I love the Akira class. But I still love the Nebula.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Well, this at least is still accurate, even after the Akira arrived on the scene.
The Enterprise-E is definitely the ugliest of the first six starships with the name, seven counting the NX-01. There were cooler-looking starships introduced in FC.
The best looking class of ship is the Defiant.
I always thought of it as the TNG-era equivalent to the Reliant/Miranda type of ship; thought not exactly, since it has the engineering hull.
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I don't believe it is the ugliest looking Enterprise – whatever's going on with the Enterprise-B's odd impulse engines and secondary hull mean it takes that prize with ease for me, which is particularly annoying as I like the Excelsior-class normally. Admittedly though the Enterprise-E has some angles that are definitely better than others – but then so very much does the Enterprise-D, and the less said about the Enterprise-C's nacelles and pylons the better.
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I like the front half of the Defiant – that bevelled front curve and the protruding nose are a striking silhouette. But the back half, with its odd stepping and lack of detail, always felt like they'd given up partway through designing it; that whole thing of "where are its impulse engines" being a particular annoyance.
The best Enterprise is the Enterprise C. The general Galaxy-esque shape looks way better with the Ambassador class's sharp lines than with the actual Galaxy's bulbosity.
Also, Akira is nice but I still like the Nebula better.
Also, Akira is nice but I still like the Nebula better.
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I do like the canon Ambassador's saucer, neck, and secondary hull – like a chunky, updated Constitution-class, with nice and strong curvilinear lines. However, I think that the "original concept" version of the Ambassador-class, as realised by Tobias Richter – what Star Trek Online calls the Narendra-class – is the single best saucer-secondary-nacelles-style starship design we've ever seen, anywhere. Never mind the Enterprise-C, I wish this had been the Enterprise-D.
How's that for a controversial Star Trek opinion
All because some fans like the new and shiny "Akira-class", doesn't mean they dislike the "Nebula-class" any more.
There just happens to be the new Hotness that came into existence and everybody wants to get acquainted with the new Starship.
Everything evens out in the end over time.
There's been countless new StarShips introduced with each Trek show, and new variants pop up all the time.
Then the fans fawn over the new StarShip and create fan-art all the time over what's new.
That's same with any media that produces Toy like items.
You can look at other franchises like Gundam & Macross, they do that all the damn time.
New Series / Show, New Mecha, New Merchandise.
You should hear what Andrew Probert had to say since he was the one who designed the "Original Concept" version of the Ambassador-class
Here's what I think, the in-universe reason that we got the rounded, cylindrical / bulbous Ambassador-class was because of the alternate Time-line change thanks to the Enterprise-C going through the temporal rift.
The "Prime-Time line" version of the Enterprise-C is the "Original Concept" designed by Andrew Probert.
Due to whatever timeline shenanigans happened, we got different Enterprise-C's.
The TNG Prime Timeline is the true "Enterprise-C", that's why we see the Andrew Probert "Original Concept" sit on the wall in the conference room of the Enterprise-D.
Because that's the True Ambassador-class.
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Any Constitution variant is better than all the other Enterprises, B through J, and beyond.This is the correct response.
Fans who don't register stuff like Picard's mansion being an entirely different building in ST Picard compared to TNG's "Family", or don't care about Vulcan, Starfleet HQ or San Francisco looking different every time we see it, have zero right to whinge when they change the angle of a nacelle pylon or whatever.
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To be fair we do see other buildings on the Picard estate in "Family" (and large orchards as well as the famous vinyards, so presumably it covers quite a large area). Maybe Jean-Luc simply lives in one of the other buildings on the estate after the mansion we see in TNG burned down per Generations?
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I don't wish to beat this particular dead horse, but... not necessarily.
Or maybe the building we see in PIC was just built on the site of the burnt-down building we saw in TNG "Family?"
The original Picard house may well have been gutted by the fire of 2371 and Jean-Luc, as his family's only survivor, directed a new if similar structure with updated technology be constructed in its place.
The Sovereign class is a beautiful ship.
I love all Constitution ships. Mileage will vary.I don't wish to beat this particular dead horse, but... not necessarily.
Picard also isn't some antediluvian relic like his brother. He's perfectly fine with turning the remains of the old house into a museum or something and having a comfortable place built 12 kilometers eastward. With plenty of replicators for his decaffeinated tea and his throuple's Romulan whisky.
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