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TYPE: LIGHTSHIP

LAUNCHED: 16th C
BAJORAN
SOLAR-SAILOR
CREW: 2

NUMBER OF DECKS: 1
 Contents
P04: BAJORAN SOLAR-SAILOR
SOL AR- SAILOR
P10: THE BAJORAN SYSTEM

P12: DESIGNING THE SHIP

P18: ON SCREEN

Stand assembly:
The stand hooks over
the back of the cabin.

u
Final position

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BAJORAN SOLAR-SAILOR
SPECIFICATION

TYPE: LIGHTSHIP

IN OPERATION: 16th CENTURY – 22nd CENTURY

DECKS: 1

CREW: 2

WEAPONRY: NONE

POWERED BY: SOLAR SAILS

TOP SPEED: SUBLUMINAL BUT WARP POSSIBLE

VIA TACHYON EDDIES

B A J ORA N

SOLAR-SAILOR
Ancient Bajorans used these simple solar-sail powered
spacecraft to explore their star system and beyond.
 SHIP PROFILE

DATA FEED
Many believed that the ancient Bajorans could not
have travelled very far in their solar-sailor vessels
because they would need to have passed through
the Denorios Belt. This was an unstable region of
space in the Bajor system filled with severe neutrino
disturbances and tachyon eddies, as well as being
the location of the Bajoran wormhole.

B
ajoran solar-sailor vessels were ancient Certainly, Chief Miles O’Brien was skeptical that
spacecraft that used enormous reflective sails it would work, and he was sure that it could not
to harness the power of light pressure from have made it all the way to Cardassia. He pointed
Bajor’s sun to provide propulsion, much in the same out that at sublight speeds the journey would have
way as a sailboat does with the wind. taken years, and the limited room on board the
More than 800 years ago, when humans were vessel meant the air supply would only last a few
first sailing across oceans, the Bajorans used these weeks. He also doubted the fragile ship would have
solar-sailor vessels, or lightships, to explore their star survived the expedition, as encountering any kind
system. It was believed by some historians that these of ion storm would have torn the sails to pieces and
ancient vessels even managed to reach Cardassia left the ship stranded.
in the neighbouring star system, but as these fragile
ships were not designed for faster-than-light travel TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION
it was thought unlikely this was possible. Despite O’Brien’s doubts, Sisko pressed on with
In 2371, Benjamin Sisko became fascinated by the project, building the solar-sailor vessel in one
these ancient lightships after seeing blueprints for of Deep Space 9’s cargo bays using the same
them while visiting the reopening of an old library materials and tools as the ancient Bajorans
on Bajor that had the most extensive collection of had done. In just a few weeks Sisko completed
antiquities on the planet. He decided to use these the vessel, impressing his colleagues with the
plans to build an authentic replica of a solar-sailor fine, detailed craftsmanship that went into its
vessel to see if it was spaceworthy. construction. The only concession to modern

p Sisko built an exact replica of a solar-sailor vessel that the

Bajorans used as early as the 16th century. They included a
small living capsule surrounded by enormous solar-wind
sails. The ships featured elegant craftsmanship, but were
also fragile and not designed for faster-than-light speeds.

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 SHIP PROFILE SOLAR-SAILOR OVERVIEW

 Once all its sails were

deployed, the solar-
sailor looked like a cross
between a daddy
longlegs and a butterfly.

q When the starboard

spritsail became
damaged, Sisko was
forced to jettison it by
detonating a small
charge at the base
of the mast.

technology that Sisko made was to install a gravity was now no longer running as smoothly as it had
net in the floor, as weightlessness made him feel sick. done before, but Sisko and his son were determined
After launching from Deep Space 9, it did not not to let this setback end the journey and they
take them long to get the sails in position, catch decided to press ahead.
the light pressure from the Bajoran sun and start
to sail across the star system. Even Jake, who had WARP SPEED
initially been reluctant to join his father on the trip, The solar-sailor had not gone much further when
was struck by the romanticism of the mode of it was hit by a powerful force that tore the port
transport as the ship sailed silently and serenely mainsail clean off and catapulted the ship forward
among the stars. at warp speed.
The solar-sailor initially performed very well, but It transpired that the vessel had been caught in a
part way through the journey the support for the tachyon eddy, a naturally-occurring phenomenon
starboard spritsail gave way and it ended up common in the Bajoran system, that scooped it
blocking one of the mainsails. Unable to fix it, Sisko up and propelled it at faster than light speeds.
was forced to jettison the spritsail by detonating Normally, tachyon eddies were not powerful
a small charge at the base of its support. The ship enough to affect spaceships, but because the solar-

6 SOLAR-SAILOR OVERVIEW
 SHIP PROFILE

u Jake was slightly

shocked and amused
by how small the ship’s
‘head’ or bathroom was.
It was barely big enough
for him to fit inside.

 The interior was full

of exquisitely crafted
materials, but it was
cramped. The winch
assemblies were used
to unfurl and control the
sails. The angle of the
sails and thus direction
of travel could be altered
by subtle adjustment of
the winches.

 Three Cardassian
warships put on a
fireworks show as they
begrudgingly celebrated
the achievement of
Sisko’s solar ship.

sailor had a large surface-area-to-mass ratio, their

impact on the sails accelerated it to warp speed. DATA FEED
By the time the solar-sailor was ejected from the As a Starfleet officer in charge of
tachyon eddy, it had travelled several light years, Deep Space 9, Sisko had little time
for outside interests. Prior to his
and Sisko and Jake initially had no idea where they
appointment at the space station,
were. It was only when three Cardassian warships
he had a background in engineering
appeared that they realised they had been flung and served at the Utopia Planitia
clear across the Denorias Belt and all the way to Fleetyards where, among other things,
the Cardassian system. he helped develop the U.S.S. Defiant
Sisko and Jake had proved that it was possible NX-74205. It was only natural that
he jumped at the chance to build a
for the solar-sailor vessels to have reached as far as
Bajoran solar-sailor and indulge his
Cardassia. In a suspicious coincidence, it was only
passion for ship design. Many of his
then that the Cardassians admitted that they had colleagues remarked on how happy
recently found the remains of a Bajoran lightship he was working on the project and
on Cardassia, proving beyond doubt that these how well he built it.
ancient vessels were capable of interstellar flights.

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 SHIP PROFILE SOLAR-SAILOR PLAN VIEWS

INSIDE THE SOLAR-SAILOR

The interior of the solar-sailor was small and
cramped with a low ceiling, but the use of rich DATA FEED
woods and ornate metal work for the pipes, The Bajorans used solar-sailor vessels
to explore their region of space as
valve assemblies and analogue gauges made
early as the 16th century. This was 400
it a cozy, elegant environment. years before humans had achieved
The finish of the fittings in the interior may have any type of manned spaceflight.
been lavish, but it was sparsely furnished. There
were no chairs or beds, and when it came time
to sit or sleep, the crew had to perch wherever
they could find space or string up a hammock.
The one piece of furniture in the interior was a
small table where star charts could be unrolled
and laid out, while a sextant fastened to the
Solar spritsail
wall was used for navigation.

Spritsail mast

 The interior had beautifully crafted fixtures, but it was sparsely

furnished as the crew had to work the winches for the sails.

Solar jib sail

Living capsule

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 Solar mainsail

STAR TREK FIRST

The first ever mention
of a bathroom in STAR
TREK history is made
in the episode that
features the Bajoran
Windows Spritsail support
solar-sailor, when Jake
Sisko commented on
the compact size of its
Living capsule Starboard support facilities.

POET & PROPHETS

Bajoran poet Akorem
Laan was travelling in
a Bajoran solar-sailor
in 2174 when it was
damaged by an ion
storm and drifted into
the Bajoran wormhole.
The Prophets returned
him to the Alpha
Quadrant two hundred
years later in 2372.

TACHYON POWER
Tachyons are particles
that are always
travelling faster than
light. They are often
associated with time
travel, but in the case
of the solar sailor an
interstellar current of
these particles swept it
to warp speeds and into
the Cardassian system.
THE
p The Bajoran system contains 14 planets, most of which are rich in
natural resources. Bajor’s homeworld is the 11th planet in the system.

Bird-of-Prey
BAJORAN SYSTEM
T
he Bajoran system is located Denorios Belt between the two systems Smaller Bajoran colonies are also
approximately 50 light years away eight centuries earlier. This was done in located on Free Haven, although their
from the core Federation worlds, relatively flimsy vessels that used solar future was severely threatened by an
far deeper into the Alpha Quadrant sails for power – an impressive attack by Breen privateers in 2372.
than Earth’s Sol system. The closest engineering and navigational feat. Dreon VII is one of the furthest Bajoran
neighbouring systems are Cardassian colonies regularly visited by freighters
space and the Valo system, located EXTENSIVE SYSTEM from Bajor, with Prophet’s Landing being
in neutral space very close to the The central star of the Bajoran system is the Bajoran colony closest to the
Cardassian border, and containing Bajor-B’hava’el, which has 14 planets Cardassian border, and large enough
at least three habitable planets. revolving around it. These include eight to warrant its own governor.
At five and a quarter light years, the terrestrial worlds, of which Bajor XI is the The Bajoran system is most renowned
Bajoran system was once a safe primary homeworld; three gas giants; for containing temporal anomalies and
distance from Cardassian space. The and three ice/rock conglomerates. In astronomical phenomena. One of the
development of warp drive, however, the case of Bajor, its rich deposits of most fascinating areas is the Denorios
ultimately led to the Cardassians uridium were one of the primary reasons Belt, a charged plasma field which
reaching Bajor, where they plundered for Cardassian occupation, and for the contains unusually severe neutrino
the Bajorans’ rich natural resources construction of processing facilities, disturbances and tachyon eddies.
having exhausting their own reserves. such as Terok Nor and Empok Nor. The Denorios Belt is also the location
Archaeological finds on Cardassia The second inhabited planet within of the artificially created, verteron-
Prime proved that Bajorans were the system is Bajor VIII, consisting of six driven phenomenon known as the
successful in crossing the dangerous colonies and at least two moons. Bajoran wormhole, which allows vessels
 BAJORAN System

p The Bajoran wormhole became the most p Deep Space 9 was initially called Terok Nor and built
strategically important location in the Alpha Quadrant. by the Cardassians to process minerals stripped from Bajor.

The Bajoran system included some unusual space phenomena,

including the Denorios Belt, the home of the Bajoran wormhole.

to travel to the Gamma Quadrant the Gamma Quadrant, but contact attempted to destroy the Bajoran sun
almost instantly. It is referred to by the with the Dominion changed all that. with a trilithium explosive device.
spiritual Bajoran people as the Celestial Following the end of the Dominion
Temple, and they looked upon its KEY LOCATION War in 2375, Bajor applied to join the
discovery as absolute proof of the The Bajoran system suddenly became a Federation. It was hoped that with their
Prophets’ existence. key strategic position in the war with help, the Bajorans could use the rich
It made the Bajoran system one of the Dominion that followed. The whole natural resources of their system to
the most important regions in the Alpha system came under severe threat, rebuild their society that had suffered
Quadrant for the economic and never more so than in 2373 when a so much, first at the hands of the
scientific opportunities it offered with Changeling posing as Dr. Julian Bashir Cardassians and then the Dominion.

p In 2373, a Changeling posing as Dr. Bashir stole p The Changeling Odo was found adrift as an infant in p Derna, Bajor’s fourth moon, was used as a field
a runabout and tried to destroy the Bajoran sun. his natural gelatinous state inside the Denorios Belt. hospital for Romulan troops during the Dominion War.

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 Unusually for STAR TREK, the Bajoran
solar-sailing ship had an organic design
that Herman Zimmerman described as
having a “Jules Verne” feel.

DESIGNING THE

BAJORAN SOLAR-
The Bajoran solar-sailing ship was a radical design departure
that owed as much to Jules Verne as the U.S.S. Enterprise.

T
he Bajoran solar-sailor ship was one for propulsion, the art department knew to three weeks,” said Martin. “They’ll let
of the most unusual and elegant that it needed to look quite different us know that something like the Bajoran
vessels to appear on STAR TREK. from anything they had designed solar-sailor is coming down the pipe so
It was specially designed for the third before. Fortunately, as concept artist we have more time to start coming up
season STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE Jim Martin remembered, they had some with ideas. We found out from René
episode ‘Explorers’. In the story, Sisko advance warning and time to prepare. Echevarria, who wrote the script, that
found the plans for an ancient craft in this was going to be a father/son
a Bajoran library and decided to build EXTRA TIME episode with Sisko and Jake, and they
one to prove that it could make an “Normally when there’s an element in a were going to make a solar-sailor. It got
interstellar journey. script that is going to need some special us excited.”
The solar-sailor had its origins in Bajor’s design we will find out from the writers Normally when a ship was only
past, and because it used solar winds very much ahead of time, maybe two needed for one episode there was little
 DESIGNING THE SHIP

p Jim Martin began by sketching out a few different ideas showing how a solar-sailing ship might work.
One of his first ideas involved using a parachute-style device attached to the front of the ship.

SAILOR SHIP
scope to design anything special, but ship would work. “The original script they would have to be deployed
this time, Martin said, the brief allowed talked about a means of propulsion outward in a circular fan shape.”
them to be creative. which uses the ions in space to propel
“There’s a lot of recycling of ships a craft, which would in layman’s terms SCIENCE & FANTASY
that have been used before, dressed be the solar wind. The writer indicated Knowing that he had to incorporate
differently for different cultures, so there that the ship was propelled by huge these sails, Martin sat down and began
isn’t really a chance to do a lot of new expanding solar sails that took to sketch out some ideas. He says that
things if it’s just going to be a one advantage of the direction of the wind at first he tried to come up with a ship
episode ship,” said Martin. “But, similar to the way a sailboat works on that was scientifically practical. “We did
because this was very specific about the oceans of the Earth. do some things with very large sails,”
what the design had to be, we needed “It was a fairly direct approach said Martin, “because, obviously, a
to come up with something new – it was except that in space you’re not sailing solar-sailor would need massive solar
a nice treat.” on a fluid that’s underneath you, you’re collectors to even be feasible.” Then,
As production designer Herman sailing in a hydrogen-enriched vacuum; during the pre-production process, the
Zimmerman explained, he and Martin in space that is all around you, so the producers made a subtle modification
began by thinking how a solar-sailing sails couldn’t be just above the ship – to the way the ship worked; instead of

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 DESIGNING THE SHIP BAJORAN SOLAR-SAILOR

 Another of Jim Martin’s early ideas was

for a series of sails to be attached to the ship
by ‘ropes.’ He described these ideas as
‘throwaways’ that never got serious attention.

being propelled by ions, which really was delighted with this new, more the idea of wings – sails as wings. We did
exist, it used tachyons – hypothetical organic direction, which rapidly led do some different things, but I think
faster-than-light particles that were to the final design. that’s what everyone was thinking right
often used in STAR TREK epsiodes. off the bat, and that’s what it ended up
The change may not seem that ELEGANT BUTTERFLY being. It’s essentially butterfly-like.”
important, but it had a major influence “It was a nice change to do something Zimmerman explained that they did
on the design. Since nobody could say that was more fantasy and less not consciously set out to make the ship
exactly how tachyons worked, Martin science,” said Martin. “This was going look like a butterfly; it was simply a
and Zimmerman felt that they did not to be a ship very much in the fantasy fortunate accident. “The ship has a
have to be too concerned about the realm, as opposed to the hardware of very insect-like quality while not being
science behind how it worked. In fact, a starship, so it was always going to be intentionally modelled after an insect. It
they abandoned the whole idea of elegant instead of practical. I think my was a fragile ship from Bajor’s ancient
looking scientific in favour of a more first reaction as an illustrator was to do past, and that made the challenge very
aesthetic, romantic approach. Martin something symmetrical, and to play on sweet because we were able to go

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 DESIGNING THE SHIP

backwards from the future and reinvent romantic; it was kind of a Jules Verne build it as a computer-generated
what ancient Bajoran science was. That approach crossed with the Bajoran model; this made it far easier to
was fun.” motif, which was basically a manipulate the sails as they billowed
combination of Eastern cultures. If you in the solar wind. Martin remembered
BAJORAN STYLE look at the design, you’ll see a lot of being particularly impressed with the
That Bajoran design ethic had a pierced work where the inside and the results this produced.
profound effect on the finished ship. outside are the same structure. It’s “One of the really nice touches that
Martin said, “The Bajoran stuff is gentle typical, I think, of Japanese architecture the digital people did to it was to have
and elegant and ornate. Also, it’s to see the structure and not to hide it.” the sails unfold as it launches. We talked
supposed to be a ship from far in the Once the ship had been designed, about it doing that, but there were
past; I think as humans we look back on it was handed over to Dan Curry’s VFX never any drawings done for the
earlier designs and a more elegant age, team. Although at that point most STAR unfolding in the art department; we just
and you put that into the Bajorans too.” TREK ships were made as practical kept saying, ‘Yeah, and then it’s going
Zimmerman went on to add, “The models, they decided that the best way to unfold,’ and I believe that’s because
Bajoran influence made it more to handle the Bajoran solar-sailor was to it was in René’s [Echevarria] script. So

 Caption

p Herman Zimmerman and Jim Martin soon settled

on a very romantic direction that emphasised the ship’s
origins in Bajor’s past. This organic design was a major
departure from the ship’s normally seen in STAR TREK.

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 DESIGNING THE SHIP BAJORAN SOLAR-SAILOR

 Herman Zimmerman and Jim Martin made

one final modification to their design, adding
a jib sail to the top of the ship. This way, the
small, turtle-like capsule was surrounded by
sails, making the design very efficient.

 This drawing was part of the plans used in

the show when Sisko discovered the blueprints
of the solar-sailor in the Bajoran library.

16 BAJORAN SOLAR-SAILOR
 t The art department
created the plans of
the ship that Sisko
found in the library
by transferring Jim
Martin’s original
drawings and adding
some Bajoran
symbols, including
the ancient text.

t The Bajoran plans depicted the main

body of the ship on its own minus the
enormous sails. Jim Martin described
the solar-sailor as being like a “Bajoran
turtle with gossamer wings”.

we didn’t address that at all. That was t The CGI version

handled entirely by the digital of the Bajoran
solar-sailor was
department.”
created by John
Knoll at Industrial
ONE OF A KIND Light & Magic. The
Zimmerman and Martin both named computer effects were
particularly good
the finished ship as a personal favourite,
at making the sails
though Martin said that might be ripple and billow.
because it was not seen again. “When
it’s a one-show ship, maybe you like the
design a little bit more in one sense
because you get nostalgic and think,
‘It’s too bad we can’t use it again.’”
 APPEARANCES BIRD-OF-PREY
SOLAR-SAILOR
NCC-1701-D

ON SCREEN TRIVIA
Leeta, the dabo girl who eventually goes on
to marry Rom, makes her first appearance
in ‘Explorers’. Chase Masterson, the actress
who plays her, originally auditioned to play
the role of Mardah, Jake Sisko’s girlfriend.
When she was turned down for that part,
she was instead cast as Leeta, who was
originally intended to be just a one-episode
character. The producers were so impressed
with her performance that they decided to
make Leeta one of the recurring characters
of the show beginning in season four.

René Echevarria, the writer of ‘Explorers’,

told production designer Herman
FIRST APPEARANCE: ‘EXPLORERS’ (DS9)
Zimmerman that the solar-sailor should
MOVIE APPEARANCES: None have a “Jules Verne look with a wooden
TV APPEARANCES: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE cabin outfitted with brass”. To achieve this,
Zimmerman added some real sailing
DESIGNED BY: Jim Martin
equipment to the interior of the ship.

KEY APPEARANCE Upon its launch, Sisko and Jake crank

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE the winches to deploy the sails and the
‘EXPLORERS’ ship sails serenely away, proving that
While visiting the reopening of a library the design works.
on Bajor, Sisko comes across blueprints Sisko and Jake are enjoying the
of an old solar-sailing vessel that the adventure immensely when first one
Bajorans used 800 years earlier to of the spritsails breaks, and shortly
explore their star system. after a mainsail is torn off as the ship
Some historians believe that these accelerates to faster-than-light speeds.
ships reached as far as Cardassia, even When the ship drops out of warp, it is The solar-sailor was recognised as “the
though they did not have warp drive badly damaged and Sisko has no idea most imaginative use of a vehicle to travel
in space” and awarded the ‘Vision of the
and were merely powered by light where they are.
Future’ award by the Space Frontier
pressure from the sun. Adrift in space, Jake suddenly spots
Foundation in 1995. The award was
Intrigued by the ancient vessels, Sisko Cardassian warships approaching. His
presented by Robert Staehle, the world’s
decides to recreate one and take his concern then turns to delight when Gul
foremost expert on solar sails.
son, Jake, on a journey to see just how Dukat congratulates them for making it
far they can travel in it. all the way to Cardassian space.

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