The Scimitar and the Ent. D. Never liked the shape of the D, eventhough I got used to it after some time. The Scimitar was just uber ugly. Don't know if it counts or not, but the whale probe was sort of nothing.
What is your LEAST favorite ship?
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I always called the humpback whale probe the "Swiss Cake Roll of Death." 
My friend Rob called it the "Intergalactic Coffee Can from Hell."
My friend Rob called it the "Intergalactic Coffee Can from Hell."
^This.
The three ships I absolutely hate the most are the Excelsior class, the Miranda class, and the Oberth class, mostly because they were constantly used as guest ships in TNG because they had no budget for new ships, and then the former two were CGI'd and ridiculously overused in DS9.
But if I had to choose one of those three ships as the one I hate the most, It'd be the Oberth.
I would say the Excelsior, but I think that was supposed to be a big lumbering ungainly piece of crap, so I'll just go with whatever that thing Picard's clone was flying around in was supposed to be.
You still didn't answer BriGuy; What is a deflactor?
A deflactor is the product of the American school system.
And I'll go with the Scimitar as the worst ship. Big and scary looking just for the sake of it I think.
And I'll go with the Scimitar as the worst ship. Big and scary looking just for the sake of it I think.
I always called the humpback whale probe the "Swiss Cake Roll of Death."
I used to call it the Giant Polish Sausage of Doom.
/\ Oh, the old log and soccer ball. That thing was practically daring us to hate the movie. It didn't work.
The whale probe was certainly the most unconventional alien ship in the entire TREK movie saga. Even the Narada in TREK XI is a more predictably conventional spacecraft in spite of its titanic size and armaments. The Probe was a gigantic black cylinder with a blue eyestalk sticking out of it. No visible means of propulsion or engines...no easily-defined layout...no nothing.
I like unconventional ship designs. Not only do they look unique, they also have this alien quality, and I'm a sucker for truly alien objects and civilisations.
The Steamrunners and Norways. I know they weren't hero ships and were meant to be kept in the background but their design always struck me as... half-assed... I guess.
Honorable mention to the Enterprise-E... just too damn busy, over-thought in some areas and under-thought in others. I would much rather have had a properly lit & filmed E-D sacrificed in FC to stop the Borg but you gotta take the good with the bad.
Honorable mention to the Enterprise-E... just too damn busy, over-thought in some areas and under-thought in others. I would much rather have had a properly lit & filmed E-D sacrificed in FC to stop the Borg but you gotta take the good with the bad.
I really disliked the Romulan ships from TNG. Big and green with a huge weird space in the middle from the closed wrapped "wings". They were like Pelicans glued to a sled. Considering how cool their ships were in TOS it was a shock to see these large, colorless, yucks soilin' up my Trek. They never really did anything but sit and stare at the Ent-D. And they never changed... never ever changed.
From that point on all Romulan ships were over designed garbage, from TNG, to Nemesis, to Nero. Altough I will say, Nero's ship was truly scary. And the Romulans with all their mystery and oddness had to have scary ships that you just can't quite figure out. But the albatrosses from TNG were ugly and never intimidating.
From that point on all Romulan ships were over designed garbage, from TNG, to Nemesis, to Nero. Altough I will say, Nero's ship was truly scary. And the Romulans with all their mystery and oddness had to have scary ships that you just can't quite figure out. But the albatrosses from TNG were ugly and never intimidating.
I resent this. The design has panache and originality. And the Valdores in Nemesis (the only redeeming factor in my eyes) take that one further.
Resent all ya want !!
For ships that appeared in the films alone, I'd have to choose the Nebula and Norway classes.
The Nebula looks like a stunted Galaxy with its engineering hull stuck to the saucer, and I'm not keen on the sensor dome/weapon pod thingy stuck on top.
As for the Norway, it looks a bit like a squashed moth to me. It's only made worse by the nacelle pylons/wings at the back.
Special mention goes to the shuttle Surak that Spock arrives on in TMP.
The Nebula looks like a stunted Galaxy with its engineering hull stuck to the saucer, and I'm not keen on the sensor dome/weapon pod thingy stuck on top.
As for the Norway, it looks a bit like a squashed moth to me. It's only made worse by the nacelle pylons/wings at the back.
Special mention goes to the shuttle Surak that Spock arrives on in TMP.
I know this is a forum for the worst ship in a Trek film, but HOLY SHIT did I hate the Rommie ships from TNG... they SUCKED !!! And any movie Romulan ship was bad because of the lineage.
Oh god they were ugly.... YUCK
Also, does Picard's silly dune buggy from Nemesis count?
Oh god they were ugly.... YUCK
Also, does Picard's silly dune buggy from Nemesis count?
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I think that's more the fault of the TOS Enterprise looking hopelessly outdated.
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