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Great ships to come out of TNG

The Olympic-class Pasteur. Too bad we had to wait until the end of TV TNG for it.
As for ships from the films, I really like the Akira and Norway classes from First Contact, and the stylish, intricate Son'a ships (except the Collector) from Insurrection.
 
I'd love to see a CGI with a Galaxy, Nebula, Intrepid, Olympic, Original Ambassador, Saber Mk-1, and maybe New Orleans, Cheyenne Class ships as part of some task-force or something in orbit over a planet. Maybe a few original creations following that design esthetic too. For me, that was the Federation at its peak.

RAMA, Gomtuu was an interesting living ship. Not exactly pretty, like the So'na battleship, but fascinating certainly. Living in it, symbiotically, would be weird.
 
cultcross said:
I agree, although I'd throw the Defiant and the Negh'var in as great post TNG designs along with Deep Space Nine itself.

TNG created iconic ship designs for its major races that really were never matched later on. Probably the D'Deridex and the Borg Cube are the most iconic designs from the TNG era. The new Romulan designs for Nemesis, for example, are just too busy in my opinion, over detailed. TNG did quite simple smooth surfaced ships which relied on iconic shapes and silhouettes to distinguish themselves.
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I agree with this entire post except that wasn't the Negh'var seen in "All Good Things" and then got recycled for DS9 appearances? I could be wrong, It's been a while since I watched it...

--Alex
 
Arpy said:
I'd love to see a CGI with a Galaxy, Nebula, Intrepid, Olympic, Original Ambassador, Saber Mk-1, and maybe New Orleans, Cheyenne Class ships as part of some task-force or something in orbit over a planet. Maybe a few original creations following that design esthetic too. For me, that was the Federation at its peak.

RAMA, Gomtuu was an interesting living ship. Not exactly pretty, like the So'na battleship, but fascinating certainly. Living in it, symbiotically, would be weird.
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It wasn't pretty but it was highly unusual for the time, there were very few "living starships" seen on screen before it. It was also a "sympathetic" character of it's own.

RAMA
 
From the first moment on screen, the Vor'cha.

And, based on its registry number, wouldn't the Pasteur have been in service during the time frame of the series? (Not needing an alternate future to exist.)
 
^ If you believe the ST Encyclopedia, there was at least one other Olympic-class ship that was already in service during the normal run of TNG and DS9.
 
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The Sheliak cruiser...NOT!

Look out, the freighter from Star Trek III is back for revenge--and this time it's got pontoons!
 
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I still like the original but the Probert version is beautiful in it's own right.
 
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