K'Tinga refit - looks like the TOS season 3 original but with movie-worthy relief textures added. The B-o-P in STVI that can cloak was pretty awesome too. I'm sure there's a followup where they did another fire-while-cloaked prototype and with transwarp technology that failed worse, hence neither of those making it into the 24th century. Actually , transwarp would easily be modified and used as standard warp in later decades (hence 1701-D's warp 7 being far faster than TOS's). The cloaking technology may not have been perfected, is legitimately impossible to resolve for bigger reasons (note that the B-o-P in STVI had partially uncloaked, quickly fired, then quickly cloaked again), or there's a treaty that's as intriguing as the Treaty of Algeron.
I went with the Klingon Battlecruiser. Even though I first saw TMP on HBO and not in the theater, that opening shot had me mesmerized from the first second, and it still has the power to grip my imagination with awe.
Enterprise D in Generations, which never looked better than in that beauty pass as she jumped to warp for (sadly) the last time.
It was close for me, but the Miranda class barely nudged out the K’T’Inga class. I think I selected Miranda because it was more of a departure from what was seen before, and K’T’Inga was really just the D7 with more details. Still a beautiful ship and an amazing scene to start off the Star Trek movies.
Although that was just a reflection of the TNG producers not wanting to use any Constitution class starships, lest they be mistaken for the Enterprise and confuse casual viewers. It's the same reason we hardly ever saw any Galaxy class starships on DS9. I love the K'Tinga class Klingon ships, but since they're basically just a more detailed version of Matt Jefferies' D-7 cruisers from TOS, I went with the Reliant. It's one of the few Starfleet ships that looks like it comes from the same design aesthetic as the Enterprise, but still looks significantly different at a glance. (BTW, does anyone know why they decided to name it the Miranda class, instead of just going with the Reliant class?) Honorable mention to the Nebula class USS Farragut seen at the end of Generations. Again, it looks like it shares a similar design lineage to the main hero ship, but it still looks different enough not to be confused for it.
Has anybody but FASA ever gone for "Nameoftheheroship class"? Basically everybody would instead see the benefits of getting two cool names at the price of one. On the other hand, onscreen references to class names are virtually zip. I don't think we have ever heard "Miranda class" uttered anywhere, say. And the only reference to "Excelsior class", from TNG "Family", fails to specify which class this is, exactly. Ditto with "Ambassador class", which in its only mention in TNG "Conspiracy" is not associated with any particular design. A writer might go for a simplistic "oh, the class must be named after the first ship of that type that the audience saw". But the writers don't write about class names. Those instead appear on Okudagrams and the like, and the people who create those do not go for said simplicity, ever. Timo Saloniemi
I went for Defiant. That was one mean little ship that had teeth and belched fire when it attacked. And it's captains were just as fierce as well
I liked the Reliant in Star Trek II, I thought Meyer shot it better than the bridge of the Ent. But nothing beats the ships in TMP.
Off hand I have to go with the Excelsior. As the movies progressed with TNG, the new designs just got worse and worse (this was also reflected on the TV shows).
You could easily say that the Enterprise-refit, along with the A, B and E, were all "designed" for the feature films and should be included on the list, along with several new ship classes seen in FC (Akira, Norway, Steamrunner, Saber), the Borg sphere, and then everything that's popped up in the Kelvin timeline. But out of the current polling options, I chose the Excelsior. Sleek and beautiful and represented the next generation of Starfleet design.