DS9 studio models Chronological list of studio model s appearing in . DS9 Season 1 . Deep Space 9 . Designed by Herman Zimmerman , Rick Sternbach and other members of the art department . The original , six - foot in diameter model , was built by Tony Meininger . It was in the very last scene in the very last episode of the series replaced by a CGI model . " Danube " - class runabout . The , and later , runabout was designed by Joseph Hodges , Rick Sternbach , and Jim Martin . The miniature , which was approximately 18 inches long , was built by Tony Meininger . Interior cockpit set was designed by Joseph Hodges , and the aft compartment was designed by Richard James , all under the direction of Herman Zimmerman . The Wadi ship model ( measuring 24 " × 15 " ) was listed in the " " auction with an estimated sale price of US $ 3 , 000 to $ 5 , 000 ; it sold for US $ 3 , 200 ( $ 3 , 840 with premium ) . Miradorn raider . The Miradorn raider , also identified as a " Theta " - class starship , was designed by Ricardo Delgado . ( ) The Miradorn ship model ( measuring 20 " × 21 " ) was listed in the auction with an estimated sale price of US $ 3 , 000 to $ 5 , 000 ; it sold for US $ 3 , 800 ( $ 4 , 560 with premium ) . A foam camera test model of this design , measuring approximately 12½ " × 11 " × 2 " was sold in the It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction . The model was inscribed with various notes , including : " 1 / 4 length of " Enterprise " " , " Eat at Joes " , " No step " , and " For a good time call . . . " . DS9 Season 2 . Bajoran raider . The Bajoran raider or Bajoran fighter as it is sometimes referred to , was the first spaceship design by Jim Martin after his promotion to senior illustrator on . As he recalls , " " I did a Bajoran fighter that Kira and Dax crash . There were a few ships in that episode ; there was a Bajoran transport and a small Bajoran fighter . I remember something really ridiculous about that ship . We intended to re - use these old windows that we had found for the set of the interior , so the windows I designed for the exterior needed to match . I kept trying to come up with a way to incorporate the window frames into the ship design . Then we ended up not using them , but they are still on the miniature ! " " ( ) Martin , however , was partly in error in his recollections ; a custom built cockpit set , that both matched his cockpit design and the cockpit windows on the model , was constructed for , and featured in the " Deep Space Nine " episode , but he was right for the model ' s subsequent appearance . The design was converted into a physical studio model at Tony Meininger ' s model shop Brazil - Fabrication & Design , making its debut in " The Siege " . The model subsequently appeared as a Maquis ship in the episode where its cockpit canopy was slightly modified during the production in order to have it match with the canopy of the slightly redressed Type 6 shuttlecraft interior cockpit set . As part of one of the last batches of existing studio models being translated into CGI model s , a CGI version was built at Digital Muse for , where it appeared in the background . It was later used , unmodified , as an unknown alien ship in the episode . The CGI model was reconfigured to appear as various ships belonging to several species ( and Human , respectively ) in , and . Constructed out of styrene and resin , the physical model , measuring 18 × 15 & frac ; inches and known as , part of the " " auction and estimated at US $ 3 , 000 - $ 5 , 000 , was eventually sold on 6 October 2006 with a winning bid of US $ 4 , 800 ( $ 5 , 760 including buyer ' s premium ) . The model came with a small bag of additional parts , including a removable front landing gear pad . Federation attack fighter . The Federation attack fighter was a Jim Martin design , ( " " , page 298 ) and as a small fighter design betrayed his " Star Wars " influences , giving " excess stomach acid " according to Doug Drexler . The model was eventually built as a physical studio model at Tony Meininger ' s Brazil - Fabrication & Design model shop . Introduced as a Federation ship used by the Maquis in and , it was not until that the design was revealed to be specifically the Federation attack fighter design , implying that the ships used by the Maquis were commandeered vessels . In preparation of the upcoming episode the model was converted into a CGI version . Bruce Branit of Digital Muse recalled , " " There was also the Federation Fighter , which is a smaller one or two man ship that was mixed in with everything else . They ' ve been established in a few other episodes . Toward the end of last season they started showing it in a couple of scenes . That one was built from scratch , as a first edition CG model , off of the real model . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 30 , No . 9 / 10 , pp . 64 - 65 ) Premiering in that episode , the CGI model was later modified at Foundation Imaging to represent the " Nightingale " in and as a in . The physical model , constructed out of glass fiber and resin and measuring 24 × 27 inches , and known as in the " " auction , in which it was estimated at US $ 3 , 000 - $ 5 , 000 , was eventually sold on 6 October 2006 with a winning bid of US $ 9 , 000 ( US $ 10 , 800 including buyer ' s premium ) . DS9 Season 4 . Karemma starship . The Karemma ship first appeared as a physical model in DS9 and , later , a CGI version of the design appeared in VOY and ENT . The physical model measured 34 " × 14 " . The studio model was eventually listed in Christies ' 2006 " " auction . The catalog estimate for the lot was US $ 3 , 000 to $ 5 , 000 ; it ultimately sold for US $ 3 , 200 ( $ 3 , 840 with premium ) . The winners of the lot , a couple from Pennsylvania , were interviewed for The History Channel ' s " " . Physical model ( DS9 ) : CGI model ( VOY / ENT ) : " Additional sources " : " Groumall " - type . After John Eaves joined the art department of DS9 , one of his first jobs was designing the Cardassian freighter that was able to conceal a large gun , tasked to him in August 1995 . His first take on the design was a tip of the hat to Rick Sternbach ' s . " " I took the front end of a " Galor " - class Cardassian ship and tried to fan off from that . Using the front end , kind of sculpting it a little bit differently , and putting all these cargo bays in a row . " " , as he remembers . ( ) The producers found the design too militaristic looking and asked for a more industrial , " freighterish " looking design . Elaborating further , " " It was just a series of boxes , all stacked on top of each other in series of sixes , with a big engine detail on the back and the familiar looking Cardassian fork on the front . They wanted it very " freighterish " so I put the bridge on the back like it is on an oiler tanker of today . ( . . . ) That ' s where this design had come from : it ' s a bunch of huge , huge engines on the back which take it wherever you want to go . They wanted this more than the other one because it is very industrial looking . " " It took Eaves another three months of refining before coming up with a design the producers signed off on in November . Though it was becoming less and less customary to produce full orthographic blueprints for model shops by that time ( three - quarter views were deemed sufficient ) , in this case Eaves did , and sent them off to Tony Meininger ' s Brazil - Fabrication & Design in December , where the studio model was constructed , making its debut in . The model was used twice more as a Cardassian freighter , but was also redressed twice to represent freighters belonging to other species : the first time , repainted but otherwise unmodified as a Nekrit freighter in ( it was in this color scheme that the model later made its last appearance as a Cardassian freighter ) . The second time the model was again repainted , but this time modified with the addition of warp engines and Klingon markings to represent Klingon cargo vessel s in , though Effects Supervisor for the episode David Stipes would have loved to have had a more Klingon design . He later rationalized the use of the Cardassian design , " " We actually wound up using Cardassian freighters that were modified by Tony Meininger , which didn ' t seem all that implausible , considering all the fighting that had been going on between the Klingons and the Cardassians . We painted them Klingon colors , as if they were prizes of war " " . ( " " , p . 500 ) This was the last appearance of the studio model . No CGI model was ever constructed of this design . The model , known as was listed in the " " auction and estimated at US $ 2 , 000 - $ 3 , 000 . It was sold on 6 October 2006 with a winning bid of US $ 5 , 000 ( $ 6 , 000 including buyer ' s premium ) in the modification in which it was last used , namely as a Klingon cargo vessel , to American collector Anthony Sforza . A foam core camera test model sold in May 2008 as for US $ 384 . 00 in a " It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction " . One of Eaves ' design sketches was sold in the Profiles in History " Hollywood Auction 44 " , estimated at US $ 300 - $ 500 , on 15 May 2011 as Lot 1511 for US $ 475 . DS9 Season 7 . Breen warship . The original mesh of the CGI model would be reworked for a later appearance in " Star Trek : Voyager " . For more information on the design of this studio model , see Breen warship . Cardassian workbee . A Cardassian version of a Workbee was seen in , though only barely . Its existence and actual appearance was only firmly confirmed on , being " little more than " atmosphere " around the yard , and never meant to be seen up close " . This last new Digital Muse CGI build for the series was later modified at Foundation Imaging , ( " " p . 467 ) and seen in better detail as an Imhotep ship in .