Based on context, I'm assuming nadir wasn't actually the word you meant to use? (I'll admit I was pretty confused at first for much of the post.The STO ships are nothing more than derivative crap based on previous, far better designs.
For me, the nadir of good starship design was the TNG era and the Galaxy class family, including the Ambassador class. Anything designed by Probert, Sternbach, Miarecki, and Jim Martin (mainly the Defiant) I tend to like. I wish there were more Galaxy and Ambassador variants than what we ended up seeing on screen. By the time of FC, ENT, and CBSTrek, my enthusiasm for new ship designs has waned, mainly because in my judgment, the people currently designing stuff simply don’t have the same level of creativity that those other people had.

Agreed on STO.
