Editing Mission Scout (section)

==Background==

According to its designer, John Eaves, the mission scout was designed to reflect the appearance of the USS Defiant and the Danube-class runabout. Overall, it was to have been given the appearance of a being both "compact" and "aerodynamic."

Michael Piller wanted the scene involving the scoutship to be similar to a World War I and II dogfight, where both pilots were in open cockpits, and could see each other. John Eaves' solution to this was to create a vast windshield in the front of the ship.

The cockpit of this class was a reuse of the set designed for the class 2 shuttle Cochrane for Star Trek: Voyager.

It is uncertain whether this vessel can be classed as a shuttlecraft, a runabout or a starship in its own right, but, like the latter two, it carried a distinct registry number from the Enterprise (the scoutship's registry is NCC-75227). However, this could be the registry number of its mothership, just as the shuttle it pursued had the NCC-1701-E registry of the vessel it was attached to.

That being the case, its mothership could be the USS Ticonderoga and NCC-75227 would be its registry number. The USS Ticonderoga is listed in the Star Trek: Encyclopedia as being the Federation starship that inserted the duck blind mission team onto the Ba'ku planet.