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The General Star Trek Thread of Earl Grey Tea, Baseball, and KHHHAAAANNNN
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CarbonatedFalcon
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Is that a good thing? How many warp cores did Voyager go through.
Warp Cores = Tampons?
SpoonyBard
Banned
It was just unbelievably stupid design. The sails were tiny.
DrForester
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Would have been even more unbelievably stupid to make them the correct size for a ship that size. The sails probably would have needed to cover an area the size of a Borg Cube, or bigger.
SpoonyBard
Banned
Well, not really, they could at least try to be somewhat realistic. At least make them the size of a football field or ten, it would make some sense...
The Reliant is one of my favourites. Mainly because it's such a different configuration.
I love the Miranda design, but even better was the kit-bashes you could make from it and a few Centaur parts.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
The Defiant is the most badass ship in Starfleet.
Questions?
Questions?
DrForester
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You mean the USS Ben Sisko's Mother Fucking Pimp Hand?
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
I liked the Akira.
Not as badass as the Kumari or the Prometheus.
DrForester
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Far more badass. Prometheus class could even hold off a Romulan attack.
DrForester
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Also want to add that I always like the Nebula Class design as well. It gets rid fotheugly Galaxy Class neck and streamlines it into awesomeness.
Meus Renaissance
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I honestly dont understand why Enterprise gets so much hate. The show did a lot right. I'm seemingly one of the few that enjoyed the title music.
The Librarian
Banned
Prometheus!
Equinox!
Equinox!
Also want to add that I always like the Nebula Class design as well. It gets rid fotheugly Galaxy Class neck and streamlines it into awesomeness.
That looks like a Galaxy class that stubbed its toe.
I like the neck of the Galaxy class. But then I also think the Miranda (with torpedo launchers) and Constitution-Refit classes trounce everything that most people in this thread think is beautiful, so whatever. I don't even understand promoting the looks of the Defiant-class when it's just a giant shuttle, basically.
The 80s-early 90s period of Trek design is when they really got the naval-in-space look down pat. Before that it was too bulby and after that too angular.
googleplex
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AKA Ben Sisko's big black cock.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
So I accidentally got super into next gen. I've watched an episode every night for a few weeks now. So goooooood.
StopMakingSense
Member
Oberth Class out loud, bitches.
Or the Galaxy Class. I swear, Geordi LaForge is a TERRIBLE engineer. The single most important safety protocol on the entire ship NEVER FUCKING WORKS.
Or the Galaxy Class. I swear, Geordi LaForge is a TERRIBLE engineer. The single most important safety protocol on the entire ship NEVER FUCKING WORKS.
Henchmen21
Banned
For once we agree on something.
Dude, Geordi was a great engineer. They rarely needed to eject it since they didn't let situations go that far unlike Voyager who popped them out like used tampons (lol thanks to CarbonatedFalcon for the tampon metaphor).
Cool. What season/episode are you on?
lastplayed
Member
That's funny because one of the earliest criticisms I read about the USS Voyager was that it looked like a maxipad.
The Librarian
Banned
Sovereign class might be my favorite. Such a good looking ship.
I always liked the Akira class too.
Ambassador class
So many good ship designs. Too bad they're all crap in the Abrams universe.
Sovereign class might be my favorite. Such a good looking ship.
Yes, YES. Such a god tier starship design. Always loved it, so sleek and awesome.
The Librarian
Banned
This boy knows what's up.
Henchmen21
Banned
That and you could clearly see a design trend for smaller nacelles in the tng classes. Honestly, the ship designs from First Contact and on really blew chunks.
Wow. Never thought I'd come across a Trek fan who didn't like the Sovereign design...
The Librarian
Banned
Some people don't have taste.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Enterprise did a good job of making the Andorians mean as hell.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Well if we count "unofficial" ships in the discussion I almost like the Bellerophon Class from Star Trek Online the most. The design looks really great in my opinion up until one point... and that being the point where they decided it would be good to overdesign the hull as if it came out of Pimp my Starship :/
Now some might argue that without that overdesign it will look like a Intrepid Class again and that might be true though it fixes what I dislike about it, the movable nacelles were fine but they were a bit too small
If we only count "show" ships I doubt I could decide between the Intrepid, Galaxy and Sovereign Class
Now some might argue that without that overdesign it will look like a Intrepid Class again and that might be true though it fixes what I dislike about it, the movable nacelles were fine but they were a bit too small
If we only count "show" ships I doubt I could decide between the Intrepid, Galaxy and Sovereign Class
I really like STO's "Chimera" class.
Good stuff here: http://www.stowiki.org/Template:Playable_ship_nav
Good stuff here: http://www.stowiki.org/Template:Playable_ship_nav
Escape Goat
Member
Also want to add that I always like the Nebula Class design as well. It gets rid fotheugly Galaxy Class neck and streamlines it into awesomeness.
That just screams "We can't afford to build a new model so we'll stick Enterprise parts together."
Better than the Yeager Class.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Better than the Enterprise-J.
Rei no Otaku
Member
Just watched the episode "Waltz" in Deep Space Nine. Alaimo does a fantastic job playing an unhinged Dukat. I've never hated, yet felt so much pity for a character before.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, No
This thing is supposed to be so big it has transporters instead of turbolifts to get around.
Escape Goat
Member
Enterprise J - I can't decide if its briliant or stupid. On one hand it provides an extremely small profile when being attacked head on. That means it can probably avoid hitting something. But on the other hand its a large profile if you can't reduce your target profile.
It's a really silly design.
It doesn't help that they were trying to get a super far future Enterprise that looked like a derivative of the NX-01 instead of the rest of Starfleet's Enterprises.
On the other hand, at least we got the D'Kyr class out of the show.
The J is a parody of Federation designs, my god.
At least we got the veery Awesome Enterprise design out of Enterprise (Enterprise > Voyager by a huge mile).
The Equinox is such a sexy compact ship. I've always had a HUGE soft spot for the design. It seems so efficient and punchy were as a lot of StarFleet designs have that very elongated look that can make them seem a little... indulgent. I wouldn't want every design to follow the more efficient idea of the Equinox, but I respect how it bucks the trend while still retaining the core elements of a classic Federation Starship.
I also always have absolutely loved to Oberth class Starship. Maybe I just have a thing for shitty starships? But its design is so unique when compared to the rest of StarFleet, I would love to have seen any media in the ST universe dealing with a crew on said ship. As a research (or was it exploration?) vessel, it seems so different from most of the other non enterprise ships we ever get privy to, which always seemed to be presented as Pepsi versions of the real McCoy.
Miranda Class also gets special mention, to a lesser degree as does its successor
But honestly? God Tier
Such a beautiful fusion of ST era designs. It looks so... stubborn.
At least we got the veery Awesome Enterprise design out of Enterprise (Enterprise > Voyager by a huge mile).
Equinox!
The Equinox is such a sexy compact ship. I've always had a HUGE soft spot for the design. It seems so efficient and punchy were as a lot of StarFleet designs have that very elongated look that can make them seem a little... indulgent. I wouldn't want every design to follow the more efficient idea of the Equinox, but I respect how it bucks the trend while still retaining the core elements of a classic Federation Starship.
I also always have absolutely loved to Oberth class Starship. Maybe I just have a thing for shitty starships? But its design is so unique when compared to the rest of StarFleet, I would love to have seen any media in the ST universe dealing with a crew on said ship. As a research (or was it exploration?) vessel, it seems so different from most of the other non enterprise ships we ever get privy to, which always seemed to be presented as Pepsi versions of the real McCoy.
Miranda Class also gets special mention, to a lesser degree as does its successor
But honestly? God Tier
Such a beautiful fusion of ST era designs. It looks so... stubborn.
And the Surak class.
Escape Goat
Member
The Ambassador looks like a rugged and capable ship. You can blow it halfway to hell and it'll still keep going.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Unconventional but I really like these.
Prometheus Class
funkystudent
Member
So Avery Brooks is nothing like I expected him to be.
Watched a interview with him and he is some crazy beatnik.
Watched a interview with him and he is some crazy beatnik.
StopMakingSense
Member
Nah, going through TNG there are a lot of situations where the warp core ejector failed. Really hilarious.
The ST:O mission sequel to Yesterday's Enterprise really shows it off, even if it's still pretty weak against Tholians.
Thaedolus
Member
Looks like the Enterprise E got run over
DrForester
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Dauntalus class? Someone apparently forgot that was an alien ship that was only disguised as a federation ship.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Someone didn't and he also didn't care
Doublesith
Member
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