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1. The missiles, essentially just light tubes, appeared in TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
2. In the remastered version of the episode the simple tubes were replaced with somewhat more detailed CGI versions.

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1. The original Yonada was a slightly egg-shaped body with a comparably smooth and reflective surface (a bit like volcanic rock which would be very unusual in space). The reflections in blue and red seemed to be rather unrealistic because where could all the light come from?
2. While the basic proportions are similar, the remastered version looks blunt and dark, more like an ordinary generic planetoid.

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1. Many alien space vehicles in TOS were nothing but a blinking light, but for the warning buoy in TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" this would make sense. Well, the mentioned mass (especially when we compare it to the powerful manned scout below) is quite a lot for just a buoy...
2. The buoy is explicitly stated to measure 107m. In one shot the cube can be seen directly ahead of the Enterprise, illuminating the ship's saucer edge. Here it looks like it is less than 20m long though.
3. The buoy was reconstructed for the remastered version. It looks the same as in TOS but not quite as blurry.

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1. The Fesarius, designed by Matt Jefferies, is the first alien vessel that ever appeared in Star Trek in TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver".
2. We do not know if Balok may have overstated his importance by making up the "First Federation", of which the Fesarius is the flagship. But after all, the huge vessel must have been built by a yet unknown civilization with advanced technical knowledge - even if we never hear of them again.
3. Spock estimates that the Fesarius "must be a mile in diameter", while his sensors apparently don't work precisely enough. But as the Enterprise approaches and is still over 5000m away, we can see that each of the Fesarius's domes appears to be as wide as the saucer of the Enterprise (130m). This would give the Fesarius overall a much greater diameter than 1600m.
4. The Fesarius was refined for TOS Remastered. The arrangement of the hull segments with its characteristic balls is still the same, as is the size relative to the Enterprise (at least roughly). Most obviously facets were added to the previously smooth single balls that the ship is composed of. Also, a framework is visible between the balls. Although these features are new and were apparently not on the original Fesarius, we may attribute both to the crisper image quality. We could pretend that we previously simply couldn't recognize these details. Also, the color seems to have changed from dirty orange to golden. But the color may have just been corrected for an overly red hue in the old footage.

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1. This vehicle in TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" normally forms a part of the outer hull of the Fesarius. The "pilot vessel", as Balok himself calls it, is somewhat smaller in diameter than a tenth of the Fesarius mothership. With arguably several hundred of such ships of 2,000 metric tons forming the Fesarius, both sizes would be light-weight designs, compared to what we know about starship masses. It may be possible that the balls that the pilot vessel is composed of are actually a lot smaller than the domes of the Fesarius though. The alien ship appears to be overall smaller than the Enterprise when we see the two together.
2. The pilot ship was reproduced for TOS Remastered analogous to the mothership. The glowing of the ship until it is disabled is now bright yellow instead of reddish.

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1. This CGI ship was inserted into the far background of the previously empty viewscreen for TOS-R: "Arena" in 2006. Only a main body and something like wings and nacelles are recognizable on screen. In the views of the CG model as posted at startrek.com the vessel seems to have four nacelles.
2. The detailed side view of the CG model was created for the Official Starships Collection.

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1. Kevin Uxbridge, a Douwd with supernatural abilities, extinguished the whole Husnock civilization in TNG: "The Survivors", after they had slaughtered the settlers on Delta Rana IV, including with his human wife Rishon. We never see an actual enemy vessel in the episode, but only an illusion created by Uxbridge. Although there would be no reason for exactly recreating a Husnock vessel for this hoax, it seems to be the most obvious assumption, seeing how powerful he is anyway. The Husnock race was evidently unknown to Starfleet prior to being extinguished.
2. The Husnock vessel attacks three times. The second and third time we can make out an additional spike on the ventral side. This is the configuration shown on the overall correct depiction of the ship in the Fact Files. The two blue beams from the lateral weapons arrays and the optional third one merge to one beam. Unmistakably there is supposed to be just this one Husnock ship, as positively identified by Data. Only that Riker notes that it looks "meaner" since its second appearance. Interestingly, we can see that there is a long deepening on the ventral side of the vessel in its original configuration. This is probably where the spike was later mounted on the miniature. But on the real vessel it could well pass as a hatch. Whether it is practical or not, the whole large spike looks like it was extended for the second attack.

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1. The Iyaaran shuttle from TNG: "Liaisons" is an extensive redress of the Nenebek from TNG: "The Final Mission" and the J'naii shuttle from TNG: "The Outcast". It will later appear one last time as the Klingon Toron shuttlecraft. As the Iyaarans have made first contact with the Federation immediately prior to the episode, the shuttle is most likely not related to any of its previous incarnations. Fortunately the modifications to the shuttle are relatively extensive except for the characteristic triangular windows which are common to all incarnations of the mock-up.
2. The registry BCD-31775 can be seen on the shuttle model, facing forward on the superstructure. The Federation registry makes absolutely no sense considering that getting one would hardly be the first thing the Iyaarans would do after establishing first contact. On the other hand, it sets a precedent for other non-standard registries mentioned on displays, part of which could belong to alien ships, rather than to ships of Federation member worlds.

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1. The Kriosian battlecruiser shows up in ENT: "Precious Cargo". There is no way it could be related to the visually mostly identical Akritirian ship from VOY: "The Chute", which will be encountered in the Delta Quadrant more than 200 years later.
2. In only three episodes altogether the Kriosians have been retconned twice. In TNG: "The Mind's Eye" they were not shown, but said to be a Klingon protectorate. The Kriosians in TNG: "The Perfect Mate", on the other hand, were apparently independent, but with very outdated technology (which is why they needed the help of the Federation). 220 years earlier, we see that the Kriosians are a technologically advanced empire. What a shameful decline.

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1. This type of Kriosian ships appeared in TNG: "The Perfect Mate" as stock footage of the Talarian warship. Since the Talarian patrol ship and warship look like closely related designs, the various later incarnations of the characteristic warships may be of Talarian origin.
2. Due to a VFX error in the TNG episode we first see a Talarian observation craft (the one with the upright wings) that floats in space alongside the Enterprise. The next scene takes place in the transporter room where the Kriosian ambassador says good-bye to Picard. After that we see the ambassador's ship leave, but this time the Talarian warship (the one with the diagonal wings) is shown. We may decide in favor of the warship, which was on screen for a longer time.

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1. The Ktarian ship from TNG: "The Game" is an unchanged re-use of the Zalkonian warship, which appeared as the Tarellian vessel in its original form. In the first take, the Ktarian ship appears upside down, but it is subsequently flipped to the same orientation as the Zalkonian vessel, obviously because it is partially stock footage from TNG: "Transfigurations".
2. These "evil" Ktarians may not be the same race as the Ktarians in many references and on Voyager. Read here.

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