doubleofive said:

Someone already made a partial refit Enterprise they were going to use in the Phase II fan episodes:

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/images/sneek/PIIent0000_st-MED.jpg

The problem/blessing about this: it's made by Daren Dochterman, the visual effects supervisor for The Director's Edition! I'm not sure how willing he would be to help a fan film of the film he helped basically fan film a few years ago, but it might be worth a shot to ask him to render us some new quick shots. I follow his blog (http://blog.darendoc.com/), but when I posted a link to the Special Longer Version, he removed it for fear of looking like he was supporting piracy. Still, he might want to help...

FF, I think you should ask him! Maybe he'd render some Klingon battle shots!

I'm willing to give it a shot, but only after I get some of the major problem scenes (that I have the skills to complete myself) finished. That way I have a good amount of finished product to show him (and other talent) as an example of what this edit is trying to (and can) accomplish. I have no idea of how long a project like this will take to get finished, and would not want to ask anyone to commit that kind of serious work time until I have provided a huge amount of finished segments myself. But it's an exciting idea.