Different engine configurations, different values placed on efficiency, different methods of achieving warp, and so on, I'd expect.
Romulan ships run on singularity drives, for example. Borg ships are the opposite of sleek. Etc.
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Different engine configurations, different values placed on efficiency, different methods of achieving warp, and so on, I'd expect.
Romulan ships run on singularity drives, for example. Borg ships are the opposite of sleek. Etc.
Raymond?
Medusans follow the same design philosophy, apparently.
in vacuum and where in star trek rules, gravity is whatever you want it to be, you can make a thing in space look like whatever you want. For a pressure vessle spheres make a little more sense. For ease of construction and maxing out volume for regular bipeds, cubes probably (at least ONE species makes sense).
If you don't mind the extra mass, but more importantly, if you NEED the mass for some reason, you could go competely baroque. I liked that Klingon ship sarcophagus ship that had skeletons all over it. It kind of made sense from that viewpoint.
Since some starfleet ships do enter atmosphere, the sleeker look makes some sense, especially if all saucers are meant to be able to separate for emergency atmospheric entry. The spade shape of later 24th century SF ships could have some advantage like allowing guns to bear from concentrated/seperated angles, like a Star Wars ISD, but they've never shown that aspect. It was probably just phallic enough to appeal.
He's A. Kirk. Not T. Kirk.Fun fact: The captain of the Zumwalt is named James Kirk.
Where's R. Kirk?He's A. Kirk. Not T. Kirk.
God help the first Zumwalt crewman who makes a Trek joke. 
It definitely has happened with reporters at least:
Captain James A. Kirk was named for his grandfather, but he has a sense of humor about his Star Trek connection. As the AP notes, he's not above telling reports to "live long and prosper."
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Captain James A. Kirk was named for his grandfather, but he has a sense of humor about his Star Trek connection. As the AP notes, he's not above telling reports to "live long and prosper."
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Perhaps because they are Federation members?
Vulcans have a different design. Perhaps the Medusans simply purchased ships from other Federation shipyards.
I have a regular customer at my store whose name is "Steve Rogers". He is NOT fond of Captain America jokes.
Oh, he can probably do that all day.
Funny, I've never once gotten a Million-Year Picnic joke.
One of my coworkers was named Jake and had a name tag. When "Jake form State Farm" commercials were all the rage, I could see his soul die a little when people would read his name tag and make the joke and he would smile...very politely.
A few years ago at work, I got ahold of one of those "Hello, ny name is" stickers, wrote Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die on it, and wore it as my nametag.
The customers LOVED it. Unfortunately the managers made me stop.
The customers LOVED it. Unfortunately the managers made me stop.
"Mikey likes it" and "I wanna be like Mike" were my crosses to bear.
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And then the Crazy Eddie commericals pitching supposed amazing deals at used car lots or factory warehouses. To be fair, I'm NOT NORMAL but "Crazy Eddie" being one of the more memorabe commercial pitchmen of my childhood didn't help matters.
I was thinking she looked like USS Monitor from the Civil War. Very low deck that looks like she'd swap with the slightest wind. Cheesebox superstructure in the middle.
God help the first Zumwalt crewman who makes a Trek joke.
I'm betting the captain has learned to have a sense of humor about it by now.
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