 When the Enterprise enters space dock at the beginning of the movie,  just before Uhura comments on the Excelsiors appearance ("Would you  look at that!"), another docked ship can be seen, in shadow, at the  upper left corner of the screen. This ship is one of the alternative  models that was considered for use as the Excelsior. This alternate  model also makes several appearances in  _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv), usually as a wrecked  ship or piece of space junk.