Bonaventure ( C1 - 21 ) model The " Bonaventure " ( C1 - 21 ) has been one of the more elusive elements in " Star Trek " - lore . Slated to become a significant part of " Star Trek " history as " Zefram Cochrane s first warp - powered spacecraft " from 2061 , it nevertheless failed to do so in canon ultimately , though not for want of serious efforts on the part of production staffers to achieve such . Design and reference model . The first ( black and white ) appearance of the " Bonaventure " was in the first , edition of the reference book as " Zefram Cochrane ' s first warp - powered spacecraft from 2061 " , the reference model for which studio model vendor Greg Jein volunteered to design and build , and later to appear in several episodes of as graphic representations and as a display model in the role of set dressing . On the model as featured in the book , only the registry " " C1 - 21 " " was visible . The model was photographed by " Chronology " co - author and Scenic Art Department Supervisor Mike Okuda himself and photo - shopped by Scenic Artist Doug Drexler for representation in the book , the depiction on the cover being a painting . The model had been one of five Jein had constructed for Okuda free of charge . " " Greg Jein designed the version of Cochrane ' s ship that was featured in the Star Trek Chronology " , " Okuda clarified to ( EAS ) , " " He did the models as a favor to us , so we pretty much gave him free reign to make what he thought was appropriate . I told him that we thought the ship would be experimental and very powerful , so he came up with that big curved radiation shield . The only change we made was to add the two rudimentary warp nacelles . We wanted it to look like something from the Matt Jefferies universe , but we wanted it to look much more primitive , and far more dangerous . " " The original reference model is still in the possession of Okuda , albeit without the warp nacelles , they having been ported over to the reference model as per Drexler , " " Yes , the nacelles from the Bonaventure were used on the Valiant . " " Getting a name . The name of the ship only appeared on the " Deep Space Nine " " Starship Chronology " wall display with the caption " Discovery of the Space Warp " , a graphic backlit transparency created at Okuda ' s art department by Drexler , " " Doug Drexler loved that model and later did a quick drawing of it for use in a number of background DS9 graphics , including the one you " [ EAS ] " mentioned " , " Okuda recalled , " " I ' m pretty sure that those graphics were the only time that we called it ' Bonaventure , ' although we did suggest that name for use in . ' Phoenix ' did end up being more appropriate , given the film ' s story . " " When asked about it by EAS , Drexler stated , " Wow ! I forgot about that one . That ' s a pretty early one for DS - 9 . Good times ! Like so many of the graphics on the show , this one benefited by creation of the " [ sic . ] " by Mike and Denise . It was a resource to them , because I ' d developed so many peripheral diagrams . If a backlit came out of the blue for an episode , I could put something fun together in no time flat . Sometimes you only had a few hours to get a last minute request addressed . The Bonaventure model that Greg Jein built for Mike as made specifically for the Star Trek Chronology . See that ? I automatically called it ' The Bonaventure . ' The idea is that it was built by Cochrane using off the shelf garage technology . At the time that seemed far fetched . . . from another era . . . like the Wright Brothers . Could never happen again . But then Burt Rutan [ who built the experimental airplane Voyager to fly around the world ] came along . I ' m a believer ! The Phoenix grew out of this design . Early in the planning of ' First Contact , ' Mike and I had done a number of illustrations showing how it would get into orbit . By the way , ' Bonaventure ' was absolutely a nod to the . " The transparency itself hung for years on a wall in the art department , before ultimately ending up in the possession of British collector Adrian Hancock . Production copies . The display model as featured in the two " Deep Space Nine " episodes , , was actually a copy of the original reference model , as Okuda additionally disclosed , " " Greg later made a second copy of the model , which we provided to DS9 set decorator Laura Richarz for use as set dressing . The " [ angle of the ] " nacelles may have been slightly different in that version , which could account for the difference in the " . I think the flat version was the second model , " " which indeed it was as evidenced in the photograph as featured on the right . Jein ' s copy , when not in use as set dressing , resided initially on the desk of Mike Okuda in his office at the art department ( DS9 Season 2 DVD - special feature , " Hidden File 01 : Mike Okuda " ) , and later in front of the bulletin board of the department , suspended on wires from the ceiling . Aside from its appearances as display model in the two " Deep Space Nine " episodes ( only the wall chart was featured in ) , the model has made one last appearance as such in s fifth season episode , this time posing as a model of an old Malon ship , the Malon Pelk had built for the son of his colleague Fesek . In the episode Pelek even paid indirect homage to the quality of Jein ' s work when stating , " " Hey , what do you think ? Look at the detail on the dorsal plating " , " though strong green light flooding obscured the original colors of the model . Ultimately , the display model met with a dismal fate , as Drexler later clarified , " " The warp ship was dropped , and the cabin shattered . I have the pieces , and hopefully I will have some time to put it back together . " " Mike Okuda has confirmed that Jein had constructed an additional copy of the model for display in the " " exhibition at the Las Vegas " " attraction . After " The Experience " went defunct in 2008 , that model ended up in the possession of noted " Star Trek " memorabilia collector Adam Schneider . Legacy . In return of the favor Jein had provided , both Okuda and Drexler had tried hard during their tenure on the " Star Trek " franchise to get Jein ' s five designs elevated into canon , and while they succeeded for the , ( with the booster rockets ) and , to some extent , " Bonaventure " models , they did not manage the same for the SS " Valiant " and a pre - - era Romulan warbird . Following the introduction of the " Phoenix " in " First Contact " however , Jein ' s model and all depictions of the " Bonaventure " were removed from the " Deep Space Nine " set and from the second edition of " Star Trek Chronology " . Okuda stated in that edition – without mentioning the name – , that the " Bonaventure " was a conjectural design for what became the " Phoenix " . Several significant changes were made to the design , in part because the film required the ship to be launched from a missile . Nevertheless , that Jein ' s design was not elevated to canon as Cochrane ' s first warp ship , was not for a want of trying , as " Phoenix " designer John Eaves divulged , " " So when I started drawing it , I tried to keep in mind what Mike and Greg had designed for the " Chronology " . Doug Drexler meantime , had done some computer designs based on Greg ' s rocket – how it would fit into a rocket body , how it would lift , separate , and break apart into a warp ship . The " Chronology ' s Phoenix " simply didn ' t fit inside a Titan missile . So the design had to be based on a long body that would fit inside the Titan , with nacelle s that folded out of the ship ' s center . " " Even with these changes in mind , any residual notion of Jein ' s design was eventually nixed by Production Designer Herman Zimmerman when presented by a modified design , deeming it " overdesigned , rather than a collection of salvaged parts patched together onto a ship " , and the design was abandoned definitively with Eaves " back to the drawing board " . ( " " , pp . 156 - 157 ) Mike Okuda acknowledged this state of affairs in the second edition of his " Chronology " , released the same month " First Contact " premiered in November 1996 ; not only did he replace the C1 - 21 with an image of the " Phoenix " and retcon ned the year from 2061 to 2063 , but he also added the above mentioned background annotation , " " Cochrane ' s ship , the Phoenix , was designed by illustrator John Eaves under the direction of production designer Herman Zimmerman . Eaves ' s design was based on a conjectural design for Cochrane ' s ship developed by modelmaker Greg Jein for the first edition of this Chronology . ( Eaves made several significant changes to the design of the Phoenix , in part because the storyline for " Star Trek : First Contact " reveals that Cochrane ' s ship was launched from an uprated U . S . Air Force Titan missile , a fact unknown to Jein at the time the first Chronology was compiled . ) " " ( p . 28 )