

The unused design was posted on John's blog, it was the 1st design in that post. Also there was another design that was not used in the film that was given the USS Yeager name, so I wanted to make sure that at least the name made it through. And yes the name Yeager is after Chuck Yeager as is the NCC # 6-1947. "(.) Yes the notch in the front is a forward launch bay. In 2009, Jaeger made these detailed observations about his design, The Saber-class starship was designed by Alex Jaeger at ILM. Jaeger with a commercial Saber-class model The ship scale sheet showing the back-up names and registries can be found on John Eaves' blog. For consistency, Memory Alpha uses the American spelling.ĭuring the pre-production phase of Star Trek: First Contact, the producers approved alternative backups for ship names and registries.

The Star Trek Encyclopedia and ILM both used the American spelling, " Saber", and the British spelling, " Sabre", in several places.
