , distinguished by several console positions . The room had a dark metallic - brown color scheme , with green graphics on the computer monitors . With computers lining the rear bulkhead s , a center seat or command chair and free - standing console were flanked by two additional stations . The " Valdore " - type also had a viewscreen , which was oval - shaped . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Designation . In the screenplay of ( both the first draft and the shooting script ) , the vessels of this type were referred to merely as " Romulan Warbirds " , with no indication as to whether they were intended to be of the or a new type . Although the film ' s producers could have feasibly reused the " D ' deridex " - class from in " Nemesis " , they were insistent about instead wanting a brand new style of Romulan warbird in the movie . ( " " , issue 31 , p . 14 ) In his blog , Concept Artist John Eaves has stated , " " It was always called the " Valdore " - class in what we were doing ! and this was the signature " Valdore " ! [ . . . ] As far as I know , it had no other class name . " " Exterior . The job of designing this type of vessel , as a new version of the Romulan warbird , was assigned to John Eaves . He decided to base the " Valdore " on a couple of vessels that had been created years previously , such as the Klingon Bird - of - Prey from , of which he was a long - time fan . " " I thought , ' Well , I ' ll take that and rearrange it a little bit , " " Eaves recalled . ( " " , issue 31 , p . 14 ) He actually proceeded from the then - behind - the - scenes assumption ( based on an early draft of the script ) that the Bird - of - Prey was a Romulan ship stolen by the Klingons ( that theory was later debunked by the series " " ) ; Eaves based his design of the " Valdore " on a supposition that the Bird - of - Prey had been a typical configuration of Romulan vessel and that the Klingons had either bought or stolen the Bird - of - Prey or its technology . " " From there the Romulan Warbird " Valdore " could easily fit into the design realm of what was seen before , only heavily modified , " " he reasoned . Another starting point that John Eaves took inspiration from , while producing concept artwork of the " Valdore " , was the " D ' deridex " - class , which had been designed for TNG by illustrator Andrew Probert . " " I ran to Andy ' s ship for an architectural lineage to use as the cornerstone for the renderings , " " Eaves stated . He was inspired by one aspect of that design in particular . " " I took the cowling from the front of the TNG Warbird [ . . . ] and incorporated it with my new kind of stylized Bird - of - Prey , " " he reflected . " " So , it was kind of a progression of the Bird - of - Prey and Andy ' s Warbird . " " ( " " , issue 31 , p . 15 ) While John Eaves was busy illustrating concept sketches of the new Romulan warbird , his boss , Production Designer Herman Zimmerman , also commissioned Illustrator David Negron , Jr . to devise some concept designs for the same vessel . He worked independently of Eaves , at the other side of the Paramount lot , and it was hoped that this arrangement would result in a variety of different looks for the ship , from which the final design would be selected . " " David came up with a very aggressive ' T - tailed ' design that incorporated some of the lines from Andy Probert ' s TNG Warbird , " " said Eaves . " " He compacted the design , and I really liked the interpretation he came up with . " " ( " " , issue 31 , p . 15 ; ) John Eaves included wings in his versions of the craft , making the new warbird seem raptor - like . In his initial sketches of the " Valdore " , however , he experimented with different wing positions . For example , his second concept pass featured upswept wings . ( " " , issue 31 , p . 15 ; ) Regarding that rendition , Eaves remarked , " " It almost had a Batman feel to it ; that ' s why I ditched it ! " " Eaves ultimately filled a single page with three or four ideas of how he imagined the new warbird might look . The page was then taken to an art meeting , at which Herman Zimmerman and the producers chose one of the designs . " " Herman Zimmerman came back with a circle around one of the drawings that said they wanted to see more on that one , " " Eaves continued . ( " " , issue 31 , pp . 15 - 16 ) As requested , John Eaves created a few more detailed sketches based on the chosen design , including some in which the exterior panels featured a feather pattern . He based these on books about birds such as hawks and condors . " " It was really fun , " " he enthused . Eaves noticed , however , that the feather patterns looked too similar to that on the panels of the Klingon Bird - of - Prey ' s hull . " " So I took all mine off and redid them so they would be different , " " Eaves noted . Once he had devised a feather pattern for the warbird that he felt was unique enough , Eaves focused on the underbelly details and the warp nacelles . At first , he placed a pair of secondary warp nacelles on the underside of the ship . This was to further the vessel ' s original backstory that they were an unusual type of nacelle , to be used only while the ship was cloaked , so as to mask the craft ' s warp trail . Eaves felt these nacelles spoiled the sweeping lines of the vessel , so he ended up moving them to the ends of the outer wings . " " I [ . . . ] started working in a subtle arched bi - wing , " " he explained . " " The extra wing added a good break - up to the forward view and helped tie in with the design flow that Andy had come up with for TNG . " " ( " " , issue 31 , pp . 16 - 17 ) After final approval of the design , the " Valdore " was built as a CGI model at Digital Domain by Andy Wilkoff . Eaves was delighted to collaborate with Wilkoff and encouraged him to add his own creative input to the design . ( " " , issue 31 , pp . 16 - 17 ) " " He did a lot of really beautiful work , too , adding personality to the ships that wasn ' t there in the drawings , " " Eaves commented . ( " Cinefex " , No . 93 , page 101 ) In fact , he cited the " Valdore " as " one of my all time favorite " ships , adding , " and the modeling work was beyond incredible . " ( " " , issue 31 , p . 17 ) Interior . The bridge of the " Valdore " was a redress of the bridge of the " Enterprise " - E . Only a few pieces were retained from that configuration of the set . Those which were kept were repainted , recarpeted , and rendered unrecognizable . Because the same platform was used for both versions of the set , though , the Romulan version still had the same shape as the " Enterprise " s bridge . The " Valdore " s command chair was represented with a Klingon bridge chair that had been used since . The viewscreen of the " Valdore " was a reuse of the Son ' a version from . ( " Build and Rebuild " , " Star Trek Nemesis ( Special Edition ) " DVD ) Chairs from the were incorporated into the set , as was a Cardassian computer console ( at the center of the room ) and two computers recycled from the Klingon Bird - of - Prey dating back to . Apocrypha . The " Star Trek Customizable Card Game " refers to the " Valdore " - type as the " " Norexan " - class " . The " " novels from Pocket Books classify the " Valdore " - type as the " " Mogai " - class " , after a man - sized predator y bird native to Romulus . " Star Trek Online " does so as well , though it also features an upgraded version which is referred to as the " " Valdore " - class " . According to the " Titan " series , the " Valdore " - type ships are smaller than the " D ' deridex " - class vessels but are newer and more heavily armed , with more advanced weaponry . This may explain the significant difference in the appearance of this vessel ' s weaponry compared to that of the " D ' deridex " - class , which is portrayed as firing bright neon green torpedoes and disruptors . Also according to the " Titan " series , the " Valdore " - type significantly outnumbers the " D ' deridex " - class in terms of numbers within the fleet .