Editing Bird-of-Prey (section)

==Technical data==
===Physical arrangement===
Remarkably similar in design to similar era Federation starships, the Romulan bird-of-prey was designed with a sole primary hull configuration. 

Grey in color, with its namesake bird design painted on the hull, the bird-of-prey was essentially saucer with parallel warp nacelles mounted port and starboard of the main body. The aft of the ship was designed with a raised "fin." (TOS: "Balance of Terror", etc.) 

Dialog in the shooting script (never used and never filmed) had Commander Hansen speculate that the Romulan Bird-of-Prey was designed from stolen Starfleet ship blueprints. In further unused/unaired dialog Stiles later remarks on this in his tirades against Spock. 

===Tactical systems=== 
Firing a plasma torpedo.Although incapable of matching the Federation's Constitution-class starship one-on-one, the ship still featured several technological advances that were previously unattainable to Federation science: the first practical invisibility screen, and the massively powerful plasma torpedo. This class of starship had a single forward torpedo launcher. It also carried a number of nuclear weapons.