Worst Starfleet ship design

[Icy_Penguigo]

Top Five(In order of worst to...uh....less worst):

1. NX-01...don't even get me started

2. Steamrunner...just a bizarre design(and not in a good way)

3. The other two Starfleet ship designs shown in Enterprise...they actually managed to be uglier than the NX-01 somehow

4. The Romulan Bird of Prey...don't get me wrong, it's a classic design. But it looks like the stuck wings on the ship from Fantastic Voyage or This Island Earth.

5. Voyager...it looked like a spoon, and it had ridiculously tiny and silly warp engines

Honorable mention goes out to the Klingon Vor'cha and Negh'var classes. Pure ugly and uninspired next to the beautiful, graceful, and deadly D7.

 

[Pendragon]

My choice would be the 3 nacelle Galaxy variant from "All Good Things...". It just seems ... wrong. Any 3 nacelle version is ca-ca to me.

 

[LutherSloan]

My choice would be the 3 nacelle Galaxy variant from "All Good Things...". It just seems ... wrong. Any 3 nacelle version is ca-ca to me.

BLASPHEMY!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I never liked the Intrepid-class, personally.

The NX-01, on the other hand--I don't see what was so awful about that. Of course it's not going to evoke visions of grandeur; the thing is a prototype, like everything else about humanity's endeavors in the stars at that point. It fits the show and the time period it's in.

I suppose, but I can't shake the feeling that it's closer to the Civil-War ironclads than to Kirk's Enterprise in design.

Honestly, I thought that's what the designers WANTED--for us to be able to relate the design more to things seen in our time than things seen in the shows further in the future. This is consistent with the inside set design: look at a control panel on the NX-01 and it should evoke the inside of the space shuttle or an Apollo capsule. Look at the uniforms and you should think of a flight suit from our time much more than you'd think of anything else you'd see in the series. Even the way the characters speak sounds more like the 21st century than the hyper-refined speech of the 24th century. To me, it all comes part and parcel.

It seems I'm almost alone on this, but from where I stand, I thought there was a lot of attention paid to coming up with a good hybrid between the 21st century and 23rd.

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

The worst starfleet ship design for me would be:

Yeager
Norway Class
Saber Class
Steamrunner Class
NX-01 (it almost look like a copy of the Akira Class)

Centaur class - perhaps with having those things on the bottom of the saucer...what are those?

How is the Galaxy Class, Nebula Class, Intrepid Class and Defiant Class the worst design? I like them anyways.

 

[Krieg1981]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/krieg1981/excelsior-variant1-big.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/krieg1981/USS_Enterprise-D_Generations.jpg
What the hell is this? Scale?

 

[Nedersong]

Many of the kitbashed designs.

The ringed ship.

The phase II model.

 

[Shintaek]

My choice would be the 3 nacelle Galaxy variant from "All Good Things...". It just seems ... wrong. Any 3 nacelle version is ca-ca to me.

Second. It looks like the engineers just glued it in. Although that's probably what the set designers actually did with the models.

 

[diankra]

I'm gonna have to go with the NX-01. The catamarans kept their upward curve, but the nacelles were moved up, the ends of the catamarans were tapered to a ridiculous point, which ended up making it look unbalanced. Also, I'm a annoyed by the idea that EVERY Federation Starfleet ship would be based soley on HUMAN design principles.

That's an interesting thought - it would have been nice if the NX01 had looked radically different to UFP ships, and then when (say) the Andorians turned up, we discovered that the saucer-engineering-twin nacelles designs was an approach of theirs' that Starfleet later adopted.
But of course, the off-screen logic was that NX01 had to look like a 'Star Trek ship'...

 

[The Wormhole]

-The DS9 kitbashes, particuarly the one compirsed of an Intrepid saucer attached to a Maquis raider. Just horrible.

-The three-nacelled Enterprise D from All Good Things. Looks like a fanboy redesign.

-The NX-01. They took a relatively cool looking ship (the Akira) and made it into ugly and wrong.

-The Delta Flyer. It's ugly, it's as simple as that. There is nothing appealing about how it looks.

 

[RAMA]

Agreed, the DS9 kitbashes are horrific!! In addition to that, the Stargazer is awful!

 

[Rarewolf]

The fact that the NX01 Enterprise profile went unused (or at least unseen) for 200 years or so until the Akira class would suggest it had limited uses compared to other designs. And wasn't the Akira a Shuttle carrier?

Whereas the Oberth class was still being used into the TNG era. Must of had something good going for it!

 

[Renvar]

One design that always irked me was the Daedelus-class, and the similarly structured Olympic-class that was the design of Captain Crusher's ship, the Pasteur.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I would have to go with Voyager. I just didn't like the way the saucer sat on the hull the way it did. I also wasn't a big fan of the crayon shaped nacelles, and didn't quite get why they had to go up and down all the time for warp travel, aside from that the producers just thought it would look nifty. I never liked the Excelsior either, but I think it was designed by necessity of the story to be a big ugly clunker anyway. I agree that the NX Enterprise definitely looked way too sleek and advanced to be a predecessor to the 1701, but I thought it was a pretty cool looking ship just the same. As to my favorite, I was always kinda partial to the Reliant.

 

[The Wormhole]

And wasn't the Akira a Shuttle carrier?

That's not canon, it's only fanon speculation.

 

[Trekker4747]

The Yeager by FAR.

Close second for me would be the Constellation class.

 

[ShinRa Actual]

And wasn't the Akira a Shuttle carrier?

That's not canon, it's only fanon speculation.

The guy who designed it (Name escapes me at the moment..Jaeger?) said in an interview that the Akira was supposed to be a "gunboat/carrier" type with a through-deck shuttlebay fore & aft, and 15 or so torpedo launchers. Not exactly the best 'canon', but not fanon I'd think.

 

[sbk1234]

For me, judging strictly on aesthetics, I'd go with DS9's Defiant. Sorry, but to me it lacks all grace and beauty. I nicknamed it the war-tortoise. It may function as a kick-ass ship, but I hate the design. I suppose that may make it the most realistic ship of all!

Dishonorable mention goes to the kit-bashes from DS9. I don't mind kit-bashes in general, but those just looked crappy.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Any of the little crappy ships fighting the Borg in "First Contact".

The Intrepid class.

And of course the really crummy Soverign class Enterprise E.

The Borg Queen ship from "Voyager".

The Jem'Hadar fighting ship (and the big ones)


I ahve to say, my favorite designs are the Enterprise A and D. Beverly's ship from "All Good Things...", the TNG Romulan warbird, Ferengi maurader, and the TOS movies Bird of Prey.

And for some reason I liked the fake Starfleet ship from "Voyager's "Hope and Fear" (right episode?) -- the Dauntless.

 

[The Wormhole]

And wasn't the Akira a Shuttle carrier?

That's not canon, it's only fanon speculation.

The guy who designed it (Name escapes me at the moment..Jaeger?) said in an interview that the Akira was supposed to be a "gunboat/carrier" type with a through-deck shuttlebay fore & aft, and 15 or so torpedo launchers. Not exactly the best 'canon', but not fanon I'd think.

Shit, he said that? I was familiar with those stats, but I thought they were fanmade, maybe from a video game. I didn't realize there was some official backing to it.