In his latest Star Trek Online dev diary, Executive Producer Dan Stahl gives players an interesting look into how the team selected a single winner for the Design the Next Enterprise Contest. He explains that the design they chose actually made them think about why Starfleet would move in that direction with the Enterprise, which is why it stood out above the rest.

Stahl also discusses how Jeremy, one of the lead artists, built the 3D model of the ship (seen above). In the next dev blog entry, Jeremy will cover "how this Clay Model spawned weeks of iteration over the concept of the ship and how to finalize a concept drawing for the Next Enterprise."