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Ugliest Starships!

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Enterprise-B: The additions look like crap -- especially the "love handles" on either side of the engineering hull.
Enterprise-E: Crapfully crap.
Voyager: I want to like the ship... but it just doesn't appeal to me.
 
I'd have to say the 1701-D. The overly big, melted looking saucer always turned me off. That and the fact that it only looks good from certain angles, from others it looks silly as hell. The 1701-E was a close second, but, while I don't like the design, it doesn't repulse me the way the 1701-D does.
 
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I'd have to go with the Enterprise-E. A hero starship should be clearly recognizable (the infamous "squint test"). I can more or less picture all the other Enterprises without reference, but the E is a confusing mess. There's just so much going on in that design. The underside of the saucer is a mess, the aft end of the saucer is even worse.
 
One thing that always bugged me about the Enterprise D was the nacelle pylons. They were just so dully geometric, no flair at all. The nacelles also left a lot to be desired, they looked like generic brand Ho Ho's. (And for heaven's sake, three)?? And the battle hull? No symmetry or aesthetics whatsoever, looked like a headless chicken.

The Defiant: please, how about a viewport in front? How about not looking like a brick?

Voyager's nacelles - ugh. And it had no neck, which looked incongruous, the bulbous body stuck to the saucer like that.
 
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- The Earth Alliance ships from Babylon 5. Absolutely no sense of style; they look like unfinished Erector Set projects.

- The Daedalus-class starship from Trek. I *hate* that globular primary hull.

- Serenity from FF.
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To be fair, I don't think the Earth Alliance or Firefly-class ships are in any way meant to look good. The former are meant to look as realistic as possible (spinning segments for artificial gravity), and the latter is meant to look like an ugly, over-used working-class freighter -- the outer space equivalent of a pickup truck. And, personally, I love both of them for it.

Trek-wise, I can't say that I enjoy the Challenger, Freedom, Niagara, Springfield, Soyuz, Yeager, or Cheyenne-class Federation ships. Fortunately, most of those were cheap models created for the brief starship graveyard scene for the aftermath of the Battle of Wolf 359 in "The Best of Both Words, Part II" and never seen again. The Star Trek: Phase II study models for the aborted Star Trek revival series in the late 1970s were awful, too.

Love the Defiant-class, though. Yeah, it's an unusual design, but I think it manages to look very unique and tough and beautiful. But that's just me. ;)
 
Firefly was pretty nondescript, but she grew on me; surprising how rarely they actually showed the light effects.

No question but that Stargate and BSG have raised the bar for new Trek in terms of general production. The ships of SGA are ok (particularly the sound of Wraith fighters); but I didn't much care for the Goauld pyramid flghters (sorry, can't recall all the names right now). Al'Kesh I think.
 
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Hands down for me is the Oberth class, just never warmed up to it.

Next up the ENT-E and most of the FC ships (not the Akria oh no never that *hugs it*), Challenger, Freedom, Niagara, Springfield, Soyuz, Yeager, or Cheyenne class ships, the New Orlenes grew on me..it looked ugly enough to be a frigate :P
 
I think most of the DS9 kitbashes are pretty bad with the one exception of the Centaur. Definitely have a soft spot in my heart for that one.
 
The Sovereign/Ent-E, as many fans have said over the years, is awful. Too off-puttingly "bad ass" in design; a very juvenile fanboy's idea of an Enterrprise. (Won't hear a word said against the Ent-D. It's beautiful, and because of its quirky nature, is much more believable as a space vessel built in the future by an alliance of many co-operating civilisations.)

Oh, and I've never really like the designs like the Miranda and Nebula class which take a more well known double-hulled design, and make compact versions of them. Just screams "limited effects budget!" and hurts the believability of film/shows, to be honest.
 
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