In-Universe:
The new U.S.S. Defiant is seen docked at Deep Space Nine one last time.
Production:
Unknown which model is used for this far away scene.
*This is the only time the DS9 station was ever seen in CGI. It was created by Meni Tsirbas from Station X Studios in LightWave.
- Cinefantastique Volume 32, Number 4/5 (Page 91)
"I really appreciated working on the last shot of Deep Space Nine. I had a bit of a crusade to prove to the visual effects community that digital animation could look as good as shooting real models. And the space station was always a model. But the very last shot on Deep Space Nine is a pullout from inside the station all the way out, which is impossible to do with the model because if you’re in that close the detail just isn’t there. So I was tasked to build a digital version of the station and then create this cosmic zoom from inside the station then out through the galaxy until you see a nebula. And that was pretty cool."
- Aristomenis (Meni) Tsirbas
AMC Blog, 2009
