As with his other Son'a starship designs, Eaves based the design of his Son'a shuttle on "(...)activity games I found out in the backyard. I wanted to give a whole different kind of look to their architecture, so I kind of went with yard toys - Ru'afo's ship is based on a horseshoe, the battleship is based on a boomerang, the shuttle is a yard dart, and the science vessel ... well, the front of it is sort of a badminton shuttlecock turned inside out." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 21) Eaves later elaborated, "One of the favorite designs I worked on, was the Son'a scoutships. And that was kind of based, again, on the boomerang, but with more of aggressive angles on it. It was primarily written to be seen at night, with just the lights flying by, and they actually did a lot