McKinley type The " McKinley " type was a Starfleet orbital docking facility in use during the 24th century . It was designed for starship construction , refit ting and maintenance layovers . ( ; ) Facilities of this type were deployed at Earth , Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards , and Starbase 234 . ( ; ) Facilities of the type . Named Unnamed Appendices . Studio model . The studio model was a Rick Sternbach design and built at Gregory Jein , Inc . . Sternbach utilized his newly acquired CGI modeling skills to design the structure on a computer , and made annotations on print - outs by hand for the construction drawings for Jein . " ( " – documentary ) Gregory Jein noted on his build , " " The interesting thing about its crablike appendices is , that we sort of made them like a stop - motion armature so they could be flexible and custom fit any area of the " Enterprise " so it looked like it was actually coming close to gripping the model . " " ( TNG Season 4 DVD – special feature , " Select Historical Data " ) Jein constructed the model , which measured 32×73×15 inches , out of resin , acrylic sheet and fiberglass . The parts were held in place on a steel and aluminum armature with two mounting points , one on top of the model ( for up - side - down filming , common at the time in of physical studio models ) and one aft . A single fluorescent hand - formed neon tube provided internal lighting through strands of fiber optic cables , though the lighting was restricted to the forward white colored " office " - section only . While both Jein ' s remarks and the design suggested that the station had four articulating appendices , these were actually rigid on the physical studio model . The appendices were not constructed to articulate , and to make positioning of the model of the " Enterprise " - D and , later on the " Sutherland " as well , into the " McKinley " model that much easier , the aft port appendix was a removable piece , whereas the other three were permanently affixed . The model was only shot twice at Image G , once for " Family " and once for " Redemption II " , its later appearance in " All Good Things . . . " being stock footage ( featuring previously unused extended footage shot for " Family " , that was however , used in the 1991 documentary " " ) . Missing its replaceable appendix , the physical model was acquired by American collector Adam Schneider as in the December 2007 " It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction " for a winning bid of US $ 810 . Having deteriorated considerably during years of storage , Schneider decided to seek out help in order to restore the model to its former glory . Professional modeler Jason Eaton , whose help Schneider sought out , commented upon receipt of the model : " " My first question out of the gate was , ' How much damage are we talking about ? ' with the second being , ' What reference do we have ? ' I quickly realized there was an amount of damage consistent with a fragile model being placed in storage ( dust and general warpage from gravity and parts not designed for longevity , but for filming ) , and then there was additional damage sustained in shipping . Reference - wise , I had hoped for archival materials to surface , but those did not materialize . The repairs and reconstruction were therefore undertaken referencing DVD screen caps . " " ( " Sci - fi & fantasy modeller " , Volume 12 , 2009 , p . 66 ) Eaton went on to describe step - by - step the elaborate restoration work he performed on the model . Further commenting on the restoration , Eaton has also made a general observation on studio models , " " Yeah , it ' s a weird design that should have gotten a better angle . I talked to Rick Sternbach about it a while back . . . Greg Jein ' s shop did the actual construction . Not a lot of ref out there , and there were some missing sections - luckily nothing that was impossible to extrapolate . Some of this is just mirrored from left to right along the model . I was most pleased with matching the ( slightly aged ) aztec coloring in the areas I repaired - you can ' t tell what was fixed from what was left alone . Also , it NEVER ceases to shock me how rough some of these models are , under close scrutiny . I know they ' re made under impossible deadlines , but man , some of those seam lines and bubbles in the castings made me cringe , when I left things untouched . . . you have to match what you ' re making to what exists ! ! " " For its appearance in " Relativity " , a CGI model model was constructed at Foundation Imaging by Lee Stringer . Stringer recalled , " " About 10 years ago this was the first CGI model I made for " ST : Voyager " , I had no ref except the episode on VHS ! I know what I made was far from the level of detail in the model , but it wasn ' t going to be seen close up . " "