Quote Originally Posted by McCreed View Post
Agreed.
It's weird, but the border actually makes the Enterprise look larger. (optical dillusion?)
I see that. I think the illusion is our brain interpreting the closest boundary in each design as the same size, which means the enterprise that is closest on the edges must be larger.

I think I would use a blue LED on this one, to echo the blue thingy on the front of the secondary hull. Trivia, I think this image that I shamelessly grabbed is from the Star Trek VI movie.