Potential Controversy
Five years prior to Rick Sternbach's version being published Ed Whitefire contacted Paramount Studios about preparing and publishing the blueprints for the Enterprise-D. When he presented his idea to Star Trek Art Department staff member Andrew Probert, he was given the go ahead to start designing and drawing the Enterprise-D blueprints. After working on the designs for more than two years, his publisher, FASA, lost their contract with Paramount Studios forcing Whitefire to start looking for a new publisher. It was during this time that Whitefire discovered that Rick Sternbach would be publishing his own version of the blueprints.
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